Vends Voiture

Originally uploaded by tehf0x

…it could sell…

I don’t get it.  If people were campaigning to abbolish interracial marriages, they would be labeled as racist bigots.  If they campaign to abbolish same-sex marriage it’s excused as defending our societal morals?!

“Intermarriage between whites and blacks is repulsive and averse to every sentiment of pure American spirit. It is abhorrent and repugnant to the very principles of Saxon government. It is subversive of social peace.”

Congressional Record, 62d. Congr., 3d. Sess., December 11, 1912, pp. 502-503.

This sounds like so many of the arguments I’ve heard against gay marriage that I can’t even cite them anymore.  Does the analogy simply never cross these people’s minds?  If we were talking about banning interracial marriage I’m sure there would be a shitload less support, but blatant segregation based on sexual orientation? That’s OK.

Maybe they’re just that dull.

As an aside the ‘pedia has a good section on the parallels with interracial marriage, and the section right afterward has some shameful situations where even a legal (Massachusetts) marriage wasn’t equivalent to a ‘hetero’ marriage (thanks DOMA).

And finally, this piece draws out more literal comparisons between the arguments in each case (a very ‘history reapeats itself’ analysis).

I don’t think I even need to say anything.

Check palin. This is even better than South Carolina Girl.

Not a one time thing, either:

Yahoo Open Hack Day ‘08 took place this weekend, and although employees & interns aren’t supposed to produce a hack, I did it anyways (take that!).  It’s nothing big, I wrote a greasemonkey script that will add a list of your contacts on a flickr photo page.  When you click on the person’s name, a machine tag of their flickr username will be added to the photo.  I call it facetaggr

You need greasemonkey, and this script file.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.  I’m thinking of adding a script so you can see all pictures of a certain user by clicking on a link on your contacts page.

Side burn action.

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This only happens once in a blue moon. Yes it was a joke. No they didn’t stay much longer than 24 hours. Yes you will hopefully see this again someday. No I don’t think it looks good. Yes I did go out drinking. No I did not get beat up. Yes it looked better live.

Fact checking, proper citations, context-sensitive quoting, man I wish people took Journalism 101 (I know I haven’t :-D).  This is especially true with these ‘political campaigns’, I think both for Reps and Dems, but it would seem especially true for those GOP sock monsters.  I fell across this site with a seemingly good article on the GOP Convention’s ‘facts’ here.
Worth a gander.

I could just not pass up on this.  I’m watching the GOP Convention Live, and Palin just finished her speech (it’s all live here.  All this talk about taxes!  Man, *I* wish I didn’t pay taxes, and that the government just had a big money volcano full of bling.  That would be awesome.  Anyhow, here’s this credible tax breakdown source from the Tax Policy Center (currently down) on the left.  This article at CNN seems to sum it up pretty well.  All I gotta say is: fucking. shitshow.

<strike>Also, as I’m watching righ now, what is the deal with Arizona abstaining?</strike> I guess they were nominating VP, I admittedly wasn’t watching very intensely at this point.

So, in case anyone actually reads/stumbles upon/is misled to this page, I thought I might as well mention what I’m up to nowadays:  I’m currently on the end of a 3.5 month stint in the *cough* wonderful city of San Francisco (ok, I just hate the weather).  I’m interning at Yahoo! down in Sunnyvale, and I do actually enjoy the commute back and forth ever day: it gives me a time where I have to sit down and sort photos, or read a book, or learn about new things.  So yeah, I work in Operations there writing some backend tools.  I enjoy it quite a bit, and it’s cool to see how the real big boys do their stuff.

I’m heading back to Lyon on September 20th, and I’ll be there for at least another year going to school at INSA.  If you’re in the area definitely ping me and we’ll go drink.

You should probably also check out my FlickR page, because that *actually* shows you what I’m up to here.

Criss Cross

Originally uploaded by tehf0x

So I’m trying to actually post to this a bit more often (please, don’t look at the dates). Anyhow, I got a chance to fly over San Francisco in a small Cesna the other day, and was able to get some pretty cool pictures. I took like 300, but I’m left with only 40 or so after mucho sorting. Enjoy.

(23:11:06) Me: and didn’t get let into a bar because….
(23:11:31) Me: we went the wrong way down a one way street, taxis swerving around us, in a dumptster on wheels, and parked the dumpster in front of the bar
(23:11:36) Me: and the doorman was like
(23:11:40) Me: “You can’t come in”
(23:11:43) Me: and we were like “why”
(23:11:50) Me: and he was like “…because you came here in a dumpster”