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The Government-Citizen Interface
I just read a rather poignant blog article* about the non-“user friendly” nature of having an initiative added to the California ballot. (The challenging nature of this process is likely present in most states.) In case you weren’t aware, California has a special election coming up that The Governator called in order to save the…
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Name that tune
You think you got it, Ooh you think you got it, But got it just don’t get it when there’s nothing at all-all-all-all-all. We get together, Oh, we get together, When there’s feelings involved (Oh!) If what they say is ‘nothing is forever,’ Then what makes Then what makes Then what makes Then what makes…
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On Architecture & The University of Chicago
University of Chicago Originally uploaded by josh.ev9. Aren’t these buildings beautiful? I think so. So detailed, so ornate, they have that gothic thing going for them like crazy. This is an architectural style we have really lost. I took a walk around the University of Chicago campus yesterday while Karen was in a meeting. Like…
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restful weekend
For a good summary of the start of my weekend see: Friday Night, Saturday Morning, and Saturday Evening. Thanks for making that oh so easy, Erik. Sunday was a relaxing one…chilled all morning, which included a deep cleaning of my room. It’s kinda spotless now, but I should be able to fix that in the…
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Interesting search result
I just decided to put in a random search on El Goog and it returned an interesting result. The query was “carne asada fries,” one of my favorite SD Mexican dishes (can’t be classified as an actual Mexican dish, because I don’t think it’s authentic). Anyway, the result is interesing because the first 5 sites…
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Yahoo News Adds Blogs
This is really, really cool…something I’ve been waiting for for months. I remember back in the last presidential election when I was looking for a definitive source for finding news related blogs. Despite my mediocre efforts, I was unable to find such a source that I could trust. Now Yahoo! has included Blog search in…