Sunday, this was the view from my window. It rained on and off all dang day. At least I went and got groceries during one of the sunny periods.
Also voted in the local elections. The city council elections here are non-partisan, meaning there aren’t any “OMG! Democrats r raisin ur taxes! [...]

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Tuesday, the big thing was the HOA meeting. It started on time, but there weren’t enough people for a quorum. Some people called people they knew and asked them to show up, or knocked on neighbors’ doors, and we ended up with exactly 25% of the units represented. Just barely enough for [...]

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The rabbits heartily disapprove of silly pictures like this.
Sunday didn’t have a lot going on. However, I recently heard that the workers at Fry’s and Safeway may go on strike next Friday, which would be pretty interesting. I’ve done almost all my grocery shopping at Fry’s for the last two years because A) [...]

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Ellen Feiss seems to have dropped off the radar. So have an irreverent JPEG that parodies her brief brush with Internet fame.
Again, not a whole lot happened on Saturday. I finally finished reading Free Speech for Me, but Not for Thee. This book should be taught in every high school, be discussed [...]

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Cars with faces and teeth probably wouldn’t be nearly as cute as Lightning McQueen.
Hm. Not a very exciting Monday. One of the proposed upgrades to most of our boxes looks like it’ll work well, modulo problems like “the NFS server didn’t have /data/path_to_files in its /etc/exports.” That error was easy to fix, [...]

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The book I was reading on the bus on Monday, The Pentagon’s New Map: Blueprint for Action, has an odd word choice in it. The author constantly refers to combat forces who are actively shooting enemies or blowing up buildings as “Leviathan”, and refers to military forces who are building infrastructure, acting as police, [...]

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Earlier, I was thinking about the legal system and what could be done to improve it. There are tens of thousands of laws on the books, and many of them probably don’t need to be there. Software projects that have been going on for years accumulate what we call “cruft”—bits of code that [...]

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Historic inauguration, with a pretty good speech and a lousy poem. Seriously, they should’ve gotten someone who’d won at least one poetry slam in there for the poetry part of it. Or KRS-One or Chuck D.
Ah well. I don’t think anybody got a lot of work done while the swearing in and [...]

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I was up very late at work on Tuesday night fixing minor problems and watching the election results. Whatever happens, it’ll be a very interesting 4 years. I hope the amount of WHARRGARBL from all political parties can be minimized, and that elected officials can put aside partisan piddling and actually work on [...]

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This is the early ballot that I filled out 2 weeks ago.  I hope that all eligible citizens of the USA vote today if they haven’t mailed in their ballots already, and choose the candidates they feel are best qualified to serve.
I’m going to be working late on Tuesday.  They need some people to be [...]

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