Invisible Children - Global Night Commute

	We have been called idealists, but our ideals are becoming realities. The images you are about to see do not lie. On April 29th, 2006, in more than 130 cities, roughly 80,000 people joined thousands of Northern Ugandan night commuters and slept outside. Young, old, all races, all religions – demanded that the world take notice to a war that remained unseen for over 20 years. If you were there, you were a part of something historical. If you weren’t, keep watching; the Global Night Commute was just the beginning of a much larger movement. Please continue to burn high res photos to a CD and send to our office (attn: GNC art book) to possibly be included in the highly anticipated GNC art book, available for sale soon online. This beautiful book will detail the makings of the revolution that is invisible children’s Global Night Commute (for more details- see our website). Thank you for fighting for justice for people you may never meet – knowing they deserve the same freedoms as you. Pass this video on, and continue to ask family, friends, neighbors, teachers, journalists, and politicians to help us out, take Northern Uganda off the backburner, and end a war. This is just the beginning. Hold on.

strangest conversation ever

me: how you doing?
Friend: i have a ppr due tomorrow! :)
you?
11:12 PM me: oooh, you can be up all night with me and my sister!
i have a project due at 9am
and "9uuuu3" (my sister) has a paper due tomorrow too!
she's at my apt
we have coffee and sugar stuff (banana bread, brownies, etc)
it'll be fun!
(excpet for the paper/project part)
11:13 PM Friend: haha
11:14 PM that would be fun!
it's like a party!
11:15 PM woooot
i'm not sure if what i'm writing makes sense
me: party... woot, fun, sense
Friend: oh i meant my paper
me: check
Friend: hahaha
me: oh
haha
Friend: haha yeeeeah
how fun!
you and your sister are so cute
11:16 PM me: can't i be manly or something?
cute...
:p
Friend: hahah
suuuch a guy
you and your sisteer are so manly?
come on.
haha
me: HAHA
k, you win that one too.
11:17 PM Friend: haha
yES
11:18 PM are you guys really staying up all night?
11:19 PM me: yea... sadly thats the plan
Friend: wow
11:20 PM i want banana bread
throw some over to campus village
me: k, here it comes! (im on my balcony, aiming...)
umf!
wow, that was a long toss...
hmm
the wind...
11:21 PM it landed closer to MSTB it looks like
you could go look for it
but ya know, it'd be hard to find
just trust me, i really did toss it
Friend: i don't believe you!
11:22 PM you didn't even try!
me: sure i did!
Friend: jon! i thought we were friends!
me: i am you friend!
i am sorry i couldnt aim better!
Friend: and i thought you were an expert bread thrower
or i wouldn't hav asked
me: :(
Friend: haha
me: i'll bake another loaf!
Friend: jaaaaay kaaaay
oooh
maybe not jk then
haha
me: hahaha
11:23 PM i'll try to make it football-shaped this time
you know... aerodynamic
airodynamic?
air-o-dynamicy
huh
Friend: ooh
and then put it in a rocket launcher
11:24 PM yeah, that should do it
me: ya! and i can power the blast with some of the rum we've got laying around our cabinets!
alcohol should be explosive enough
hopefully it doesnt burn the bread
Friend: hopefully
me: ...all that effort, to waste...
Friend: we can only pray
11:25 PM hah i'm so lame
hahaha
me: "dear God, may thou bless this rocket launcher... may it blasteth thy bread safely and freshly to my friend's apartment"
11:26 PM (im trying hard to win the lame award at least)
:P
Friend: hahah
well, we can share the spot
i am sitting in THE most uncomfortable position EVER
well, maybe not ever
11:27 PM but i want you to feel my pain
hahah
me: can you describe the position?
11:28 PM Friend: uh, my back is half towards the wall
however, my body is twisted to the left to type
and my legs are constantly shifting
11:29 PM oh! and i have a hair clip in my hair, so my head can't fully lay on the back of the wall
awwwwkward
11:30 PM me: huh... on the floor?
Friend: on my chair
me: yea... odd
11:31 PM Friend: but the back of my chair isn't agains the wall
haha i don't know
it just hurts
haha
ok, i'll stop complaoining
how is your project coming along
11:32 PM me: im stuck at the line fputc(
incase that means anything to you
haha, my sister just read her paper description, and turns out its not due till friday
