Archive for January, 2008
Published January 4th, 2008
The Iowa Caucus, as a predictive tool, is pretty much worthless. They’ve chosen the president correctly (in a contested race) only twice - Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush. Bill Clinton only got about 3% in 1992. Iowa is barely worth anything in the total delegate count - as well it should be, since it’s […]
Published January 4th, 2008
A thousand TV cameras, trucks, newsvans and a couple of helicopters here at work this morning. It’s absolute chaos, they’re blocking the street in places and being a general nuisance. I don’t really get why they’re here, it’s not like they can actually take pictures of her or something - especially from a helicopter. They […]
Published January 2nd, 2008
January:
Went out with someone a few times, got rejected, got depressed, took some pictures, went to SF, failed at The Nail Problem.
February:
Got my own web domain. Feb 2007 was, and still is, the highest traffic month this blog has gotten. Goes to show it was all downhill from here. More hiking, more pictures.
March:
Had a crappy […]
Published January 2nd, 2008
Now they’ve deemed laptop batteries as too dangerous to have on planes. Check that - not ALL laptop batteries. Just SPARE ones. Good grief. I would also like to direct you to the NY Times Blog Post “The Airport Security Follies” that talks about how absurd TSA “safety” has become. A particularly salient passage:
The three-ounce […]
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