Yet another reason for celebration...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes_Night
NPR has you going for Obama!
I guess CNN hasn't woken up yet today. Even the BBC has declared an Obama victory in Indiana. 
Absolutely fantastic job!
UPDATE
CNN now has Indiana going Obama! Word!
I don't know how you people who have to physically go to a voting booth do it. It took me 2 or 3 hours last night to vote. We had 10 measures + a bunch of other things to vote on besides people running for office. If we had to do this in a booth, it would be ridiculous.
I did see an awesome graphic about voter turnout in Oregon so far:
I'm not overly confident, but this is definitely a good sign. Especially considering not all Republicans are going to vote for McCain.
I really want this to be a decisive victory for Obama.
It was fun. Glad to see everyone... Even though Ramona thought I was boring.
Here are reviews I wrote for all the places I went:
This is an horrendous act and I am appalled that it has happened anywhere, but especially that it happened in the American Midwest:
So, some 12 year old kid -- in Oregon, no less -- has developed a 3-d solar cell that absorbs both infrared and visible light that could provide 500 times more absorbtion than current commercial models.
Ananth at Applegeeks had some good stuff to say about it.
It really makes you feel inadequate, ya?
It may come as a shock to most of you, but everyone I've talked politics to in my family has said they prefer Obama over the other candidates. It surprised me. Pleasantly. I'd rather not discuss their reasons publicly (as they're not mine to disclose), but give me a ring and I can tell you. It's interesting how very against Palin some of them are... Like she's a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Anyway, good news from the Hoosier state.
hey, did you see obama on letterman last night. dave slammed mccain and palin in his opening and then sat and interviewed obama through at least 3 commercial breaks. i don't think he even did the top 10 last night. it was weird and cool.
it also made me miss hawaii a lot. i didn't expect that reaction. it also made me peeved that people on the mainland still don't consider hawaii to be a state, or treat it like it's some crazy foreign culture... i'm just going to throw this out: hawaii is perhaps one of the most patriotic states in the union if not the most. it's a state. they eat a lot of spam. get over it.
anyway, it was really a great interview.
I hate being sick. The nose blowing. The pressure behind my eyes. My eyes feeling like they're on fire. Feeling like a zombie. Gah. Sneeze coming on. Out.
We saw Hustle and Flow last night. It was pretty good, thought I'm not sure I like the final message: if you almost kill somebody and get put in jail, it will help you make the big time. Anthony Anderson put on a surprisingly good performance. I like him more and more as I see him in stuff, whether it's Transformers or Law & Order. Terrence Howard was also pretty solid, though about the least violent pimp I've seen portayed on film.
You actually don't have to care about baseball to like this rant on megatokyo about Japanese baseball:
http://www.megatokyo.com/rant/928
I warned him! Now he's in my blog.
Now, here's a Jonas Brothers' video:
I'm not Impressed.
We saw "The Dark Knight" once again last night, and it definitely holds up. It's a truly amazing movie that will be the standard for adult superhero movies. Since this was the first time we saw "The Dark Knight" outside of IMAX, it was also the first time to see the previews before it. I read an interview w/the director/writer of the new "Watchmen" movie and i thought it seemed like it could be good enough to be in league "The Dark Knight." Now that I've seen the preview for it, I'm pretty sure it will stand on equal footing w/the "The Dark Knight."
Stick that in your cap!
You could have told me I'd be crying at 2 in the morning trying not to shake the bed with my sobs. I should have known a quarter of the way through the book. What tragedies fear brings. What triumph does forgiveness. Thank you for this journey.
I saw a deer today on my way to work. It was just after I dropped Akemi off at her work. It sprinted out in front of my car as I approached a stop sign. It came out of this 1 block sized park and was headed up towards Washington Park. It was beautiful. Thankfully it wasn't injured and seemed to be heading the right way. It's weird, but I feel a very strong connection with that deer, like it was my friend. I am definitely in awe at the odd happenings of my life.
The Dark Knight. It was more than awesome. I would tell you more, but you would kill me.
See this movie!
We stopped by the theater on our way home to pick up our 9am Dark Knight IMAX tickets. Shows were sold out all the way through 5am. We'll report how awesome it was tomorrow!
Do you remember Beetle Bailey, that old comic strip about a slacker army guy and his sergeant. Remember how the sergeant used to swear up a storm, but in those ambiguous character swear words (#$@%@^!@)?
Well, I've been noticing the funky swear words popping up in comics all across the spectrum. From For Better, For Worse and Mutts to Pearls Before Swine and Get Fuzzy. Oddly enough, or perhaps not odd at all, I hear actual swear words when reading the comics now. When I was a kid, I just heard grumbling (like stuff you'd hear Yosemite Sam say, "rickrackfrackfrickin"). It surprised me when I realized this.
