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Monthly Archives: November 2004

Dewey Defeats Kerry

Some of the pre-written newspaper coverage of the election reads like a Mad Lib. <?php print (   “<h1>$Winner Defeats $Loser</h1>   <p>A victory for $Winner was all but certain, even as some polls on the west coast remained open to accomodate higher than expected voter turnout. The networks’ news divisions, still reeling from their [...]

Election

There was no line when I went to vote today. In fact the poll worker for my precinct was dozing off…

Here, Now

I’m going to give NaNoWriMo a go this year — National Novel Writing Month or 50,000 words in thirty days. I tried once before, in 2001, ended up with a tangle of 30,000 uneditable words and the title Beans for Breakfast. (I apparently wasn’t honest enough to admit the failure on the weblog. There’s no [...]