Ouch! I just sneezed and I think the left half of my skull fell to the floor. I’m afraid to look. Cathy says my cough has worsened and insists I go to the doctor but she has it too so we have that stubborn Mexican standoff martyrdom don’t waste money on the uninsured adults thing going on. We don’t get sick that often so I guess we are due. All of Knoxville has this so I’ll start into my Oak Ridge secretly testing non-lethal severely debilitating chemical weapon conspiracy theory after I make more progress on today’s programming. Coding stops for no cough!
Month: October 2008
I Twittered the debate
I allowed myself to be distracted by the Presidential debate at Belmont in Nashville last night. I Twittered my thoughts as Obama, McCain, and Brokaw played their game. Naturally, apologies were issued for the flood. Read from bottom up.
#debate08 #nashdebate mccain scores last laugh by blocking tom brokaw’s teleprompter. Tom needs an improv class. about 9 hours ago from txt
#debate08 #nashdebate its the anticipated pow reference! Everyone drink! about 9 hours ago from txt
#debate08 #nashdebate political cartoonists are going to be on easy street for the next 4 years regardless of who gets elected. about 9 hours ago from txt
#nashdebate #debate08 not with Russia. The next cold war will be with China. Search http://realityme.net for “china” about 9 hours ago from txt
#debate08 #nashdebate have they forgotten they are on a stage in Nashville? Instant win to the first one that pulls out a guitar! about 9 hours ago from txt
#debate08 #nashdebate yes! Now its a debate! about 9 hours ago from txt
@therealhoff re Rules for Radicals yes about 9 hours ago from txt in reply to therealhoff
#nashdebate #debate08 a minute ago mccain’s hero was Reagan now its Teddy Roosevelt. about 9 hours ago from txt
#debate08 #nashdebate that’s the 2nd invocation of The Reagan! about 9 hours ago from txt
#nashdebate #debate08 either the debate caused twitter fail whaled, everyone went silent at once, or my phone melted. about 9 hours ago from txt
#debate08 #nashdebate i predict tonight’s winner is Tom Brokaw. Mccain, i won’t see a dime of your 5k. Wear my shoes! You won’t like them. about 10 hours ago from txt
@vinull keep a heathy society and have a productive happy society. The sick don’t add to gnp. #debate08 #nashdebate about 10 hours ago from txt in reply to ViNull
#nashdebate #debate08 John if you kill the oceans you kill us all. There is more to the continental shelves than money. about 10 hours ago from txt
Tom is really getting ticked about the 1 minute time. Just turn off their mics at 60 seconds. #debate08 #nashdebate about 10 hours ago from txt
#nashdebate #debate08 did he just complain about’fix it for us’? Isn’t that what we just did on wall street? about 10 hours ago from txt
Mccain is desperate! He invoked The Reagan! #debate08 #nashdebate about 10 hours ago from txt
$5k tax cut for medical won’t help many of the 47 million uninsured. I won’t see a dime of that 5k and i will still be without healthcare. about 10 hours ago from txt
Scalpel vs hatchet was good. #nashdebate #debate08 about 10 hours ago from txt
@akula i second the minute gong! #debate08 #nashdebate about 10 hours ago from txt in reply to Akula
Mccain can also lose “my friends” and “I did that” #nashdebate #debate08 about 10 hours ago from txt
I like that the candidates aren’t hidden been podiums. #debate08 #nashdebate about 10 hours ago from txt
Things they must quit saying:Obama-“well look” McCain-“i suspended my campaign” #nashdebate #debate08 about 10 hours ago from txt
@vinull i am liking the whip cracking. Obama takes first cheap shot. #debate08 #nashdebate about 10 hours ago from txt in reply to ViNull
Just how long was that campaign suspended? 2 days if at all? #debate08 #nashdebate about 11 hours ago from txt
http://debatehub.c-span.org/ is well done! about 11 hours ago from twhirl
@cspan just invited people to join them through skype. Cspan is demonstrating the right way to use technology! #nashdebate #debate08 about 11 hours ago from txt in reply to cspan
With due apologies for the Twitter flood
Rumor has it that outside a this valley thar be other states beyond just Tennersee. Nows I can vouch for that cus I done traveled a bit in my life and seen me those other states. That is til I ran into da Mississip out there to the West. Head South an’ it gets hot inside an out! The weather and food is spicy! And thar’s that Gulf of Mexco. Lota water an nothing else. Head East an tis the same thang. Ocean of water and far da eye cn see. Taint nothing else.
Now, it been told that beyond all da water thar’s other lands. Some says we came from there. Some says all the land was squished t’gether an it drifted apart like Billy’s raft done in the river current las sumner. Ifn ya ask me, I gots to say what’s it matter. Sholy a Twitter message caint reach dem other lands. It’d fly straight off da Earth befo’ ev’r reachin them lands.
Ahem! Sorries.
I predicted Tom Brokaw the winner
At about 9:55pm I called Tom Brokaw the winner of the Presidential debate in Nashville.
#debate08 #nashdebate i predict tonight’s winner is Tom Brokaw. Mccain, i won’t see a dime of your 5k. Wear my shoes! You won’t like them. about 1 hour ago from txt
Anyone call it sooner?
Update: My other debate Tweets.
Forget Obama! Forget McCain! Vote McCaughan!
State of Me
Stress manifested itself physically. I am one gigantic ache.Yesterday I crashed hard. Chills. Fever. Dizzy. Muscle soreness. Coughing. Today I still hurt but think I am functional.
Of Grasshoppers
Student: Every decision I make is bad.
Master: When one steers a ship port or starboard, it is a still a boat floating on water.
Quote of the Day
Seen on 1984news.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1832
There are two ways to conquer and enslave a nation. One is by the sword. The other is by debt. -John Adams 1735-1826
Intruder! Intruder! Leave immediately!
The high school’s alarm has great comedic value.
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I watched the debates on CSPAN
I intended to just pick up the highlights of the debates today but I got dragged in. I want to understand the McCain/Palin love. I feel like I’m missing something. One of my neighbors has a McCain/Palin yard sign and I simply do not understand what they see in these two.
I watched the debates on CSPAN with their wonderful split screen and no over talking the candidates with commentators! Did anyone else notice that CSPAN gave Palin 53% of the screen while Biden was squeezed, with his head often bobbing offscreen, in 47%. On my 20 inch tv (that’s the diagonal measurement), Biden had 7.5 inches and Palin had 8.5 inches. Perhaps that was intended to be a metaphor for Biden being more in touch with the average American while Palin supposedly swings a big stick.
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Train Operator was Avid Texter
ABC News reports that Metrolink train engineer Robert Sanchez of the deadly crash in California sent 29 text messages that day. The last message was sent 22 seconds before the crash. Apparently it read: "OMG! Freight train!" NTSB has not released the other 28 messages.
Update: The crux of the problem is that the engineer missed a light warneing of the collision (or that’s the assumption). Our reaction will be to treat the symptom and ban cell phones which in itself may not be bad but the problem is the engineer did not stop the train presumably because he did not see the signal for whatever reason. We should be treating the problem by installing better warning systems and automated controls that could stop the train without human interaction, after all, the engineer could have been reading a book, daydreaming, sleeping, or slumped over the controls in a heart attack. I sure would like to see us become a society that responds to problems rather than reacts to symptoms.
