Controlled Chaos

I just spent the day with my only living hero, Noam Chomsky. I was one of two people to pick him up from the airport, I took him to two lectures, and I had lengthy personal conversations with him. I even dropped him off at his hotel for the night. So, today was good.

I am very proud of the Columbia community for making it a success.

I don’t really feel like I can fully reflect on it any more than that yet. So in the meanwhile, I’m just noting it and posting pictures.

The Age Gauge will ask for your date of birth, and then relate that to important people and dates. Kind of neat-o.

I’m on the front page! Catch it now - there are no permalinks, so this will continue to scroll.

Chomsky tickets sold out already…

Columbia Missourian - Mid-Missouri Peaceworks hopes Noam Chomsky sparks dialogue

I made it in the press again…

Jonthon Coulson, a linguistics and advertising graduate student at MU, has been “civically engaged” in this project, playing an integral role and investing much of his time in bringing the outspoken MIT professor to Columbia.

“I have two heroes; Gandhi and Chomsky,” he said. “One of them is dead, so I spent two years contacting everybody I knew to make it happen.”

My friend and former classmate Moushumi has a traditional Punjabi wedding.

She sent me a lot of other great wedding photos.

Columbia Missourian - Facebook Task Force invites students to discussion

I’m in the press.

Bomb threat forces evacuations Friday

Kristin Hogan, an administrative assistant for the Journalism Studies Department said she received a call at about 3 p.m. from a caller who “sort of mumbled things for a bit, and then he said there was a bomb in the building.”

Hogan said the caller paused before he hung up, and Hogan wrote down the suspect’s phone number from the office’s caller ID.

She said the caller sounded male.

Hogan alerted others in her office, and they told her to call the police. She said police took her information and did not give her instructions about what to do next.

“The police gave me no idea what action they would take,” Hogan said.

The below cartoon from toothpastefordinner.com typifies my perception of how most adults in my life would like to handle my generation:

Then I found this cartoon, which is how I wish I could respond:

Columbia Missourian - MU joins other colleges to test ITunes U service

Keith is a good friend of mine, and deserving of commendation for a job well done. Shout outs also have to go to Brian Brooks and Peter Meng. For as backward as Missouri can be, these guys sure make us appear to be pretty forward-thinking!