Purchasing a random (well, not so random) plane ticket at 2:30am in the morning to head out to the west coast immediately following thanksgiving...

I need a vacation, I've got a ton of holiday days stacked up and no time left to use them in, and there's a woman to see (no, I'm not stalking her; yes, it might feel that way; maybe, I know what I'm doing). All-in-all, I'm crazy, but I sure hope it's the good kind of crazy. Wish me luck!

It's not that I want to start a flame war. It's that I'm bored and I haven't posted anything in a while and I want to let everyone know that I'm alive and kicking.

Or something like that.

How many Bush Administration officials does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Okay, so it seems I lied back in November when I said I was back. This time I promise to stick around.

Really.

I mean it.

There's a lot to relate, job promotion (last June already, but something tells me I neglected to mention it to most of you), new apartment right off of Times Square, and a bunch of other stupid stuff.

Well, after a year and two months, I'm back.

It's been a *crazy* year, and a ton has happened to me. In short, four years of work ending in what could have been a painful lawsuit, a new job, and a huge promotion.

I hope at least a few of the old gang are around, sorry I disappeared on you all, I hope to rectify this immediately ;)

Very interesting article by Michael Wolff in the new New York magazine about the Dean money machine, and its parallels to McGovern's direct mail fundraising ... and about the dangers of relying on the liberal base vs. understanding the general voter

http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/columns/medialife/n_9188/

The bulk of it is here in this long post.

Anyway, for those of you who don't know, I live in the middle of Brooklyn, New York. Yesterday, I was in Central Park when the power went out.

Have you got three minutes. Because that's all you need to learn how to defeat the Republican Right. Just read through this handy guide and you'll have everything you need to successfully debunk right-wing propaganda.

This article was just written for our Perfessor (if not by him) =]

Now the reason I bring that up, is because it took me until today (well, yesterday actually) to realize something. Em emalb is "Blame Me" backwards.

Anyone else feel dumb for not realizing this until just now? Or am I the last one to catch on?

Em, I don't blame you for anything, except the sometimes poor poll options :P

First off, head over to Perfessor Multigeek's recent journal entry to New York area slashdotters. I figured, "Hell, why not?" and, after getting directions emailed to me, headed over this evening.

In short, a good time was had by all.

You know, I could swear banky and red5 had this exact same conversation a few weeks ago. Oh well.

I'm in mozilla on my Winblows work laptop, and click on my messages tab. Suddenly, I hear "Text text text. They'd rather hear me speak."

So I freak out. I think I've gotten a virus.

But then I click back to the Slashdot main tab. There's an add for "Talking characters for your website. Roll over for AUDIO." Argh.

Talking ads? On Slashdot? Someone shoot me.

Info here and here.

He finds the whole thing hilarious. Thank god, because if it was my pic from the photo contest being farked, I know I'd be rather uncomfortable with the whole thing.

Stanley Schmidt, Editor of Analog, writes great editorials in each issue of the magazine (pulp?), and this one holds to his high standard.