Watching election coverage. Appears that a truly ridiculous number of voters are being asked to fill out provisional ballots -- very close to 1:1 in may precincts, and some locations are even reporting twice as many provisional ballots as regular.
Hispanics are disproportionately affected -- quelle surprise.
This state, man...
I don't think we'll know the outcome of the Arpaio/Penzone race tonight. And probably not a number of others, either.
I was going to link to where you could buy this most excellent T-shirt, but it appears that Barko-Swill has sold out. I suppose it's probably in pretty high demand about now.
But fortunately, I could still get these good photos of it, courtesy of Kozmic Dreams.
Go vote. Tomorrow. Tuesday the 6th. If you don't, the wrong lizard might get in.
Today I saw a man walking down the street in a tricorn hat, powdered wig, and other assorted revolutionary garb, waving a placard explaining how our Founding Fathers really love Romney and Flake.
I decided not to make any banal jokes about Halloween being last week, mostly because that's so blisteringly unoriginal but also because really, wearing that getup in 92-degree weather is its own punishment.
Posted one of these back on 9/28; here's the whole set, complete with banter in-between takes.
It's too late to register in most places, but check your locale anyway to see if same-day registration is available.
And get out there and vote. Even if you're as dissatisfied with the choices for President as I am, there are local candidates and ballot initiatives where your vote does matter. Find something to support and go do it.
The election's on Tuesday.
Sofa, Montana, Easy Meat -- called due to rain. Mannheim, Germany, 1982; uploaded by br1tag.
Binghamton, NY, 1988. Appears to be the same show as my Lucille/Who Needs the Peace Corps? post from July.
I just switched from Kubuntu to OpenSUSE. I plan on writing a bit about my experience, but it occurs to me -- people may wonder why I went with OpenSUSE.
Well, the answer is because I've seen various reviews saying OpenSUSE is the best KDE-based distro -- so the question then becomes Why KDE?
I've preferred KDE over GNOME since about the KDE 2.x/GNOME 1.x era. And I think the bottom line is customizability.
I never much liked the look-and-feel of GNOME, not even in 2.x. The Apple-style system bar across the top of the screen without the Apple-style integrated menubar -- that's just wasted space.
But it could be worse. It could be GNOME 3.
I liked KDE3 better than 4, but 4 got to the point of being passable. Even if it's still missing basic functionality like being able to right-click on a launcher to change its shortcut settings. In fact the whole "Show a Launcher When Not Running" feature (an overly-verbose version of MacOS's "Keep in Dock" and Windows 7's "Pin to Taskbar") is pretty damn broken -- I can't get it to work at all with LibreOffice. (Well, I mean, I can get it to show a launcher. Just not one that works.)
So okay. It's pretty far from ideal. But XFCE and LXDE aren't exactly rolling in GUI-based configuration options, and the simpler WM's are worse still. So KDE it is, for now.
Grand Wazoo Orchestra plays Grand Wazoo, September '72. Uploaded by Whoaduderighteous.
Not looking forward to having to finish off those packs of Shark, Gillette and Feather, but so it goes.