December 2006 Archives

I figure with all the year in reviews, I should post one myself.

So, what have I done this previous year?

• Graduated College
• Got my first post-college job
• Left my first post-college job
• Moved to Maryland
• Strugled with Maryland DMV
• Voted in Connecticut
• Chaired the most contested election in College Democrats of America history
• Watched Republicans go into the minority in congress for the first time since I was 9
• Learned web design
• Put two ducks on top of my TV
• Got a new computer. Which works!!
• Built a few websites
• Became addicted to Youtube
• Became a photo bug
• Went to my first Schluetertoberfest
• Landed in St. Louis Missouri to a powerless airport
• Plotted
• Schemed
• Planned
• Kicked some ass and took some names

Here's to a beautiful 2007!!

Another one from Jib Jab

atlantic city scape

Picture I took while driving, and touched up. What do you think?

I came across this while shopping at the Mays Landing, NJ one dollar store, where everything costs exactly one dollar. I was surprised to see Karen Hughes book there. Apparently, her book is so worthless that there were multiple copies there, one of the few books that were there. Just like Bush's foreign policy, Karen Hughes is essentially worthless.

Yes, indeed.

New Logo for the Progressive Political Professional I made using Illustrator and extensively modifying a .gif.

Who says the NBA is full of self-important ball hogs? Take a look at this melee!

Tom Delay launched his website, complete with blog and a signup for "Tom DeLay's Grassroots Action and Information Network".

Tom DeLay's Grassroots Action and Information Network (GAIN) is a new force for change inside the American conservative movement, and a staunch opponent of secular progressive pressure groups and radical leftist agendas wherever they may be found in the United States.

GAIN is a growing national network of conservative grassroots activists united for the common goal of restoring American government to its constitutional roots and advancing the conservative first principles of order, justice and freedom. By developing individualized operations in every United States congressional district GAIN is positioning itself to play an active role in local, state and federal political life by effectively advocating for conservative first principles at every level of government.

Problem is, Democrats already have a Grassroots Action Institute and Network.

Democratic GAIN is a national membership association for progressive political professionals and organizations. Created in 2003, Democratic GAIN's network of political professionals and organizations is the fastest growing in the nation. Democratic GAIN provides an infrastructure that supports and connects our members across the country through our Career Center, GAIN trainings, Professional Benefits and Networking opportunities.

Whats worse than a bad idea? A copied one?

Manatee sex is really hot.

CNET. WTF?

Whether they like it or not.

So I'm playing with a few new plugins.

First, Simply Threaded - which allows threaded comments. Two of the major front end weaknesses of Movabletype is no threaded comments and no real viable solution for community blog/diaries. I'm going to tinker with this to figure how to make it look good.

Second, MT-Blogroll, which I used at one point but it broke for version 3.3. Now its fixed, except I can't get rid of the "taking credit" link on the bottom. Growl.

Picture I took from the Metro platform in Silver Spring this afternoon.

Saw this at the Theater where I went to see Van Wilder Rise of Taj (good fratty-type movie).

Sidney Blumenthal notices a trend.

Bush has been the formative political experience for the youngest generation of voters, those 18 to 30. Studies of voting preferences show that the experience imprinted on a generation in its 20s largely determines its future political complexion. This generation is the most Democratic generation ever -- more Democratic than the youngest voting generations of the New Deal and the 1960s. In generational terms, their political alignment is also logical. As the children of the 1960s generation and the grandchildren of the New Deal generation, they have inherited those generations' political genes. The in-between, more conservative generations -- the so-called Silent Generation of the 1950s and their children -- are smaller in numbers and weaker in cultural and political influence.