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It's that time of the year again--in which I must use my 'Federal Health Savings Account' blah-di-blah, or lose it. Since I'm averse to dental work...I'll buy....Glasses!

What do you think of these:
http://www.zennioptical.com/cart/product.php?productid=753&cat=11&page=1#largeimage
http://www.zennioptical.com/cart/product.php?productid=1067&cat=17&page=1#largeimage

Feel free to make suggestions from that site or another :-)
In other news, my prescription is now weaker! The joke was made at work that all that gazing into a computer screen must help....

What a great line:
"History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme."

From White Flight:
(commenting on Atlanta's Episcopal private school failing to integrate its schools even after the public schools were forced to)

This is another example of the fact that the Church can be, if it is not careful, the tail-light instead of the headlight in our society; and it would be tragic, indeed, if the Church turns out to be the last bulwark of segregated power.

-- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

This quote and perspective is unusual for most of the book, since it's mostly about the white response politically and organizationally to integration in Atlanta. It piqued my interest specifically, because in some sense it's a war the racists lost. I was hoping to identify some blind-spots in the culchuh, and understand some of the sociology.

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If she is designing video games I'm thinking she might have had enough energy to stick out another Bush term. Was this really a good use of her time and power over stopping Bush from picking Alito?

It looks like Hilary Clinton finally stopped taking the crazy pills..

Results like this make me wonder if the 'right' to a trial by jury should be waivable in criminal cases.

I'm not sure whether this falls into the strictly-geek-humor file, or whether it's the beginnings of another popular appropriation of programmer tools. I'm thinking the former....

ComplaintZilla

Well, I'm on time, by my timezone :-(
peace, love, ...drool?

We were in ToysasauRUs today. It reminded me of the wonderful parts of childhood. So many awesome toys. On the other hand, the Transformers have gotten worse since the movie, I presume--only three models and now they're selling non-transforming figures which makes no sense. Back in the day, there were dinosaurs, and all sorts a stuff. Still no girl transformers. What's up with that?

There was also this cool strategy game with lasers (direct the beam through placed mirrors to hit the other player's 'king'). Need to look that up.

Year's taxes done. w00t!

This makes me furious. Anti-McCain groups lag in fundraising --it stems from the reason why many of us figured abandoning the Democratic party in 2000 wouldn't be missing us anything.

I was waiting until we had a candidate before contributing, but this was obviously mistaken.
Anyone else have spare change to save the world from another US hawk? Fight McCain.