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GET OUT AND VOTE: 2008 Indiana Presidential Primary, Tuesday May 6th

As discussed with friends, on Tuesday I shall be voting for Barack Obama, which goes contrary to my woman-identified, woman-preferred leanings.
The reason: Hillary Clinton is a MACHINE POLITICIAN (a.k.a. part of the political machine; i.e., just like Mayor Daley of Chicago and Mayor Daley of Chicago-current [a.k.a. Chi-town, a.k.a. The (Da) Region]). [...]

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We Definitely Need Another Bookcase

On a whim The Partner and I stopped by the city library after dinner this evening and lo! they were having a book sale! A $1-A-BAG book sale. I love local book sales as university professors donate their books, which means you can often find great academic nonfiction, which the nerd/geek in me [...]

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Reasons I’m a Nerd, #35 and #36

#35. A search on the linguistics of the emergent LOLCat pseudo-language brought me to a December 2007 post at Linguistic Mystic in which he examines a discussion for LOLCODE programmers:

I know VISIBLE is the current output command, but it’s so not LOLCAT. What if we used LOL as the output [...]

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