The judges on Superstars of Dance aren't judging the dancers on the quality of their dances. Rather, they're purposefully taking away as many points as possible to keep their own countries' teams in the lead. Complete bullshit.

My EDIT 752 conflicts with Ballroom V. I can still take 8:00 Ballroom V, but I won't be able to make the 7:00 class. That stretches my 6 month plan for getting through the class to about a 9 or 10 month plan.

Grrr...

How many people who are paranoid about Obama being a Socialist play the Lottery?

Just installed Ubuntu eee on my Asus.

( Geekery )

It's a shame that electronic voting turned out to not be as foolproof as once thought. My precinct offered the option for paper ballots this year, which I opted to use because it provides a physical record of my vote. But even that had problems. The ballots came in legal-pad style tablets, where each ballot is torn off and given to the voter. ( Read more... )

Thanks to the cost cutting measures I implemented, I saved a hair under 50% of my monthly income this month. Cash only FTW ( Read more... )

My job is more or less a decent one. But there's really only just one thing that I can't stand about it. People work the system. And it's usually me who gets worked. No matter how diligent I try to be to follow procedures, people slip through the cracks, and it's my fault for letting that happen ( Read more... )

Following in Suburbaknght's footsteps...

President: Barack Obama (D)
Senate: Mark Warner (D)
House: Gerry Connolly (D)
Parks Bond: No

( The whys and wherefores )

Made it to the Center of the Universe in Spore. I'm very tempted to go searching for the Sol system, but given that there are seemingly millions of stars to go searching through, I'm not holding my breath. So for the "green1" species (yeah, what was I thinking when I named that species?) I've effectively reached the end of the game ( Read more... )

Why was Cheryl Burke's cleavage blurred out on DWTS? It wasn't any more revealing than the standard Julianne Hough spray-on cleavage.

Also, finally a Mambo on the two! Or at least, an attempt on the two.