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I asked a girl to dance. She looked up and explained that she was going home with that boy over there. Yet it was kind on account of her tone and her expression. She looked as if she was struck just then by the thought that she didn't want to turn me down. She looked a trace wistful.

This was my favorite rejection yet.

4 years ago, I bought a hybrid car. Everyone wanted to know about it.

The next year, a friend of mine bought her own hybrid, partially at urging from me. She loves it.

Just tonight I found out that my mother and my uncle - the one who last drove an SUV - are now looking at hybrids.

See? It's not all bad news today.

Voted Libertarian with a side order of Get Bush the F Out of Office, Plz.

For those who haven't already heard my rant:

Condorcet voting is much better than our current Simple Plurality system. You'd actually get a chance to vote for the candidate you LIKED if we had a Condorcet system in place.

So I kissed a girl today.

I said, "Can I ask you a question?" and when she said yes, I kissed her. Then I pulled back and waited for her response.

It was "No."

So I drag myself out of bed, to campus, to the lab to code, and Ms. Lauren sits down next to me and asks if I've seen today's Penny Arcade. I hadn't. I was wearing the appropriate shirt, tho.

Hilarity ensues.

"Can I push the button myself and save $50?" - Conversation with the Apple Genius Bar Genius. (He said yes.)

Dropped by the Apple store this morning, got the data transferred from the hard drive out of my old Mac onto my new one. The brain transfer - she is complete. Got to see the inside of my last mac during the process. There were...
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Spilled cola on my beloved tiBook.
She is NOT happy with me.
(Updating from the PC.)

Tromped around campus for a bit getting pictures of the ass-end of the debate coverage. Check my phone-cam pics section for what an MSNBC sound stage looks like from behind, or what CNN's live stand looks like from the point of view of the Live people.

Aparrently, if you're playing the XBox game 'Fable', and you run the character's Scariness slider up to 100% and tweak his hairstyle a bit, he looks exactly like me.

"You weren't here for the debates four years ago?"
"No."
"Aw, dude, there were snipers on top of Eliot [Hall]."

Since the presidential debate 4 years ago, Eliot hall has been blown up.
Poor homeless secret service agents. Where will they set up their sniper nests now?

There's a clock in the corner.

"Atomic Time" says the clock's face.
"Radio controlled" says the side at the wall.

The seconds hand just sits and shivers.
The minutes hand spins around like crazy.
The hours hand never moves at all.