http://www.chizang.net/alex/blog infinite spew Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:44:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you're like me (which I assume you are, since you're reading my blog), you're probably fatigued from campaign overdose. It's not just the TV or radio ads; somehow, this election is special and this year's presidential campaign is crushingly pervasive. From technology aggregators to your friends' facebook feeds that ... http://www.chizang.net/alex/blog/2008/10/05/presidential-linkdump-08/ Peter Norvig has an election FAQ. My favourite part were these two charts that place into context what McCain and Palin have been harping on. Above are the earmarks that McCain was so angry about in the first debate. Below is describes the offshore drilling that Palin hopes will bring energy independence ... http://www.chizang.net/alex/blog/2008/10/03/norvig-tells-us-how-to-vote/ the agony of desire, Baja Peninsula, Mexico My blatant rip-off of Tyler's "best sentence I read today" meme comes from Tyler himself today as he answers what will happen with the dollar?: Bush, Bernanke, Paulson -- we call them leaders. The Chinese think of them as the customer service department. http://www.chizang.net/alex/blog/2008/10/02/customer-service/ Dear Film Actor's Guild, Please remind me why I should listen to you, considering you are famous because you can memorize someone else's thoughts. I will say that you are the prettiest huffaz I've seen. I thought "rocking the vote" went out of vogue at the same time as "cowabunga". http://www.chizang.net/alex/blog/2008/10/02/tuning-out/ Groggy and cranky, I wandered around the Pikes Peak long term parking lot today at DIA wondering where the hell my car went. After about 15 minutes of this, a shuttle driver took pity on me and gave me a sweet hint -- you can use the callboxes by the ... http://www.chizang.net/alex/blog/2008/09/29/dia-pikes-peak/ illy nilly The roast on the left is better. http://www.chizang.net/alex/blog/2008/09/24/illy-nilly/ Evites are one of the suckiest things ever invented. The evite sender puts my email address into some 3rd-party website, which I never asked for. They claim they will never sell my email address, but why should I trust them? If I wanted evite to have my address, I would have ... http://www.chizang.net/alex/blog/2008/09/24/evites-suck/ Anyone out there wanna take a trip to Hawaii? I need about 7k more miles this year to maintain my Premier status on United. Turns out round-trip from Denver to Honolulu is just enough. United has a sale right now so that it's only $249 each way (or thereabouts). I priced it ... http://www.chizang.net/alex/blog/2008/09/22/maintaining-premiership/ Hotel Babylon parking monkey, Liberec, Czech Republic I've been feeling a little unstuck as of late so it's good to be home. An incomplete pastiche of random thoughts... Small is beautiful. I'm Portland over Seattle; Grenoble over Zurich. Watching Linus get beat at Wii tennis was insanely amusing. The Benson Hotel has the best amenity ... http://www.chizang.net/alex/blog/2008/09/20/random-decompression-bits/ dripping fountain, Pražský hrad, Czech Republic Pražský hrad (aka the Prague Castle) is worth seeing, even if there are always too many tourists and even though it's slightly over-commercialized. http://www.chizang.net/alex/blog/2008/09/18/dripulous/