Author: cdwan

As can plainly be seen from the map that I stole from CNN.com, My presence in the southeast of Virginia has caused a small island of “blue” (read as “Democrat”) to appear. This, by itself, might not have been enough to swing the election in Webb’s favor (for reference, he’s the VA senate candidate who did *not* call an audience member racist names, nor did he fly the confederate flag in his office). However, I turned the scorn-fields to full power on the way to and from work today. I suspect that this stunned a wide swath of morons, rendering them unable to vote.

Yesterday, the alarm went off at 4. Of course, per usual custom, I had been opening my eyes every 5 minutes or so since 2, to be sure that I wouldn’t miss it. Gee, thanks subconscious. I didn’t want to sleep anyway.

What it’s like to be me

Vote, damn you! Our very freedoms depend on it!

Attention: Do not believe the hype. Do not pay attention to the media. On the national offices, this election is not about any particular candidate. I don’t care how bad your local non-Republican is. Vote for them. I’m very sorry for all the candidates for the house and the senate who spent a lot of time thinking about their position on various issues. All that matters to me, and to the country as a whole, is that the Republicans lose control of both houses.

The media will try to tell you that it’s a close race, in order to keep your attention. Ignore them. Vote non-republican.

We will unseat the democrats in the years to come. This year, bring them to power.

In other news, Saddam is going to hang.

In still other news, here’s my schedule:

I’m headed to Virgina at butt:00 tomorrow morning. I’ll be there until Wed night.
Thursday morning, meeting in Boston.
Sat: Ani DiFranco.
Mon – Thursday: Supercomputing ’06
Saturday: Test
Sunday: Recover.
Monday – Wed: Georgia

So, it’s gonna suck, mmmm-kay? See you on the other side.

A whole bunch of videos that seem funny after midnight

I’m going on an unexpected business trip next week, M-W (hooray for NASA). Election day is Tuesday. Given the noise I’ve been making about how important it is to wrest congress from the Republicans, I couldn’t in good conscience just skip voting. So I went down to city hall and filed an “Emergency” ballot. This meant that the nice lady dug a ballot out of the box for my district, stamped “emergency” on it, and let me vote.

So there. I’m done. Now, all the rest of you. Remember, vote early … vote often.

The wine is totally done. Thank goodness. Pictured here, we have the “Ivory Tower” white, and the “Gemito Liberale” red. More pictures available here

I’m going to take a second to be totally unambiguous here: I know that I frequently use hyperbole and over-the-top exaggeration to make points. This is not one of those times. I’m being perfectly serious here. I have three requirements that I’m placing on you:

(1) On election day, I expect you to vote. details

I appear to be wracked by the same disease that’s afflicting everyone else in the country. It started out with a couple days of general muscle aches. After that was the truly astonishing mucus production. Now it’s moved on to the ever-popular frog-in-the-throat. I’m on the usual cocktail of 2g of vitamin C, claritin, and chlortrimaton. Plus Nyquil for sleeping, as if drugged, through the night.

Dipped the tops of the wine bottles in wax last night. The results are as expected, but I don’t like it as much as I had expected. I want the airtight seal of wax … but with the sleek and professional look of the heat shrink foil tops. Tonight, I plan to print up labels. I’ve got a name for the white, but the red is confounding me. “Chris’s Stupid Pun Red, 2006?” That seems to be the recurring theme. It’s a Barolo, a noble variety from Italy … in case you want to help. Winner gets a bottle.

In work news, I was having a pretty good day yesterday – got a cluster totally online and cranking … with all the little lights on and everything. Then I went over to our data center and discovered that they had thrown away all our shipping crates for all our servers. Yeah, that’s going to put a crimp in my ability to return demo units and stuff.

Trick-or-treaters were very cute, until about 8:30 when they became little ruffians. We shut the door and brought in the pumpkins.

Okay, time to blow my nose again. Yuck.

Voting machines in Florida will apparently “slip out of sync” and register the wrong candidate.

Yeah, that’s way f-ing better than hanging chads, people.

Check your work, and be mouthy if anything is wrong.