Muahaha. Your democracy has been set back five minutes.

And I think this may be the longest article title/URL. Come back for updates throughout the day, much like what I had first envisioned as The Longest Day.

6:08am – Watch as I nitpick Yahoo. “All that’s left is to vote, even for Obama.” That’s an ‘open to interpretation’ way to say it. Is there anyone you’re leaning towards, Yahoo? Hmmm?

6:13am – Uh oh. Make sure you scan that correctly. We don’t want a chad incident.

6:17am – They’ve now overflowed to the tables. No talking during the test!

6:57am – Make a Spot check.
As stealthy as a 6’9″ guy can be… (Although wasn’t there an example in one of the rulebooks for a Wookiee tracking a katarn in the rain? Devin, what’s the DC on that?)
I thought you might enjoy the most recent part of The Ruing:

Wooha!
- Wedge taking out the AT-AT with a tow cable

It should be noted that “Into the Trap” was playing in the Scion as I drove up today. Yes, it’s Return of the Jedi and not Empire Strikes Back, but it’s still an awesome squad theme song.

Brown Squadron, you have been given the go ahead. You are weapons free.

8:38am – Sunshine on my shoulder makes me happy.
Actually, just warm.

8:50am – I shall drown my sorrows in RockStar Juiced.

8:52am – J was there at 4:45am at his site. Yeah, contact with the outside world!

8:54am – Review of Juiced: Good for drowning, not necessarily drowning sorrows. I can taste the mango skin. It’s…unnerving.

Not a vanilla mocha.

8:59am – For my wife:

Snaps is the name of the game, the name of the game is snaps.
Can you please
recommend a
*Snap*
physician?

11:15am – Back from voting:

I have my reasons.

12:02pm – Castro praises one of the candidates. Wow. It’s one of those “please don’t help” moments.

1:32pm – Found out from Peter about the Secretary of the Interwebs. (Yeah! Cory Doctorow in a hot air balloon versus Tron Paul!)

3:27pm -

Cooper Black? Times New Roman?

Ouch. I just sprained my sense of design.

3:57pm – There’s a guy here taking a picture of his votes with his cell phone. What a weirdo.

Unless…

Does he have a rival website, also full of Order 66 and El Pollo Loco? I should ask rather than assume.

4:03pm – I got distracted instead by fonts with a live preview.

4:26pm – Why to avoid exit polls and why CNN vowed to not use them after the 2000 election - did they hold to it? Did you know that in France it’s illegal to conduct a poll within 48 hours of an election? It’s also city ordinance for Parisians to have a permit before using a tripod to film. Madness.

4:40pm – Make your own mini Sheriff Megatron. Fun for the whole family at the cost of one sheet of cardstock.

Click on the picture to hugeify it.

5:09pm – I don’t think we should call it just yet.

vs.

I’ve never actually been to Maine, but I could have sworn they had more people than that.

5:41pm – Political Analyst John Elway

5:42pm – Just got called “dude” by one of the workers.

Cringe.

5:44pm – Why is ‘John Elway’ in single quotes? Is it a quote inside the dialogue by Yahoo? Did Tolkien write the Flash dashboard?

5:46pm – Bwaha. Tatyana Ali? Little Ashley Banks?

6:16pm – Considering running on the Monster Raving Loony Party ticket. Do we have a U.S. branch? I guess we do. (Hosted on Tripod. Tres officiale.)

6:30pm – Town Crier just did his “Polls close in 30 minutes” yell.

7:58pm – They have finally packed up. And they still didn’t lean my name. Much shivering, much creeped out. Everyone must leave. Go home.

9:43pm – It’s funny that there’s still ads for McCain/Palin surveys saying “Can they win?” on Yahoo. There’s always the time machine option. I wonder what my grandpa would have thought. Also, I find it dreadfully ironic that the maps aren’t even all colored in yet. (Our state being one of them.) Did all of the hurtful words add up to much? Now to support our new president and be done with political ads for a little bit! Wooha! (Although be prepared for a “Don’t blame me, I voted for Kodos.” from time to time.)

I always noticed this up at NAU. The German students had a thing for mocking our presidents with masks. I guess it’s the next generation:

My oldest is a comedian. She kept switching the words around, cracking herself up. Keep in mind that I didn’t read any of it to her:


My youngest has a more “Theatre of the Absurd” sense of humor:

1. Missile Command
2. You Got the Touch/Transformers theme song
3. An action montage choreographed to Rush

And I enjoyed Heroes tonight. Finally, a supervillain. “I don’t think I’m better than everyone. I am.”

I’m curious to see next Monday night. Ruing? I think so. SNL advertisements for/against candidates the night before the election. I’d be interested in a slam tally. I wish I could say that the American people aren’t influenced by media, but…

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

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?

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?