Mid-week randomness
02.23.2005I'm living in fear that my two classes will fall into open revolt in 2-3 weeks. I have my reasons. And it's partly my fault, of course. Time will tell.
Also, I finally got my STATA license from the oh-so-(in)efficient university computing services. About time. Now I can run some quick OLS (ordinary least squares) regression models of electoral data variables, and wrap up my MPSA paper. To be fair, I ran most of the models quite some time ago. But, STATA is, well, STATA, isn't it?
For some reason I still can't send email from the Rocket Star anymore, no matter what SMTP server I try bouncing from. Anyone else have this problem? Anyone have an idea what might've happened?
In the continuing Bolivian (and by "Bolivian" the press means, as always, La Paz) water madness: the mayors of El Alto & La Paz (Paredes & Del Granado, respectively) are considering a way to transition from a private water company (the French-owned Aguas del Illimani) to some sort of mixed private-public partnership. This has led FEJUVE to declare the two mayors "enemies of the people", a term rich w/ syndicalist meaning. Because, after all, there's no need to stop to consider such trivialities as "who will run the water infrastructure?" or "who will pay for expansion of basic services?" We'll see how it all turns out. Also, the exchange rate has gone up to Bs.8.06/$US.
Finally, if you've ever watched the show 24, this parody is hilarious. On so many levels.
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ADDENDUM: So last minute (I got the email today), that it's mostly just for me. Another university cross-disciplinary lunch-time colloquium tomorrow, noon to 1pm at 158 Bernhard Center. An anthropology presentation on US-Mexico "boundary-making".
Posted by Miguel at 09:20 PM
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What's "boundary making"?
The boundaries I saw being made were through strenuous effort to stem the tide of drugs and illegal immigration. Border zones' a lawless place.
Posted by: tom at February 24, 2005 08:38 PM