Fireworks Dance
By the way, this was the first dance at the wedding I was at on New Years Eve. Congratulations, Amy & Jake!
Bad Analysts at Ars Technica
Ars Technica has an Apple-specific blog. Recently one of the authors provided some analysis of iPhones and netbook rumors. But it’s weak. I don’t really expect more from Ars Technica; I think they promote themselves as more professional than their actual comportment reveals.
The article’s lede includes self promotion, and questionable attribution.
Last month, I posted regarding netbook rumors that were swirling in anticipation of the Macworld Expo. In my write-up, I suggested that in many ways, the iPhone and iPod touch already were Apple’s netbooks. -Ars Technica
The concept of the iPhone being a netbook offering from apple was first suggested half-jokingly on an Apple financial teleconference last fall. For Erica to suggest she has come up with some new analysis of the market by suggesting exactly what someone else has already said is either humorous or sad, I’m not sure which.
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Republicans Scared?
Can the Republican State Senators provide three examples of “election day vote fraud” in the past two elections? Why are they trying to fix something that isn’t broken? Why are they using the inauguration news cycle to hide their actions? (Similar to the current Israeli incursion.)
Just when it appeared that the Texas Legislature was putting partisan politics behind it with a consensus speaker in the House to replace the autocratic Tom Craddick, GOP state senators spoiled the session kickoff last week with a bare-knuckled power play.
Determined to clear the way for a controversial measure to require voters to present photo ID at polling places, Republican senators led by Tommy Williams of The Woodlands and Dan Patrick of Houston pushed through a rules change to suspend the normal two-thirds margin needed to bring legislation to the Senate floor.
Republicans Scared? – continue reading …
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Souvenir 1997: Socks
Everyone needs a souvenir at an inauguration. Which one will you choose?
Something just struck me as humorous as I walked by this mostly full board of inauguration souvenir buttons in 1997.
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Inauguration Memories: 1997
Capitol with Flags
I lived in DC from 1995 to 1997. I lived in Arlington, VA, part of the original district, about 3 miles from the National Mall. I worked in the part of the current district, on Wisconsin Ave. in north Georgetown.
I went to Bill Clinton’s second Inauguration in 1997. Not to say I was at the actual swearing in.
Pennsylvania Avenue
I was on the Mall, fending off the cold, waiting for the procession down Pennsylvania Avenue. At one point I ducked into the National Gallery of Art to keep warm. I recall there being very few people in there for how packed the streets were. It was a good opportunity to check things out.
There was lots of things going on on the streets. I walked up and down to check things out.
Eye in the Sky
The Canadian Embassy is on Pennsylvania, and was fairly new and had all kinds of Canadian flags flying.
There were your typical group of people with giant pictures of aborted fetuses. What’s politics without those people?
They weld the man hole covers shut. There are extra security guys everywhere. But it’s a fun spectacle to get to witness.
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Inaugural Memories: 1977
Thirty-two years ago: On inauguration day in 1977 I was sick and stayed home from school. Recall, if you will (if you’re that old), that this was a time before cable television. There were three major networks, one public network, and a few independents in the Houston area. An unelected president (Gerald Ford) was running in his first election against Jimmy Carter. Carter won with 50.1% of the popular vote.
I spent the whole day on the couch, under a blanket with a slight fever, drinking lots of liquids and exhausting a box of klenex. And I watched coverage all day of the inaugural. Jimmy Carter being sworn in. His speech (which i don’t really recall). The parade that occurs from the Capitol to the White House. I remember that Carter walked the entire way – a rare occurrence.
From the Bicentennial on July 4, 1976, through the election and inauguration of a new president, I remember that being a very Red, White, and Blue year.
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