About a month ago, I quit Facebook. I didn’t delete my account, nor do I never log in; I have obligations that keep me returning to the site (namely in the form of having people use the message feature to contact me–people whose email addresses I don’t have). But I don’t write on walls, poke, [...]
Last year while speaking to a professor about Obama, she mentioned that she had been collecting “flair” pertaining to Obama, and I somehow immediately understood that to mean either real, true baubles or buttons pertaining to the man (like those I continue to see daily on my commute), or, rather, Obama-themed “pieces of flair” from [...]
Mitch McConnell, this morning on Morning Edition, in his role as new deficit hawk, explained that Obama can’t be spending like mad with his stimulus package before taking into account the fact that the (newly) anti-deficit spending GOP has their own agenda the want respected. But McConnell then made a questionable assertion while explaining why [...]
Continue reading about McConnell spin: Senate GOP represents “half the American population”?
I started this post two weeks ago exactly, but just as I was trying to get my thoughts about Obama straight–or, more precisely, my thoughts about why I felt how I did about his election–I saw a poster for an event hosted by 3CT on “The Event of Obama.” So I decided to hold off [...]
Continue reading about The Event of Obama, and why ambivalence is good
(This is how I spent GIS Day)
I was surprised in my previous post by how young and black Louisiana was (in 2000), yet how not for Obama it went. Only 10 of 64 parishes were carried by the Democrat, though they included three of the four most populous parishes. I wondered if maybe there was [...]
[I massively updated the middle part of this post after thinking about it on the ride home]
I was pretty startled by the two maps I saw at Strange Maps over the weekend. They showed a distinct correlation between cotton production in 1860 and Obama support in 2008. Where more cotton was picked 150 years ago, [...]
Well, it turns out that my concerns about the turnout in my previous post are now totally wrong. Nate shows today that Obama beat Kerry in pretty much every demographic, and in some he beat him by double digits. Considering that more people voted, period, than in 2004, it follows that more of each demographic [...]
I wrote a post for Daily Kos about my feelings about the election, or, well, about how people are reacting to it. I really don’t see the same level of change that everyone else does. I’m not pessimistic or anything, but I think that the optimism (or whatever) is a bit… overdone. Anyway, it’s looking [...]
In first grade, the “Mr. Men” books were all the rage. The short length and taxonomic/essentialist nature of the series and characters appealed to me very greatly. And though many of the books taught me terms for vices that I didn’t know (fussy, mischievous, nosey), the only book I could not understand was Mr. Uppity. [...]
I learned last night how stupidly easy it is to make ringtones for the iPhone. That, coupled with how stupidly easy it is to strip audio from videos on YouTube makes this little project possible: 3 ringtones for the iPhone built from the Obama campaign video “Signs of Hope and Change.”
The video is great because [...]
