Archive for Archive for April, 2007

We Invite You to Jimmy Carter’s Toughest Challenge…Um, Largest Coronation Yet

Clearly the last big event of the 2006-07 UC Berkeley school year cannot go without mention here. (No, we’re not talking about the Pagan Festival, which must be leaving you quivering in anticipation). The 39th President is heading this way, and he’s a got many a causes to espouse.
Former President Jimmy Carter will speak on [...]

Posted by: Avinash on Monday, April 23rd, 2007

You’re Not Going to Do Any of These Things: Events for 4/23

Pretty light day after the packed weekend. These are pretty much just FYI. What to do while you’re skipping lecture for the fifteenth straight time…
Grad Fair, Cal Student Store at 10 AM-4 PM all week: pick up your gear. Or avoid the realization that you’re graduating and pretend that you’re not. It worked out for [...]

Posted by: Avinash on Monday, April 23rd, 2007

Bare Necessities: Events for 4/22

Normally Sunday is a day of reflection and meditation, where we educate you on the finer points of world affairs, scientific accolades and religious experiences, but basketball will be taking over our lives today. Hence, we will be glued to our set all day and charting the action; our writings on the subject will come [...]

Posted by: Avinash on Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

The Bears Are Roaring: Blog Roundup

Beetle Beat–Exec Votes
Final tallies for ASUC Elections.

The Band Is Out On The Field :: Rod Benson blogs about peeing into a cup….
This is what it comes to for Cal athletes doesn’t it?

California Patriot Blog » Hippies in the trees….wait, again?!
Activate Your Love Force. Been activated here for years, hasn’t gotten me anywhere. Thanks a lot [...]

Posted by: Avinash on Saturday, April 21st, 2007

It’s Over! It’s All Over!

Most people are worrywarts and hopeless pessimists in this area of the Left Coast, but you probably haven’t seen anyone touch the despair of poor Marvin Chachere. It’s hard to not read this guy’s commentary and not break out the liquor (if you’re a minor, Diet Mountain Dew).
In thinking about what I ought to tell [...]

Posted by: Avinash on Saturday, April 21st, 2007

This Isn’t Exactly Fight Club

Talk about random. As far as we can tell, no one seemed to be too drunk either. Apparently people have been watching too much 300 lately and trying to act badass like Spartans. King Leonidas would have taken a few seconds to sever limbs from all of these douchebags.
Spens-Black Fight [YouTube]

Posted by: Avinash on Saturday, April 21st, 2007

Will This Take Off? Yes, Yes, YES!

Former Cal drop-out and current SF Chronicle columnist Jon Carroll has something interesting to say about the future of journalism on the internet. This is one of those occasions where you have to learn to listen to your elders, for they are the wise grasshoppers.
(I have had three idle conversations in recent days with people [...]

Posted by: Avinash on Saturday, April 21st, 2007

How to Avoid Cal Day, Events for 4/21

Cal Day might be one of the biggest days of the year for Berkeley, and we thought about doing a week long preview, but bleh. There’s too much shit going on, and it’s all for kids. Of course, we all know kids don’t go on the Internet for information, they go to trade World of [...]

Posted by: Avinash on Friday, April 20th, 2007

The Bears are Roaring–Blog Roundup, 4/20

The Cal Football Fan Blog » Marshawn update
Marshawn Lynch looking stylish in red. This might be something we’re going to have to get used to.

Beetle Beat–Candidate stuff
For those of you who really care, deep thoughts about the ASUC elections.

The Present Tense: I Have Been Waiting For This Moment
A Warriors fan’s reflections on his team’s return [...]

Posted by: Avinash on Friday, April 20th, 2007

Below the Mean (Telebears X–Statistics)

To end our week, we’ve decided to show a correlation between the amount of money we will make off this site (ads are up now) and how quickly we will lose our grasp of reality, which is now tenuous at best.
Statistics people suffer from this problem all the time. See what they think of the [...]

Posted by: Avinash on Friday, April 20th, 2007