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Election
I was afraid to turn on the TV or internet this morning. Thankfully, the news is good. Phew.
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Post-Election post
So, the OTW elections results are in. And they are disappointing, but not exactly surprising. There is power in having a Name, after all.
I do think this outcome will make the new Board's job harder than it needed to be. However, I'm willing to be pleasantly surprised.
I'm curious to see how the new Board is going to propose designing a ( Read more... ) -
Bullet point catch-up
- Am enjoying the holiday, even if I had to work yesterday (it was scheduled, so not like a bad surprise or anything).
- On Sunday, my new niece was born! 50cm, over 3700 grams, ten fingers, ten toes, a very healthy baby. I visited her (and her parents) on Monday.
- I'm making good progress on Reorientation!verse, the slash novel about the Greatest ( Read more... )
- Am enjoying the holiday, even if I had to work yesterday (it was scheduled, so not like a bad surprise or anything).
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Interesting link
Found through Making Light: the Dutch system as seen through the eyes of an American expat, published in the New York Times. Not 100% accurate (read also note 2 on the Making Light post -- I've never paid 52% tax over any part of my earnings, and I'm getting slightly more than middle-income), and he misses some of the negative consequences of some ( Read more... ) -
Do Not Feed The Troll!
I don't make political posts very often, but when fannish mechanisms are so obviously at work in the real world, it's hard to resist ( Read more... ) -
Yay!!
Congratulations, America.
Congratulations, world!
Despite it being foggy, the day is looking quite bright this morning...! -
World Elections
Something to think about, from a Reader's Digest article:
"It's a good thing for John McCain that only American citizens can vote in U.S. presidential elections. If the election were held overseas, or even in the rest of North America, the Republican nominee wouldn't stand a chance."
Not that that particular surprises me. Except maybe how high ( Read more... ) -
Interesting observation, in a observationally interesting way
I'm currently working on translating the OTW-FAQ for their upcoming Board elections. In this FAQ, they explain cumulative voting, where every voter has as many votes to distribute as there are open seats. The FAQ also says that this is pretty common in many city council elections [in the US ( Read more... ) -
Strike over…!
Congratulations to the Writers Guild of America for successfully concluding their strike for a fair deal. Perhaps they did not get all they wanted, they sure as hell got a lot more than the moguls “offered” them back in November. Too bad so many people had to suffer for the moguls to see sense, but at least it is done! Now, we can all go back to ( Read more... ) -
US Elections meme
87% Dennis Kucinich
82% Mike Gravel
81% Chris Dodd
80% Barack Obama
79% Joe Biden
77% Hillary Clinton
75% John Edwards
75% Bill Richardson
35% Rudy Giuliani
30% John McCain
28% Ron Paul
22% Mike Huckabee
22% Mitt Romney
12% Tom Tancredo
12% Fred Thompson
2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz
Well, that’s truly surprising… NOT! I’ve always said ( Read more... )