Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Try Your Luck With Chuck
If you've ever watched Two and a Half Men or Big Bang Theory you may have noticed the very short slide at the very, very, absolutely last thing end of the program. Those slides are vanity slides written for the occasion by Chuck Lorre, who is the producer of those and other programs. If you'd care to freeze-frame one you can read it right there on your own TV. But if you don't have a DVR, or even a VCR, you're out of luck. You'll never get to see #191, which asks for a moratorium on the humorous use of the name "Chuck," for example.
But wait, hope is! You can click the title of this post and go straight to the web site where all of the vanity slides from all of the shows Mr. Lorre has produced are posted for all to see. I recommend that you do so. Right now. Go on, get on with it.
(Especially if you got here while looking at my "writing" posts in particular.)
But wait, hope is! You can click the title of this post and go straight to the web site where all of the vanity slides from all of the shows Mr. Lorre has produced are posted for all to see. I recommend that you do so. Right now. Go on, get on with it.
(Especially if you got here while looking at my "writing" posts in particular.)
Labels: Info, Social Commentary, Writing
Monday, February 25, 2008
Another Blow Struck for Nevada Politics
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For those of you who do not live in the Silver State, or Sagebrush State, Battle Born State, or Buy-A-Judge State as we call it, this is about the Clark County Democratic Convention, which was held, sort of, last Saturday in a ballroom at Bally's on Las Vegas Boulevard. This is the sort of thing that most likely would never have occurred when I lived in Ohio. I doubt that it would have occurred when I lived in Colorado. And, nobody in Minnesota would ever tolerate such a situation, don't cha know? What happened is that about 9000 delegates and alternates showed up for a meeting in a room designed for 5000. My wife was one of those delegates. I think I can more or less report what she had to say about it.
She arrived about 9:30 for a ten-o-clock meeting. Three hours later she was still in line to get in. She did get to hear Al Franken, who is running for the Senate from Minnesota ya know, and some other speaker. But even though she voted, she'll be doing another county convention at some future time. Before the State convention, one imagines. Because, you see, the votes never got counted. In fact one box of them got lost in the restroom. (I couldn't make that up.) The Obama people and the Clinton people started accusing each other of treachery. Then Obama and Clinton, through their representatives, suggested that the convention be rescheduled in a more suitable venue. Now both camps started accusing each other of trying to rig the vote in favor of their guy or gal. This even though it was the candidates who suggested it, mind you. But, this is Nevada, somebody must be up to no good, right?
Short story, they did vote to do that very thing at last, and Tami left the convention at about 4:30. She called to tell me about it. At 5:00 she called to tell me that she'd moved one car length in the garage at Paris Las Vegas, and how about I come pick her up? So I did, braving the traffic near the busiest intersection in the country at one of the busiest times for traffic. We picked up her car the next day. Turns out they had parked her in employee parking, which was awfully nice of them when you think about it.
So here is a typical political action in Nevada: an unforeseen surge of voter interest, an undersized meeting room, animosity for no good reason, and a good time was had by all. I never knew politics could be so fascinating, but I must say, between the corrupt county officials, the colorful mayor of the largest city, the judicial election signage that never seems to go away, and the general carnival atmosphere surrounding the process, this is quite the entertaining place to watch the process.
If you want to know more, here's a link for the convention as reported by Google, here's a link to Google's results for that mayor (Oscar), and here's a link to Google's results on those corrupt county officials.
Enjoy!
For those of you who do not live in the Silver State, or Sagebrush State, Battle Born State, or Buy-A-Judge State as we call it, this is about the Clark County Democratic Convention, which was held, sort of, last Saturday in a ballroom at Bally's on Las Vegas Boulevard. This is the sort of thing that most likely would never have occurred when I lived in Ohio. I doubt that it would have occurred when I lived in Colorado. And, nobody in Minnesota would ever tolerate such a situation, don't cha know? What happened is that about 9000 delegates and alternates showed up for a meeting in a room designed for 5000. My wife was one of those delegates. I think I can more or less report what she had to say about it.
She arrived about 9:30 for a ten-o-clock meeting. Three hours later she was still in line to get in. She did get to hear Al Franken, who is running for the Senate from Minnesota ya know, and some other speaker. But even though she voted, she'll be doing another county convention at some future time. Before the State convention, one imagines. Because, you see, the votes never got counted. In fact one box of them got lost in the restroom. (I couldn't make that up.) The Obama people and the Clinton people started accusing each other of treachery. Then Obama and Clinton, through their representatives, suggested that the convention be rescheduled in a more suitable venue. Now both camps started accusing each other of trying to rig the vote in favor of their guy or gal. This even though it was the candidates who suggested it, mind you. But, this is Nevada, somebody must be up to no good, right?
Short story, they did vote to do that very thing at last, and Tami left the convention at about 4:30. She called to tell me about it. At 5:00 she called to tell me that she'd moved one car length in the garage at Paris Las Vegas, and how about I come pick her up? So I did, braving the traffic near the busiest intersection in the country at one of the busiest times for traffic. We picked up her car the next day. Turns out they had parked her in employee parking, which was awfully nice of them when you think about it.
