The audio port on my Palm Tungsten E PDA died, and I probably shouldn’t have, but I splurged and got an Apple iPod 20Gb. Very nice! I was a bit confused by the interface, but it now makes sense. I uploaded all of the music I have captured and have been having a good . . . → Read More: New geek thing
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One of the first people that I registered to vote this cycle, a straight female co-worker, metnioned that the first piece of mail that she got at her new home was the confirmation from the Voter Office. Sweet! Another co-worker who is good friends with her asked if I had any forms to register . . . → Read More: Voter Registration and John Edwards in Erie this Friday About 50 folks showed up for a rally against marriage equality yesterday (Sunday) in Perry Square. The Erie Times News has an article about it here. I believe that Her Whack Job-ness, Diane Gramley of the American Family Association of PA, was supposed to be there, as was Pastor Kennedy of First Baptist North . . . → Read More: Hate Fest in Perry Square So, I did my Saturday 4 hour shift at the Kerry Edwards phone bank. The volunteer coordinator asked if I was willing to be phone captain. However, at that point I was the only person and no one else showed up, so I wasn’t the phone captain, I was the phone bank. I actually . . . → Read More: Amusing encounters at Kerry Edwards phone bank We finished the blocking for Act 2 last night of Dracula. It went relatively well. It’s sort of hard figuring out everything when we are in a different and smaller space. The younger, straight guys in the cast are nice enough. Actually, the biggest point of different is they are all in college, and . . . → Read More: Dracula and Pagan stuff And in the “What the &*#%@ are they THINKING???” department, The Abe Lincoln Black Republican Caucus, a group of gay black Republicans, have endorsed Bush for re-election. You can read the story here. I find this unfathomable. Never mind that the national platform of the GOP is virulently anti-gay. Never mind that the GOP . . . → Read More: Black Gay Republicans endores Bush?? So, despite some technical/logistical setbacks, the October issue of the newsletter is done and out there. Yay! I always feel elated to get it done and distributed. We had a good turnout for folding, and a particularly good combination for helping with distributing, so things went smoothly. But I was still finishing the newsletter . . . → Read More: Newsletters done, and an amusing encounter Hmm! Interesting snippet from Newsday, via Electoral-vote.com Jimmy Breslin of Newsday had an column yesterday that, if true, makes this website irrelevant. Breslin claims that pollsters do not call the 168 million cell phones in the country. Since many younger voters do not have a land line and just a cell phone, they will . . . → Read More: Political polls and cell phones? So, I went to the opening of Trance last weekend. Very nice. I do hope that all the area bars will get along and prosper. I was there for a bit on Friday, and then went back to the Zone to meet some folks about voter registration. We did some at the Zone, and . . . → Read More: New bar, interesting interaction with a co-worker I have a friend who is currently working temp jobs after having been laid off for a while. They were told about a job taking surveys, and later that it would be for registering voters. “Yippee!” they thought, supposing it was something like ACT. The friend, as I am, is a very strong Kerry . . . → Read More: A friend is happy to encounter hostility on the job |
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