I would abolish, repeal and otherwise dispose of the odious, hateful and discriminatory California Proposition 8. Vote No on Prop. 8 Thankfully, that process is well underway now, though not proceeding as quickly as one would like. I find the most interesting aspect of the court battle to be that the legally-defined defendants, the Attorney [...]

I would abolish, repeal and otherwise dispose of the odious, hateful and discriminatory California Proposition 8.

Vote No on Prop. 8

Thankfully, that process is well underway now, though not proceeding as quickly as one would like. I find the most interesting aspect of the court battle to be that the legally-defined defendants, the Attorney General and Governor of California, have declined to defend the law, and the "intervenors" (groups which wrote, promoted and are now third-party defenders) may not be able to demonstrate standing to appeal Judge Walker's ruling that the law is by nature a gross violation of the United States Constitution.



So the people who could defend it aren't, and the people who are defending it don't have any (legal, rational, secular) reason for doing so. Sounds like an easy dismissal to me, and the 9th doesn't even have to rule on the merits.

The current contents of my to-do lists. Some of these things have been hanging on for months. I apologize for useful-only-to-me abbreviations. The to-do list TECHY STUFF Sync manager thingie fix MP guide hotel pages / menu structs MP mobile guide pages full MP CSS to mobile MP MP mobile mirror misc URLs write “welcome [...]

The current contents of my to-do lists. Some of these things have been hanging on for months. I apologize for useful-only-to-me abbreviations.

The to-do list

TECHY STUFF

• Sync manager thingie
• fix MP guide hotel pages / menu structs
• MP mobile guide pages
• full MP CSS to mobile MP
• MP mobile mirror misc URLs
• write “welcome to mobile MP” article
• @MP theme based on MP.com
• new countdown code in Pad
• new theme in Pad
• full Pad CSS to mobile Pad
• hack importing old updates
• add Pad mobile forum collapse
• sexybookmarks in Pad
• add ads to Pad mobile
• move social-network to rightnav
• MP menus (HTML5 “nav”)
• add intelligent URL detection to PCG
• improve Twitter box on MP main page: http://ukijs.org/
• automate/template MP DLR update hours/refurbs
• implement Twurl & OAuth for Tweet-from-CMS
• set up new external drive
• set up guest room media
• clean MBP keyboard
• migrate PIRR
• migrate Box of Kittens
• migrate MPA HOA blog
• fix GreaseMonkey script

GENERAL TODO

• update Craigslist glass post
• get car washed
• look into GTD or similar
• find reseller for car nose protector parts
• call XM
• call DirecTV
• laundry
• drop off dry cleaning
• cat boxes
• fill cat water dispensers
• check 401k funds

If you ask me for a funny movie, my answer is always going to be the same. What made it so funny? When I was ten, it was the puns and the straight-faced outrageousness. It was taking an everyday event–going to the airport, getting on a plane–and making it totally ridiculous without any of the [...]

If you ask me for a funny movie, my answer is always going to be the same.

What made it so funny? When I was ten, it was the puns and the straight-faced outrageousness. It was taking an everyday event–going to the airport, getting on a plane–and making it totally ridiculous without any of the characters knowing the difference. It was great lines like "Don't you tell me which zone is for loading and which zone is for stopping!" and "The life of everyone on board depends upon just one thing: finding someone back there who can not only fly this plane, but who didn't have fish for dinner."



Now, it's that plus thirty years of remembering watching it oveur and oveur again, plus knowing the previous "serious" careers of actors like Lloyd Bridges and Leslie Neilsen.



Airplane! is not just my favorite funny movie, it's one of my all time favorite movies.

I knew this prompt sounded familiar: If I were a superhero, I would be The Waffler! (January 2009) The Waffler is a crusader, battling to save common, everyday, decent folk from the soul stifling power… of mediocre waffles! The photo is from our last cruise on the Disney Magic, after the Halloween costume contest, with [...]

I knew this prompt sounded familiar: If I were a superhero, I would be The Waffler! (January 2009)

The Waffler is a crusader, battling to save common, everyday, decent folk from the soul stifling power… of mediocre waffles!



The photo is from our last cruise on the Disney Magic, after the Halloween costume contest, with two senior officers who really have no idea what's going on. This costume won the "most original" prize in the contest, by the way.

Limericks count as “light verse”, right? moss park ride ~ detritus The woman who lives one door down: her kids make me grumble and frown. They trash all our plants, drop trash for the ants, and leave toys strewn about on the ground. The other-side neighbor’s no better: (I’m thinking of writing a letter) With [...]

Limericks count as “light verse”, right?

moss park ride ~ detritus

The woman who lives one door down:

her kids make me grumble and frown.

They trash all our plants,

drop trash for the ants,

and leave toys strewn about on the ground.



The other-side neighbor’s no better:

(I’m thinking of writing a letter)

With smoke alarms blaring,

she sits there uncaring;

a hearing aid someone should get her.