I got home from vacation at about 3am on Sunday. I visited the highest points of Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma. Also spent a day just hanging out in Boulder, driving by all the places I used to live and wandering around campus. Very nostalgic. I spent a lot of time alone on dirt roads in the middle of…

One of Hilary’s many problems is that she had so many bases to cover. Sanders or Warren might have covered one, but was that the most important one? Tim Kaine was a hardcore Catholic who spoke Spanish and didn’t personally support abortion - that’s a different base altogether. I don’t think any running mate would have…

Was black turnout down in general, like lower than it had been in decades? Or was it just low compared to 2008 and 2012 levels? My understanding, thanks to a bunch of standup comedians, is that black voter engagement is historically pretty low, due to general mistrust of the government, and surged when Obama was…

As hard as the comments are to follow, I’ll keep coming back for content like this.

I hadn’t heard that about the school naming before. That’s some cold-blooded shit. Fuck the South.

The second image more closely matches the action figure I used to have.

I know two white women that voted for him. One is elderly and afraid of everything, so refugees and sharia law were big issues for her. The other is a lower middle class redneck who admires trump for how rich he is and how he’s not afraid to tell it like it is. His actual attitudes toward women were shrugged off like…

“Good news, everyone! I’ve invented a Dethlok!”

He got off easy. I can’t even imagine what I would write about him.

Records I bought last weekend:

Skeptical is a polite way of saying it. I see serifed fonts.

Last summer I bought a fern when my company moved to our new offices. Didn't realize that they turn off the AC after hours, and the fern didn't like it. All the leaves turned brown. I took it home and tried to nurse it back to health, but it wouldn't die, and it wouldn't get better. This weekend, I took it out and…

At least there aren't a whole lot of spiders you have to kill in that one.

They probably wanted to do weird sex stuff under the table. Did you a favor by not involving your children.

I rewatched the first season of True Blood.

Laurie Metcalf was the best part of the show, so I hope they get her on board.

I also got Smarties, plus two buttons and like 17 stickers. Arrived on Tuesday, and I was not expecting a package because I forgot I pre-ordered this.

In my experience, international flights (and flights from the US to AK or HI) are uncrowded, have pretty good food, and decent entertainment systems. While flights within the conterminous US and shuttle flights from the east coast to Europe are horrid and awful in every possible way.

They say in the movie that they feed humans with dead humans.

This brings up an incredibly interesting (to me) side question: what kind of machines would intelligent/self-aware machines design? Would they continue to develop stand-alone appliances that don't actually think? Or would that be sorta like what we call slavery?