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I wanted to post the event dates for the Bored of UC Regents convergence in July and Think Outside the Bomb convergence this Aug.

I have a pretty important birthday coming up and I was wondering if anyone had any fun ideas of things to do with large groups of people (possibly at night). I could have a party in the dumpster, but we had one half a year ago and I don't want to wear out the idea. I could do something boring like have a party and buy a cake and eat it, but I was looking for creativity. Give me some ideas; nothing is too wild. An ex of mine already suggested a mass orgy on the steps of the police station, but I both don't know the legal status of that or their motives in suggesting it! Ideas for an awesome day/nite for a really nutty adventurous kid?

It used to be in the lower part of the far left light blue column. It listed the top posters on empowerment and it was fun to look and see who'd been on the site a lot lately. Where'd it go?

Objective: to build myself a website using drupal

I am on week 2, about hour 5, and I currently have an opening page in the editing stage, and a menu with broken links to pages that aren't working.

 

This really isn't as easy as Alex made it sound.

 

Alex, you are a genious to be able to build this really complex Mother-Of-All-Websites.

 

I surrender.  I am not very smart. I need a lot of help to build my site!

 

Tune in for the snail-slow progress at www.artartrevolution.com ! 

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 Why are there so many men on this site and not many women? Am I the only one? 

 I think that people are naturally drawn to things with sex appeal. We've got to make fighting apathy sexy. We need to make dumpster diving, DIYing and flyering appealing. We need to make people fantasize about mutual aid and community-based political organizing. Girls need to come here because they want to meet smart, sassy partners(in crime) to work and be with! Why isn't being in control of your life sexy? How is hacking yourself not hot?

 

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Seriously, where the hell are all the girls? We need to figure out why this site has so many men and so few women. My gender does make up half of the world, but seems to barely exist here. Are the women scared off by the sheer fact that there aren't (m)any women? Quite possibly. All the techy hactivist stuff that little boys are taught as little girls often learn to sew and cook (even if they'd rather be fooling around with hard drives and whatnot)? Possibly. We need to look at this and fix it soon.

I'm a fairly stong believer in the pendulum theory (I don't know whose it origionally was or where I even heard about it) as of late. It basically works along the lines of people wanting to return to some sort of equilibrium in their lives in order to maintain some sort of stability or constantness in their lives. Everyone wants some form of security in what will happen to them, who they are, and what the world generally looks like.

This theory manifests itself in the way people go  through extremes in their lives. Personal example: I went through a relationship where I completely let go and let myself love to the fullest extreme. When that extreme feeling ended and the relationship ended badly, the pendulum swung the other way, for a while leaving me feeling wishy-washy about love and relationships, then finally settling on the other side where I wanted to block men out of my life and I had convinved myself I hated sex. When I was done with that extreme in my life, I met some really sweet people and the pendulum started swinging back to the other end, with me liking them and allowing myself to be romantic again. This isn't to say I'll end up head over heels for anyone soon, but this is how the pendulum sometimes swings...

The pendulum idea can also be applied to ways of thinking. When the pendulum reaches too high on one end, as in becoming too devout, pious, or religious about a certain issue, you will naturally want to even your life back out again, and you may lose interest for the subject slowly, maybe even eventually going to the other side.  This happened with me on religion- I went from a devout Christian to a strong atheist pretty fast, then the pendulum went back towards where it came, and I was feeling more agnostic for a few years.

Maybe there's even cycles of happiness too. While I don't want it to be true, maybe when you get so high and so happy on one side, there's got to be some sort of low in store for the near future when the pendulum swings back towards center. I guess you've just got to embrace it because without the lows, there really are no highs.

I decided that I wasn't trying hard enough to understand this website, so I'm browsing around and trying to figure out how it works. I still maintain that there are too many buttons/links everywhere! So far I have added myself some skills (though I don't know what half of them on the category list actually mean), made a promise, wrote about an idea, and made a blog. I wanted to start a campaign against ATK (Alliant Techsystems: munitions/ depleted utranium shell manufacturer in Santa Barbara) but I guess I'll do that later. I think one of the main problems of this site is that it makes some big assumptions. It assumes:

-I know what druple is, and that I know what all these computer programing terms mean

-I have tools, like fancy robotic pants. What should I enter at the tools page, my bic pens? I'm not a street combat master, just a human.

-I know what all those skills are, stuff I've definitly never heard of

 

My current suggestion for Alex is to group actions on left hand bar by type, such as post, document, log, make, and write.

 

Cheers!