It's me, Andriko.
I was thinking that it would be a good idea if 'we,' the Lakehead sociology graduate students started our own salon.
A place for us to wax philosophic on any topic we choose.
Hopefully this will become a venue that will evolve along with the new crop of grad students entering the program, as well as be a place for those of us already entrenched in the system at LU to foster communication and generate new ideas.
Personally I hope that we as a body of students can get to know each other better, who we are as people and what the heck we are all writing about, or trying to write about, or thinking about trying to write about, or all together ignoring.
My inspiration for this blog space came from a blog that is currently kept active by a group of students from the University of Alberta. http://www.yolksoc.blogspot.com/
Have a look, get a feel, come back and contribute to this blog. It's an open blog that allows all of the members to hold equal power to contribute and to moderate, meaning that you can edit any previous posts with ease. In this way, by equally sharing the responsibility we can avoid any kind of on-line tyranny.
The intent here is to foster a student collective that is fun and easy to use.
Here's how to join.
Step 1: If you are reading this you may have already been sent an invitation to join this blog.
Step 2: Follow the prompts, you will sign in with your lakehead email address and password. Since LU email is operated by gmail/google/blogger... you already have an account that gives you access to blogger, isn't that nice. Now if there was only a way to Fwd all of the junk mail in my Lu inbox to the person who sold our names off to make a buck.
Step 3: You will be taken to a page called Dashboard and from there you will be able to enter The Virtual Sauna
Step 4: If you have not been sent an invitation simply send me or anyone else who is already a member an email requesting an invitation. alozowy@lakeheadu.ca
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Ten Things from the past few weeks.
1. the funny look that people in cars give people on bikes, as if the people in cars want to say "wow that looks like fun."
2. the sleeping giant, climbing to the top and being enveloped in 360' of blue skies and water.
3. the use of the words 'digital jedi' in the new die hard film.
4. the way that tbay tel offers a special rate of $20/ month internet service for 8 months to new students.
5. the way that tbay tel will only allow a customer to have 1 promotion package i.e., the $20/month, unless they leave tbay tel for 3 months.
6. the way that shaw will give you a $20/month deal for 6 months.
7. the way that you can switch providers every 6 or eight months and neither company will vie for loyalty.
8. the way that the university is pretty much a ghost town at this time of year.
9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5blbv4WFriM
10. Zeitgeist the movie - there are 3 parts to the film, these links below only get you the first section of each. Google video has the film in 3 parts rather than 13 if you prefer.
Religion
World Trade Center
The Federal Reserve
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