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archive for November 2008

11/26/08 Five-color press check & a Wiimote hacking DJ

Quite a day today. This afternoon, I went to the press check for the CLCV Scorecard at Alonzo Printing in Hayward. That’s always fun (no, really). I got to go on the tour for about the fourth time (because I was there with my new boss; it was her first time there). I think Alonzo [...]

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11/7/08 my Bay Area first after six years

I slept through my BART stop.
Coming back from SFO to 19th Street is nearly an hour ride. I slept through most of it, waking up briefly at 24th and Mission, Montgomery, and right when the doors closed at my stop. Oops.
(I’m writing this at MacArthur, waiting for the train home–a little too keyed up [...]

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11/5/08 Notice how the media use “GOP” as shorthand?

Many, if not most, of the articles I’ve been reading lately refer to the two major parties as the “Democrats” and the “GOP”. I know “GOP” is supposed to stand for “Grand Old Party.” But now I propose a few new backronyms for GOP:

Getting Obsolete Party
Going Overboard Party
Geriatric Out-of-touch Prevaricators

The possibilities are endless, really. Any [...]

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11/4/08 but keep voting!

There are important things in California still to decide… and nationwide… so keep voting till the polls close!

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gohlkusmaximus calls it for Obama

If you add the 200 electoral votes NBC News has called for Obama to the 55 he’s going to win in California, the 7 he’ll win in our neighbor to the north (Oregon), and the 11 in the great state of Washington, and, heck, give him the 4 in Hawaii… that gives him 277 right [...]

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“I voted twice”

Ha, ha…

Guess which sticker I made?

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Today’s the day!

My third niece, Susan Louise Gohlke, was born today in North Carolina! I get to meet her in about six weeks.
Edit: Here she is!

Oh, and, yeah, there’s an election! Things have been crazy at work lately — what with the election coming up, and the Scorecard scores being released, and the preparations needed for the [...]

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