Fuck the economic stimulus plan. Why not do a political stimulus plan? Here’s the deal:
You offer $300-$600 to anyone and everyone who has some interaction with the political process. If I am correct this will both cure the apathy that is fueling our current state of politics, and help the economy. Sure giving money to the average joe to spend at the mall is one way of boosting the economy, but that is only one of our countries problems.
To begin to address the rest of the problems we need some form of participation by **__AVERAGE__** every day citizens. It will completely shatter the trends of dynasty politics and could possibly break down the barrier between politicians and citizens.
I really don’t like painting, mainly because of lack of experience. This was the first time I’ve used paint since I was finger painting in kindergarten. Anyway the project is supposed to be a monochromatic abstract stylized animal. I chose to do square owls and and a monkey in the corner. We had to do two color studies and I just finished them. One is with color and the other is black/white.
I really didn’t finish up the black and white one because I got tired of working on it, but the colored one looks pretty cool.
I think its safe to say that I’ve gotten my dose of open source today. I fixed my first ever firefox extension bug today, needless to say I feel fulfilled. Even though I’m sure there’s many more fixes to come; but I’ve been hovering around developers for years and I’ve never actually tried to dive in and fix something. So I think this is somewhat of a milestone.
In any case; all you firefox users should go check out the extension. It is called Taboo and it can be found here. Here is the official description:
The cure for tabitis
If you keep tons of tabs open because you want to continue reading them later, Taboo is for you. Taboo lets you save a page for later (taking a screenshot, and using the Session Saver code to remember scroll location and form fields).
Beyond that I used git to commit my changes, which took a while to figure out, and got much help from Jesse. Also got to actually USE github after seeing people link there like crazy in the last month, and wanting to actually learn how to use it, I took the plunge and figured out how things work.
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Also another cool song for ya’ll: Lipstick Fade by Kevin Cadogan
Sitting on the bus on the way home at the moment, and it seems that all the cool kids have their ipods and their ear buds. So I feel that I must either conform or say fuck it and one up them. I chose the latter.
Macbook + itunes + textmate = giant mp3 player with blogging capabilities included. Can’t really beat that, can ya? Only problem is battery life but 3 hours is more than I need.
/win
Also I’ve been posting music with recent posts, so I figured I’d continue doing so.
Song of the day: Low Tide by Isis and Areogramme off of their collab album In The Fishtank 14
Time for another post regarding the Outstanding Club personal statement contest. We’re supposed to pick our two favorite entries, and there were only three. Out of the other two mission statements I’m going to choose Rob Jensen’s, because his was actually about HIS life and that’s really how I understood the contest. While the other entry was about why the person wrote for a blog. So I’m going to vote for Rob’s mission statement, and my own.