So here is a typical political action in Nevada: an unforeseen surge of voter interest, an undersized meeting room, animosity for no good reason, and a good time was had by all. I never knew politics could be so fascinating, but I must say, between the corrupt county officials, the colorful mayor of the largest city, the judicial election signage that never seems to go away, and the general carnival atmosphere surrounding the process, this is quite the entertaining place to watch the process.
If you want to know more, here's a link for the convention as reported by Google, here's a link to Google's results for that mayor (Oscar), and here's a link to Google's results on those corrupt county officials.
Enjoy!
Labels: Politics, Social Commentary
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Another Odd One
The following is the text of a message that arrived in the mailbox of stevefey@stevefey.com:
Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to:stevefey@stevefey.com (name is not a valid Internet address)
It was legitimate, not one of those people using your mailbox things. I have my work mail forwarded to my home. I emailed myself an attachment so I'd be sure to have the document I need at work tomorrow. It arrived fine (I can access work mail from home) but then I got this.
Maybe the mailer daemon needs a bit of work?
Sorry. Your message could not be delivered to:stevefey@stevefey.com (name is not a valid Internet address)
It was legitimate, not one of those people using your mailbox things. I have my work mail forwarded to my home. I emailed myself an attachment so I'd be sure to have the document I need at work tomorrow. It arrived fine (I can access work mail from home) but then I got this.
Maybe the mailer daemon needs a bit of work?
Labels: Social Commentary
Friday, February 22, 2008
Clarity
Below is the text of an email I received at my job as a high-school teacher the other day. I've taken out any identifying material, certainly the names of the students involved, but I think that anyone who has spent a day at the DMV (that's Department of Motor Vehicles for my foreign friends) will appreciate the "aha" moment it provides:
Teachers,Please excuse the following Special Ed students on Thursday, February 21st from their 3rd, 5th, and 7th periods, so they may attend a vocational training at the DMV:
Doesn't that just make sense, though?
S.
Teachers,Please excuse the following Special Ed students on Thursday, February 21st from their 3rd, 5th, and 7th periods, so they may attend a vocational training at the DMV:
Doesn't that just make sense, though?
S.
Labels: Social Commentary
Saturday, February 09, 2008
So, How'd I Do, Then?
I meant to write this sooner, but I came down the the flu. I had a shot, too, but so it goes. Anyhow, since I'm once again able to type, here's my rundown of how I did on my Super Tuesday prognostications:
I hit it square on with the Democrats. Not much else needs be said, does it?
As for the Republicans, I'm surprised by Romney. I guess he's decided to play for influence at the convention. I guess he's a pragmatic guy. Huckabee thinks he's got God on his side, so by cracky he's staying in. If the Republicans want to be sure to lose come November, they should definitely nominate Huckabee. On the other hand, they may have a chance with McCain, who seems to appeal to Independents a lot more than does Huckabee. His biggest weakness is that he's going to be seen as older than anything, although he's not all that much older than Hillary, but things like his inability to comb his hair because he can't raise his arms that high are bound to have an influence.
To be sure to beat McCain, the Dems should go with Obama. I've talked with some Reaganites who love Obama. Why, I have no idea. I'm not sure why they like Reagan, for that matter, but that's just me. It does amaze me that someone who likes Reagan would go for Obama, who doesn't seem very Reaganesque on the surface, but maybe underneath he has SAG credentials? (My bad joke for the day.)
The time between now and the conventions is going to be dull, unless you're a great partisan of Clinton or Obama, in which case it will be unremitting tension. It's possible that the sparks may fly in Denver in August, which would make for the best convention to watch in decades. We can only hope.
That's all for today.
I hit it square on with the Democrats. Not much else needs be said, does it?
As for the Republicans, I'm surprised by Romney. I guess he's decided to play for influence at the convention. I guess he's a pragmatic guy. Huckabee thinks he's got God on his side, so by cracky he's staying in. If the Republicans want to be sure to lose come November, they should definitely nominate Huckabee. On the other hand, they may have a chance with McCain, who seems to appeal to Independents a lot more than does Huckabee. His biggest weakness is that he's going to be seen as older than anything, although he's not all that much older than Hillary, but things like his inability to comb his hair because he can't raise his arms that high are bound to have an influence.
To be sure to beat McCain, the Dems should go with Obama. I've talked with some Reaganites who love Obama. Why, I have no idea. I'm not sure why they like Reagan, for that matter, but that's just me. It does amaze me that someone who likes Reagan would go for Obama, who doesn't seem very Reaganesque on the surface, but maybe underneath he has SAG credentials? (My bad joke for the day.)
The time between now and the conventions is going to be dull, unless you're a great partisan of Clinton or Obama, in which case it will be unremitting tension. It's possible that the sparks may fly in Denver in August, which would make for the best convention to watch in decades. We can only hope.
That's all for today.
Labels: Politics
