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I attended an Obama volunteer rally last week at the Convention Center with the Senator himself. Haven’t had time to look at my photos yet, but if any came out well (I kinda doubt it with the light in the room and the lens I had) I’ll post them here soon.
Also finished the sleeve on my left arm. Photos to come.
Let me just say I have been a big fan of Paul Krugman’s for quite a while now. Even prior to September 11, Dr. Krugman had the Bush administration figured out for what they were. And in the insanity of 2002 and 2003 he was one of the very few mainstream voices that recognized the dangerous path we were pursuing. But this election season, Krugman has taken a turn away from economics (his specialty) and its intersection with politics. He’s repeatedly inserted himself into the race as an opponent of Barack Obama over his health care plan.
I understand his argument and even agree with parts of it, but Krugman has now crossed the line from Obama critic to Clinton shill. Witness his op-ed today about the Fed and financial markets. It’s full of interesting observations about the economy that help a layman like me understand this increasingly chaotic and complex element of our national debate. But he ends the whole thing with a non sequitur Clinton talking point:
But hope is not a plan.
At least we can now put all his past denials behind us and acknowledge that for all intents and purposes Paul Krugman is now a Clinton surrogate.
Cross-posted at DoubleSpeak
I swear, I didn’t take a day off of work to wait in line for an iPhone.
But I did buy one the day after it came out. And having carried it in my pocket every day since, looking at it every morning when I wake up and before I go to bed, using it for everything from weather to directions to email to playing Nintendo, I’ve gotta say: it’s a truly amazing device. Game changing you might say. Sure, I get a bit jealous of those more functional Blackberry keyboards, but these days when I have to suffer through using someone else’s phone I briefly wonder how I ever lived without my slim little iPhone.
What’s most impressive is when you hand your iPhone to someone who’s never used it before. Just watch them play with it and you see the future of software.
I’m not the first to say it by any means, but the announcement yesterday of Software Development Kit for the iPhone and iPod Touch is going to be huge. It’s not a phone or an mp3 player anymore, it’s a platform. It’s a way of building portable, useable, and revolutionary tools that are going to continue to change the way we interact with the world. Seriously, if you don’t have one now, you will have a touch-based and internet connected device in your hand in the next 10 years.
Now let’s just hope someone besides Apple and Steve Jobs can get their act together and build a true competitor.
And on a completely unrelated note, Star Wars according to a 3 year old.
Though I’ve spent the past five middle-of-June weekends in Manchester, TN at the Bonnaroo festival, I don’t expect to return this year. Simply put, the lineup isn’t good enough to justify the ever-increasing costs. Combined with the even more disappointing All Points West lineup, I don’t have high expectation for music this summer.
But in the meantime, a bit of housekeeping and memories from last year:
Yeah, I’ll miss My Morning Jacket, but hopefully get my Radiohead fix in Philly on August 4th.
In the meantime, if you’re in Brooklyn tomorrow (3/6), DC on Friday, or Baltimore on Saturday, you should definitely go see The Shalitas.
Just got the bike back from Bicycle Revolutions (thanks Bryan!) last night.
Sugino 75 unsealed bottom bracket
Sugino 75 170 mm cranks with 48 tooth Sugino ring
MKS GR-9 pedals with MKS clips and Christophe straps
Izumi 1/8″ track chain silver
17 tooth EAI cog
Even in 30 degree weather it was a fun and super smooth ride this morning. I’m thinking I should have upgraded my pedals (from some cheapo Unions) a long time ago.
The blogroll over on the right of this site is still powered by my ancient (well, in Internet time) Bloglines subscription list. It worked pretty well for a while but ever since I moved my feed reading over to Google Reader it’s been static. Sorry to all those quality writers out there who haven’t gotten the link love they deserve.
Google Reader just launched blogroll support, but only for specific tags. I’d really like support for all public feeds. They don’t take comments on the Official gReader blog so this is my request. And yes, I know I could create a tag and add it to every public feed, but that’s both a pain and difficult to maintain/update.
Of course, now I’m noticing that it appears to only take trackbacks from other Blogspot blogs. Bogus.
More often than not these days it seems that my spare time and money is taken up by bikes. Ever since my lovely lovely lady friend crashed my little Honda Civic, forcing me back to regular riding for the first time since I was about 13, I’ve been bitten by the bug. First I went with a used green Schwinn Collegiate that got me around quite well, despite its epic weight. For my birthday this year, I treated myself to a new bike, a wonderful IRO Mark V, and except for a few exceptions I think I’ve ridden nearly every day since. That’s a minimum of 6 miles a day for the weekday commute with occasional detours thrown in to lengthen the ride as well as some longer weekend jaunts. I know it’s not much compared to many riders but I’m feeling more fit (and flexible!) than I have in a very long time.
Like most cyclists, I’m finding it far too easy to drop money on upgrades though. I’m working on building up a beater winter bike that is in need of cranks, a bottom bracket, and a chain so I figured why not splurge and upgrade the main ride, moving the old parts over to the beater? Hence, a fantastic ebay find of a set of new (never ridden, but pulled off a bike) Sugino 75 cranks. These things are sweet and I got them so cheap! Since I also needed a new saddle after a spill the other week, I went for broke and also got a new Brooks Narrow B-17 saddle. Not looking forward to breaking it in, but it’s gonna be slick once I get the new stuff on.
While there really aren’t any regular readers of this blog anymore, for the few of you who do check in, you may have noticed the blogroll is woefully out of date. It’s actually still pulling from my old Bloglines subscription list instead of Google Reader. Maybe I’ll update it. In the meantime, some good cycling blogs:
Finally, for you political podcast junkies, look for some DoubleSpeak news coming soon.
Someday I will get a new charger for my camera battery and take pictures of the other 2 monsters that live in our house. That’s right, we are crazy cat people.
Football season is here. Maybe more posting to come??
I LOVE this show.
In the related videos there are also all kinds of hysterical ad parodies. Plenty of material to get you to the end of the day.
(via Philebrity.tv)
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