I was fortunate enough to catch a few games at Haas Pavilion during winter break. California won all the games I attended; can't ask for much more than than.
Enjoy.
I was looking through some of my old photos the other day and came across some pictures I took while testing a Canon EOS 5D with 24-70mm lens for my brother. I took the camera for a spin around Berkeley, California and the University just to take pictures for about an hour or so. Enjoy.
A candidate for the Mayor of Berkeley spoke out in front of Sather Gate Thursday afternoon, only to find opposition from Berkeley students and a street speaker named Stoney Burke.
Christian Pecaut, a young candidate who graduated from Leland Stanfurd Jr University (in fact, his whole image reaks of the Farm), spoke highly about the Democratic Party and bashed the Republicans, saying (paraphrased) "If the Democrats were in charge, there would be no wars." Pretty standard bashing. Democrats can do no wrong. No corruption there, no. No way.
In addition, he claims to have a solution for the homeless problem in the city. From what I heard from several bystanders, his solution includes providing the homeless with cell phones and laptops. How to get funding? Well, he has no answer to that. Maybe his daddy who put him through college can support him.
"Since we developed systematic agriculture 9000 years ago, our civilization has grown from small tribes to societies of millions of people! As we grow, the disparities between the ruling class and the subservient class has continued to grow!... " says Christian, in an attempt to use standard knowledge to sway the people.
Stoney interrupts, "Whoa!!! You mean there is a difference between the rich and the poor? Tell us something we don't know, Mr. Stanfurd graduate who repudiates his own education!"
Christian does. "Right now, with the Republicans ruling, we have nothing but death! This needs to end!" Another voice pops up, "So you can stop the people from dying?" Christian retorts, "I'm talking about nobody ever having to die again!" In other words, we'll all live forever. Of course, in order to do that, we'll need to stop procreating so that there are enough resources to keep us alive for an eternity.
Christian changes the flow soon afterwards. "The corruption is not just within the school leadership, but is inherent within our medical programs! Right this second, you may believe that they are working to cure our diseases, but in reality, they are CREATING these diseases in order to make money from the cure!" This sounds a bit like Ultraviolet, doesn't it? It's like this guy is getting material from Hollywood.
Note: the quotes above are paraphrased, but the general idea is clear.
In the middle of cooking dinner, a cat somehow found its way into our house...it was quite lazy and the cat did not realize it was not wanted in our home. We tried to direct it, and then it found its way to under my table. My brother then decided to shine an extremely bright light in its eyes and probably blinded it momentarily before we finally got the cat out.
Darn cats cause nothing but trouble in our apartment. I'm sure it will show up again.
Last night, we finally decided to do a large clean-up project. Our apartment was too dirty. As we picked stuff up, Robert supposedly "found" a thong in our apartment. So he claims, anyways. We believe it was his all along. I didn't know he wore thongs, but hey, to each his own. I wonder if they're comfortable..
