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I hate pre-recorded telemarketing messages.
OK, I hate telemarketing in general. But having the phone ring, with caller ID saying “Unknown number”, then picking it up, saying “Hello?” and getting the tell-tale pause before the caller says anything… drives me nuts.
We just got a call inviting us to the George W. Bush victory rally on Mon, Oct 1.
Sort of like the Red Sox celebrating winning the World Series before playing game 4.

What happens when you’re not careful about the domain you send your confidential campaign emails?

DEAD LETTER OFFICE: GeorgeWBush.org: Bush/Cheney in 2004!

OCTOBER, 2004: Recently, we at GeorgeWBush.org happened to notice that
our mail server had a default “catch-all” mailbox, which for the past
several months had been quietly gathering any and all e-mails addressed
to [INSERT-ANYTHING-HERE]@georgewbush.org. We felt the need to share.

BBC NEWS | Americas | Brazil launches rocket into space

Sunday’s launch came 14 months after an attempt to put satellites in orbit ended in a deadly explosion.

Just an entry for my mp3 player to “ping” with my “now playing” info.

Borrowed from cuddlycthulhu
Densaer will appreciate this.
I’m… well, humbled…

Sarah McLachlan - World On Fire

Finally got all my rolls of film from Taos processed scanned and uploaded.

Warning, there are lots of photos, they’re very large and they are completely unedited (by me anyway. Bud spent a lot of time editing dust specs out. At 4000dpi, dust on the negative stands out.) Many of the photos are utter crap. The pow wow photos came out great. The photos at Wild Rivers are pretty bad. Exposure is completely off on most of them and focus is a bit shaky on the long lens shots (no tripod with me).
I still need to sit down with them in The Gimp and adjust levels, color values, cropping, etc.

Welcome to my friends list. I have no idea who you are, but we have a number of mutual friends and I see from your userinfo that you probably found me through one of their friends lists and decided I was interesting. I’ll take my compliments where I can get them. (FYI, Dad lives in Austin. This useless fact brought to you by the letters A, T and the number 4.)
I warn you, I tend not to post much.

Texas has an “early voting” system to make voting easy for those for whom appearing at a polling place on the first Tues after the first Mon in November is inconvenient.
It’s a nice thought and I applaud the forward-thinking of the Texas legislature for recognizing that not everyone can get out there on the same day to exercise their democratic right and responsibility to participate in the republican process. Too bad Diebold doesn’t recognize it’s responsibility to maintain the transparency of the voting process.
I like the idea of being able to vote by simply touching an un-ambiguous portion of a screen. The lack of any form of auditable paper trail is a deal breaker for me. I don’t really care that it’s not on paper. I do care that the code can’t be reviewed and there is apparently NO log of the process beyond, supposedly, the actual vote itself.
The bad news is Collin County uses Diebold machines for early voting. The good news is they don’t have enough of them for every polling station, so they don’t use them on election day.
I’ll reserve my vote for election day, thankyouverymuch.

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Characters -

A lobby / reception area of a small professional theater. Various other thespians are arriving to be auditioned for the theater company’s next two productions. Myself is sitting behind a small desk, signing new arrivals in, answering the phone, handing out “sides“, escorting the auditionees to audition room.
Amanda has just come out of her audition.

Myself - How’d it go?

Amanda - I think it went well. I so want this part! David Mamet is so awesome!

Myself - Well, I know Kevin already likes you for it, and Jennifer was impressed with you in The Exit.

Amanda - Cool! Well, gotta run.
<Hugs Myself>
I hope I see you again soon.

Myself - Well, you’ll see me on the 15th at least.

Amanda - Oh that’s right, you got a ticket for opening night!

Myself - <joking> Or you could always call me.

Amanda - That’s right, I have your number, so I can call you…
<Amanda heads for the door>
<Over her shoulder> - Or… if you were to call my number, you probably wouldn’t get my voicemail…

“Sides” - portions of the script for the show being cast for the actor or actress to read in their audition, to give the director and producer and director a sense of their suitability to play the part.