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For everyone using RSS, sorry about a whole bunch of old messages showing up as new. I changed the config so that the whole message would show up in the RSS feed, not just the first 40 words. Only yesterday’s is new.
Had Thanksgiving dinner at Ralph and Gene’s house. They’re both architects and have a huge house on top of Nicholes Canyon. When I first met them 20 years ago it was just a very steep hillside. Now they’re finally talking about selling it, perhaps a year too late, as [...]
Saw a movie this weekend, Finding Neverland. It was very enjoyable. Was planning to see it at 7 with Nick, but he was running late so we decided on 8:30. Then 10. He didn’t get to my house until 9:50, so I knew we wouldn’t make it. Saw the 10:50 [...]
I’ve come to the conclusion that in an interview if they start asking me Computer Science theory questions, that I should just politely end the interview and go home, because I’m not going to be able to answer the questions to their satisfaction.
And if the interviewer is 15 years younger than me, that’s pretty much [...]
I’ve been back in Los Angeles for two years now. Overall, I’m glad to be back, although I’d rather be employed. I’ve not been writing much about the job search. Getting calls from headhunters, but little follow-up. One interview I had recently the first three people loved [...]
Dysfunction (noun) Abnormal or impaired functioning, especially of a bodily system or social group. dysfunctional (adjective);
A dysfunctional family is one that pretends everything is fine, one that does not deal directly with issues they face, but hope that if no one talks about the issues, the issues will go away. Appearance [...]
So its been a week since the election. Like most of the people I know, I was crushed by the reelection of George W Bush. Perhaps living on the margins of the country (along with 48% of the population of the USA) made us too isolated. After everything that has happened in [...]
The LA Times interactive Electoral Vote Tracker has been a great gizmo to test out various scenarios. From that, it seems very unlikely that Kerry will get less than 287 electoral votes. He could get as much as 365.
My guess is 311 for Kerry.
1A - yes
59 - yes - no brainer
60, 60A - no - was put on the ballot to hi-jack 62
61 - no
62 - yes - can vote for anyone in a primary, regardless of your or their party registration, top two vote getters get on general election ballot, even if from same party. means [...]
From Slate’s Enter The Fray
…The problem is not (simply) this Party’s President but the Party itself. By giving into its most archly conservative elements and combining that with an extremely activist agenda, Republicans have transformed themselves from a conservative Party that promised to get government off our backs into a neoconservative one that believes it [...]