Should we keep him?
Meet Dragon.
Dragon is adorable, but I don’t know that I want to keep him. One more cat? Do we really need another?
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October 2008Warmup #10
500 word challenge:
Rewrite a song as a piece of prose (Ballads work well; Pop songs, not so well). Bonus points if someone else can recognize the song without you having to give it away.
I’ll never buy a MacBook
Nothing to do with the Fruit Tax, or Mac OS X, or anything else that’s remotely arguable.
The thermodynamic properties of the lovely aluminum cases that the MacBook comes in must be ungodly cold after walking around in this weather. Who wants to type ON the cold?
Warmup #9
500 word challenge:
Write a completely honest political speech.
Warmup #8
500 word challenge:
Describe a mundane object as if you’ve never seen it before.
Warmup #7
250 word challenge:
Walk out of your house, and start your personal jet pack.
(It’s the future — where’s my jet pack?)
Warmup #6
250 word challenge:
Describe your favorite piece of furniture from when you were a child. For bonus points, use the point of view of a child.
Warmup #5
250 word challenge:
Write a conversation in which a student known to be lazy explains to his teacher why he (or she) didn’t do his homework. “My dog ate it” doesn’t suffice.
Warmup #4
250 word challenge:
Write a looping piece. Think “There’s a Hole in the Bucket” or “Third Rock from the Sun” (I’ve never heard of it, either).
Who to vote for in 2008
I’ve come up with an easy way to decide whether or not to vote for an incumbent in any congressional election this cycle.
Here are a pair of links:
House Roll Call Vote on “Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008”
Senate Roll Call Vote on “A bill to provide authority for the Federal Government to purchase and insure certain types of troubled assets for the purposes of providing stability to and preventing disruption in the economy and financial system and protecting taxpayers, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide incentives for energy production and conservation, to extend certain expiring provisions, to provide individual income tax relief, and for other purposes.”
Here’s how to vote: lookup the incumbent candidate in your area. If they voted NO (or Nay) on the appropriate piece of legislation, vote FOR them. If they voted Yes (or Yay, or I’m an idiot and will listen to political panic rather than economists), vote AGAINST them.
See? Isn’t that easy?