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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
The Republicans are giving Jon Stewart tons of good material, and he is making very, very good use of it. Oh Jon, I love you so. -
I
Meme borrowed from strand. Given a random letter, list ten things you love that begin with that letter. Then post the list to your LJ and offer letters to other people. I got the letter "i", and here's my list ( Read more... ) -
More politics
A nice long article on Barack Obama's economic policy. I love how pragmatic Obama is: he surrounds himself with experts and listens to what they have to say, he looks at the results of past policy, and his goal is to improve the lot of the majority of Americans, not just Wall Street. Choice quote from one of the experts: “I’ve never worked with a ( Read more... ) -
Politics
Video and transcript of Barack Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention. Made of 100% awesome, as usual.
ITA with this article on McCain's VP pick. Sarah Palin just does not have enough experience to be vice president. Especially as backup to a 72-year-old president who's a cancer survivor - I wouldn't want her anywhere near The Button ( Read more... ) -
Rock Band is awesome
So my group now has an XBox 360 in the lounge nearby our offices, and we also now have Rock Band. This being our first Friday with Rock Band, once we got most of that pesky work stuff out of the way, we settled down with a few beers to try it out ( Read more... ) -
Random thoughts about TV
So You Think You Can Dance is insanely entertaining. And this guy is just...wow.
Apple ads are so damn pretty. Well, not the PC guy vs. Mac guy ones, but those are pretty hilarious. And ones like this make me want to buy the product AND the song. -
WANT
I must have this shiny new book-reading tech. Maybe when I get my tax refund... -
I am unreasonably proud of myself
I wrote a PowerShell script! :D It's super exciting - it makes a list of all the IPs in an IPv4 subnet and writes them to a text file! :D (I'm sure this accomplishment would not impress anyone with any non-zero amount of expertise in scripting, but this is my first time writing a script, gotta start with the small stuff.) The script can easily be ( Read more... )