Proposition 8 - The Musical

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Seriously Jenny Lewis, you are awesome.

Shelley and I went to the Herbst Theater Tuesday night to see Jenny Lewis and her band, and holy crap were they awesome.

Jenny Lewis has an amazing voice, terrific stage presence, such attitude, she's great.

With her man, the talented Jonathan Rice, and the rest of her band backing her up they were totally awesome.

You know when you go to a show and every song is awesome? That's how it was. Old songs that I knew by heart, new songs that I can't wait to know by heart, it was all great.

If you're not familiar with Jenny Lewis, or her other band Rilo Kiley, check her out.

Calling Canada should not cost $0.29/minute

Why does AT&T charge me 30¢ a minute to call Canada?  I mean, come on.... Canada is not far away, in fact, some people I call in Canada are closer than people I call in the US.

Ridiculous.

Or I can pay AT&T $3 a month for the pleasure of the fantastic rate of 20¢ a minute!  Jeez.  That's still mad expensive.

I guess it's not that much, but it feels silly.  I feel wronged having to pay anything extra to call Canada.

So I've tried Skype, and that's good and all, but I frequently get lag which can be terribly annoying.

Grumble.

How does John McCain get away with claiming he would better regulate the financial industry and then immediately following that with all sorts of small-government, deregulate everything rhetoric?

Ugh.

iGoogle Sidebar

So iGoogle seems to have updated their look and feel.

For the most part I like it, but it seems that the sidebar where your tabs are takes up way too much space, and there's no way to hide it.

Now I imagine the iGoogle team might fix this, but until they do, I made a solution.

It's not perfect, but it'll get you by. Copy this bookmarklet to your bookmarks bar:

Toggle Sidebar

When you're on your iGoogle hompage, it'll toggle that sidebar. Sweet.

Another debate tonight

I think TiVo should record it for me, cause I'm not going to be home in time to watch live.

Stupid East Coast and their "standard time".

If you're still at work, and not watching the debates yet, perhaps pass the time with these two terrific blogs:

Yes We Can (hold babies). 

Yes We Carve 

Brilliantly written

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/10/helping-you-break-language-barrier.html

Biden wins the debate!

Biden won that debate, for sure.

Who actually answered the questions asked?

Who presented convincing facts backing up his ideas and plans?

Who referred to himself by his full name a couple of times?  Joe Biden.  That's who.

He rocked that debate.

Get out there and vote!

Thermoses are cool

Thermoses, and perhaps more generally insulation, are amazing.

Yummy coffee, nice and warm... ALL DAY LONG.

Yet the bottle doesn't even feel warm, but when you pour it, it's still steamy. Amazing.


Plus, you get to drink out of a cute little cup.

Aaron Sorkin, creator of The West Wing, wrote a great fictional interview between Obama and fictional president Bartlet.  Read it.

OBAMA What would you do?

BARTLET GET ANGRIER! Call them liars, because that’s what they are. Sarah Palin didn’t say “thanks but no thanks” to the Bridge to Nowhere. She just said “Thanks.” You were raised by a single mother on food stamps — where does a guy with eight houses who was legacied into Annapolis get off calling you an elitist? And by the way, if you do nothing else, take that word back. Elite is a good word, it means well above average. I’d ask them what their problem is with excellence. While you’re at it, I want the word “patriot” back. McCain can say that the transcendent issue of our time is the spread of Islamic fanaticism or he can choose a running mate who doesn’t know the Bush doctrine from the Monroe Doctrine, but he can’t do both at the same time and call it patriotic. They have to lie — the truth isn’t their friend right now. Get angry. Mock them mercilessly; they’ve earned it. McCain decried agents of intolerance, then chose a running mate who had to ask if she was allowed to ban books from a public library. It’s not bad enough she thinks the planet Earth was created in six days 6,000 years ago complete with a man, a woman and a talking snake, she wants schools to teach the rest of our kids to deny geology, anthropology, archaeology and common sense too? It’s not bad enough she’s forcing her own daughter into a loveless marriage to a teenage hood, she wants the rest of us to guide our daughters in that direction too? It’s not enough that a woman shouldn’t have the right to choose, it should be the law of the land that she has to carry and deliver her rapist’s baby too? I don’t know whether or not Governor Palin has the tenacity of a pit bull, but I know for sure she’s got the qualifications of one. And you’re worried about seeming angry? You could eat their lunch, make them cry and tell their mamas about it and God himself would call it restrained. There are times when you are simply required to be impolite. There are times when condescension is called for!

A new attempt at blogging

I've made a few attempts at blogging before. None have worked out. Sometimes I blame on the tools I was using. Sometimes I blame on my laziness to write things. Sometimes I had nothing to say.

But lately, I've had things to say, and no where to say them.

So come faithful readers, get ready for the most awesome blog you've ever seen. Put this in your feed reader and prepare to have your mind blown.

Or something like that.