June 2011
3 posts
4 tags
So it’s been ages since I used this tumblr. Let’s see if I can change that.
March 2009
1 post
2010 Oklahoma Gubernatoral Candidates
The Oklahoman has an article which includes potential candidates in the 2010 election for Governor. Here’s the list:
Republicans:
Rep. Mary Fallin (confirmed running)
Former Rep. J.C. Watts (maybe—will announce within 45 days)
Democrats:
Lt. Gov. Jari Askins (confirmed running)
Attorney General Drew Edmondson (is campaiging but hasn’t officially announced)
It should be noted...
February 2009
2 posts
D.C. voting rights
The District of Columbia has wanted to elect people to Congress forever. D.C. would really like something resembling the rights a real state gets—Republicans tend to oppose this because it would give the Democrats two Senate seats for all eternity—but really, anything would be nice. They’re kinda bitter about it, you see, going as far as to put “TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION”...
The daypart error
When I was growing up as a kid, I had one of those little analog alarm clocks with the two little bells on top and the clapper in the middle. I hated analog clocks, and still do; if they had outlawed analog clocks at the same time they did analog television I would have cheered loudly and wrote notes of congratulations to all the legislators in the Hart Senate Office Building. However, as a little...
January 2009
2 posts
SH-29A cleaverized
Hmmm. Just went through the SH-29/29A intersection on the 19th and it now has meat cleavers through and through. Maybe ODOT reads what I write. Scary?
“When the train arrives at the Pentagon station, there are huge lines to get up...”
– Nate Silver, fivethirtyeight.com
November 2008
5 posts
No more
Today two people were shot and killed at a Toys ‘R Us in California.
Earlier in the morning, a Wal-Mart was opened in New York and the man who unlocked the doors was trampled to death by customers. When they came over the intercom to announce the store was closing because someone died people refused to quit shopping, shouting things such as “I’ve been in line since yesterday...
Circle sign spotted
Apparently when ODOT went through and redid the SH-29/29A intersection, they didn’t bring enough SH-29A shields. The JCT assemblies on both directions of SH-29 still have the old circular route shields. Weird.
The best thing about Oklahoma
I just realized the best thing about Oklahoma. Ready for it?
We have self-raking yards. Whenever the leaves fall off the trees the wind comes sweepin’ down the plain and blows them all off to who knows where. Some other state, probably. Or a secure, undisclosed location. In any event, no raking is needed since they all just disappear.
Now I have something to make fun of Wisconsinites who...
Obama Grabs Headlines →
Election 2008 results from Oklahoma
Before the election results came in, I put together a county map in Inkscape with the intention of filling it in the same way electoral-vote.com fills in its map. While it was a foregone conclusion that Oklahoma’s 7 electoral votes were going to McCain, I figured Obama would have the might to flip at least a few counties blue, and a few others might be close. I figured at least Cleveland...
October 2008
2 posts
The court system is not something that you just...
Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK), known for his role in the “Bridge to Nowhere” project, but probably best known for bestowing the Internet with its “series of tubes” moniker, has been convicted of seven felony charges in federal court. This pretty much means he’s out of the Senate, with the election only 8 days away.
“Ten movies streaming across that, that...
Barack Obama places ad in video game →
Barack Obama has a problem. Since he didn’t accept campaign finances from the public coffers, he was able to raise unlimited amounts of money for his campaign. The problem is, he’s raised so much of it, and it’s still coming in, and he can’t use any of it after election day. So he’s doing interesting things with it—running ads in red states like Indiana, for instance....
September 2008
7 posts
The Price Is Right is about to go all to hell,... →
Alaska DOT&PF: State DOT map →
Need to visit some state’s DOT webpage, but can’t remember the URLs or the more obscure names like LaDOTD, AHTD, and MoDOT? Alaska’s department of transportation, Alaska DOT&PF (yeah, they really use that ampersand in their abbreviation), has a handy map of all 50 states with links to the other state DOTs. Amusingly, they put Hawaii on sideways.
“If your mouse cursor behaves in very weird and unpredictable ways, if you see...”
– Sebastian Kuegler
Don't say the E word
Okay, running for President is not a MMORPG. You don’t win by having more experience points than the other guy. So will you Republicans can it already? Besides, there’s evidence that experience doesn’t really matter anyway.
Sudden realization
@spoo: Is the reason you redesign your blog so often because you sort of get burned out and forget about the blog and quit posting otherwise? And a redesign makes it feel fresh and new and gives you new momentum?
I always have trouble keeping a journal going, and my efforts at blogging follow the trend. Suddenly your redesigns seem like an absolutely brilliant strategy for keeping on-track. Now...
Media fad
Why must every newscast contain a portion these days where there’s a bar on the edge of the screen listing off a bunch of headlines, which highlight as the newscaster gets to them and them dissolve as the next one comes up? Please tell me that mainstream American press didn’t take a page out of Stephen Colbert’s book; it’s not supposed to work that way…
August 2008
14 posts
Sarah Palin?!
What the hell?
Lack of sleep
To the random idgit in a black SUV who decided it would be charming to beat on my door at 11AM, thus depriving me of two hours of scheduled sleep, FUCK YOU. Just because we’re just off the interstate that doesn’t make us a fucking ODOT information desk.
Boomerang bill
I semi-frequently engage in Where’s George, the bill-tracking site. When I cashed my check on Monday, I got a bill marked with a WG stamp. When I attempted to enter it, I got a “bill already entered” message. Since I’d hit “Submit” two or three times because of my connection being faulty, I assumed it was due to that. So I clicked through to the bill history...
Pascal's Wager
spoo posted a quote from Scott Adams regarding the mathematical odds being in favor of those believing in at least some deity. While Adams looked at a more general application of the theory, recognizing that you’re more likely to pick the wrong religion, to me it echoed Pascal’s Wager (published 1670), written by the French philosopher and mathmetician Blaise Pascal.
Pascal says in...
Oklahoma is just a poor copy of Pennsylvania,...
When you look at a map of your state, the collection of town names splattered across it creates a sort of unique harmony. What would upstate New York be without Syracuse, Albany, Rochester, and Buffalo? What would Oklahoma be without Watonga, Okeene, Goldsby, Okmulgee, Muskogee, et al? So you sort of some sort of odd pride about this collection of random names that represent your state.
So it was...
Overload
Okay, I think that’s enough link posts for now. This isn’t del.icio.us …
40+ Excellent Free Fonts For Professional Design →
I’m always looking around for free fonts, but most of the freeware fonts out there are too novel for much use, and the remainder are generally intended for titles. Not much is out there for general running text…or so I thought. This page has a bunch of excellent fonts, all free, and a good deal of them are appropriate for any purpose. Yay!
brain core: oneliner →
Simple bash script for converting all MP3s in a directory to Ogg Vorbis.
$2 bills are NOT rare. Go out and spend them →
Cyde Weys has an excellent post on the fun you can have with $2 bills.
“So not only do you have a tumblr, you have that damn color.”
– Dave, on FHWA green
Amazing how easy it's become
My SATA to USB adapter arrived today. Hooked it up and managed to get embroiled in a mess trying to get a logical partition on the SATA drive mounted. That was quite honestly the most difficult thing I did today—my initial hunch (which turned out to be correct) was that since the desktop and SATA drives contained default-partitioned Fedora installs, they were both vying for the same names (and the...
Trying this again
Going to try blogging again. Well, with tumblr.
Will I actually conquer my laziness and record half-sane thoughts on a regular basis? Stay tuned for the answer, one half-hour from now over most of these CBS stations.