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I'm with you there, Speck. My votes: No, No, and No.
Anna Thanks, Speck. That helps.
jimmy Okay all you California voters, I hope that you're registered and planning to vote in the recall election. And I would like to climb on my soapbox for a brief moment and say: VOTE NO ON PROP 54. It's dangerous!! It's part of a movement to reverse laws that protect our civil rights. Ward Connerly was appointed to the UC Regents by, ack!, Pete Wilson. And you can be sure that Pete is lurking somewhere in the background of this initiative, but we just don't know where since Ward Connerly won the lawsuit that would have forced him to reveal who was giving the Yes on Prop 54 campaign money. He had vowed that he would never reveal where his money was coming from and would take it to the supreme court if necessary! hey now! that's fishy.... He's currently laundering it through some foundation that he set up. But enough about his shadiness. Let's talk about the proposition. It would stop medical professionals from collecting information that they use to identify health threats to specific communities and then find ways to treat those threats or do outreach. If they don't know that there's a high concentration of diabetes in the latino community then how can they develop programs to teach people how to look for warning signs so that they'll come in and get treated or do preventive medicine for those people? Supposedly there's a clause that will allow medical research, but that clause is so narrow that it's ineffective. This would disrupt the entire way that doctors, hospitals, and clinics collect and use data to improve the health of their communities. It would cost lives! And I'm not being overly dramatic about this. Almost every major medical group in California has come out against prop 54. And schools. We don't have an equal education system for everyone in this state. Prop 54 would prevent us from collecting any data on that disparity and working to change it at the community and state level. Any discrimination lawsuit would be useless basically because there would be no supporting evidence for it. Prop 54 would eliminate information that is used to stop descrimination and hate crimes. It would allow racial profiling to spread because there would be no way to hold the police department accountable. Now that's scary!!! So that's my plug to VOTE NO ON 54. sorry about the soapboxing, but it's really important - so is your vote!!! Don't forget to vote on October 7th!!
Miss Speck and the Giant Librarians By the way, Coop, congratulations to you and your husband on the PhD! Just in time, too. Now he gets to be Dr. Dad.  I found this picture while searching for documents on Pataphysics at a site which seems completely unrelated to Pataphysics called http://www.pataphysics-lab.com/. It was posted by a fellow named Gygax.
jimmy You were mean back then. Everytime you tell me these stories I have these cinema worthy flashbacks. It's like I've been shell shocked or something, and I've blocked out most of my bad memories of dating you. I remember you worked at Twiggs, and we'd have fun watching foreign movies. Then you remind me, and my eyes blank out and my breathing gets shallow and I just sort of stare until I hear someone going "Jimmy? Jimmy? Are you ok?" Ok, so it's not that dramatic, though you did traumatize me. If anything, dating you has made me stronger in the Nietzschensian sense. If your new boyfriend needs counseling, I feel uniquely qualified to provide the service. Though you seem to be awfully nice these days. Why did I have to get your worst years? [The histrionic author means "worst 8 months" when he says "worst years".]
jimmy Maybe your girlfriend sabotaged your computer. I probably would have done that to your chess board when we were going out had I thought of it. i do recall that I ripped a book out of your hand and threw it out of the room once because I wanted you to pay attention to me for a moment. Or maybe I just did that because I was mean back then.
Miss Speck and the Giant Librarians Speck, life is hard enough without having to deal with such lofty issues as "self-control" and...how do you say..."moderation"? :p Yea yea, so you're right. I'm just calling 'em like I see it in the office. I hear 4 people saying they've switched to decaf and then the next day I hear a bunch of people saying they've had entirely too much coffee. I'm just hoping someone will read this blog and hire me as a consultant for a salary comparable to $2.50 per hour (though my work shows I'm clearly worth at least half that). My computer is dead, folks. I woke up and it was just dead. I opened her up, replaced the power supply, yaddayadda yadda, no go. The not so funny thing is, this is, I suspect, exactly what happened to my Sampling Synthesizer. I'm guessing I need better surge protectors (IKEA is not a good place to buy electronic equipment). So with chief's help, I selected a fine new motherboard and AMD chip, and some memory. I expect them sometime this week. My girlfriend has enjoyed the fact that I have no computer, actually. Apparently I'm more social. Arrr, whatever.
jimmy how 'bout this: If 1/3 of the office cuts back on their coffee consumption, then the remaining 2/3 should just show a little self-control and avoid drinking the surplus... and the 1/3 who had previously been abstaining should exercise a little caution as well when returning to the land of the caffeinated. Of course who am I to be extolling the virtue of moderation. I'm certainly no expert on it....
Miss Speck and the Giant Librarians How ignorant am I to our dependence upon technology that I react to Awwa's disturbing plight as though it was the stuff of science fiction? Awwa, what kind of contamination did the water get? Is it minor stuff? Er...I mean, I guess if you can't drink it, it ain't minor. But I dunno. It's a scary thought. Please resist the tempation to drink your bath water. I lived through two hurricanes in Fla., one of which was the famous Hugo. I was living in Panama City at the time, near the beach, and the hurrican was destructive, but it did not have the impact on my life as a child that it would have on me as an adult. As an eleven year old everything was provided for. My parents took the brunt of the stress. They provided me with the crackers and juice and left-over foodstuffs. They provided the water. All I had to do was kick back and read Lord of the Rings while listening to the storm outside, hoping a small tree didn't crash through our house. I have no idea what I'd do now. It sounds like you have friends, Awwa. I'm glad! I hope you do well and that you have power soon. Orthogonalist office coffee consumption analysis: If, in an office where the same amount of coffee is made per day, 1/3rd of those who drink the coffee decide to put a handle on their minor caffeine addiction and quit drinking coffee for 1 week, the remaining 2/3rds of the office is left with a surplus of coffee that leads to a minor caffeine addiction before the week is over. If only half of this latter group decides it is best to cut their coffee consumption, we achieve a circular balance in which no one is hurt. If all of this latter group decides to cut back on coffee, the returning 1/3rd of the office will overdose on caffeine immediately after their sabbatical thereby putting the entire office at risk of bodily harm. Conclusion: To avoid such risks, the amount of coffee made per day must vary directly and proportionally to the number of people in the office (actual modifications excluded). -end orthogonalist analysis-
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