Month: May 2008

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sssshhhh! Saudi Arabia is watching YOU!

shhh... knock, knock...who's there?

Oh, anyone who has had a web site for more than a smidget of time knows the purpose of a ‘hits log’ ( the record of who visits your site leaving — sometimes- a distinctive DNS number). In addition, there are many services that will give you some quick and dirty tracking of your visitors… like sitemeter… so it is always interesting to see that whenever I put ‘Saudi Arabia’ or ‘Cal Poly and Saudi Arabia’… I get some interesting visitors.

Saudi Arabia is clearly one of the biggest ‘internet’ censors…. so you can imagine how fascinating it is for me to see someone on my site from that part of the world. Although they don’t want information coming into the country.. they do want to know what folks are saying in the outside world about them.

By the way, if you don’t know what’s going on between Saudi Arabia and Cal bin Poly… read this blog or do a little google searching.

Have fun!

Roger Freberg

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Cal Poly Students elect ‘Saudi Deal’ Critic as President

I LooOoooOOve Cal Poly Engineering!Cal Poly students elected vocal ‘Saudi Deal critic’ Angella Kramer overwhelmingly as student body President at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.

In a daring move on the day of election, the two college presidents of the Cal Poly Democrats and Cal Poly Republicans came out with a personal strong endorsement letter in the student newspaper of Angela Kramer:

“….and (she) stood up at ASI board meetings when all others remained silent. An important example of this lies in the recent student outcry over the pending contract with JUC in Saudi Arabia. Students wanted a forum to have their concerns addressed when previous attempts to talk about the issue were shut down. Angela was the only member of the Board of Directors who stood up in public repeatedly, not only against discriminatory programs, but also in support of the rights of students to be heard by members of the Cal Poly administration, including President Baker.”

Not everyone at every university is so quick to sell their principles for some quick cash. Some folks have begun to rethink their positions, even at UC Berkeley:

UC Berkeley’s civil and environmental engineering department declined to join KAUST.

There is much different between us and the Saudis and although one wants to be accepting; however, we must recognize that tolerance only goes to the point of sacrificing who we are. We are a free nation, they are not. Women have a place in our world, women are cattle in theirs. There are more comparisons equally disturbing.

Just say no to the Saudis.

Roger Freberg

What Cal Poly’s Dance Really Costs
Cal Poly: Learning to do Bad by Doing!
at the Cal Poly Gender Apartheid Oasis
Cal Poly degrees for sale!
Cal Poly’s REAL Responsibility is at home!

The WORLD to Cal Poly: the Saudis are a BAD Deal!

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the Fight For Local News

SLo comment on local happenings!
Just when you thought it was safe to go into the water, another blogger steps up to take on the world… isn’t the internet grand!

Local News folks who have had the world to themselves now have to face their latest competition… and it’s free! Here comes SLOcomment.com !

Most locals have already begin to watch as sloUncovered would break the hard stories that few others — if any — would touch!

Just as economic competition has finally come to our county… so has news coverage.

It’s a brave new world.

Roger Freberg

Are you wondering how the  Cal Poly bin Saudi Deal  is going down? Well the ’empire is striking back’ by bringing Islamic Speakers to inform and reeducate us. Thanks, SloComment.com.

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Make Mother’s Day Special for her

do smoethnig extra special this year!
Okay, guys, Mother’s Day is coming up… what’s your game plan? Yeah, it’s coming up in less than a week, May 11th, Sunday.

Why is it that I always equate food with love? Laura says it is because I am a ‘super taster.’



I always feel that a great meal is a sign of respect and love…. whether you take her to a special place or you prepare the meal yourself. Even if you are not a great cook there are plenty of sites that will show you a step by step approach to making something wonderful.

Check out Cooking for Engineers!

Personally, few if any restaurants can prepare the food you can make yourself. It would be too expensive, restaurants couldn’t charge enough to cover their costs of material, labor and overhead. Whether or not you make it, bake it, saute it, grill it, chill it or fry it, it’s bound to be better!

Roger Freberg

PS. Yes, the food above was spectacular! Our Chicken Tetrazzini, Blueberry New York Style Cheesecake, a wonderful shrimp and crab salad and some inexpensive and sweet Italian Champagne called “Dulce Vita” Prosecco.