Anyone can be President!

The ladies at SNL do it again!

Watch at Hulu

C: I'm sorry. I need to say something. I did not want a woman to be President... I wanted to be President, and I just happened to be a woman. And I don’t want to hear you compare your road to the White House to my road to the White House. I scratched and clawed through mud and barbed wire and you just glided in on a dogsled wearing your pageant sash and your Tina Fey glasses.

P: What an amazing time we live in! (C: hmmm) To think that just two years ago I was a small town mayor of Alaska’s crystal meth capital. And now I am just one heartbeat away from being the President of the United States. It just goes to show that anyone can be President.

C: Anyone. anyone...anyone! *resigned laugh*

P: All you have to do is want it.

C: Ha ha yeah, yeah.. ha ha, yeah! You know Sarah, looking back, if I could change one thing, I probably should have wanted it more!

Random crap for sale! Everything must go!!

Check out this page if you are looking to buy furniture or misc. 90's nostalgia items. Prices are cheap and negotiable. Everything must go!!!!!!!11!1111!!

Wayzgoose

There were vintage cars and ponies at Wayzgoose!

Page counter for pdflatex

If you are working on a large LaTeX document (like a Ph.D. thesis) and would like to see the progress you've made over time, try this Ruby script. It works by parsing the pdflatex log file for the page count and plotting the results using gnuplot. I'm a Ruby noobie so let me know how I can shorten or improve the script in the comments.  

My coordinates

The Political Compass says I'm at (-6.25, -7.28).


Update: I got most of these questions wrong .

My bike

The tires and tubes all blew out on my bike a couple of weeks ago. The bike is about 15 years old and I thought, finally, it was time to get another bike.

My poor ol' busted bike!

My friend offered me her bike, but the U-lock on it was so rusted that no amount of keying, WD-40 spraying, or hammering was able to open it. Rather than giving up and buying a new bike (or even a set of new tires), I decided to swipe her bike wheels.

Donor bike

I started by swapping the front wheels of the two bikes. That turned out to be a pretty simple deal. The rear wheel was much harder: I had almost got my rear wheel off when I realized that I needed two 5/8 in wrenches to remove the nuts, which I didn't have! I had got far enough that I could get the tires off the wheels, and so I just installed her tire on my wheel.

I have new wheels!

I got my jeans all dirty and still have dirt under my fingernails. I am now a grease monkey!

Hmmm..now what??

I like Al Gore and all...

...but this is kinda weird... and unsettlingly predictable. At least they gave half the prize to the IPCC. I'm guessing he may want to invest his prize money in campaigning for something else next, wink wink.

The poor monks! And this guy is never going to see any Swedish cash.