On the long way home I listened to the republican national convention on NPR. I hope to see an article like this one in the paper tomorrow:
Thousands at Convention Loose Voices, Hearts
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2 -- The screaming didn't stop today at the republican national convention in Philadelphia, and it doesn't look like it's going to. As the vice-presidential nominee took the stage, the crowd was chanting "Go Dick, Go". But what he didn't realize was that they really wanted him to go. Instead, he started his politically charged speech, lulling the audience into a partisan frenzy.
One attendee (who whished to remain anonymous) said, "I had been cheering for two days straight, and I couldn't take any more. I knew something terrible was about to happen when he started his speech." Indeed it did. His plodding speech was stopped every three words or so for a burst of frenzied screaming and noisemaking.
"He was relentless," one onlooker whispered. "The third time he said 'spin the wheel, it's time for a change' I knew my voice was ready to go. But I had to cheer. It's the thing to do." He had to cheer. It was thing to do. Now he may never speak again.
The hooting and hollaring soon turned to coughing and gasping as the vice-presidential hopeful's dramatic pauses continued. The rallying cry for the party may be alive for the moment but, according to doctors, vocal cord damage can last a lifetime. "I can't believe the GOP could abuse their delegates like this," I said to myself.
"It was fun," one woman raspingly hissed, "I can't wait to do it again in four years." Then with the last ounce of her strength she screemed, "woo! woo! woohoo! woop, woop! USA! USA! USA!" And then I passed out.
Newsblogger is go!
jason put up some photos from the rafting trip a while back. I'm in this one he labeled "team rescue". We were yanking people out of the river all day! ;) I think we should have been called "team groovy hats".
rage against the typing machine
If you've come here looking for "latin phrases", you want to be at Sententiae Latinae – not here. I posted about it last month, and all of the search engines indexed it ad infinitum. Animus opibusque paratus!
armstrong woods: view from east ridge trail
yes, this is me. yes, there is alcohol in that glass. yes, this was at a bar in Petaluma. and yes, I believe ev was standing on the table at the time he took that photo. further comment? no.
The line between Paul van Dyk and Yanni is very very thin.
I really want one of these Fisheye Conversion Lens Kits. If someone would like to contribute one, you know, for the effort. I'll happily accept it.
Search terms in your referrer logs are a funny thing. Sometimes I think that the search engines are ahead of me, indexing things that I will say in the future. For example, someone found my site by looking for the terms: behaviourally anchored rating scale. While this term was nowhere to be found on my site earlier today, when the poor, confused searcher ended up here – it is on my site now. See what I mean? It's as if Alta Vista can predict the future. Perhaps this search really came from tomorrow, and my logs are reading the future. In any case, all of you folks who are ending up here looking for something perverse thanks to this quoted post from the past will be disappointed. However, it may show up here in the future. Now.
Judge Orders Injunction Vs. Napster: "Clearly, people who are using Napster love music. They're probably our best customers," conceded Hilary Rosen, president of the RIAA, in an interview with The Associated Press." Shutting down Napster does not shut down the Internet. You can't stop file sharing.