<a href="http://www.adbusters.org/magazine/42/articles/postmodern_epiphanies/">Adbusters: Postmodern Epiphanies</a> I was drinking iced tea when I noticed the label said �Lipton's New Bolder Brisk Iced Tea' and it dawned on me that we had nowhere left to go. William Steffey, Chicago, Illinois 79196045daniel millerSaturday, July 20, 2002publish<img src="http://www.letour.fr/2002/FINISH13.jpg"> <img src="http://www.letour.fr/2002/photos/13/ph11.jpg" align="left">After Armstrong again decimated the field on the second stage in the mountains yesterday, in a near exact repeat of the stage prior (and a stage I missed because I was on a date with my wife; ref to Minority Report post; and truth be told I slept in that morning too long to catch the morning's live broadcast), it was an English-speaking hat trick today as the brit <a href="http://www.itsmillartime.com/">David Millar</a> won an inspired stage, being out in a huge break, causing the split in that group that then left 5, then winning the sprint in perfect fashion...<a href="http://www.letour.fr/2002/us/index.html">read on here</a>. 79194330daniel millerpublishBlogger's messed-up archive index publishing is pissing me off enough that I'm about ready to publish my own. It only needs to get updated once a month. In fact, I could program it so it's automatic...hmm... 79193181daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.regenerator.com/7.4/hall.html">http://www.regenerator.com/7.4/hall.html</a> What Martha is up to is not harmless, not innocuous, not incidental to the task of being a Christian. Our cultivated desire for a comfortable sage couch, with a well-coordinated peach throw-blanket and cream velvet pillows, trains us to cushion ourselves from the suffering that may well have been occasioned by the very creation of that couch. It trains us actively to ignore the pain that should elicit our anguish, our solidarity, and the decidedly uncomfortable hospitality to which we are called. ..this by way of the aforementioned Coop'... ...But what is truly ironic is that we were recently uninvited to a conference put on by this publisher after I mentioned that the resort the conference was meeting at might be a little too upscale for any spiritual goals we might have to be actually attained or even attended to (I would link to my blog post about this if my permalinks worked right now, but als...)...I suggested my team camp out outside the resort and come in for the meetings...John Wallis (who I would link to if he ever updated his blog) had an even better idea--camping out around the trash dumpsters behind the resort, a living installation of sorts...anyway, it was actually <a href="http://www.smallritual.com">Steve</a> <a href="http://www.smallfire.com">Collins</a> who expressed the sentiment of my comments most perfectly: on the one hand, conference centre; beside it, a small group of tents in the bushes around the parking lot. daniel emerges in his underwear, scratching his balls. he wanders into the plenary session wrapped in a sleeping bag looking for free coffee and is ejected as a bum... ...we never heard back from the conf. org... 79192903daniel millerpublishSo my question of the summer is: will <a href="http://www.jordoncooper.sk.ca/">Jordon Cooper</a> ever stop reading his Bible while listening to Creed??? 79192384daniel millerpublishSo I saw Minority Report last night on a high <a href="http://faithmaps.blogspot.com/2002_06_01_faithmaps_archive.html#78108194">recommendation</a>. Another movie ruined by blatent, unashamed, glorious product placement. The brands managed to mock themselves and get some more exposure all in one fowl swoop. It was so bad that when Tom Cruise walked into a Gap store the entire theatre moaned in collective disgust. Amazing! It might have all been funny and glossingly ironic if it weren't for the large checks no doubt paid to the order of Dreamworks. {I did, however, love the <a href="http://us.ent4.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/twentieth_century_fox/minority_report/_group_photos/colin_farrell7.jpg">computer interface at precrime</a>. That was very cool. And as far as I could see, it was neither MS or Mac...} So if you aspire to drink Pepsi while driving to work in your <a href="http://images.usatoday.com/money/gallery/laauto02/2lexus.jpg">Lexus</a>, wearing a complete Gap clothing ensemble, all of which you purchased with your AmEx Platnium card, this is a great movie for you. The message of the movie: you can choose. You can choose to consume!!!. You can <a href="media/ChooseLife.mp3">choose life</a>! Another strange thing is happening in movies: commercials. Now it's those stupid slides, some of which are ads for local shops which I don't mind, then commercials, then previews, then movie. For God's sake, I just dropped my load to get into this movie and you're going to show me ads??? What the fuck? So the brand-saturation and corporate tracking shown in Minority Report is actually not that far off. And that's scary. 