Rene Amini has compiled a list of Bloggers for Matt (Gonzalez). The Guardian this week has a number of Gonzalez stories and op-ed pieces urging San Francisco voters to put him in office. The Guardian suggests that if those of us who voted on November 4 urge at least one friend who didn’t vote that [...]
Entries from November 2003
Bloggers for Matt
Tuesday, November 18th, 2003 · Comments Off
Tags: politics
Happy the Reindeer
Tuesday, November 18th, 2003 · Comments Off
Happy is getting an early start to Christmas this year. Photos are from November 6, 2003. Doesn’t he look pleased? 4,879 photos: The number of photos in our Ofoto account from December 30, 2001 through today. (I first started to post this entry a few days ago — on the 14th — but I ran [...]
Tags: dogs
Gonzalez Leads in Poll
Saturday, November 15th, 2003 · Comments Off
The Chronicle reports today that Matt Gonzalez has a 49% to 47% lead over Gavin Newsom in the polls: “San Francisco’s race for mayor is too close to call, but Supervisor Matt Gonzalez has a small lead among those most likely to vote Dec. 9, according to a poll released Friday by CBS 5-TV.” This [...]
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Double Standards
Friday, November 14th, 2003 · Comments Off
Bill Maher: “I’m always rooting for our side, but how come, when we kill them, it’s war, but when they kill us, it’s terrorism? I mean, we’re all shooting at each other over there now, it does seem a little hair-splitting, especially since now it’s soldiers who are mainly under attack. Also, I thought we [...]
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Headlines of the Day
Friday, November 14th, 2003 · Comments Off
Without clicking on (or mousing over) the links, can you guess which is real and which is not? College holding first dance in 143 years: “As many as 1,200 students at Wheaton College will gather in the gym Friday night for the first real dance in the Christian school’s 143-year history. Which explains why students [...]
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Being John Tailgater
Friday, November 14th, 2003 · Comments Off
I’m trying to get through Web Traffic School to remove from my driving record the speeding ticket I got earlier this year, fought, got the fine reduced, but still lost the challenge. In the freeway driving section is this paragraph, which really cracks me up: “If you see anyone driving too slow for present conditions, [...]
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Media Manipulation
Friday, November 14th, 2003 · Comments Off
Alexandra Trustman explains in The Brown Daily Herald that CNN producers put her up to the Mac or PC question in last week’s Rock the Vote debate: “I’m writing in response to the Daily Jolt forums, the student dialogue and The Herald representation of me and my question at CNN’s Rock the Vote. I’m extremely [...]
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Vassar Girls
Thursday, November 13th, 2003 · 1 Comment
Seen today in an SF Vassar Club email: “If all the girls at Vassar were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be surprised.” – Dorothy Parker
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Let the Packing Begin
Wednesday, November 12th, 2003 · Comments Off
Last night marked the official start of our packing up for our cross-country move. It was exciting and helped to make it all seem a bit more real. We started by boxing up all our books, which we plan to ship to my in-laws’ house since we’ve been informed by two separate moving companies that [...]
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Time Travel
Wednesday, November 12th, 2003 · Comments Off
I must be from the future. This is certainly news to me. I just logged onto the Web site of the credit union where I hold one of my accounts and was greeted with the following message: “You last visited us on Monday August 26, 2019″ That’s the text I see, yet when I simply [...]
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