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First Tuesday in November.
Election Day.
Get out and vote!
For those who aren’t sure where they need to go to vote, and who haven’t already voted absentee, Amelia G points us to a nationwide polling place locator site.
And in that spirit, here’s the Lascivious Biddies with “Cast That Ballot”:
Via Mark Evanier comes this OMFG video clip:
It’s amazing that “new” footage of the World Trade Center disaster should emerge five years later but some has. A couple who lived 500 yards from Ground Zero shot home video that day and has now released their footage on the Internet. It runs about fifteen minutes and is very chilling because…well, because you hear a family watching the tragedy, wondering what’s happening and commenting as they see it unfold before their eyes, practically in their back yard.
Here’s the clip: September 11, 2001: What We Saw
Break out the cigars: Scott and Jenn are parents to a newborn again.
Josh Wagner arrived today at 8:42 a.m. EDT via Cesarean.
Scott tells me that everybody is doing very well.
“Jenn’s in recovery now,” he said during a phone call minutes ago. “She’s already feeling a hundred times better than when [Josh's brother] Kyle was born.”
Josh’s arrival came several hours earlier than Scott and Jenn had anticipated.
Late last night the hospital called and moved the time of Jenn’s surgery up by several hours, Scott said. That meant they had to head out in the 5 a.m. hour.
Please join me in offering congratulations to Scott and Jenn!
This is not a good time for my extracurricular events.
For those of you going to SDCC, or for those who are merely curious about the impact of the con on downtown San Diego, here’s an article on locals’ reactions to the invasion of “Nerd Prom.”
“It’s huge business for us,” said Dan Flores, marketing manager for the Gaslamp Quarter Association.
He hesitated, then broached the sensitive part: “The attendees are … ”
Different?
“Different. But they don’t all come in costume.”
Sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? Now there’s a frood who knows where his towel is.
And you want to be like Ford, dontcha?
That’s right. You know you do. And tomorrow, you can.
(If I’ve just written a bunch of words that you can read but which appear to be just this side of gibberish, see the Wikipedia entries for towels and, particularly, for Towel Day.)
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Got an email from my good friend Lindsey a few minutes ago that the Sally Ride Science Fair is still looking for female presenters for an event at NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field on May 21.
Since I’m entirely the wrong gender to present (Curse you, Y chromosome; you win again!), I asked if I could repost this far and wide. Lindsey checked with the contact she’d named in the email, who gave us a thumbs up.
Here then, in its entirety, is Lindsey’s email.
Not really something that I wanted to cross of my List of Firsts, but whatcha gonna do?
