A friendly reminder to all Virginia residents who will not be near their polling places come November 3, 2009 to fill out their Absentee Ballot Application.

I recently changed my cell phone (long story) but in the process I lost much of my contact information. If you think I should have your phone number, please leave it. (Comments screened)

In other news, I really dislike packing. Its only redeeming factor is that it forces you to get rid of all the crap that may pile up. For example: while packing, I found a piece of loose-leaf paper with the following hand-written (not my handwriting) list :

• Ibuprofen
• Acetaminophen
• Hot fudge sunday poptarts

I have no idea from whence this list came. Four more days...

"Somewhat" disheartening:



Solus and redemption: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/tools/tuva/index.html (Feynman lecture videos available online (note: wonderful!))

Tags: science

From http://nymag.com/news/features/56793/

Back in 1971, when the web was still twenty years off and the smallest computers were the size of delivery vans, before the founders of Google had even managed to get themselves born, the polymath economist Herbert A. Simon wrote maybe the most concise possible description of our modern struggle: “What information consumes is rather obvious: It consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.” As beneficiaries of the greatest information boom in the history of the world, we are suffering, by Simon’s logic, a correspondingly serious poverty of attention.

The audio for the This American Life episode that I mentioned recently has been posted. I have it available here if you, for whatever reason, can't get it there.

Just listen to the first 45min of it - I guarantee* that you will come out of it with the capacity to form an informed opinion on the TARP/bailout, whatever that opinion may be. Do the patriotic thing and learn about this current event.

*If you aren't satisfied, I'll refund in full any money you paid to me for any services rendered that are directly related to this event

Tags: current events, economics, tarp

Being the dork that I am, as I was going through my Friday night I tuned in to the latest installment of This American Life on my local NPR station about the banking crisis. I consider myself to be a reasonably well-informed person, and I don't think there was any particular fact they presented that I didn't already know; the crisis, however, was explained so smoothly that I came out feeling even better informed because the neurons in my brain were re-wired such that I could think about the problem much more efficiently: the thought process became untangled. I would post a link to the actual audio, but it's not yet available: it should be required listening for anyone wishing to discuss the TARP or the bailouts in general (especially these people).

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I love NPR.

This is mainly intended for people who have at one point lived in and around the DC area...

Poll #1323442 Kojo Nnamdi Roundup
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The least significant digit of the current minute is:

In case you haven't heard already:

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/09/a-readers-guide-to-the-blagojevich-complaint/?hp

This makes me physically ill.

I just thought of this old Onion article today.

Bush: 'Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over'

Because I haven't seen a musical in awhile, and Les Miserable is a really good one:
"Les Misbarack"


And, keeping with the musical theme, what I presume is a parody (but I'm not completely sure):
"The Enchanted Republican Forest"


2012 days since the declaration of 'Mission Accomplished' in Iraq

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