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I was walking by Whole Foods, and there were bohemian-dressed young men in front, representing a PAC that I will not mention by name on a high-traffic website, selling a book by their candidate calling for the resignation of Dick Cheney.  They wanted to return to a US in the model of FDR.

So I stopped.

I wouldn’t buy the book, but I agreed to take their pamphlet literature.  I was pressed extensively for a donation.  I gave $2 to cover their printing costs for the pamphlets, but told them I needed to read the literature before making any further contribution.  This seemed odd to them.  Foolishly, in retrospect, I also gave my name, telephone number, and email address.

So I read the literature.  The FDR model that they want to return to is an industrial economy.  The reason this is OK is that, they claim, global warming is a scientific fraud.  Why they think this way and hate Dick Cheney I do not know.  But do note: Whole Foods plus natural fiber clothes plus anti-Dick Cheney does not necessarily equal friend to a liberal.

Three meta-limericks:

Origin unknown

A decrepit old gas-man named Peter,
While searching about for the meter,
          Lit the gas with his light
          And arose out of sight
And as any reasonably educated reader will immediately be able to discern,
 this also destroyed the meter.

Via David Johannsen

There once was a girl from Japan
Whose limericks never would scan
          When asked why this was
          She responded, "Because
I always try to fit as many words into the final line as I possibly can!"

Via Dan Dennett

There once was a woman named Tuck
Who had the most terrible luck
          She went out in a punt
          And fell over the front
And was bit on the leg by a duck!

T-Mobile: phonenumber@tmomail.net
Virgin Mobile: phonenumber@vmobl.com
Cingular: phonenumber@cingularme.com
Sprint: phonenumber@messaging.sprintpcs.com
Verizon: phonenumber@vtext.com
Nextel: phonenumber@messaging.nextel.com

where phonenumber = your 10 digit phone number

(Courtesy of tech-recipes)

Here is a graphical picture of my hard disk usage:

(click to enlarge)

The teal on the left is my ripped CD collection.  The red and gray in the upper right is movies.  Everything else is everything else.  And this is post cleanup, going from 90% usage to 76% usage.

My needs are outpacing hard disk space, even with the huge hard drives available now.  I think I need about a petabyte to be really comfortable.

(Image created with GdMap 0.7.5)

Google Book Search: Buy your books by the chapter.

ITunes model for books?  Will publishers go for it?

I got a web-enabled phone today and thls is my first mobile post.  The site doesn’t look too shabby on it either.

I am training myself on the handwriting recognition now.

In letter recognizer:

L ne qvlck brown aox jumlyfd over tre laz y dog.

In Transcriber:

i-re quick brown fit jumped over the lazy dog.

More work to come.

i-nequick R 71

Niall and I were reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar, which leads up tensely to an exciting ending.  The ending is the protagonist’s metamorphosis.  I sound like a literary snob.  No, the protagonist doesn’t undergo an emotional restructuring (presumably).  The character literally metamorphoses.  It’s a caterpillar.  Hence the title.

We get to the last page and Niall, who has been building in excitement, shouts out “And a BUTTERFLY comes out of the raccoon!”

Another quick one.  Niall and I were in the car, stopped at a light.  He shouts impatiently from the back seat “The light is red!  Go!”

Please don’t hack my site this time.