This year, for the first time, thanksgiving is at my house! I got everything all sorted out, apart from the dressing. I look it up on the web, and most things have more stuff in them then everything else I have to get combined! Humph.
I was agonizing about getting a new computer, so Daphne made some command decisions, she used her employee discount, and got a Dell. She got a Dell Dimension C521 with Windows XP Media Center Edition. Though I don’t think she will admit it, she loves it, it works as a great television in the kitchen, it’s even got a remote control! Plus it gets all those extended basic cable channels we don’t pay for. Hello Dr. Who!
I was agonizing because I wanted to get a computer that I would not have to fight with the hardware to run Linux. Daphne wanted a television in the kitchen. I wanted Linux to play audio files, and a video podcast or two. Daphne wanted a television in the kitchen. I wanted to stand up for my libertarian rights to have no corporate software on my computer. Daphne wanted a television in the kitchen. So Daphne won three votes to two. Zoë just wants to be able to visit Elmo’s web site. To be honest, I’m not giving 余艾蕾 full credit, but this is my post not hers.
Zoë happened to be sick the day the system was going to show up so my Father came over while I tried to get some work done. In came the new Dell, I was going to leave it until the evening but my father wanted to see the TV card working. After the set up, and two or three reboots to get all the security updates installed, Zoë and Papap where happily watching Fox News.
Then came Linux! That will have to be a post for another day, as it’s time to get some work done.
I’m not one for gadgets as far as a computer geek goes. I got an iRiver player, and a old mobile phone, and they rarely get used. I try not to leave home! Having said that, the Sony® Portable Reader System PRS-500 looks really cool. The interface seems what I’ve been thinking about for years! Decades from now, when I’ve finished most of the books I have at home, I’ll get one to read Project Gutenberg titles again. I wonder if it works on Linux.
No, I don’t want one for Christmas! …this year.
I heard the promo on NPR this morning, but missed the article. It seems there was a world rock paper scissors championship the other day. Funny, I always thought it was paper scissors rock.
Apparently they don’t like people who have had problems with their services talking out about it. How rude. CW is trying to take away the domain TalkTalkHell from a former customer who had MANY problems (and from the look of the site, they’re not the first!), and has decided to blog about it.
How about using that time instead to fix the darn service? No, that would make sense.
Leaver machines are gone in Bucks County this year. Not knowing how to use the new computer voting system, and having never done a write-in vote before, I visited the Bucks County web site to see haw to vote. That web site forwarded me to a Pennsylvania State site, that site said Bucks County votes on a Danaher ELECTronic 1242. It was easy, the shockwave demo showed me, it would pop up a keyboard on the screen and I enter the name there.
It seems Yardley Borough didn’t have the Danaher ELECTronic 1242. The League of Women Voters Bucks County web site actually had a better description, though that was not quite right either. The bothersome part was I needed a pen, had the government web sites been accurate I would of brought a pen. Instead I had to ask a very helpful volunteer for a pen, he had to ask the police if he was allowed to lend me a pen. He lent me the pen and I wrote in my candidate. Everybody in the room now knows I wrote-in a vote. The ladies who make sure you where registered told me my house looks very nice, I thanked them.
It seems that whomever picked these machines did a very good job. They where easy to use, and though not required by Pennsylvania law, they had a paper trail. Since I’m probably the only person in Yardley Borough who voted for Carl Romanelli, I hope, like last time, I can see the one vote tick one the Bucks County vote totals web page.
Election day is coming up, I sat down do choose who to vote for. Candidates in Bucks County where finally published by the Board of Elections. It’s funny that the League of Women Voters of Bucks County had the list online first. Starting from the top of the Board of Elections list:
For United States Senator I feel I’m picking between Hitler and Stalin, should either of there careers advance. Rick Santorum, so popular amung gays he got his own sexual slang named after him (really, don’t read the definition, I regret I did (I’m not kidding)) is a bushbot. I think Bob Casey, Jr. has the campaign slogan of I am not a bushbot.
Both say they are a pro-life Catholic
. So both would rather see a child who made a mistake get a coat hanger, alley abortion rather then facing an abusive family. I agree with Bill Clinton when it comes to abortion: Abortion should not only be safe and legal, it should be rare.
So I’m writing in Carl Romanelli.
For Governor it’s incumbent, pro-choice Ed Rendel. Or pro-life, Ex-Pittsburgh Steelers Lynn Swan. I always try to make the environment my main deciding factor on who to vote for, but for some reason abortion always trickles to the top. Sorry Marakay, I’m voting for Mr. Rendel, maybe next time.
Now we finally start getting to the good stuff, Representative in Congress – 8th District. No Green or Libertarian write-in candidate here. Both bourgeoisie candidates put environment issues not close to the top on there issue web page, so abortion bubbles up to the top again. You go Iraq veteran Murphy J. Murphy!.
Now state election, crap. It’s hard enough remembering what U. S. Congress district I’m in let alone state congress and senate. With bourgeoisie gerrymandering it’s probably changed since last time. Again no Green or Libertarian write-in though, for either. For my little Senator in the General Assembly – 10th District there is no incumbent, I’ve read that Joe Conti didn’t run again becauso of the 2005 Pennsylvania General Assembly pay raise controversy. Well, I read some place that the Bucks County Green party supports Chris Serpico. Wait, I read that on Mr. Serpico’s web site! Hopefully he is not lying.
Last, and least I think, it’s the Representative in the General Assembly – 31st District. Thank the goddess this is the last one. Whomever I pick, this will probably be the most world wide endorsement they well get! Well, nobody will be reading past the first line of this past anyway. So, well, I can’t find Mike Diamond’s web site. His sign is across the street, he has a fine graphic artist! Well we all have to abstain from something, maybe I’ll vote for Mr. Diamond just because he isn’t incumbent David J. Steil, another Pennsylvania General assembly pay raise controversy alumni. I’ll choose in the booth.
That’s everybody! There is still some question. Shit.
To, again, file under cute things children say. As far as I know Zoë has not read The Hobbit, but it is on the bookshelf so you never know.
I had just finished getting her dressed and I picked her up to take her downstairs for breakfast. She stuck her hand into my shirt pocket, is there something in my pocket?
I asked. Her reply was My hand.
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