Sunday: 2-1-1-3-3

This week is going to be weird.  Monday is a regular day, but Tuesday is election day, and that's a holiday in Hawaii.  This is of course how it should be everywhere, because then everyone has a chance to go out and vote without having to worry about work.  Doesn't Australia do it this way?  Seems like the best way to improve voter turnout.  You know, if you're actually into the whole "democracy" thing.  I wonder if we get the day off so we can watch voter returns on the East coast before going out to vote.  According to this map, Indiana is going to be finishing first at 6pm EST, which is like...um...5 hours ahead, so that'll be 1pm my time.  Since Ohio is going to be the swing, that means that by 2:30ish my time, we should know who's going to win the thing.

This is just another reason that living in the middle of the Pacific is weird.

And then back to work on Wednesday for the rest of the week, until the weekend, which is a three-day-weekend, due to Veteran's day next Monday.  Huh.  Thanksgiving is the week after.  So, November is actually: 2-2-1-1-3-3-4-2-3-4-5, where red days are work days, and blue days are weekends and days off.

I will again blame this on living in the Pacific.  Yay, Pacific!

I think we can all agree that this is the greatest waffle-vention ever.

Bunnies!

Hug sloth!

Huggy kitty!

Basket of puppies!

Puff, puff. Jigglypuff.

• Things that make you liberal: "Slavish adherence to the ideals of liberal parents," "Unthinking rebellion against conservative parents."  Things that make you a conservative based on this page: "Doing what you're told when you're told by someone who's conservative, and fighting against these same people when they say something not conservative."  This is a far more proactive philosophy than I would have expected, and seems to by definition violate Wheaton's Law.
• I guess it's good to see that the NYTimes kept their editorial supporting over-reach of copyright law short.  Still, they're fundamentally wrong, and prove it in their statement that "and to make easier the kind of market segmentation by geography and price that Mr. Kirtsaeng’s resales subverted. With segmentation, book publishers can offer cheaper editions of their works in less-developed countries, without concern that those copies will be resold in the United States and unfairly undercut sales here." What part of this statement is based on the powers of Congress to "To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;" and "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."  I see no mention in those clauses that the government should allow the use of copyright law to protect market segmentation that benefits a small number of publishers.
• I only use Red Pandas as my bookies.  Because if you can't pay, you can at least look at something super cute while they attempt to break your knees with their tiny cute paws.
• A kitty and a bunny.
• Clive Gardiner, Motor Manufacturing (1930).
• I was going to rant here about the concept of welfare, the availability of jobs, the conservative claim that welfare should be replaced with "giving to society," and their hatred of a WPA style government project that would achieve the conservative end goal via a government sponsored fiscal stimulus.  Let's just leave that proto-rant for personal extrapolation.  Everyone can figure out what I'd say. Let's not waste any more time.