You know it's a day that's going in the Parenting Hall of Fame when you read "The emergency haircut he earned because he finally finished all his overdue homework didn't get all the Silly Putty out"

I'm still deciding if I'm going to do it, but I figured I'd get the word out. If you're willing to do tech support for two weeks, you can help support the efforts to elect John Kerry president. You don't even have to leave the house.

http://www.moveonpac.org/lnvb/phone/

I've had a tense week, partly because the Urban Challenge SF is tomorrow, Saturday. So, of course this week I've had insomnia past 6am one day, a large bruise on my hip from soccer last weekend, and a tweaked back from ... standing up. Whee ( Read more... )

I'm planning on running the Urban Challenge - San Francisco http://www.urbanchallenge.com/ in July. I have a likely partner lined up, but I have two requests of you, my beloved reader ( Read more... )

There are about 100 things that have happened that a good livejournaler would have posted about, and maybe I'll rehash some of them soon ( Read more... )

I was wondering today if we couldn't all just compromise and "Defend Marriage" and at the same time *improve* the civil rights situation in the US. Would you support a Constitutional amendment that outlaws gay marriage in the US but requires all govt and private organizaions to allow and accept Civil Unions with all the same considerations and ( Read more... )

My "random" mp3 shuffle isn't random, since it's heavily weighted towards songs I've rated 'superb' or 'good' in mserv, (4 or 5 on a 1-5 scale, weight 75% or 100%).

That said, here are my last 20 songs (since 20 is the length of mserv's history):

(S/G are my superb/good ratings, 'veep' means it wasn't random, I requested it)

[] random 12/11 ( Read more... )

The full story is registration only, so I made up my own:

"Pedestrian hit by wheel of truck dies in Limerick"

An Irishman walking was struck
By the wheel of an oncoming truck
He's lucky, you'd feel
For it was just the wheel
But no luck, he's as dead as a duck.

Relevant to what I've been thinking about lately, I saw on slashdot that OWL (Web Ontology Language) is now a W3C recommendation. I looked up 'ontology' to see what this means exactly, and I find "A systematic account of Existence." Wow, with a capital E even... nice. One of my coworkers pointed out that this must mean a huge new set of career ( Read more... )

1. I made valentines and super bowl cookies for a super bowl party.

2. I won at orienteering.

3. I got a vasectomy.

Hmm. I should update more often, so news doesn't pile up.