I totally endorse the show that this clip makes fun of. What’s more, I heard about this from the very show in question. Keith Olbermann is good for television, I say. And humor is good for me.
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A Special Comment
Friday, November 14th, 2008Election Affection
Monday, November 10th, 2008
One of the pictures posted on ze frank's "From 52 to 48 with Love"
Yes, it was historic. The largest number of registered voters to cast their ballot in an election since JFK in ‘60. Historic enough that the New York Times broke out the super-sized font for the front page headline for only the 4th time in history. It will be a moment in the history of our nation that we will tell our children and grand-children about.
Did you enjoy that? Good, because that’s over now.
It’s time for the new administration to get to work, and for the rest of us to act like civilized adults and treat each other with respect and — dare I say, affection? That’s why seeing things like ze frank’s From 52 to 48 With Love makes me smile. It’s a place where of the divide send messages to everyone in photos like the one above.
Sometimes my fellow citizens make me smile for all the right reasons.
An Everyday Tool in the Real World
Friday, November 7th, 2008
PhotoShop in Real Life
Love this ad idea that someone came up with for advertising PhotoShop in Indonesia. Boing Boing came across the photoset on Flickr.
Election Redux
Thursday, November 6th, 2008
A truer view of this "red" and "blue" country of ours. Looks purple to me.
Two plus years to find ourselves a new leader of the free world, and I feel the whole process can be summed up into three main points and a handful of supporting links:
- Fatigue, as distilled by This. Fucking. Election.
- History, as shown in these screencaps of news site home pages (also here).
- Reality, as displayed in Mark Newman’s map above (via Daring Fireball).
It’s this last point of the electoral reality that I’m most interested in. That map up there shows a country far more mixed than the partisan bickering we’ve watched for at least the last 16 years has indicated, even if it is a shade bluer in some parts than it was in ‘04.
Should be interesting to see how the incoming administration works towards reflecting the nation they represent in their august body. You can follow along by checking out their transition site at Change.gov.
Just 75 days until inauguration day.
History
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008Video of Obama adressing the nation as President-elect from last night. Simply awe inspiring. I will gladly admit that I got teary eyed multiple times as I sat and listened to it. Seriously, is this all happening? I didn’t fall into an episode of The West Wing, did I?
The End of the Begining
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
A vote I’m very proud of…
Now, finally, the waiting starts to end. Numbers are posted on the myriad of screens and are subsequently dissected by talking heads while I sit glued in place like a child keeping lookout for Santa on Christmas Eve. My mood is cautiously optimistic that the returns will favor my candidate, unlike the last time I performed this ritual four years ago.
As it happens, I’m not the only one feeling this way. It was a major undercurrent to my day at the Future of Web Design conference today, with speakers and others constantly alluding to it. Yet no one would utter names for fear of putting the jinx on them — more realistically for the sake of courtesy and good taste, but I like to let my mind wander.
Myself, I sit here cautiously optimistic — just like in 2004. Unlike ‘04, this time I had the pleasure of voting for my first choice and not the lesser of two bad choices. Since I first heard him speak, I knew I wanted to see him at this precipice. I may not be religious, but I have faith in this man and his abilities. What’s more, I have faith in his potential to be a truly great President. I can now imagine how those who voted for JFK must have felt.
Just a few more hours to hope. One way or the other, a change is coming. We’re at the end of the beginning.
All in my head (and chest)
Friday, August 15th, 2008Been quite sick in the head this past week — and no, I’m not trying to say I’m loco in a cute way. Of all the times to have my sinuses short circuit and my lungs clog and sputter, in would have to be this week. I lost a good two days to bed rest and about all I had energy to do was watch the Olympics on TV.
Of course, its also ill timed because this Monday coming up six month anniversary with Jill, and I want to be able to enjoy that with her. Yes, my first real long-term relationship, for those keeping score. On top of that, it’s kept me from being able to work this week, which just made me feel like quite the lazy bum (along with a personal side project).
Fingers crossed that things clear up with my bit of rest this evening.
Resuming….
Friday, July 25th, 2008
It may not seem like it, but beneath the cold, dark, eventless fallow periods around here — my golden silences, if you will — things still do stir. Ideas percolate. Events come. Memories arrive. Days go. Life leaves. Eternity follows….
Yes, I’m alive and well.
Battles
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
“Atlas”
Spring cleaning led me to a scrap of paper upon which I had franticlly scribbled the name of an album and band, in which order I could not initially determine. A Google search or two later and I was viewing the above video — “Atlas” — by math rock outfit Battles.
The visuals alone would have been enough to make the band’s name stick in my mind, but the song also managed to cut a groove into my sub-conscious. The subsequent search for the album ”Mirrored” left me waiting for a CD from Amazon — a rare occurrence for me days, what with the plethora of online music stores.
Anyway, good things come to those who wait. The entire album is just sick! Avant-garde sounds pour forth from their instruments in all their complexity. Too much. The fact that the former drummer from Helmet is part of the mix is just the topper for me.
“If I Were A Bee…”
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
As Ze Frank pointed out, “Isabella Rossellini is a genius”. I dare you to go watch some of these Green Porno shorts and not laugh, wince, and learn something.
