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October 13, 2004

I may be in Maryland, doing an install for Hopkins next week. Anyone (technolope, capital_l) up for a visit? I’d love to see the house. Let me know good days, if there are any.

We seem to have hit light-speed with the company. Zoom.

Shamelessly stolen from JWZ. Excellent commentary on his post.

GOP Senate Candidate Warns of Lesbianism

OKLAHOMA CITY – The Republican Senate candidate in Oklahoma warns of “rampant” lesbianism in some schools in the state in a tape released Monday by his Democratic opponent.

In the tape released by the campaign of Brad Carson, the Democratic candidate, Coburn says a campaign worker from Coalgate told him that “lesbianism is so rampant in some of the schools in southeast Oklahoma that they’ll only let one girl go to the bathroom. Now think about it. Think about that issue. How is it that that’s happened to us?”

The comment came at a town hall meeting in Hugo on Aug. 31 and was taped by a Democratic campaign worker.

I’m just tired of these cheese eaters at Verizon. I can’t even summon the energy to rage at them anymore.

piss and moan

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Valhalla, I am coming! Yeaaaaaaaaaaaa!

The support queue is savage today. Don’t know how it got this deep. The fact that the karate school is closed today is making for a long day of wanting to kick something and being denied. Perhaps it’s a good time to return to the Navy Seals DVD.

Took delivery of the dining room set. Gorgeous. Discovered that our hutch was rubbing a spot of the new paint off the wall. Fortunately, it’s in a good place to hang a picture or a mirror or something. Rasa-freakin’ Behr paint doesn’t seem to stick to the primer. The primer is awesome, and I’ve never scraped through it…but the color paint just comes right off. Dammit.

Also took delivery of our Vonage box. Going to try this VoIP thing. If it works okay, it’ll represent a net savings of between $40 and $60 per month on the phone and internet. Plus, we’ll get to fire Verizon for our land line. Anything that involves firing Verizon is a good thing. Plus, we’ll be able to get a second phone line, which is unsupported by the single twisted pair coming into our house. I’m averaging between 2 and 3Mb/s download and 451Kb/s upload. That rocks, and totally dominates our observed DSL performance.

Whoop…another support request just came in. Back to it.

Okay, that was a real bad movie.

As previously noted, it starts with potential. The idea of a genetic crossover Ripley, a warrior Ripley still human in form only, is pretty cool. Right up to the point where she shames the two mercs with the basketball, it was really a worthy movie. Then it degenerated into gooey “it ate his brain!” style horror. That’s just junk, and there’s no need for it.

Anyway, taking delivery of a dining room set tomorrow as early as 9am, and I have a hutch and a table to move before then…so I suppose I should either sleep or work. Bah.

Went to my cousin’s wedding, and it was real fun. The bride and groom put a lot of planning into the event, and it showed. My brother, dad, and I even got to sing a song for them while they danced the “first dance.” I felt special and included. They’re a cute couple. I’ve always liked my cousin, ever since we started being about the same age (2 months off) at family gatherings. Now she’s moving to MN just after I leave. Bummer, but that’s how it goes.

And now, to bed. Breakfast with the ‘fam tomorrow at 9:30.

Sitting in Pittsburgh airport, which has a truly shocking amount of personality for a major metro airport. For one thing, free wireless. That’s pretty cool…particularly given that we’re stuck here until O’Hare un-clogs and they decide to release us. For another, the shops have personality. Maybe it’s just that it’s Friday night and the drunks are really hitting the bar pretty hard and whooping it up over the Red Sox game at the moment.

So, tuning into the debate. Bush is yapping about how you have to be “firm” and “consistent” when you’re the president. Woo.

I really want Kerry to start off by saying: “Mr. President, before I forget, I wanted to mention Poland.