Archive for November 2008

24 Nov 2008 1624H

Twin Cities

Last weekend, the Mrs and I escaped northwest to Minneapolis where we attended a performance of Prairie Home Companion, in fact, this particular broadcast:

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If you listen carefully there is someone dying of tuberculosis in the audience and that person was sitting next to me, rest his soul.
We lived well in Minneapolis, thanks [...]

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21 Nov 2008 0704H

Nuff said

The lesson, and hopefully all those who might need it are already seated on the federal bench, is that habeas is the foundation of justice precisely because the executive branch should never be trusted. These men spent nearly seven years imprisoned (and were mentioned during George Bush’s 2002 state-of-the-union address) based on the strength of [...]

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20 Nov 2008 0800H

And there you have it

Moore: Absolutely. I’ll tell you, it was hilarious just watching these CEOs there (Tuesday) and (Wednesday) testifying in Congress, saying that, you know, that the problem wasn’t theirs, you know, the cars they were building. It was the financial situation that we’re in now. Video Watch automakers get grilled on Capitol Hill »
The problem is [...]

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18 Nov 2008 0909H

Waitaminit

The auto industry, is it years and years of bad decisions, bad design investments, bad leadership, or, is it pensions and health care costs that have absolutely nothing to do with making cars that is dragging down profitability? Is there any one thing or a confluence of badness all around? If it is health care [...]

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14 Nov 2008 1955H

I don’t understand Apple Sync

I just don’t have a very good idea about what is being synced and in which direction. System does not report state very well.
If I were to improve the Apple Sync interaction design, perhaps I might use panes: one pane for my iTunes and one pane for my AppleTV. Assuming that one only had one [...]

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05 Nov 2008 0830H

In retrospect

it is hard to believe that four years, four horrible years have passed since the last election. President-elect Obama’s rise to the highest office in the land has been nothing less than meteoric. At this time it may be worth taking a look back to the last election. In another life, on another blog, four [...]

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04 Nov 2008 2329H

But tonight, we celebrate

And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God’s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to [...]

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03 Nov 2008 2212H

And here we go.

We are embarking upon another great journey together. God bless us all, everyone, and our mother, America. See you in 48 hours.

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03 Nov 2008 0815H

Pwned

A: Gov. Palin, I love the documentary they made on your life. You know Hustler’s Nailin’ Paylin?
P: Ohh, good, thank you, yes.
A: That was really edgy.
P: Well, good.
Oh dear.

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02 Nov 2008 2054H

Observed in passing

Sometimes, there are mysteries where you are so caught up in the details that you don’t realize that the narrator or the protagonist is in fact the criminal. And there are those mysteries in which right up to the end, the criminal denies that they ever did anything wrong — in fact, they might even [...]

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