Checksum Arcanius

Robots queued up in my house to be taken back to the school.

From the New York Times, via New Media Musings:

President Bush isn’t a conservative. He’s a radical – the leader of a coalition that deeply dislikes America as it is. Part of that coalition wants to tear down the legacy of Franklin Roosevelt, eviscerating Social Security and, eventually, Medicare.

Well dang. If I had known that this was his agenda, I might have supported him for re-election.

And here’s a great piece by Tony Snow that mentions this article as well.

Thinking about some things in my life can be a bit depressing. Either that, or the fact that I didn’t make it into the Costco pharmacy tonight is starting to present it self. Or maybe its a little bit of both. A lot of things seem to be caused by combinations these days.

Today is – well, yesterday was – my birthday. I think I am officially over the hill – I have reached the age where I only get older, without recieving any additionl benefits from society for the increase in age. Well, I guess there’s the whole car rental and insurance cost thing at 25, but thats not really much of a landmark, in my opinion.

After a short day at work, followed by lego league, robotics administrivia, homework, and class, I ended up with my family, and my good friends Shai and Theo, at P.F. Chang’s for the third time in recent history. We were treated to the same waitress we had the first time – and due mainly to my mother’s persistent questioning, we actually learned quite a bit about her. Life stories aside, however, she is probably the best waitress I have ever had, at any resturant, ever. She is quick, accurate, courteous, fun, talkative… realy quite a delight to interact with. It just too bad that Maneesh and I didn’t have the luck to have her wait our table when we ate there. We seem to have bad luck that way.

But anyway, the food was excellent, and as the fourth meal of the day for me, I ended up, especially after the generous helping of cheesecake, stuffed quite to the gills, an effect I am still trying to come down from.

Seeing Theo again was a good experience, and Shai too since I haven’t seen him in a while either. My Mom took it upon herself to buy me a box of chocolates, which she promptly proceded to eat most of herself while offered the rest to everyone else. I actually managed to eat one before the night was over, as did our waitress. My dad, always finding strange gagets, found me another one – its a smoke torroid launcher.

Yeah. I may fill you in on what that means sometime later, but I have early work tomorrow and all that.

1,284,411 - 48.87% - Christine Gregoire (Democrat)
1,286,534 - 48.95% - Dino Rossi (Republican)
   57,242 -  2.17% - Ruth Bennett (Libertarian)

Still too close too call…

Let us say one thing: If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that at its least is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering. That is something I am confident history will forgive.

But if our critics are wrong, if we are right, as I believe with every fiber of instinct and conviction I have that we are, and we do not act, then we will have hesitated in the face of this menace when we should have given leadership. That is something history will not forgive.

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Today I went with Dan to see Pixar’s newest creation, “The Incredibles.” I am a big fan of Toy Story 1 and 2, and I thought A Bug’s Life was also very good. But I was disappointed by Finding Nemo – apparently it appealed to parents, but I found it lacking in the multi-layered storyline and humor that makes Pixars other titles so classic.

And this is where The Incredibles really shines, with a healthy amount of very appropriate social commentary and copious amounts of humor for young and old alike that didn’t feel like it was forced, as I felt Finding Nemo’s attempts at humor often were.

For good laughs, good thinking points, and a good time, I reccomend Disney/Pixar’s The Incredibles.