Enemy of Entropy

WTF? Georgia Senate Threatens to Secede!

16 April 2009, 7:23 pm. 3 Comments. Filed under Civil Rights, News.

Cur­rent Mood:Angry emoticon Angry

Geor­gia Sen­ate threat­ens dis­man­tling of USA
They really did, by a vote of 43 – 1. On April 1, but it wasn’t an April Fool’s joke.

The res­o­lu­tion goes on to endorse the the­ory that states have the right to abridge con­sti­tu­tional free­doms of reli­gion, press and speech. Accord­ing to the res­o­lu­tion, it is up to the states to decide “how far the licen­tious­ness of speech and of the press may be abridged.”
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Finally, the res­o­lu­tion states that if Con­gress, the pres­i­dent or fed­eral courts take any action that exceeds their con­sti­tu­tional pow­ers, the Con­sti­tu­tion is ren­dered null and void and the United States of Amer­ica is offi­cially dis­banded. As an exam­ple, the res­o­lu­tion specif­i­cally states that if the fed­eral gov­ern­ment enacts “pro­hi­bi­tions of type or quan­tity of arms or ammu­ni­tion,” the coun­try is disbanded.

You bet­ter believe that I’m writ­ing to our state sen­a­tor right away. Yes, this non­sense was slipped in on day 39 of the 40 day leg­isla­tive ses­sion, but that is absolutely no excuse. Our rep­re­sen­ta­tives have no busi­ness vot­ing for any­thing they haven’t thor­oughly read, under­stood, and debated. That’s their job!

Yet another rea­son I don’t want to live in Geor­gia any more. I seri­ously think this is a back­lash against our elec­tion of a black Demo­c­rat to the pres­i­dency. I’m look­ing at blue states now.

Mah tahred hurts

24 March 2008, 6:00 pm. 1 Comment. Filed under Family, Health.

Read it pho­net­i­cally. When I’m really tired, I fall back into the Alabama accent.

Made it to my appoint­ment this morn­ing. Made it to Katie’s appoint­ment on the other side of the world. Then the car wouldn’t crank. In fact, it wouldn’t do any­thing at all. Not even the auto­matic door locks were work­ing. No rea­son at all for it — I didn’t leave the lights on or any­thing like that.1
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Laptop Research & Shopping

21 February 2008, 4:01 am. 1 Comment. Filed under Geekery.

Sam and I spent most of our date time look­ing at lap­tops. Yes, we’re finally replac­ing the one that died last sum­mer. Yay!

I find it eas­ier to put what I find online in con­text after hav­ing actu­ally played with a bunch of machines tonight, so I’ll be doing a lot of research online.

Any­body have any strong rec­om­men­da­tions or good/​bad expe­ri­ences to share? Knowl­edge of any places that give “edu­ca­tional dis­counts” that aren’t just “steer your stu­dents to us and we’ll give you a lit­tle lower price on your own machines” deals? Sure expe­ri­ence exor­cis­ing Vista from a “Vista-​​compatible” PC? Please speak up!
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Boo Sickness! Recipe, Word Geeking, Reviews

15 February 2008, 11:32 pm. 4 Comments. Filed under Reading, Writing.

This not-​​flu or what­ever is exceed­ingly tire­some. I should think it would be enough to live with the day to day stuff, let alone put up with this. Then again, nobody has ever claimed in my hear­ing that the world is fair.

MélusineI haven’t suc­ceeded in hold­ing any thoughts in my head long, so you’re in for ran­dom­ness again this entry.

I have no idea why the main arti­cle was linked from ZDNet, but doesn’t this ched­dar and apple sand­wich seem yummy? I won­der how it would be with ham? I used to have a really good recipe for a sausage and apples dish, but I know I haven’t cooked it in the last decade. Maybe I could dig it out of my ancient recipe box? There are few ways to go wrong with cooked apples, as far as I can tell.
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How do you decide where to live?

31 January 2008, 11:39 pm. 10 Comments. Filed under Family, Home.

Over the last two years, Sam and I have talked about mov­ing else­where. Geor­gia has almost no con­sumer pro­tec­tions for cit­i­zens, has a crappy sup­port struc­ture for humans in just about every way you can imag­ine, and has law enforce­ment who don’t care to enforce laws unless you’ve got enough money to get their atten­tion. Essen­tially, we want to live in a blue state, which means leav­ing the Bible belt. Cooler weather would be nice, too. Less humid heat, at least, would be a relief.

We haven’t really made plans, not want­ing to uproot Katie while she was in school and so on. There’s a lot of iner­tia, too, since I’ve been here all my life (except for the few years in Alabama before my par­ents moved us to Atlanta). Sam was born here, and wasn’t thrilled with New York or New Jer­sey when he lived there. Our fam­i­lies are here, which means some­thing, even if we don’t see them that often.
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