He is a socialist (40%)
He wants to take away Americans’ right to own guns (38%)
He is a Muslim (32%)
He wants to turn over the sovereignty of the United States to a one world government (29%)
He has done many things that are unconstitutional (29%)
He resents America’s heritage (27%)
He does what Wall Street and the bankers tell him to do (27%)
He was not born in the United States and so is not eligible to be president (25%)
He is a domestic enemy that the U.S. Constitutions speaks of (25%)
He is a racist (23%)
He is anti-American (23%)
He wants to use an economic collapse or terrorist attack as an excuse to take dictatorial powers (23%)
He is doing many of the things that Hitler did (20%)
He may be the Anti-Christ (14%)
He wants the terrorists to win (13%)

Unsurprisingly, the percentages for Republican are much higher than these averages, as are the percentages for the less educated.

I’ll refrain from extensive editorializing aside to say: What a freaking pack of idiots we have in this country.

Cool! Doug finally uses his blog!

Short, succinct, with all the information I need to determine if I want to bother, which in my example I’m probably not too interested…

For fsck’s sake people, if you set up a meeting then put some bloody details in the comments section so I know what it’s about. If you make a meeting and call it, “Let’s Talk,” I have no idea WTF you want to talk about. I can’t read your mind.

A meeting should have an agenda, or your wasting my time and yours. Four out of five times we don’t even have to have a meeting; stop by my desk and ask your question. We can resolve this in five minutes or less. If you insist on setting up a meeting, though, tell me what it’s about. If you can’t do that much, I’m making a public vow to start declining your meetings. With prejudice.

For one it assumes that you’ve labeled everyone using the built-in Faces feature. I hadn’t. iPhoto uses these Faces labels to create your tags in Facebook. This is supremely irritating as some of the people I do not want tagged are there. Also irritating was the fact that I couldn’t add details. Perhaps I could do this using each picture’s information section, but the beauty of the plugin from before was that you could add all the relevant information.

Finally, in my list of albums there are now Facebook albums. I’m afraid to delete these now because I don’t know if iPhoto will try to delete them from Facebook. I don’t want them there, though. I’ll have to experiment with it.

Personally I won’t be using iPhoto’s built in Facebook uploader again. It’s easy, true, but too easy and without enough overt control.

PS: I’ll be uploading more pictures to this site soon, too.

I bet I could hurt you in a way you would never recover from…

(Apropos of nothing, BTW. Just a thought I had after hearing someone blithely use that quote in a context that made absolutely no sense).

California recently hit the 10% unemployment mark. Generally speaking, one in every ten people you see around you has no job. That’s quite a bit of people. Over the winter holidays I was out on the east coast and it was obvious the economy wasn’t doing well out there. Tons of stores were shut down, not nearly as many people were out and about as I was used to, and everyone seemed to be talking about the loss of jobs and the fact that the economy was in the crapper. I came back to San Francisco and looked around and things didn’t seem that bad and I was A) relieved and B) worried it might happen here.

Well, it’s happening. I’ve never seen so many houses for sale in all the time I’ve lived here. They are on the market because folks are either foreclosed or realizing they really can’t afford the mortgage. Stores are starting to shut down, and I’m hearing about more coming. Worst of all is that every company seems to be laying people off. Every day I hear about it from the news and from friends. It’s rough and I wish there was something I could do about it because I have the strong feeling it will get worse before it gets better.

WTF, people! Seriously, if you got your license in the past year then you’ve driven in rain before. The rules haven’t changed. For all our sakes, please get with the program.

Yet this morning I woke up to check the CA and San Francisco results and WTF?!? Proposition 8, which would create a CA constitutional amendment to ban the rights of same-sex couples to marry, rent a car bulgariapassed. Unbelievable. I am very disappointed that this passed and yet a proposition to protect the “rights” of food stock animals passed. I feel like we just went back to the era when inter-racial marriage was illegal. California, you just disappointed me in a way I’m having a hard time expressing.

Still, most of the election this year was phenomenally positive. And on January 20th, 2009 we will have a new president. Alas that Obama has to fix, clean up and repair the mountain of crap that Bush and the Republicans have left behind. I hope he can do it.

“Yes we can.”