Cruftbox: My Box of Cruft

Written during a two-hour ‘town hall’ meeting today:
Same old meeting food
Brings folk to the long ass talk
Food comas for all

“The Americans will always do the right thing… After they’ve exhausted all the alternatives.”
– Winston Churchill
Looks like we’ve got four more years of alternatives…
Chin up people, we will make it through this.

Well, the election is over but the counting is not done. It’s not over till the fat lady sings says my father, but the truth is that the voting didn’t go the way I had hoped.
I was wrong in hoping that a strong turnout would break Kerry’s way.
I was wrong that Bush’s base wouldn’t increase.
I was right that the vote wouldn’t be close. Unfortunately it’s something like 3 million votes for the wrong guy.
Yesterday, I was cautiously optimistic about the voting when I heard of the turnout. When I got home from work I surfed the net around 7PM and there was no real news at that point. Knowing that nothing was to be gained by fretting over the TV news, I played games for a couple hours.
To try to get my mind off the idea of losing, I watched the Daily Show and headed off to bed around 10:30. The results wouldn’t be known till the wee hours, so I didn’t even check the net or the TV news.
Once in bed, the thoughts of the election raced in my head so I woke up the sleeping wife and made some hot monkey love to get my mind off of politics.
Around 5AM my eyes popped open and I could lay in bed any longer. Heading up front, I put on CSPAN and was disheartened. Bush had a huge lead in the popular vote and it was down to calling Ohio, even though Bush led the tally in Ohio.
Well, the voters spoke. I’m sure it will be debated what happened for the next four years, but as of today, I know how the Dole supporters felt in 1996.
Damn this sucks…

The Flag on Election Day, originally uploaded by Argyle.

For over two hundred years, American have worked and fought for your right to vote.

Today, your duty is to vote.

Other things can wait, your country needs you today and you must answer it’s call.

I support Kerry
I oppose Bush
Check out the results at Technorati.

Just finished the dishes, the girls are asleep, and the trick or treaters have stopped appearing at the door. Time to wind down from a long weekend.

Astute Cruft readers will notice that I’ve changed my moblog from Textamerica to Flickr. There’s nothing wrong with Textamerica, but Flickr is much cooler. Far beyond a simple moblog site, Flickr has tons of cool things.
I met Caterina and Stewart, the founders of Flickr, at Digital Foo Camp and was chastised for not using Flickr as my moblog. Previously, I hadn’t given it much thought. Flickr seemed like a typical photo site when I first signed up.
When I took a closer look, I was impressed. The way you can see your friend’s photos and leave notes right on the picture is really cool. The integration of Flickr into use as a moblog and as a blogging tool is done well. They have good uploading tools for your computer and a simple way to send photos from your mobile phone.
You can check out my photos easily. You can even subscribe to feeds of my photos if you want to, that’s what the Atom feed to the right it.
My favorite feature is FlickrLive, the chat page where you can share pictures with others in an IRC style.
So signup with Flickr and add me as a contact. I wanna see your photos. You can find me as Argyle or search for Michael Pusateri.

Los Angeles Cruft readers,
Tonight me and the missus are out on the town drinking and listening to rock ‘n roll.
The Twilight Singers are playing at the El Rey Theatre. Be there or sit in front of the blue glow of the computer reading the same old crap on the internet.
See you there.

When I was in San Francisco I saw this billboard up in a mall.

Two work haikus written last week in my notebook
A traditional 5-7-5
Fiber to the home.
Fifteen megs bandwidth download.
Can HD porn be far now?
And a 7-5-7
Meeting coffee, essential.
Must keep eyes open.
Less Powerpoint, I beg you.