Here’s the larger size for printing:
Droids vote poster
Rachel, meet Sauron. Sauron, Rachel. Now come up with a fruit that starts with the same letter as your name. I’ll start. Booyor…Bananas
And yes…still there.
For Jeremy…Two words: Trajan Pro
I decided to do some campaigning of my own:
My daughters and I had so much fun putting these up, we shared the love:
Shhh. Don’t tell them we did it.
New tag.
Brown Squadron, here are some Ruing Resources:
Sauron Poster
Palpatine Poster
Hey…has anyone else seen the keyed parent controls on new Fords?
In what could be one of the coolest stunts or one of the dumbest, this campaign has gone Eagle Eye. Sarah Palin is visiting California. They’ve set up a giant billboard that you can view streaming live:
Text the keyword ASK then the question to the number 69866. Check for “UR HAWTT” and other wonderful Internet dialect examples.
Also, 24 has a TV movie called “Redemption” airing on Nov. 23 as a prequel to the new season. Interesting concept, since a big complaint is that people don’t want to invest in an entire season.
That’s why my wife and I borrow it on DVD. (Even though we can predict it pretty spot-on.)
America, you have one month to prepare for your elections to be postponed. You have not met my demands and as such you will rue. My elite force of nerds and librarians (and nerd-librarians) are at this very moment staging an offensive against your dayplanners.
Brown Squadron, you have just been re-activated.
Update: Check the factcheck.org or Yahoo article to sift through some of the spin. Also, if you’re tired of politics, check out a video from Peter and a video from Danjo. Slade, you need both. “It’s the final countdown!”
Debates and state ads interrupting my dinner (yay, 3rd grade extra credit for watching the debate):
The new catchphrase with candidates is campaign reform, but I’m not seeing it, especially at the state level. The VPs were relatively polite, surprisingly, during the debate tonight. Why can’t the locals learn from that? But then there’s all that other junk. I wouldn’t lend money to a friend who kept wasting my money on junk. These guys keep using my money for stuff that could have fed homeless people, saved librarians in Mesa…even just to buy everyone in the Valley a hackey-sack I would deem more useful. “John Shadegg voted against soldiers and kids and will take away your MediCare fund”. (Think I’m joking? Click away.) I see no improvement in the mud-slinging department. I wonder how my dad tolerates it – I’m burned out by it all at 29.
I was whatever about Arpaio until two events: one, when I saw him saying one thing about looking for one thing in his sweeps of Guadalupe and that he had no idea he would find illegal immigrants. The way his eyes resembled a student lying to me bugged me. The other was when he said he was pulling all police coverage from Guadalupe. Criminals, move here. A “No Comment” response to an ad that plays during primetime like this? I don’t want my kids watching and repeating this.
The whole vote for a lesser evil-thing has not set well with me this election. It’s not a policy I would take in selecting a teacher, a babysitter, or a doctor. (Although when I have to choose between McDonald’s/Arby’s or Wal-Mart/Target, I do feel like I’m choosing one of two evils.) I don’t think it lines up with the vision statement of a “more perfect Union”.
Are there going to be other candidates at the next debate?
With both of these, a caution: It’s open to the Internet. The Internet is open to morons. Just, you know, in case you had any doubts.
If you’re like me and bored/frustrated about traditional news broadcasters, check out what Twitter and currentTV.com are doing with the debates:
Wired has a new Twitter widget, as well:
The next Hack the Debate occurs during the VP debate on Oct. 2 at current.com/debate
Debates are so clumsy. If it’s not Libcoln-Douglas, I don’t want it. Okay, so if Tina Turner ran one in the Thunderdome with a Trial by Arms, I might be annoyed but, really, am I not entertained? Chi-town versus Vietnam. But really…we don’t need another hero. Should we have an alternative? Not as clumsy or random as a debate; an elegant campaign for a more civilized age.
Something that we can all get behind: anagrams. (Not to be confused with palindromes/Palin Drones.)
Who should we as a collection of nerds vote for? Let’s look at the names:
McCain/Palin
– Serving up La Food
– It could be that McCain’s not good at Math, but I’m guessing it’s Apple becoming bigger than pi itself…Mmmm…Apple Pi…
– Is that a comment about his age?
– Either he’s got strong military training or refer back to his clinic nap
Obama/Biden
– To be fair, a knock on his age, as well.
– Insert your own Clinton/JFK/FDR/Buchanan joke here.
– Me Jill Centaur. Want dance?
– For Chef Ramsay’s show, right?
– All of the playground politics of Hussein/Osama references finally catch up.
– Possible healthcare reform. Also could be a promise of death by interstellar goo.
Okay, so this election is still crazy. But political commentators, know this: I reject your reality and substitute my own.
On the topic of nerds aging: Do you remember PC games where you had to flip to parts of the manual for different words? I think Mechwarrior had a crazy wheel like Penny Arcade mentions.
Recently there was an article by Clive Thompson in Wired about how elections are very much like a video game, with certain rules and even legitimizing the slandering-pandering. The part I really dug (because I’m not a fan of non-representative candidates trash talking) was addressing people’s concerns about the electoral college. If we take it out, it would be like changing the damage modifiers for Force Lightning. It might totally make the game unbalanced. (Although if we were in a Republic of Sean or Benevolent Dictatorship of Devinistan we could craft some sufficient house rules.)
Favorite quote? “Democracy needs a patch.”
But if Election ’08 really is a game, I want to trade mine in at Bookman’s for the next New Jedi Order book.
If you haven’t already, check out the celebrations of Gabe’s birthday around the world.
