The best dancing in the Bay Area this weekend

Come to Berkeley and see Shen Wei Dance Arts

I gar-awn-tee it'll be a good show. Tickets are still available for Saturday and Sunday's shows. Shen Wei's work deserves to be seen by anyone in the Bay Area or nearby who has any interest in new, inventive, and exciting dance. I saw the company at licoln Center last year in New York, and was blown away.

His choreographic combination of modern dance, Chinese Opera, and other forms along with innovative stage settings makes for a dynamic and entertaining show. His dancers (including my incredibly talented sister) are precise, expressive, and passionate.

If you're a guy, take your girl out for anice dinner, then bring her to the show.

If you're a girl, make your guy take you out for dinner, then go to the show. If he really liked it, consider having sex with him.

The truth about John Kerry's Iraq votes

Note to die-yhard Republicans: this site may cause your brain to explode, as it directly contraverts the Sean Hannity Truth Distortion Field.




The truth about John Kerry's consistent position on the Iraq war. John Kerry hasn't been flip-flopping. George Bush just hasn't been listening.

Is this horse out of the gate?

Front page of NYtimes, the San Francisco Chronicle, USA Today...maybe these newly surfaced documents are finally going to wakt the media and public up to the fact that George W. Bush shirked his duty, disobeyed direct orders, and dishonored his unit.

I read through an e-mail the RNC[omittee] sent to Bush-Cheney '04 volunteers. All of the sudden, fear is popping out among the religious right and Republicans in general like flop sweat all over their campaign. This smells like scandal, and as they know all too well from pillorying Clinton for eight years, scandal stinks worse than any other political corpse.

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch, what with their lip service to veterans and insults to those vets injured in action on the floor of the RNC[onvention]

Power Macintosh G5 Arcana

My Power Macintosh G5, with two 2.0GHz processors and 1.5GB of RAM does just about everything I ask - quickly.

I decided to see what the thermal impact of all this hard work might be - how much can a G5 warm up extremely dry (5-10% rH) air while working really hard?

Processor settings:

Processor 1: On
Processor 2: On
Nap mode: Off
Processor performance: Highest
Processor load: Between 80-90% utilization for each processor.

Inlet air temp: 67.5 degrees F.
Exhaust air temp: (Average of two exhaust grilles for processor section) 94.7 degrees F.

What if I disable a processor?

Processor 1: On
Processor 2: Off
Nap mode: Off
Processor performance: Highest
Processor load: Between 80-90% utilization.

Inlet air temp: 67.5 degrees F.
Exhaust air temp: (Average of two exhaust grilles for processor section) 91.2 degrees F.

I guess I should go take a walk outside or something. A post like this is a sure sign I've been inside too long today.

Great Post on MS DRM

Check this post on Daring Fireball.

October Surprise Coming Along Nicely

Just heard on CBS radio news...

Apparently we're "hot on the trail" of Bin Laden.

Funny, didn't the president just give a speech where Bin Laden's name wasn't mentioned once?

Latest Kerry Smear being floated

On Rush's program a few minutes ago, a guest writing a book (for Republicans to buy, not read) told the story that I think will become the latest Kerry smear. This tale one-ups the swift boat vets and slinks into the clinton-bought-cocaine-through state-trooper-pimps territory.

Apparently, some members of Vietnam Veterans against the War wanted to kill six senators, and Kerry resigned from the group. He also avoided a meeting in Kansas city where the plot was discussed.

The writer on Rush's show insists that he's got some witnesses who saw Kerry at the meeting, that his letter of resignation from VVaW doesn't exist, and that Kerry eats babies.

The smear machine just won't stop. Kerry starts the final part of the campaign with a rousing speech, and the republicans start with another goddamn smear. They can't run on the issues, so they try to embarass their opponent.

No shame.

Never Far From the Tree

While I didn't personally see the Bush twins' performance last night, by all accounts it was a ditzy disaster.

Here's something to think about, pulled from the comments at Kevin Drum's Washington Monthly blog:

Bill and Hillary Clinton: Valueless, self-indulgent children of the 60s, or simply white trash. What kind of daughter did they raise?

George and Laura Bush: God-fearing conservatives with rock-solid American values. What kind of daughters did they raise?

Well, here's the answer:

Bill and Hillary somehow found time between killing close friends, moving tons of cocaine across the border, and being sexually deviant to raise an intelligent, assertive, and well-spoken woman. A graduate of Stanford University, Chelsea has an impressive resume already.

The more conservative pair of parents were able to find the time in their busy schedules of ruining businesses, vehicular homicide and being a dry drunk to raise two girls that, frankly, made an embarassment of themselves on national TV. I mean really - let's call a spade a spade. Simply from the transcript, it appears that these two are a case of tequila away from Girls Gone Wild.

Now, some of you out there may be thinking that it's wrong to pillory these girls based on the way they act and talk, but isn't that what we're being asked to do with their dad?

Never fear Bush girls - daddy set a good precedent. At 22, you've still got 18 years of partying ahead of you before it's time to straighten up and fly right.