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Wow, the voters of Boulder County creamed the Republicans.

It’s not terribly surprising that the liberals of this area lean toward the Democrats, but this was a bloodbath.

In the Presidential race, my guy Bob snagged third place with 402 votes, narrowly edging out the perennial Nader.

I’m happy to see the Boston Tea Party garnered 14 votes, although the Prohibition and Pacifist parties only took home a single vote each. It would have been interesting to see how well Ron Paul would have done if write-ins had been allowed.

Ahh, the fun of modern technology: cracking open various electronics and looking at the nice shiny parts inside.

I have a stack of old hard drives and decided to pop one open and grab the magnets. These things are spiffy: they’ll literally slide across the desk and hop up on the hard drive (because there’s a strong magnet inside it). Now if I can just think of something to do with those silver platters…

“You can always count on Americans to do the right thing… after they’ve tried everything else.”

— Winston Churchill

President Obama, eh?

It beats President McCain, I guess…

Wise words from a software developer:

All of my three or four loyal readers have been clamoring for me to add comments to this blog, and I finally caved to the peer pressure. Click the little paper-and-pencil icon in the top bar to post a comment.

Right now it’s wide open– no CAPTCHAs, no approval process, none of that other annoying anti-spam stuff. It’ll be interesting to see if I get obscene comments or if the spambots find me and start posting fun stuff about Russian girls on web cams…

The digital and analog worlds mix in this cool photograph from Flickr.

Laralee bought juice boxes to hand out to trick-or-treaters tonight. I was astounded. Juice boxes? Really? I mean, how exciting is that? I figured the kids would pause for a second as I handed them a little fruity drink, then drop it wordlessly into their bag, and make a mental note to themselves not to come back to that house next year.

To my great surprise, many of the kids were thrilled. They would run down the sidewalk yelling to their waiting mom, “Mom, we got juice boxes!” Maybe they were really thirsty from walking around so much, maybe there’s a rising generation of kids who crave healthy snacks (okay, scratch that), or maybe it’s just different.

In any case, it was kind of cool to see.

Is it wrong to think this Halloween costume is funny?

Now that we have a Wii, the spending begins.

My first purchase– using some Amazon gift cards– was another remote (Wiimote?) and a steering wheel.

That way the fam can play Mario Kart head-to-head, which is much more fun than beating a bunch of computer players. And there’s nothing quite so humorous as listening to a ten-year-old girl talk smack as she’s ahead of me in a race, only to laugh right back at her as I blow past her to the finish line.