Election day! Always a fun thing. I spent most of the day working on some stuff that’ll be heavily used on election day, which is always interesting. Also, an unclosed <div> on a web page can make that web page look seriously messed up. That wasted about 15 minutes. Fortunately, it was easy to fix [...]

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You can tell it’s almost Election Day by the number of political ads that you get with the paper spam in your snail mailbox. Almost all of them appear to be variations on the theme of “Candidate A is a Communist Nazi Liberal and you shouldn’t vote for Candidate A”. Pity, that. Work: Not a [...]

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Here we see Moira in her carrier, hiding out from Pinto the other night. I was unable to get a good picture of the two cats in the frame with one another. Thursday was actually not that exciting at work. Some days are like that. Well, there are some stupid politics going on in an [...]

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Arizona voters have the chance to decide a rather controversial question. There hasn’t been an enormous amount of incoherent wharrgarbl about this yet, but I have no doubt that’ll start up pretty soon. Wednesday was relatively normal at work, but the storm yesterday and its aftermath gave us all a fair amount of stuff to [...]

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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! PANICK!!1!” or “OMG! [...]

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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 a quorum. I [...]

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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) they’re [...]

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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 in reading [...]

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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, at least. [...]

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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, and [...]

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