I realize that I still haven't told you about the
Berkeley Timothy Leary Meetup Group that I started in February.
Our next meeting is this thursday, April 2, at 7pm.
The meeting will be at 33 Revolutions in El Cerrito, CA.
(Below) Tim at UC Berkeley around 1956-57
I've been going through my Second Life machinima from 2008, and I've found some real gems from last year that I never put up.
The first is NASA Ames Director, Pete Worden (wikipedia - twitter), speaking at last year's Next Generation Exploration Conference at NASA Ames last March.
Pete packed the house in real life and in Second Life, at NASA's COLAB SL site.
MP3 of Pete's talk.
Does anyone care? Seems like it's just me.
Well I do care. I'm very upset. And I don't think Obama is doing enough to get us out of Iraq, and I also don't see how it's any different than what Bush did, if he sends more troops over to Afghanistan, like he's talking about.
Feels a little like in the months after 911, frankly. When everybody was all "yea us!" while Bush moved in on Iraq, and everyone assured me that we would do the right thing.
I'll say it again: Waiting a year to close Guantanamo is wrong.
Not even mentioning the sixth anniversary of the war - just plain wrong.
I know the economy is everyone's first priority, but stalling on taking action on Guantanamo and Iraq, when lives are at stake, can't be right.
That's what it feels like is going on right now.
I waited a day, as I often do, to see if I still felt this way, before sharing my feelings with you. But I just felt stronger about it this morning. So there it is :-)
thanks!
lisa
