28. November, 2003 - tryptophan hangover
- Actually, Thanksgiving Dinner for me was pheasant, rather than turkey. Still tasty, though.
- Hey, Bubba Ho-Tep opens next week at the Uptown here in Minneapolis. If I’m not mistaken, it’ll be the first time I have a chance to see a Bruce Campbell movie in an actual theater instead of on video. It might actually get me into a movie theater for the first time in years.
- How is it that we get things done? Well, a good dash of Structured Procrastination seems to help. Although for me, deadlines seem to be an awfully important part of the equation.
- I got invited into Friendster recently. It’s a really frustrating service. It looks like it might be cool, but it’s so damned slow to respond that I gave up trying to explore it after about ten minutes. Oh well, maybe some other time. I also wonder about who has access to the data, which leads me to…
- Do you feel the Orwellian eyes on you? Well, maybe not yet, but the technology’s all there for pretty much constant 1984-style surveillance.
The technology is developing at the speed of light, but the laws that protect us go back to the stone ages.
Nothing really new here, but it's nice to see that I’m not the only one who notices this sort of thing.
- Broad Bills Stuffed With Lawmakers’ Pet Items and rammed through at the last minute before the Thanksgiving recess, leading the NYT to say Pass the Sour Grapes, Not Sweet Potatoes, and
If you were to judge this Congress by how it operated, the process by which it operated, and the quality of the legislative product, I would give it a D minus.
Copyright 2008, Dave Polaschek.
Last updated on Fri, 28 Nov 2003 07:11:44.