“This foundation of our economy, the American worker, is strong but it has been put at risk by the greed and mismanagement of Wall Street and Washington ( Read more... )

After seeing Re-count, I'm reminded of what could have been. The other depressing movie is obviously The Inconvenient Truth, which I feel is fundamentally more depressing, because it is so much more permanent than 8 years of shitty government ( Read more... )

As a person who thinks voting in a democracy should involve more than one option, I have been disappointed by the California system, particularly for the House of Representatives. The last time around, a Republican didn't even run. I know that he'll get whomped, but the Republican party really destroyed my illusion of choice by not running ( Read more... )

Dunno why, but Dean Kamen is at AMI today. Danny has some pretty cool friends, admittedly. Must be because he throws such great parties.

The whole Google Street view has reminded me of how creepy Google has become. They're like Microsoft, but their competence puts them in a potentially different league ( Read more... )

I'm a fan of Super Golden Crisp. The Sugar Bear and I have always been good friends. Apparently I and the Canadians are both big fans. But some day you have to grow up. Or at least find a cereal not symbolized by an anthropomorphic bear with a sweet tooth ( Read more... )

My jury duty was a bit less interesting than Beth's. I sat in a room for 8 hours and read the Economist ( Read more... )

The theme of this weekend has been IT weekend. Bethcutler.com went down a few weeks ago and I've been intermittently trying to fix it, but eventually gave up and decided I need to get all the data off. But I was dreading that as well, since dealing with Linux is always more painful than it should be ( Read more... )

Beth's birthday is coming up, so we're going to have a BBQ on Saturday at 5.

Beth will likely be making a birthday mega-cookie, so prepare for some frosted cookie.

I started my new job last week and I'm now sitting near the battlebot Mechadon. Apparently you can work on ME72 projects as a profession, at least at Applied Minds ( Read more... )