Keep the change!

Is it me, or do the NPR correspondents sound a little giddy tonight?

I swear they change the voting technology in CA every other election. They had some paper system today where I had to fill out an arrow next to my vote, and then feed it into a giant reader machine. For the past two we had the Diebold machines. Frankly, I kinda like Electronic voting. It's just unbelievable how many problems there are with it.

Midterm Cramming

Midterm Cramming

It seems like 2k4 pretty much tapped every single drop of energy and enthusiasm I had for blogging about politics, which I frankly have come to view as a good thing. I tuned out completely from the topic for months after -- I even stopped watching the Daily Show for a while! Then the local public radio affiliate plugged that asshat of a show 'Open Source' into just that part of the day when I'm often tuned in at home, and I realized just how obnoxious uncredentialed political blogging can be.

There have definitely been so...Read more

Midterm Cramming

It seems like 2k4 pretty much tapped every single drop of energy and enthusiasm I had for blogging about politics, which I frankly have come to view as a good thing. I tuned out completely from the topic for months after -- I even stopped watching the Daily Show for a while! Then the local public radio affiliate plugged that asshat of a show 'Open Source' into just that part of the day when I'm often tuned in at home, and I realized just how obnoxious uncredentialed political blogging can be.

There have definitely been so...Read more

On second thought

On second thought

I think I'll drive down to LA tomorrow. Back Saturday, so no RT party for me.

Some stuff I wanna check out, and hopefully I'll get to meet up with some friends. As much as anything I'm going for the drive. I think I'll swing by Yosemite along the way.

Coming up to the end of my vacation, and no real regrets about staying arount town. If anything I was a little aggravated about some stuff I couldn't get my mind off of, but I remember feeling the same thing when I was in Rio last year. Gives truth to that h...Read more

On second thought

I think I'll drive down to LA tomorrow. Back Saturday, so no RT party for me.

Some stuff I wanna check out, and hopefully I'll get to meet up with some friends. As much as anything I'm going for the drive. I think I'll swing by Yosemite along the way.

Coming up to the end of my vacation, and no real regrets about staying arount town. If anything I was a little aggravated about some stuff I couldn't get my mind off of, but I remember feeling the same thing when I was in Rio last year. Gives truth to that h...Read more

Consider the Reader

Consider the Reader

Just finished reading "Infinite Jest", just in time for me to have nothing quite as fun to read during my two-week vacation.

It's a bizarre book. Lacking the background to draw good comparisons to other literature, I'm stuck comparing it to movies, which isn't such a bad idea, actually. A lot of the movies it reminds me of actually came out after IJ, so I can't help but wonder if it had some influence.

Imagine if Wes Anderson directed a film of a Chuck Palahniuk novel like Fight Club that incorpor...Read more

Consider the Reader

Just finished reading "Infinite Jest", just in time for me to have nothing quite as fun to read during my two-week vacation.

It's a bizarre book. Lacking the background to draw good comparisons to other literature, I'm stuck comparing it to movies, which isn't such a bad idea, actually. A lot of the movies it reminds me of actually came out after IJ, so I can't help but wonder if it had some influence.

Imagine if Wes Anderson directed a film of a Chuck Palahniuk novel like Fight Club that incorpor...Read more