President Obama speaking in Elkhart this week:
“Now, with respect to Sean Hannity, I didn’t know that he had invited me for a beer. But I will take that under advisement. Generally, his opinion of me does not seem to be very high. But, uh, but I’m always good for a beer.”
I sent that to the Snook today. His response: “I hope he found time to stop in at the Mishawaka Brewing Company for a pint of Four Horsemen on his way back to the airport.” Indeed.
The Big Picture covers the Victorian bush fires. Devastating… but beautiful, too. It was #23 that shocked me, seeing rivulets of metal on the ground that had melted out of someone’s wheels. Oh, and the “graphic” one that you have to click on is of a dead horse (not especially graphic, I’d say).
And while it’s really great that this tragedy is getting international coverage and motivating people to think about what happens outside their own tiny bubble… SYDNEY IS NOT ANYWHERE NEAR MELBOURNE. I’ve had a couple people ask if we were near them. And while it’s sweet that they were concerned, there’s also an annoyance factor there. Australia is as big as the continental US. Sydney and Melbourne are 500 miles apart. That’s about as far as my hometown in Indiana is from New York City. I don’t expect people to be experts in world geography, but I thought it was fairly common knowledge that Australia is BIG.
is gritting teeth & deleting when loved ones forward pro-God emails in favor of abolishing separation of church & state. Democracy FAIL.
Interesting UI: http://podium.com.au Can’t tell if I really like it or hate it. Reminds me of webpages from 1997 that were just giant jpegs.
is annoyed. Coles has signs all over urging donations for bush fire appeal, yet NOT A SINGLE CASHIER knew how to take my $50. Idiots.
is sleepy. Snook and I jogged home from work tonight in the rain. 2.85km thru Surry Hills. Now clean & warm & full belly = zzzzzz.
is NOT well-rested. Cat Wrestlemania every day @ 5am. Buses all full of idiots (shamed by my PT rant yesterday?). Urge to kill rising.
is gritting teeth & deleting when loved ones forward pro-God emails in favor of abolishing separation of church & state. Democracy FAIL.
Interesting UI: http://podium.com.au Can’t tell if I really like it or hate it. Reminds me of webpages from 1997 that were just giant jpegs.
is annoyed. Coles has signs all over urging donations for bush fire appeal, yet NOT A SINGLE CASHIER knew how to take my $50. Idiots.
is sleepy. Snook and I jogged home from work tonight in the rain. 2.85km thru Surry Hills. Now clean & warm & full belly = zzzzzz.
is NOT well-rested. Cat Wrestlemania every day @ 5am. Buses all full of idiots (shamed by my PT rant yesterday?). Urge to kill rising.
Attention, American friends/fam: I just found out that United is having an unadvertised sale on tickets to Sydney. They’re about $1000 round trip (including taxes), and apparently Qantas is price-matching. (Flying Qantas is MUCH BETTER than United.)
Google have release Mobile Sync for iPhone. This is exactly what I was using Nuevasync for, so I guess I can switch over to the official version.
“Wealthy commuters shun public transport.” You know, stories like this make it harder and harder for me to think anything nice about people who live in Mosman. Whack ’em with a congestion charge, I say. If London can charge five quid (or whatever) to access the CBD, so should we. Obviously the Bridge Toll isn’t enough. Then put that money straight into public transport.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go catch my bus.
Oh, and Happy Birthday, Dad!
Obama in Elkhart
I woke up today to an email from my Dad asking how come I hadn’t mentioned Obama being in Elkhart on w-g yet. HUH? (Oh, maybe because we just had a mammoth natural disaster and nearly 200 people are dead? The newspapers are kinda full of that.) But regardless, I was excited to hear that Obama chose Elkhart to try to sell the American people on his stimulus package. I mentioned before that Elkhart – where most of my immediate family live – currently has the highest unemployment rate in the country. The RV industry there has collapsed. Thankfully no one in my family is out of work yet, but several are on mandatory reduced hours. Dad told me that thousands of people lined up to get tickets to the event. (He also scornfully mentioned that someone then tried to scalp one on Craig’s List.) I’m going to try to find some news coverage of the actual meeting…
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