Now that I'm 30, it's just weird to know that there's one more piece of innocence that I've lost.
Does anyone else hear the f-bomb when they read the funny pages?
note: i was gonna add images/links to this post, but don't have time. maybe later.
First off, here's a deal: http://whv.warnerbros.com/WHVPORTAL/Portal/homepage.jsp Warner Bros is have a 20% all dvd titles until Saturday May 31. If you're looking to jazz up your dvd collection, it's actually not that awesome a deal...
I've been busy for a few reasons and not in the mood to blog...
Nerve sure thinks so... and if you know what to do with $240 worth of pudding, you just might, too.
There are some cool new Dark Night posters here. So cool. Can't believe we have to wait until July to see it. At least Indiana Jones comes out between now and then.
I am very sad that we don't have Whitecastle in the Pacific Northwest. It's nice that we have Burgerville, but really, it just doesn't compare.
When you're in the mood for some sliders, there's just nothing out here that can satisfy that craving. I've written them before, asking them to come out, but their business model just can't handle expansion this far west...
sigh.....
We saw the first trailer for "Hancock" starring Will Smith last night. Fox decided to show it during the new Kelsie Grammar/Patricia Heaton show Back to You. Not really the show I would have chosen to hype a person w/superpowers movie, but the Hancock idea is kind of neat. Anyway, what did you think of the trailer?
guess who i saw at one of our favorite lunch places??? if you can't guess by the title of this post, i guess i will spell it out...
clinton evans
he's working the cheese counter. he said he's been in oregon since 2000 and worked a stint as a middle school teacher.
if you're looking for resources you can use to help the campaign, check this page out.
further down that page, you can find the Website Downloads link where the embed code for all the nifty logos live.
took me a while to find them, thus the post. hope this helps you out, RMK.
so, can't write too much now, but elizabeth is being pushy ;)
it was a great event. they used this video right before obama came out on the stage:
so that when he did come out, my eyes definitely started to water. not full on weeping, just very wet. we were so close to the stage and where he came out. you ever feel like the world has gone to hell and there's no hope? well, i didn't realize i had that angry monkey on my back till i saw him in person and got some hope. he's real! and he's for real. it felt like one of the more important moments in my life.
i'll definitely write more, and post pictures later this week. one of the highlights was hearing earl blumenour (the congressman from oregon who always wears a bow tie) say "President Barack Obama". it was the first time i heard that phrase, and it was magical. it won't be the last time i hear it.
YES WE CAN!
i made it to B! it was nice, i finished off A w/ Aye Davanita by Pearl Jam and started the Bs w/ Ba Ba Ba Ba Ba by The Mr. T Experience. right now, though, i'm patiently waiting for Baby Baby Baby by TLC to finish. it's over 5 minutes long. ughhhh.....
i'm going to have to wait a couple more days for my favorite song from vitalogy to come up: Bugs!
gotta go do stuff, but will highlight some favorites of the As at a later date....
so, following in the footsteps of mr. andrew, as i often do musically, i've started listening to my music collection in alphabetical order. i started off w/47 titles that started w/a symbol or a number. some of the best of that group:
If you haven't seen Garfield Minus Garfield you have really got to check it out. What happens when you take the cat out of the comic? You end up w/a paranoid, schizophrenic, bipolar john arbuckle. it's really funny.
http://garfieldminusgarfield.tumblr.com/
So, I'll have to write some other time about The Great Gatsby. I've just finished reading The Spiderwick Chronicles, which i must say, were a pretty fun read. the original series is 5 books long. you could easily read one a night before bed (which is what i did). they are definitely short enough to be considered "Middle Reader" reading material, but more than worthwhile for adults.
there are pictures on about every other page and the chapter titles are pretty fun (In Which We Almost Break the Fourth Wall). the general plot is about two 11 year old twin boys, their teenage sister and their very recently divorced mother who move away from NYC to a dilapidated house somewhere in small town america (i forget where). the house belongs to the mother's aunt, who has been sent to an asylum because she refused to eat, claiming little people brought her food that made normal human food pale in comparison.
needless to say, the aunty wasn't lying, and the first five books comprise the adventures had by the three children after having found a field guide to fairie in a hidden room in the house. each book stands on it's own, but leaves just enough hints that you feel compelled to read the next one. in the end, the three kids fight an ogre to save their mom... and all civilization as we know it.
it's all told in the third person, and mostly from the perspective of the twin who inadvertently always gets in to trouble, often for things he did not do, though not always undeservedly.
these are some very entertaining books, especially if you're looking for something fun and light.
also, you can read a fun Q&A w/the authors here.
my friend is contemplating purchasing a jetta. here are my reasons why and why not...
Reasons to get a jetta:
i had 2 posts 2 write, but i can only remember one:
