Wednesday, November 3, 2004
Some of the pre-written newspaper coverage of the election reads like a Mad Lib.
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“<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 repeated mis-calls on the night of [...]
Tuesday, November 2, 2004
There was no line when I went to vote today. In fact the poll worker for my precinct was dozing off…
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. [...]