Ars has an article
Previewing McCain and Obama on geek issues that is a thoroughly good read. I find myself agreeing with Obama on everything from net neutrality to privacy rights. I find it interesting that Republicans like to run as advocates of individual liberties but are the ones pushing laws that restrict them the most.
One gripe though: these are issues that are important to everyone. To call them "geek" issues implies that they are only of interest to some, and thus cheapens them. Ars ought to have a better title for their article.
It's ben a little while since I wrote about Jacob. He's about 20 months old now.
For awhile, he was on a whole hugging spree. He wanted to hug anything happy. It could be me, a stuffed animal, a rock, or even a book. To hug something, Jacob holds it up to his cheek, leans his head over onto it, and says "Awwww". Very cute!
Then he started saying "hi" to things. He'd greet people, toys, rocks... Seeing a pattern here?
Lately he likes to say "bye". He gets a big smile when he says bye to someone and they wave and say bye back to him. As I leave for work in the morning (on the days when I don't take him to daycare), I'll say bye to Jacob. He will keep saying bye to me, smiling all the while, as long as he can.
Last weekend, we had some heavy rains here. I had the idea that Jacob would love to play in the water puddles left on our driveway. Terah wasn't so sure, but we got Jacob dressed in old clothes and took him outside. He loved to run through the puddles, splashing water as high as he could, cackling the whole time. Then I showed him how he could throw a rock into a puddle and make it splash. So, he would run through a puddle, then carefully select a rock, run to the next puddle, throw the rock in, splash through, and repeat. He'd always want the rock first.
I knew when he was done playing because he said "bye" to the water puddles.
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Comments
Sun, 05.10.2008 20:40
There is no denying that there have been plenty of people th at have killed in the name of Christianity. That does [...]
Sun, 05.10.2008 18:34
I think the formula you wanted is git format-patch $(git rev-list HEAD | tail -1)
Sun, 05.10.2008 14:23
I know it sounds nice to you, but, Christianity means an opp ressive, theocratic, brutal, b loody regime to many of [...]
Sat, 04.10.2008 23:47
I agree that there must be sen sible limits on government exp enditure, for sure. Healthc are is one of those wher [...]
Sat, 04.10.2008 23:43
Not at all, and I completely a gree with you. But I wanted to stress that part, because not everyone does.
Sat, 04.10.2008 23:41
Hi Cliff, I agree with you that the "they take jobs Ameri cans won't" argument doesn't m ake sense. I also agree [...]
Sat, 04.10.2008 17:26
I always worry when people cla im their ethics are founded on religious tenets, since most religions have a lot of [...]
Sat, 04.10.2008 08:37
"We are torturing potentially innocent people." Are you i mplying that it's allowed to t orture "guilty" people? [...]