As an IT professional, I frequently deal with people who manage to not fill in a one-field form correctly when it has instructions printed on it and a script that will reject the input and pop up a warning if they fall outside of expected parameters. The point is: I know that foolproofing is a pipe dream. They always make better fools ( Read more... )

Warning: Political rant ahead ( Read more... )

My brother-in-law commented to me last night, "It seems like in Greek Mythology, might makes right - not just that, but if you have the might, you ARE right. So Ulysses is a better person, because he can pull his bow - not that he is able to pull the bow because he is a better person ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, and my dad is cooking. I'm more thankful than I can express at that. I feel I've had an inordinately prolonged youth, what with not having kids, having fun hobbies, and having a father who still wants to cook me Thanksgiving dinner ( Read more... )

So glad I did that! Nyla was awesome - read her LJ entry on the rally because I want to ditto every last word. And then read John Stewart's Speech. The fact is, this was a dead serious rally, despite the coating of humor. The best jokes cut painfully into truth, and that's why this was so significant. There were serious signs - the first one I ( Read more... )

There was a dangerous amount of hype leading up to Obama's first speech as president - I wouldn't have wanted that pressure on me were I writing a speech! But he delivered, and delivered well ( Read more... )

mmmm that feeling of responsible citizenship! Now I'm hopped up on caffeine and hope. Gotta wait hours to find the results! It's anxiety-inducing. Hopefully by tonight we can unwrap a shiny new president-elect whose name begins with O and ends with bama. (I'm not partissan *cough ( Read more... )

We were pumped, psyched, and other words usually reserved for seeing rock stars. People from all over the city and suburbs were there, exchanging details "Oh I have family in Shaker Heights" - "Did you take the green line or the blue line?" "Is that near Chagrin Falls?" We were diverse and yet united. All walks of life, ages, and backgrounds, ( Read more... )

On my commute to work I saw the following yard signs ( Read more... )

Well, I voted. This was my fourth time voting in this precinct, and the fourth different ballot type I've seen. Can we please just use the same system twice? And boy howdy it bugs me how we had to rip off a strip that said "Do not rip off vote will not be counted if removed" but they swore, yes, it had to be removed. And, like, this is the ( Read more... )