eric’s extremeboredom

Vote today.
Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. – Benjamin Franklin

UPDATE: It seems a few people everyone missed the point here. I was most certainly not suggesting that anyone should vote republican, I was trying to point out the foolishness of this advertisement. I [...]

The latest war to plague the planet appears to be between Israel and Lebanon. The BBC has coverage on their website, including a useful page about who the hezbollah are, but I always try to get more than just the media’s view of what’s going on. There’s also the wikipedia page, but someone has already [...]

Happy new year everyone.
Completely unreated, this video is *hilarious*.

An interesting read: http://fuckchristmas.org/ (Courtesy Miguel).
My opinion: I think that if someone wants to say “Merry Christmas” then they should be able to, just as I think people should be able to say “Happy Holidays” or “Happy Hanukkah” (or whatever) if that is what they want to say.
I don’t think anyone can disagree with [...]

What kind of crap is this?
Fitzgibbons [the defending lawyer] said in July that plea negotiations had broken off because prosecutors insisted on prison time, which he said would be too dangerous for someone as attractive as Lafave.
I really hope that didn’t have anything to do with the judge’s desicion… would be a very sad day [...]

I will be giving an informal presentation with Andrew about Mono and Meshwork at Seattle Mind Camp next month.
Seattle Mind Camp is a self-organizing, digitally minded, entrepreneur-driven, overnight Seattle confab.
What happens when you put 150 of Seattle’s smartest geeks in an empty office building for 24 hours? We’re not sure either, but we’d like to [...]

Last night my mom had the TV on to NBC’s Hurricane relief concert, and I happened to walk itno the room just as Mike Meyers and someone I had never seen before (after searching Technorati I found that this was Kanye West apparently) were talking.

Kanye, who didnt take a single breath during his entire [...]

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I thought this was amusing…

(I meant to post this yesterday…)
So I hear the weather in canada is sunny and liberal…