{"id":12962,"date":"2008-08-29T23:31:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T06:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/08\/29\/potpourri-on-a-lazy-friday-night.html"},"modified":"2008-08-29T23:31:25","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T06:31:25","slug":"potpourri_on_a_lazy_frida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/29\/potpourri_on_a_lazy_frida.html","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri on a lazy Friday night"},"content":{"rendered":"

WARNING! POLITICS!<\/p>\n

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  1. McCain Ad Is Valentine to Obama on Big Day<\/a> – Well, at first, I was impressed that the McCain camp were gracious enough not to get all political on the day of Obama’s big speech — and, in fact, were congratulatory towards it. Then I read M.S. Bellows, Jr.: Crazy McCain Flip Flops In Response…<\/a> and realized that not everyone in the McCain campaign got the message.<\/li>\n
  2. McCain Veep meltdown – he’s unqualified to serve<\/a> – Is Palin as bad as all that? The more I read — pro-life, anti-gay, Young Earth Creationist … it does make me wonder. And Battered Base Syndrome<\/a> makes me think that it might have been a serious strategic error beyond the obvious. We’ll seen.<\/li>\n
  3. Obama’s Posse Heads Out For The Weekend [Party Unity…<\/a> – Okay, it’s just plain fun.<\/li>\n
  4. Watch politicians age<\/a> – It’s hard to actually detect any aging in the series of photos … but it’s sort of mesmerizing to watch.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    WHEW! POLITICS-FREE ZONE!<\/p>\n

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    1. Stardock proposes a \u201cGamer\u2019s Bill of Rights\u201d at PAX.<\/a> – It’s inconceivable that this would get any significant traction, but it does enumerate some very legitimate gripes that gamers have toward a lot of gaming companies.<\/li>\n
    2. Comcast limits customers to 250 gigs a month<\/a> – I have no idea how much bandwidth I use, or how to find out. Hrm.<\/li>\n
    3. The English language in 3000 AD<\/a> – Wildly speculative, and fascinating for all of that.<\/li>\n
    4. Photoblog devoted to century-old piccies<\/a> – I love a lot of these photo sites. Beautiful Photography<\/a> is focused on Siberian wooden houses. Bridges<\/a> shows … well, some amazingly keen bridges.<\/li>\n
    5. Fighting Zombies<\/a> – I will give $500 to any accredited major network (cable or broadcast) journalist who asks Obama or McCain how the US armed forces would deal with a zombie outbreak.<\/li>\n
    6. Your genes are not yours to know about<\/a> – Thank goodness that the government, and doctors, know best.<\/li>\n
    7. Plane evacuations<\/a> – I always check out the closest exits. But I suspect I would be a bad evacuee and bring my notebook with me.<\/li>\n
    8. What If the Kindle Succeeds? | Electronic Frontier…<\/a> -The concerns raised in the article are why I haven’t gotten a Kindle. But that said, I think the day is finally getting closer.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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McCain Ad Is Valentine to Obama on Big Day – Well, at first, I was impressed that the McCain camp were gracious enough not to get all political on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,22,20,15,28,65,16,26,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2008","category-gaming","category-hi-tech","category-media","category-media-moguls","category-my-mobile-pda","category-potpourri","category-travel","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12992,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/25\/potpourri_for_a_conventio.html","url_meta":{"origin":12962,"position":0},"title":"Potpourri for a Conventional Monday","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 25-Aug-08 3:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"POLITICAL McCain Features Moron In Ad\u00a0- Well, not really. 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