Exercise slacker.
To flog myself publicly, I’m calling up that I’ve been bad about exercising in the past few weeks, only going to the gym twice (sometimes just once) each week. All of the sordid details are documented on my Twitter exercise blog. This is all a result of my new year’s resolution to become more physically [...]
555-LIST.
A compilation of 555 numbers from movies, television and radio. Because you never know when you might need…uh… I got nothin’.
Gibson headed to Sorensen.
From the “When Worlds Collide” department, Bob Gibson has been hired as the new executive director of the Sorensen Institute. Sorensen’s founding executive director was also from the newspaper world — Bill Wood had spent nearly as long as Bob as a Virginia reporter and editor.
Augusta Republican feeding frenzy.
My daily dose of schadenfreude has come in the form of the utter disarray of the Augusta County Republican Party. The county’s Republicans are finally fed up with the right-wing looney tunes that are speaking for them, and a whopping five people are challenging the incumbent chair. The story gets more embarrassing from there. (As [...]
Our changing flag.
How the stars on the U.S. flag were arranged as new states were admitted to the union. The U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry has already planned our flag clear up to 56 states–check out the 51-star version.
New VA Republican theme: “No compromise.”
From the “WTF?” category comes the announcement this snippet in Tim Craig’s article about a third Republican contender to replace Sen. John Warner, one Bob Berry:
Berry, 51, says “he’s very much the underdog” against either Gilmore or Marshall, but he plans to campaign hard around a “no compromise” theme.
Because if there’s one thing Virginians are [...]
Recorded on an answering machine? Really?
I’m a big fan of This American Life. Every episode I listen to–though always in the car or at the gym–I resolve to blog about, because there’s always something just awesome. That said, the episode I listened to today contained a segment that was unintentionally a brilliant parody of the show. It’s segment four of [...]
Shall we require all children to eat their peas in order to have dessert?
I often describe myself as a libertarian Democrat. Some people don’t understand this, and I often have to fish for an example of an area in which I trust people more than government. Well, this is why I’m a libertarian Democrat:
Surprisingly, basic safety devices like booster seats and bike helmets aren’t required in most states [...]
Database storage in a browser.
Local SQLite storage in Safari 3.1. My mind? Blown.
Still busy with Richmond Sunlight.
Don’t mind me–I’m still busy with Richmond Sunlight. My current task: OCRing 37,152,000 images. It’s every bit as time-consuming as you’d imagine. I’m planning to have Tesseract OCR’s babies. It crushes any other OCR program.
What 3am wake-up calls to the president?
The Washington Post has, cleverly, researched how often presidents have needed to make decisions in the middle of the night. As it turns out, that’s basically never. Reagan’s chief of staff says he wouldn’t “unless there is a nuclear holocaust coming.” I aspire to be the sort of writer who would think to research and [...]
Speaking in C’ville on Wednesday evening.
Bob Gibson and I will be the speakers at this month’s Left of Center meeting in Charlottesville, on the topic of this year’s Virginia General Assembly session. That’s this Wednesday, 5:30pm, at Maya on West Main St. It’s always fun–come on down.
“He didn’t know me from a can of paint when he said all of that stuff.”
Rep. Keith Ellison on Rep. Virgil Goode.
Managing pests with hogs.
I love this story about an apple grower fighting pests with hogs. Rather than spray azinphos-methyl on his trees, he bought some hogs and lets them wander around the orchard and eat the larvae-bearing young fruits that drop onto the ground. Not only does it fix the pest problem, but he’s got some fattened hogs [...]
Nearly 1M “terrorists” in America.
There are 917,000 people on the federal terrorist watch list, with more names every minute. Who really believes that this list is doing anybody the slightest bit of good at this point? It’s pure foolishness.
Albemarle Republican chairman steps down.
Bad news for Albemarle Democrats: far-right Republican Party chairman Keith Drake is stepping down at the end of his term, which raises the specter of a chair who isn’t totally out of step with Albemarle Republicans. Good news for Albemarle Democrats: his right-hand man, transplant Christian Schoenwald, intends to replace him. Phew — that could [...]
Republicans: We’ll fix transportation. By tomorrow.
Here’s a heckuva claim from House Republicans:
Republicans in the House of Delegates say there is no need to raise taxes statewide to fix Virginia’s wrecked transportation funding plan and that it can be done before the General Assembly adjourns on Saturday.
Those necessary roads going unbuilt? Fear not: they’ll be built! That troubling 2018 deadline, when [...]
My (general) assembly line.
My life has become an assembly line.
The addition of full, archived video of both General Assembly chambers to Richmond Sunlight has left me in a constant state of video conversion. If it were just a matter of keeping current, it wouldn’t be so bad, but I have to process all of the video going back [...]
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