This is Mike. He is jealous.
Monthly Archives: November 2004
Our first christmas tree
Jamie and I standing next to our masterpiece.
Jamie and I ran down to the local home depot yesterday and picked up our first christmas tree. After some adventures with an employee at the home depot and stories about his “baby’s momma”, we got the tree home and into the tree stand. Today we went to Target and bought up a bunch of christmas decorations. We decorated the tree with “The rat pack’s Christmas” (or something like that) playing in the background. It was really nice. I’m pretty happy with how it all worked out. There are some other christmas tree pictures available.
Flickr
This is Brandon right before I showed him this flickr thing.
I was playing around at the Creative Commons site and there was a link to this Flickr site. I started playing around with it and it is pretty freaking cool. At the lowest level it is a place to upload a bunch of pictures and share them for all to see. But, it’s much more than that. Right now I have it set up so that I can send pictures from my camera phone to a special email address that posts them to my blog. It uses the subject of the email as the blog’s title and the body of the email as the description of the picture. That’s what I did for this post, then I editted it to add all of this text. Besides all of that, the interface to the thing is freaking amazing. I’m sure there are a few ideas we can get from this system to use at work. It’s just very friendly and well organized. All of these features are free. It seems like the real limiting aspect of the free version is that you can only upload 10MB per month and can only really have 100 pictures up there at a time. The pay version allows 1GB of uploads per month and an unlimited number of photos. It’s kind of expensive at ~$40 per year, but I guess in the end it is only a few bucks a month. I figure I’ll play with it and see if I use it at all and then decide if I want to pay for it. But, check it out. It’s refreshing to see a website that is so easy to use and yet offers a lot of pretty advanced features. I dig it.
My Broken Heart
Alright. So, it’s 12:30 election day night and I’m not quite sure where things went wrong. It looks like George Bush is going to remain the president of the US for the next four years. I’m fairly disappointed in our country as a whole. I just don’t feel like I’m a part of the process. I don’t feel like I fit in here very well. This election almost makes me feel like we would’ve been better off if the south had seceded during the civil war. Okay – quite honestly, it doesn’t make any sense. I can’t think of one thing that George Bush has done well except apparently marketing. That’s what this whole thing is about anyway I guess. After seeing the result of this election, I really don’t think that our country is capable of making an informed decision as a whole. It makes me think twice about the value of democracy. I mean, democracy in theory is all well and good, but with an electorate that is so misinformed and so willing to be misled, it all just kind of falls apart. George Bush may be the president of the United States, but he’s not my president. I predict that inside of the next four years, we’ll have realized that re-electing Bush was a serious mistake. He is just not a two term president. If we hadn’t been lead into a failing war for false reasons, if we hadn’t lost an impressive number of jobs, if we hadn’t catered to big business at every opportunity, if we hadn’t rolled back many environmental protections, if we hadn’t pissed-off half of the world, if we weren’t in the health-care limbo that we’re in, and if his stance on all of the social issues wasn’t entirely backwards, I might not be complaining so much. I’m not a happy voter and I’m not a happy citizen. But hey, look on the bright side, with Bush in the white house we should be able to continue down the golden road that we’ve been on the last four years. So, expect less taxes on the rich, expect a less healthy environment, expect crappier schools, expect it to be harder to find a job, expect to give up more of your civil liberties, expect fewer americans to have health insurance, expect to continue to send young men and women to die for no legitimate reason, and expect that rich prick to smile at you the whole time. But, that’s how we like it here in America, we won’t have it any other way. Hey, maybe we’ll luck out and Cheney will run for president in 2008. That would be great.