79191814daniel millerpublish<a href="http://uber.nu/">http://uber.nu/</a> god damned mother fucking C-Net referred to me as a fucking blogger. Couldn't they have used some other insult? Accused me of being a necrophiliac or something? While we're on the subject of how much weblogs fucking suck, let me give a pre-emptive fuck you to everyone who has written a book about weblogs that's coming out for not mentioning me 79154620daniel millerFriday, July 19, 2002publish<a href="http://www.sxsw.com/interactive/tech_report/ben_brown.php">http://www.sxsw.com/interactive/tech_report/ben_brown.php</a> What I'd really like to see is a book about how to STOP blogging. With twelve steps. I'd really like to see groups of bloggers all over the country getting together, drinking lots of coffee and smoking lots of cigarettes while taking turns to say, "Hi, My name is Chester Phillips and I JUST CAN'T STOP BLOGGING." 79154588daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/7/6/195720/8241">quixotic illiberal faux-moral escapades</a> 79153610daniel millerpublishalso thanks to all those who take the time to email me from the blog, or copy me (spam or info @ danielsjourney.com) in your email to Omni. it's nice to know you're out there....cheers.... 79152755daniel millerpublishforgot one thing from the tour yesterday: Paul Sherwin, the other anouncer besides Phil, referencing <a href="http://www.georgehincapie.com/">George Hincapie</a> after he had just pulled off after doing a <a href="http://www.velonews.com/race/tour2002/articles/2737.0.html">great job leading Lance over the first mountain pass</a> right up to the base of the final climb: "Now all that's left is for him to pull that gargantuan carcass of his up this final climb..." 79152401daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.cyclingnews.com/photos/2002/jul02/tdf/?id=podiumgirl/granddepart">ah yes...there is a reason i love europe and love le tour...</a> 79138401daniel millerpublish<img src="http://www.letour.com/2002/FINISH11.jpg"> <img src="http://www.letour.com/2002/photos/11/ph17.jpg" align="left"><a href="http://www.lancearmstrong.com/">Lance</a> and the <a href="http://www.uspsprocycling.com/">Posties</a> kicked ass yesterday. From the English patron of cycling, Phil Ligget: "Lance Armstrong on an "average" day -- his words, not mine -- has put the Tour de France into a straight jacket. "Of course, no rider will admit victory with so far to go and so many things likely to happen, but barring accident, Lance will win by the biggest margin of his four winning Tours. "His team won the day, leaving Armstrong just the last few meters to do. Without Joceba Beloki with him, Lance would certainly have let the sensational Roberto Heras win the stage." Someday I'll have a chance to share all my cycing links...tried hard to find a site syndicating their content to no avail...hard to believe but true... 79138347daniel millerpublishpostlude: some of the emails on Omni's <a href="http://www.omniresidential.com">site</a> are dead. updating the email link on that <a href="omni.html">page</a>. also, just fyi, a <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=omni+residential">GoogleSearch</a> for them does not bring them or anything related to them in the first 50 results. hmm.... 79125346daniel millerThursday, July 18, 2002publishdoes my use of the salutation "cheers" in email make me sound like a drunk in american english? if i add "*hick*" would that help? 79125047daniel millerpublishchecking them off... in case you're blind, i just wrote a <a href="omni.html">letter to Omni Residential</a>, finally letting them know how shitty we got treated upon move out last month. and i mean shitty. i'm thinking now i should have put it more clearly to them. like fucking shit. i also just got <a href="/serials">some archives going</a> for the daily serial. it's still in reverse order, but i'll get that squared away sometime. the XML parser i'm using right now is pretty limited, and i can't figure out how to use it to go through the XML in reverse order (linearly, time-wise); but it doesn't matter because i'm going to start using a proper XML parser. now on to other important stuff. stuff that pays. :) 79124704daniel millerpublishliving inside the beltway or watching too much cspan or don't talk to me about politics: yeah. i don't know what it is, but i'm getting a little overwhelmed by the complexity of the evil and good forces at work in the world. my wife is now "in" which of course makes me closer to a lot of info that i wouldn't have access or interest in before...but at least the foreign service is different--not american-centric per say. more aware i think is how i would describe the people in the FS. and of course they're all pretty damn smart. lots of PhD's flying about. so there's hope. but please don't give me your simplistic ABC news point of view. start a blog and <a href="http://theyblinked.blogspot.com">show me things i didn't know about before</a>. 