http://oehlberg.com/blog It's not a big truck Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:50:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So Israel decided to invade Gaza.  I like maps and the map on the left is courtesy of Nasa (Gaza is surrounded by sea, Israel, and Egypt).  When Israel attacked, civilians wanted to flee to Egypt (since the only other options are to become an awesome swimmer or to flee ... http://oehlberg.com/blog/2009/01/04/israels-invasion-of-gaza/ The Tree sit officially ended apparently. The treesitters went into talks with the University. The talks did not end with either side agreeing to anything. The treesitters just came down. So at the end of 13 months the University got everything it wanted and the treesitters ... http://oehlberg.com/blog/2008/12/14/tree-sit/ This video still cracks me up: My favorite part is the "some kind of special mustache". http://oehlberg.com/blog/2008/11/26/what-an-obama-presidency-means/ So Prop 8, the amending of the state constitution to make same sex marriage illegal, is most likely going to pass and there have been various responses.  There have been protest marches in LA and San Francisco and these marches have spread throughout California. Prop 8 has not been officially certified, ... http://oehlberg.com/blog/2008/11/12/the-aftermath-of-prop-8-passing/ Well the treesitters had their 1 year anniversary today. They celebrated by having a gathering of people in the parking lot where the tree sitters are. There was a gathering of about 30-40 people and there was also some UCSC administrators observing from a distance away from the ... http://oehlberg.com/blog/2008/11/07/treesit-1-year-annaversary/ So apparently CNN's headlines are so great and wonderful that now you can get them on a t-shirt.  Some of these t-shirts are quite infomative.  For example, I know that polls and pundits have had their say about the election but I feel that a certain demographic is missing... You see ... http://oehlberg.com/blog/2008/11/06/cnn-t-shirts/ The election is over and here is how Santa Cruz Voted with my comments at the end: Vote Count Percent DEM - BARACK OBAMA 78,495 77.41% REP - JOHN MCCAIN 20,063 19.79% PAF - RALPH NADER 1,137 1.12% LIB - BOB BARR 548 0.54% WRITE-IN 512 0.50% GRE - CYNTHIA MCKINNEY 377 0.37% AIP - ALAN KEYES 269 0.27% Total 101,401 100.00% After Barack's win there was literally dancing in the streets of Santa Cruz. Here is a ... http://oehlberg.com/blog/2008/11/05/post-election/ I post information about the treesitters from time to time.  This is one of those updates.  They are still up there.  The banners that they hung in the trees are twisted up by the wind and made unreadable by the elements.  Someone associated with the treesit set up a blog. You ... http://oehlberg.com/blog/2008/10/28/ucsc-treesitters-late-octobe-update/ I always have trouble determining who to vote for in local elections. The only information I have previously used is the small blurb that I get in the official election material. I decided to hunt down information on the people running for city council and post my thoughts on ... http://oehlberg.com/blog/2008/10/27/santa-cruz-city-council-elections/ There were 2 campaign ads that I found interesting that I wanted to share with people.  The first is one that is 1 part local school board candidate and 1 part star wars.  I was really hoping he was going to actually attack something with his lightsaber: Apparently the candidate really ... http://oehlberg.com/blog/2008/10/27/campaign-commercials/