Oct 2008
Birthday Wishes From the Maker
I received an unexpected message the other day from the Maker** to wish me a Happy Birthday and it was such a wittily crafted note, I thought it would be interesting to share with everyone. Here it is...
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Well, I have very little in the way of a pithy yarn to spin about your origins [other than already in lore] but I did want to make sure that I celebrated* the day you became less 'conceptual' and more 'actual'. It's probably time I told you that I built you using an RBMK-1000 platform [you may have heard of it, it was big in the news back in '86 and, consequently, pretty cheap to get]. I know there used to be some safety protocols but I kinda lost them and they were in Russian anyway which is like a whole 'nuther language. Anyway, might not want to jump around... or stray too far from any large deposits of Boron and don't get stressed or anything... especially if people start bandying about with terms like "Level 7 International Nuclear event". Those people are just needlessly worrying you... well, not 'needlessly', more... 'legitimately'.
Look, the point is you have other things to worry about... like this box I found in my last move with a whole bunch of loose bolts, pop rivets and gaskets that were all labeled "The Dave 3000. Important!" I don't even want to think about where those were supposed to go.
Anyway! Enjoy your birthday, buddy. I hope you have a great time and life is going well... at least I hope your half-life is.
* - The way I plan on celebrating is by picking up the two handguns I purchased last week. They are awesome.
Brock Torso**
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Well, I have very little in the way of a pithy yarn to spin about your origins [other than already in lore] but I did want to make sure that I celebrated* the day you became less 'conceptual' and more 'actual'. It's probably time I told you that I built you using an RBMK-1000 platform [you may have heard of it, it was big in the news back in '86 and, consequently, pretty cheap to get]. I know there used to be some safety protocols but I kinda lost them and they were in Russian anyway which is like a whole 'nuther language. Anyway, might not want to jump around... or stray too far from any large deposits of Boron and don't get stressed or anything... especially if people start bandying about with terms like "Level 7 International Nuclear event". Those people are just needlessly worrying you... well, not 'needlessly', more... 'legitimately'.
Look, the point is you have other things to worry about... like this box I found in my last move with a whole bunch of loose bolts, pop rivets and gaskets that were all labeled "The Dave 3000. Important!" I don't even want to think about where those were supposed to go.
Anyway! Enjoy your birthday, buddy. I hope you have a great time and life is going well... at least I hope your half-life is.
* - The way I plan on celebrating is by picking up the two handguns I purchased last week. They are awesome.
Brock Torso**
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Early Voting
26-Oct-08 11:00 AM Filed in: Politics|Current Events
The wife and I went and did early voting yesterday and we are both glad that is done. It sounds like voter turn out this year could be extremely high on November 4 making for long lines and possible delays. I voted in the democratic primaries earlier this year and there were long lines for that event which was very surprising. Right now work has me out of town quite a bit and it looks like I may be out of town on November 4, so early voting made a lot of sense for us this year.
At the sub courthouse where we voted the voting machines were computerized and were very easy to use. The directions were posted in english and spanish and it was very easy to navigate. We voted on Saturday evening and I estimated that they had approximately twenty voting booths and they were all full. So, even for early voting, there was a good turn out on a Saturday evening. Even so, we were in and out in about 15 minutes.
If you have not voted yet I encourage you to do so. And if you haven’t figured out who are you are voting for you don’t have much time to make up your mind. Suffice it to say, both sides have engaged in a bit of dirty pool and misleading statements. I highly recommend Fact Check dot Org for a good resource where you can find non-partisan reports on the statements made by both campaigns and a factual analysis of whether or not they are accurate or bogus. Both sides are guilty of misleading statements; some more so than others. After having checked this website as well as the Politifact website, it appears to me that McCain and Palin are in the lead by quite a bit when it comes to misleading statements, erroneous comments, and downright mistruths. Not surprising for a team that appears to be far behind in the polls and trying to gain ground by any means possible.
I do admire McCain, however, for correcting people at his rallies for making false statements and claims against Barack Obama. He wouldn’t have to be making these corrections if it had not been for the vast amounts of misinformation and lies that were put out into the public square in the first place by the republican political machine. Myths regarding Barack Obama have abounded by the republican juggernaut along with other statements of inaccuracies and misleading statements. On any given issue made by either party in this election, it is easy to go and check the facts for yourself and make up your own mind. Just make sure your fact checking is based on neutral reporting and not partisan sponsored websites. This has been a long election cycle and I am ready for it to be over.
At the sub courthouse where we voted the voting machines were computerized and were very easy to use. The directions were posted in english and spanish and it was very easy to navigate. We voted on Saturday evening and I estimated that they had approximately twenty voting booths and they were all full. So, even for early voting, there was a good turn out on a Saturday evening. Even so, we were in and out in about 15 minutes.
If you have not voted yet I encourage you to do so. And if you haven’t figured out who are you are voting for you don’t have much time to make up your mind. Suffice it to say, both sides have engaged in a bit of dirty pool and misleading statements. I highly recommend Fact Check dot Org for a good resource where you can find non-partisan reports on the statements made by both campaigns and a factual analysis of whether or not they are accurate or bogus. Both sides are guilty of misleading statements; some more so than others. After having checked this website as well as the Politifact website, it appears to me that McCain and Palin are in the lead by quite a bit when it comes to misleading statements, erroneous comments, and downright mistruths. Not surprising for a team that appears to be far behind in the polls and trying to gain ground by any means possible.
I do admire McCain, however, for correcting people at his rallies for making false statements and claims against Barack Obama. He wouldn’t have to be making these corrections if it had not been for the vast amounts of misinformation and lies that were put out into the public square in the first place by the republican political machine. Myths regarding Barack Obama have abounded by the republican juggernaut along with other statements of inaccuracies and misleading statements. On any given issue made by either party in this election, it is easy to go and check the facts for yourself and make up your own mind. Just make sure your fact checking is based on neutral reporting and not partisan sponsored websites. This has been a long election cycle and I am ready for it to be over.
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