Archive for May, 2008

30 years of failure

Monday, May 26th, 2008

Reason talks with Ed Burns on the drug war:
Cops aren’t taught to do that anymore because today it’s all about numbers. You can get a number by just going up on the corner and grabbing somebody and getting a bag off of him. That’s the easy thing. If taking a guy in for drinking a […]

Acquiring language

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

Words my 19 month old daughter picked up immediately:

Cookie
Cake
Berries
Flowers
Music
Olive
Juice
Poopy
Shoes

Phrases my 19 month old daughter still has problems with:

Come here please
Leave that alone
I’ll be right back
Put that down
Let go of Kitty’s tail
Stop eating rocks
No, Goddamnit
Get back here!

Pork and Beans

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

Watch it first and then click through to see what I thought of it:

I have yet to hear a satisfactory answer to this question

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Okay Obama folks. Hillary has won most of (all of?) the swing states. Obama has won mostly blue states and red states.* Let’s assume that states which trended Republican and Democrat in 2004 will stay that way in 2008. Obama isn’t going to pick up any extra electoral votes from red […]

A very expensive SoFoBoMo mistake (UPDATE: still a mistake but actually not expensive)

Monday, May 5th, 2008

I ordered my SoFoBoMo book from MyPublisher over the weekend after I was able to create an account. When you go to upload the book, it asks you if you previewed all of the pages first. Unfortunately, there is an option it asks you when you upload it, something along the lines of […]

SoFoBoMo: Done.

Friday, May 2nd, 2008

I finished it, albeit 2 hours late. My daughter needed a couple extra hours of Daddy time tonight, which ate into my planned SoFoBoMo wrapup time. If that disqualifies me from the Grand Prize, so be it.
At any rate, I’m glad it’s done. I’m really excited about it. If only I […]