79113116daniel millerpublish<a href="http://johnheronproject.com/">hey that's me he's talking about on 17th July</a> 79090316daniel millerWednesday, July 17, 2002publish<a href="http://alternativeapocalypse.blogspot.com/">http://alternativeapocalypse.blogspot.com/</a> 79090242daniel millerpublishalso on the daily serial....i'm working on an archive...in a couple days it will be done...for now you have to stay caught up... 79089655daniel millerpublishjust tried to go to another open mic and got denied. this makes two in a row. tonight he said you have to be there at 8:45 to make it on the list. open mic starts at 9:00. runs till 2:00. i'm starting to miss florida. monday night same story. i got there at 7:30 for a 7:30 open mic and there was no room on the schedule already. most people at that one call ahead to get on the list. he already had a printed out list of people. crazy. stupid. but whatever. to think open mic's in florida sometimes get no people... and of course miriam is gone to west virginia for training so :P here i am had good curry tonight tho with a familiar face, another person from florida who just happened to be in town...which was quite nice. 79089626daniel millerpublishfinally updated a lot of the <a href="photos.html">photos</a> to the new server...hate mail is next...and people... 79075544daniel millerpublishWe ask hard questions. We take second glances. We dig deeper. We bark up the wrong trees. We scratch where it itches. We see things symbolically. We have theories, hunches, and impressions. We hear little bells going off. We are in touch. We are out to lunch. We willingly confess. We enjoy life. from <a href="http://www.remediator.com/">http://www.remediator.com/</a> ...still figuring this group out... 79075475daniel millerpublish<img src="http://www.xcflabs.com/~yaroslav/gene/images/tn_IMG_0694.jpg"> in peace....Gene Kan A memorial fund is being established in Gene's memory at the UC Berkeley College of Engineering. You can send a check to the College Relations Office (c/o Dan Estropia), College of Engineering, 201 McLaughlin Hall #1722, Berkeley CA 94720-1722. Checks should be made payable to the UC Regents and/or the Gene Kan Memorial Fund in the College of Engineering. Please contact Dan Estropia, Gift Stewardship Manager for the College of Engineering, at (510) 643-8464 if you have any questions. 79072501daniel millerpublishfrom <a href="../flight_chap3.html">chapter 3</a> of my own <a href="../flight.html">the flight</a>: ...anyone who hasn't seriously considered suicide has simply just not fully considered the reality of his or her current situation. If one thinks long enough about where they are in the scheme of things, that is things in the sense of what the hell we are doing amongst all these people, all these living beings, all these created things, all these quiet creatures of the soil, all this air floating about us, all these waves traveling around and through us, all that space and all those planets and all that great unknown, all those possible alternatives that exist right beside yet fully apart from us�then they can fully recognize the reality of their life. That it is of no consequence and they should donate their organs before they expire from some more natural or careful means. So what keeps so many of us from doing ourselves in and forgetting about the day-to-day torment? What allows some to stop fighting it? I wish I knew... 79071743daniel millerpublishFor example: Heathrow is the airport of airports. It bustles with activity and bristles with Earth's languages. If a culture has discovered petrol, its people are represented. There is no better place to people-watch. Fat Germans, ululating Swedes, colourfully-dressed Africans, vociferous south Asians, penny-pinching British pensioners...and the sauce-spoilers: Americans. There are no obvious redeeming qualities about these arrogant Cadillac-sized fatballs wrapped in machine washables. Composition: 50% cakehole, 50% Visa; 100% mannerless. ...<a href="http://thisplacesucks.blogspot.com/2002_05_26_thisplacesucks_archive.html#77058757">...and yes this one is a must read...</a> <a href="http://thisplacesucks.blogspot.com/2002_05_26_thisplacesucks_archive.html#77126129">as is this one</a> (or just scroll up) and finally (or just scroll up some more): Most Jewish women, no matter their size or beauty, seem to share a common body type: a proportionally thin trunk supporting juggernaut breasts flowing into enormous hips which overflow any attempts to clothe them, tapering gracefully to the ground. Chests seem structured such that they are just large enough to precariously nourish a pair of ludicrously oversized breasts, like watermelons hung from a paper clip. Waists are pencil thin. Hips flood from modest waists; suddenly, stunningly, flesh juts to the horizons in the shape of Bailey's bottles. i'm still struck by this tragic story that i only know of through the internet. a quick <a href="http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=Gene+Kan">google search</a> will provide you just a little bit more info; however the blog really leaves the most intimate mark... 79070581daniel millerpublish<a href="http://thisplacesucks.blogspot.com/">This place sucks</a> This is an important and sobering site. This person <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/778536.asp?0dm=C18NT">comitted suicide</a> not long ago. He was my age. He was in technology. He asked the same questions. 