McCain is going on Jon Stewart’s Daily Show – and Stewart is soliciting questions to ask the senator…
http://blog.indecision2008.com/2008/05/05/john-mccain-on-the-daily-show-this-wednesday/
I suggested a fun question comparing the Hundred Years War to Iraq just because I want to see Senator McCain’s head explode when the words “hundred” “years” and “Iraq” are used together in one sentence…
Mine is an evil laugh!
A pretty close primary/caucus in Guam (current tally gives it to Obama by only 7 votes, there will be a recount), the delegates will be following the lucky guess prediction of two each plus super delegates. Add to each campaign a few more declaring super delegates and Obama only needs 282 of the remaining 404 pledged delegates and 275 uncommitted super delegates to win the nomination.
For Erci‘s birthday we hooked up with friends and went to Maryland’s Sheep and Wool festival. I spent the day people watching and napping under the sweet gum tree near the performing artist’s pavilion, Erci and our friends shopped the hundreds of wool vendors, craft booths, and weaving, and knitting suppliers. We gorged on lamb burgers, lamb sausage, eclairs, funnel cakes, boardwalk fries, ribbon fries, and lime fizz drinks. Weather was perfect, though standing in line at food vendors got us some mild sun burns (she’s callin’ me “redneck” and I am callin’ her “red-arms” today). The ladies pooled together and gave Erci the most awesome hand-made glass sushi plates and soy dishs we’ve seen in ages. I will add a picture here as soon as we can take one.
We cleaned up and headed in to Dance Factory‘s “Night of 1000 Stars” recitals and some general dancing. It was a lot of fun seeing all the routines/recitals, and the general dancing was fun too – though out feet were tired from being in use all day long. We were so tired when we got home that we fed the felines and collapsed without any fanfare at a
These have to be the funniest reviews I’ve seen on Amazon yet, thanks to fyrlocc for pointing them out.
Prometheus reviews of various Amazon products
Prometheus must be some kind of writer.
With the change of endorsement from Joe Andrew today, Obama needs only 289 delegates to win the nomination.
There are 408 pledged delegates yet to be aligned by primaries in the few remaining states and territories. Very likely that will split very close to evenly (my own prediction is that Obama gets 205 of them and Clinton gets 203 of them; the leaked spreadsheet predicted 208 for Obama and 200 for Clinton). Either way, if the voting goes roughly half and half, that puts Obama where he only needs about 89 of the 285 remaining super delegates.
Super delegates are deciding at a pretty steady trickle of a few per day, and they are coming in almost evenly between the two candidates… which should put Obama over the top in late May or early June.
Make an effort to listen to Jonathan Coulton‘s “First of May” from “Smoking Monkey” album, it is guaranteed to make you smile. Oh, if you are at work, use headphones; it may be NSFW in some offices.
I just wanted to take a moment to rave about Make Bookmarkable AppleScript from Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes. I was getting annoyed that our audiobooks were getting randomly played as music when I wanted music, and a quick google search lead me to iTunes FAQ on Michael Alderete’s Weblog. I quickly downloaded Make Bookmarkable, created a new ~/Library/iTunes/Scripts folder, stuck the script files in that new folder, then selected our audiobook files and used the script on them to change tags and file extensions.
Huge thank you to Michael Alderete and Doug Adams for making such useful information and scripting available.
I want an iPhone. Sprint/Nextel is allowing their North American iDen network to deteriorate slowly. I doubt it is deliberate destruction, but I suspect that as components in the network fail they just neglect to replace them. I do not know this for a fact, but call quality and signal strength have been slowly slipping into the worse and worse category.
My i580 is still a rugged and capable phone, tough as nails, useful as a phone – but the network it is on is growing old.
My replacement Palm Tungsten C is having the same screen issues that the old one had. Every once in a while it stops taking touchscreen input… very annoying.
The iPhone seems to be the logical choice to replace both, though notes still don’t sync to the desktop (come on Apple, this is a show stopper). I am stuck with a smaller and smaller investment left on the Nextel/Sprint contract (March 2009 is the end of my two year lock), and at some point Apple will release a new iPhone; but to be honest, the old one is plenty good enough if they’d just fix the software flaw and allow notes to sync to the desktop.
Oh – it would be awesome if Apple bluetooth keyboards worked with Apple bluetooth iPhones… wouldn’t it?
http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn13777
3 May 1978, first Commercial message on the arpanet, and it pissed people off even then.
You’d think marketing types would get the hint that we don’t like their crap in our inboxes…
Oh wait, that’s right, some morons actually encourage spammers by buying the junk advertised.
It makes sense.
People like Wright, Sharpton, Coulter, Malkin, Robertson all make their living off the polarization of different factions of the American populace. It’s their right. It also means that anyone who can reduce the polarization of these factions by bringing people together is a threat to their very livelihood.
Of course they are all attacking Obama. He threatens their way of life.
What makes Wright’s words so hard for people to hear is the fact that there is some truth to them. Wrong has been done to people of color in this country for hundreds of years. He has damned good reason to be mad. Sadly, getting mad does not solve the problem. Rising above the problem and reaching out to your opponents to find common ground and work together to really resolve problems is how you really improve things for Americans. That is what Obama, and more importantly, his supporters, are trying to do.
Can they be successful? Who knows, but it sure beats sitting around doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results… hey, that sounds familiar…
Forgive Wright his angry rhetoric, try and find a way to work with the people who listen to him and the people who disparage him. Bridging that divide is the real goal here.
