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.
