04.27.07

Update Time

Posted in Personal, News at 10:58 am by Joe Blubaugh

Minor Developments in my life:

  • I acquired a $20 bicycle yesterday from another student. It is a cruiser, it is old, and it needs work. Hooray for summer projects.
  • I’m getting ready to start development on a GUI redo of the Dromanova downloader for emusic. Dromanova is, as far as I know, the current best solution for emusic customers who use Linux. I’m going to start by building one in Qt so that it runs nicely on my KDE desktop. If it all works well, I’ll write a GTK version as well, and maybe even a native win32 one. Hooray for summer projects.
  • I’m starting at GE May 14. I will be working in the MRI digital hardware group testing, documenting, and fixing FPGA logic for an RF reference signal board. Hooray for summer projects.
  • I’m getting a new car. The spaceship (Dodge GC) is going to my brother, whose 16th birthday is impending.

Because it’s Friday, here are ten random songs I’m listening to:

  1. Fixing a Hole - The Beatles
  2. The Sporting Life - The Decemberists
  3. You’re the Reason I’m Leaving - Franz Ferdinand
  4. Jams Run Free - Sonic Youth
  5. Her First Mistake - Lyle Lovett
  6. Books Written for Girls - Camera Obscura
  7. Kelly - M83
  8. The Great Escape - We Are Scientists
  9. Life in a Glass House - Radiohead
  10. A Man Walks Into a Bar - Jens Lekman

The presidential race is actually beginning, with the first Democratic nomination debate last night. It’s a pretty bland field on both sides so far. All the Democrats support withdrawing from Iraq, all the Republicans support the President’s current “mo’ troops, mo’ problems” policy. Kucinich is at least an entertaining watch, and I love that he wants Cheney impeached. Komodo Dragons Out!

On the other side of the aisle, I can’t decide whether I’d like McCain or Giuliani less. McCain has sold himself out these last six years - he hasn’t been a maverick since we’ve had a Republican president. Apparently President Bush’s campaign tactic of slandering McCain put John in line, and now he’s doing propaganda walkthroughs of Baghdad markets. Sad. Giuliani’s a very mixed bag, too mixed for my taste. He’s shown some rudimentary support for gay rights and women’s health, but he’s also a hair-trigger freak-out artist with fascistic tendencies.

I think it’s pretty safe to say that I won’t be voting Republican in 2008, but as noted above, I’m decidely non-plussed with the Democratic field. Isn’t that always the case, though?

UPDATE:

I take it all back. Giuliani is total scum.

2 Comments »

  1. Frank said,

    April 28, 2007 at 12:34 pm

    I was under the impression I were to receive Spaceship 1 because its too [i] difficult[/i] to learn how to drive on. Alex would get my car, and you the new one.

  2. Joe Blubaugh said,

    April 28, 2007 at 12:55 pm

    Well, righteous, then. I will say that the van is a beast to parallel park, which would be pretty bad for a learning driver. Of course, M&D don’t really own any cars that are actually EASY to drive, except maybe the Caliber.

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