79045280daniel millerTuesday, July 16, 2002publish<a href="http://www.nomediakings.org/IMadeMain.htm">y o u r b r a n d n e w l i f e</a> this seems like a cul author/site. if anyone buys a book buy me a copy too would you? but you can <a href="http://www.nomediakings.org/flyboy.rtf">download one of his books for free</a> in the meantime. "Jim Munroe has written the first novel to harness the energy, idealism and cartoon inspired playfulness of the new wave of culture jammers. It's about time we have some superheroes to save us after the post-irony meltdown -- forces of corporate darkness, beware." -Naomi Klein, No Logo 79016459daniel millerpublishfrom that 12 yr old's father: I think I realised that the single biggest challenge we face is how to contextualise the gospel in a consumer culture (by contextualise I mean grow the gospel in the soil of that culture). My instinct is to be negative about consumption because it clearly has a dark side. But I have shifted to seeing that actually there is also a lot of creativity in consumption, and none of us really live outside of it - people are constructing identity and meaning (including spirituality) in all kinds of ways through consuming. So rather than railing against it we should be engaging with it. I don't know if this makes any sense?.... <a href="http://www.cafepress.com/dealingwith"><image src="images/djdc_consume2ii.jpg" align="right" border="0"></a>no, Jonny, it doesn't, but that's ok; i haven't figured it out either excerpt from <a href="http://www.osbd.org/article/113">osbd interview</a> 79015941daniel millerpublishall of a sudden my customization action is working on my computer again....my cookie must have finally been reset.... 79015759daniel millerpublish<a href="http://www.jonnybaker.btinternet.co.uk/joel/pics/angel_doll.jpg"><IMG SRC="http://www.jonnybaker.btinternet.co.uk/joel/pics/angel_dollbutton.jpg" ALT="angel doll" border=0> I liked this pic</a> from <a href="http://www.jonnybaker.btinternet.co.uk/joel/index.html">this 12 yr old brit's site</a>. 79015714daniel millerpublishi didn't have a chance to blog but <a href="miriam/">Miriam did</a>. 78999716daniel millerMonday, July 15, 2002publishthis is no <a href="http://www.lormusic.com/media/lyrics/lyrics/standard_life.html">standard life</a>: this weekend a friend of ours is in town and yesterday we had an awesome time hanging around DC. we took the metro to a recommended part of town in order to find an Ethiopian restaurant. we finally did find one--check that, about 8--and i had Ethiopian food for the first time. you eat it with your hands with this spongy bread. it tastes a lot like Indian. it is very cool. later that night i found out that traditionally the Ethiopians feed each other. talk about community. made me think about what a message that is about a culture, that they feed each other; and about all the difficulties that country and that region have had in the last two decades. after coffee at a hip little shop, we stumbled upon a used book store...in the truest sense of the word. establishments like this don't exist where i've come from. three stories of knowledge like you wouldn't believe. a building with more character that all of Dade, Broward, and West Palm combined. we just browsed for about an hour; i found a CD for my sister and Miriam found lots of books for Cade, Abdiel, and Ransom... (i just realized that our three favorite kids all have very cul names!) for dinner another new friend joined us and we wandered down from our apartment in Arlington towards an area i had been meaning to check out for a while. we considered the standard restaurants, the Vietnamese restaurants, and South American restaurants. but it was the Moroccan place that really drew us in. we walked in and were informed that there were no tables available. the place was already crowded, and every open table was reserved. we were, however, conversed with for some time, despite the fact that they had to turn us away. we got cards, a name, and, in short, made to feel like we definately wanted to check this place out again ASAP. we then wandered around the block for a while, thinking that every place just didn't compare. well, finally we were starting around the corner at the end of the block, determined to go back to the Vietnamese place, when some people who we had just walked by turned and said to us from around the corner, "The waiter is trying to get your attention." this guy ran out of his restaurant and down the street to tell us that a table had opened up! i'm thinking, "this just doesn't happen!" even before we sat down to eat we felt so well taken care of, and it didn't stop there. the food and service was great; and there was a bellydancer to entertain us for about 1/2 hour. she made some ladies and some gents get up and dance with her. the entire room was festive, joyful, alive, and full of community-spirit. the entire experience definately rated in a top ten list of some sort, and i have certainly never experienced that kind of spirit in a restaurant before. no wonder the place was packed! we have found a new secret/special place to live... more on content management... i'm not going to call it blogging anymore...got one recommendation already...my system will automatically "blogchalk" you based on your bio information, but it will also pick out key words (i.e. "alt.worship" "music" or whatever) you specify in your posts and facilitate your google listings based on those keywords as well...you'll just select the keywords before you post... 78936596daniel millerSunday, July 14, 2002publish