I listened to your interview on the John DePetro Show and wanted to make sure that you heard support for Jessica from your state and from her city.

I’ve seen a lot of backlash about your “evil little thing” comment and so I wanted to make sure I listened to the interview. Fortunately I found that you did take that comment back immediately afterward. What I find most unfortunate about your remarks, though, is that you believe she is being influenced when the strength of her will and her argument comes from the fact that she’s thinking about these things for herself.

I don’t believe anybody, Jessica included, disputes the positive nature of the banner and we would all support a message that supports growth, kindness, honesty, sportsmanship, and friendship. From what I understand Jessica initially suggested that the positive secular message be left alone but her compromise was refused.

I would urge you to remember that the United States is not a Christian nation, nor is it a theistic nation. Institutions such as schools must remain neutral to all sides in order to preserve the balance we’ve tried for so long to keep.

Thank you for your time and your service to the state of Rhode Island and to the United States of America,

Me

“Don’t tell me you can make a bomb out of chewing gum!”
“Why, you got some?”

“We’ve been asked to pause for a reality check,” Obama said. “We’ve been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.”

Plus, I can introduce it people by saying “This is my SKELETOOOOL!” in my Skeletor voice.

Anybody who’s seen Radiohead, either live or in a video, is probably familiar with the particular way that Thom Yorke shakes his head. Rather than shaking or bobbing, it seems to rotate around a point, in the same plane as his body. Generally this also leads to his shoulders rocking back and forth to meet his head.

When listening to their newest album, I’ve been finding myself doing this exact same motion. I think Thom has found something akin to a resonance frequency in his music which has transmitted his waves to me. I wonder if this has anything to do with why the album kicks so much ass.

First off, I agree with a few of the complaints he has about Safari. I’ve found that it crashes too much. I’ve hit the close button on a window with numerous tabs and it closes without comment. It doesn’t offer a way to reopen the last page that you’ve closed (it has the history, but if the page was open a while ago it can be difficult to find). The problem with this is that they’ve fixed all of these problems in the new version of Safari. It could even be argued that the problems with Safari crashing are being fixed by the release of Safari on Windows (more users means more feedback means better product).

Plus, Apple has added some other really nice new features. One being a elegant way of moving tabs. Another being their beautiful inline page search. Private browsing isn’t new in Safari 3, but it’s always a good excuse for using Safari.

Finally, he says that the Windows browser space is too crowded for another major browser. It’s funny how that sounds like the sort of thing that Internet Explorer users would have said before Firefox became prominent. The group of Firefox users (of which he seems to belong) would say that more competition keeps the browsers involved both innovative and secure. I think that still applies.