I got a spam comment!

Well, it took almost a year, but a spam comment showed up recommending an e-commerce site.
I guess it may be time to take strong action... delete? Defame? Decapitate?

I can't be the only one. My friend Kevin had to start approving comments. This is unacceptably time consuming. I guess forget and move on is the only answer.

Will Al Franken run for president? Would anyone really vote for him? I think pundits are careful to keep their words public and their actions private. Allows for irresponsible commentary, since it's much easier to criticise than to correct. My money's on Joh n McCain, and if he ran, I'd vote for him. Alot of Hillary fan's out there, but there's a large camp of folks just wouldn't vote for her before they even heard her arguments. At least she stopped talking national health care plans. I think that earned her a great deal of animosity some time back.

In other news, it's thanksgiving in the US. Anyone excited for this? I'm going to dinner with my father and aunts. I tried to deliver some scones next door to the elderly couple who live there, but I couldn't figure out which was the front door, and after knocking on both, returned home, a little wetter, and with all the scones in hand. I can't bring pastry to thanksgiving since there will be all of the pies, and not enough scones for an army of visitors.

Traffic was very light wednesday morning, and very heavy last night. I left my house at 7:30 AM and arrived in Seattle by 8:30. I left Seattle at 1:40, and got home at 4:00. I hope the Narrows bridge is lighter than last year.

It continues to rain, and the wind is blowing. A few weeks ago we got a very warm (mid 50's) blast of air from the south, that triggered a lot of rain. Rainiest November in Seattle history.

Then the bowsprit got mixed with the rudder sometimes

I just discovered Librivox, where you can listen to poetry recorded by readers... all public domain.

For the non-readers, the hunting of the snark might not be so amazing, but listening is fun sometimes. And Cheap (free as in beer and freedom). And loadable on an iPod!

2 months in a row!

Welcome to the dead blog! I have not said anything in so very long this is officially a dead page!

Now it's the time for total anonymity... joy!

Dan

How to...

I was recently thinking about writing a series of how-to segments...

How to start a blog and then stop making entries should be pretty fun, but many people might take it too personally.

How to ?

Airport Ratings

Watching yahoo revealed a list of 5 great airports. Listed were MSP, SFO, CLT, DFW, and DIA. Having been to all of them, though Charlotte was years ago (and the first place I ever saw a moving sidewalk, age 18).

I am a fan of SFO, due to plenty of recent experience. If it was only not on 101, it would be perfect. Easy to reach, attractive, good food, great bookstore. I'm sure I say enough nice things to keep anyone disinterested. Downsides to SFO: a ghosttown in terminal 2, and $28/day parking.

MSP I have taken for granted living in Minneapolis and in Saint Paul, and all the on time reviews should have been offset by the price of boarding a flight on NWA, and the insult of paying for peanuts... can they just get bought? The sooner northwest folds the happier we can all be. And maybe southwest can start flying to MN after the demise of this ugly airline.

Quine

For my part I do, qua lay physicist, believe in physical objects and not in Homer's gods; and I consider it a scientific error to believe otherwise. But in point of epistemological footing, the physical objects and the gods differ only in degree and not in kind. Both sorts of entities enter our conceptions only as cultural posits".

Shameful Disinterest

Hmm,
behind on work, behind on laundry, behind on all sorts of education, behind the curve... and now, behind on blog entries! Shameful. I need a little boost of productivity!

Any concrete ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Dan