In loving, living memory, John Melançon 1928 – 2007
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- Update on Alfred Natkin from Cape Cod Hospital
- Doing What One Can Do
- Proposition 37 Million Dollars
- Andrew Judson Grice (1969-2012)
- Peasants and migrant workers rising up, organizing, and even winning in repressive China
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Oct. 5 and 6 in Cambridge (Drupal meetup) and Boston (South Station)
Sat, 2010/10/16 - 4:42pm — Benjamin MelançonOn the way in to the meetup, Dan drove through Needham Heights - they have a commuter rail stop and a trader joes.
Dan presented pretty well on http://agaric.com/blogs/drupal-work-collectives
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Boston public transit restroom moment:
Little girl with her father in a stall of the men's bathroom, South Station:
"I didn't know they had art on the wall."
"Um."
"Why?"
"It's called graffiti."
Pedestrian crossing
Sat, 2010/09/25 - 5:08pm — Benjamin MelançonNew England suburb on the last day of summer-- an oil truck loudly breaks as a young woman with a double stroller and a six or seven year old girl walking along side blithely crosses in the crosswalk in front of it.
I make a living doing web design and development with a great team
The Agaric Design Collective
I'm trying to make possible a worldwide nonviolent revolution for justice, liberty, and making more good things doable.
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"One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts."
--quote to Walter Daellenbach, May 31, 1915.