Archive for January 2002

18 January 2002

Near the office.

Surrounding the office.

In the office.

Plaza de Coyoacan.

Mexico City at night.

17 January 2002

Driving to work.

Ximian’s happy Mexico City team.

At lunch.

At dinner.

Here’s an MPEG of our approach into Mexico City last night.

16 January 2002

AA2305, Boston to Dallas.

SimSuburbia?

AA481, Dallas to Mexico City.

The Megalopolis.

15 January 2002

On the T.

13 January 2002

We watched The Chamber today. Fox has outdone itself.

Sigh.

So I’ve been feeling shitty and unmotivated all weekend and it’s winter in Boston and the wind is blowing hard and the streets are covered with ice and it’s fucking frigid, none of which has really been helping with my mood. So I decided to go through my photos and dig out some pictures of beautiful skies from the summer. Here are a few:

They’re pretty, but they really make me miss warm weather .

In my dream last night, I had a gun. Everyone was freaking out. “Put the fucking gun down!”

Not sure what to make of that.

10 January 2002

CNN on Taliban detainees:

The sedated, hooded prisoners were chained to their seats after boarding the aircraft under heavy security. The C-17 will stop in an undisclosed location, at which point the detainees will be transferred to a C-141 transport plane and taken to the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo, Cuba.

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The detainees themselves — and that’s of course a term the Pentagon prefers — the detainees themselves will be kept in what are called outdoor cells. Others have suggested that they are really cages. They are small cubicles — each individual will have one — that has a wooden top and then nothing more than chain-link fence, exposing the person to the elements but of course also making him always available to be seen. There will be floodlights at all times.

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At the moment, Guantanamo officials say they can accommodate about 100. Ultimately, they hope to be able to have a capacity of 2,000.

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The detainees are being treated as though they were “prisoners of war” but they have not been declared as such formally under the Geneva Convention.

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they are saying that they will be here for an indeterminate period of time.

Does this make anyone else feel ill? I wonder how these detainees were chosen. Have steps been taken to ensure that none of these people are the victims of the much-spoken-of Taliban enforced military service? And will someone please determine their fucking status? Are they POWs or not?

Sometimes humanity makes me feel sick to my stomach, on both sides of the fence.