Evidently, there is a company in Iowa called Future Phone offering free international phone calls to 40 different countries, including to the UK. One only pays whatever it would cost them to call Iowa normally, so for those who have inclusive long-distance plans it would be a free call and for others it would just be charged as domestic long- ( Read more... )

I can't stay up anymore. The Senate race won't be done for some hours, so I think I'm going to try to take a nap (versus a full night's sleep) and dream of ShrubCo being impeached sometime in the next two years. I do believe the Democrats will get Virginia, Missouri, and Montana -- according to the data here, unless the recount goes awry in ( Read more... )

I am currently sitting and watching the election results come in on BBC News 24 and Sky News. Well, not exactly currently, as the television is in the lounge and I am in the hall at the computer. I am also periodically checking boston.com.

So far, I am elated to hear that Republican Rick Santorum has been unseated as the Senator from ( Read more... )

I got my ballot late this year due to the incompetency of the Massachusetts Elections Division, but was able to send it back on 20 October due to excellent time management (ie, spending a couple of days not doing much else in my free time) and being known well by the Burlington Town Hall. (This does not explain why it then took me over two weeks ( Read more... )

I got a message today on OKCupid from a sunnyday06, also known as the unsurprisingly single Mr. Gary Voss, 38-year-old taxi company owner from East Lansing, Michigan. I do not know this man and he clearly does not know me.

Entitled 'Eliza Doolittle', it said:
( It still smells the same no matter what one calls the body part it originates from. )

Today is the sixth anniversary of my residence in the UK.

I have rather mixed feelings about this.