11:33 PM Friend: ...
hahaha
is she going to pull an all-nighter?
me: no... she says she'll still try to write maybe half of it
11:35 PM Friend: oooh
aw, you're alll alone!
me: well... she didnt leave yet
and my roommate just got back
11:36 PM Friend: oh that's good
give him a head nod from me
11:37 PM me: HAHA, he just was telling me about what happened today... with him being all dressed up
he says: i told other people your "secret"
11:38 PM he says sorry
Friend: haha oh really?
he doesn't soouuund sorry
jkjk
11:39 PM i'll stop being sucha girl
me: he says: ya, you're right
Friend: hahaha
whatever :P
11:41 PM haha i have THE most horrible friend ever
11:42 PM (not my roommate) someone else
me: oh haha
i was about to forward the comment :p
Friend: i've been friends with someone forever
and he doesn't know what year i am or my maor
hahahh
wow, that would suck for my roommate
me: hmmm.... kinda like how i was confused...
7 minutes
11:50 PM Friend: SORRY
bad connect
jacking wireless haas bad consequences
11:51 PM me: thats okay
i had to go use the restroom
didnt even notice
Friend: hah
ohok
11:52 PM i feel...better?
me: thats good?
11:54 PM Friend: yes?
haha
i like this whole question thing?
me: are you sure?
i like it too?
11:55 PM would it be better if we actually made questions of our sentences rather than just add a question mark to the end?
Friend: maybe?
do you know the question game?
me: wouldn't that just mean adding a word like "how" "why" or "what" to the beginning?
which game is that?
Friend: no?
11:56 PM it's the best game ever?
me: don't you mean "is it the best game ever?"?
is it hard to make actual questions?
how do you play the question game?
11:57 PM Friend: you keep asking questions
me: why aren't you playing it now??
aren't I playing it already?
11:58 PM Friend: no?
me: have you looked at the last 20 of my messages to you?
haven't they all been questions?
11:59 PM Friend: have they?
me: or have i? dun dun dun...?
you arent feeling like im mad at you right? cuz im not?
12:00 AM doesnt it make you feel like someone is mad at you when they keep "drilling" you with questions?
12:01 AM Friend: ... haha NO
me: really?
Friend: let's play the exclamation game!
no
me: no!
Friend: i don't really care!
me: now i really feel mad at you!
Friend: I feel excited!
haha!
me: you're horrible for wasting my time like this!
jk jk!
12:02 AM im too appologetic to play this game!
ack!
AHAHAHA!
12:03 AM Friend: yeah!
maybe we shoud stop!
me: can't... stop...!
12:04 AM too... much... momentum!
THIS IS THE STRANGEST CONVERSATION I HAVE EVER HAD!
12:05 AM i mean, that the second strangest conversation I've ever had!
(second strangest is a safer guess, leaves a bit of leeway incase a stranger one exists... ya know, so i'm not lying)

Project: OLPC (One Laptop Per Child)

This is a really niffty device! The article (click the title of this post) describes many of its technological specs, but basically it is meant to be easily used by kids! Meaning withstand impacts, touch-screen capable, easily rechargable, super-mobile, automatic ad-hoc networking, usb device ready, linux based (cheap!), and fun!

It's like the ultimate protable device! If it comes with any VoIP software, it becomes a combination laptop, cellphone, and potential TV (ipTV streaming).

And it will only cost $100 or less.

I'm extremely excited for the potential that this device offers. Think open source development gets a huge new developer base as kids are learning linux and getting access to technology at much younger ages.

Kidworks will majorly benefit from something like this! Can't wait for it to become available!

what to do with my own domain

So I am graduating UCI, and I need a place to keep practicing my HTML, Javascript and other scripting language skills. Not to mention have a place to upload stuff should the need arrise. UCI has provided a nice small webspace for me, and I am transfering it to PhiliaAgape.net - but I want to improve!

Some thoughts: homepage should be a blog, links to personal and professional profiles, photo galleries, etc... I'd like to learn how to do something like del.icio.us, and keep a personal list of favorites or saved bookmarks, so that I can get them from anywhere (without having to sign in to del.icio.us).