Everytime I see pictures of Sarah Palin, there is a nagging “something” in the back of my head–like I’ve seen her somewhere before this week. JediChric pointed me in the direction of the above picture and I finally realized why she always seems so familiar!
Looks to me like a vote for Obama/Biden is a vote for the Cylons!
Here’s a link to the original on Flickr, but if the comments get too nasty, I’m taking the link down.
Someone posted this on my favorite gun forum and I just had to share with everyone else:
Sarah Palin does not have 5 kids, she actually has 7. Their names are Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper, Trig, Chuck Norris, and Jack Bauer.
The Northern Lights are really just the reflection from Sarah Palin’s eyes.
The Russians sold Alaska to America because Sarah Palin would not submit to autocracy.
The Arctic Circle runs through Alaska so the Sun can have some relief from Sarah Palin’s bright glare.
Sarah Palin is allowed first dibs on Alaskan wolfpack kills.
Sarah Palin is so pro-life that she personally hog-tied two reps from Planned Parenthood who came knocking at her door.
It’s not raining in DC. Those are God’s tears of joy that McCain picked Sarah Palin.
Sarah Palin’s hotness is the largest single contributor to melting polar ice caps.
Sarah Palin is the “other” whom Yoda spoke about.
Sarah Palin’s presence in the lower 48 means the Arctic ice cap can finally return.
Sarah Palin fired Jack Bauer because he was too soft in dealing with terrorists.
Sarah Palin’s pageant career ended early so other women could have a chance.
Sarah Palin’s son Track is going to Iraq after the Surge, because a Palin during the Surge would have been unfair.
Sarah Palin wears glasses lest her uncontrollable optic blasts slaughter everyone.
Sarah Palin actually has Big Foot in her freezer.
Sarah Palin gave a speech in Texas after her water broke before flying home to Alaska to give birth. (Actually true)
Sarah Palin doesn’t need a gun to hunt. She has been known to throw a bullet through an adult bull elk.
Sarah Palin once spilled coffee on Joe Biden & one of his $400 ties from Pink.
Sarah Palin keeps her hair in a beehive to hide her ninja weaponry.
Sarah Palin will personally open a homemade can of whoopa** on Ahmadinejad, Putin, and Chavez as soon as she’s done making mooseburgers for her kids.
A grizzly bear once tried to stare down Sarah Palin. Once.
Sarah Palin will send Joe Biden a pre-debate cheat sheet. The sheet will have tips on defending against Kung Fu Death Grip.
Sarah Palin became governor because five children left her with too much spare energy.
Sarah Palin will give birth to the man who will lead humanity’s war against the machines.
Three of Sarah Palin’s 5 kids came out sideways and she never flinched.
Global Warming doesn’t kill polar bears. Sarah Palin does. Generally with her bare hands.
Sarah Palin was the original “Deadliest Catch.”
Sarah Palin paid her way through school by hunting for Kodiak pelts with a slingshot.
Alaska is the 49th state solely because they knew even in 1959 that Sarah Palin never finishes last.
Chuck Norris wishes he was Sarah Palin trapped in a man’s body.
Sarah Palin got Tom Brady pregnant, and then left him.
Sarah Palin killed and ate the Grizzly Man.
Sarah Palin killed and ate Frank Murkowski.
Sarah Palin once won the Iditarod without any dogs. She simply willed the sled to victory.
Sarah Palin wears half the makeup that John Edwards wears and still looks like twice the woman he does.
Sarah Palin once guided Santa’s sleigh through an Alaskan blizzard with the light from her smile.
Sarah Palin fishes salmon by convincing them it’s in their interest to jump into the boat.
Oooo, time for a new blog category: Politics! Even though I know everyone won’t agree with me when it comes to my political leanings (although, as my friend Ron would say, they should), this is too important of an election in our nation’s history to avoid the subject completely.
So, where’s the conflict? Well, boiling things down to the simplest ideals and snippets, I agree with a lot of what Ron Paul has to say. Unfortunately, he never had much chance of being elected and isn’t even running anymore, but I felt I needed to find out more, so I ordered his book “The Revolution: A Manifesto.”
Within a few minutes, however, I also ordered some bumper/window stickers and a yard sign for McCain/Palin. I have never before ordered yard signs or stickers for a political campaign. I wasn’t terribly excited about McCain (honestly, I was planning on voting against Obama, but more on that later) until he made a brilliant decision in choosing Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential running-mate. Not only did that show awesome tactical skill and a little risk-taking, she is actually someone I feel I can get behind in the upcoming election. Now, I know we’re voting on the President first and foremost, but I definitely feel better voting for a combined ticket where I agree with the VP more than not (which would not have been the case had McCain chosen Lieberman).
So, what does that make me? A Conservative Republican with Libertarian leanings? A sell-out? Just another guy who wants the Federal government to butt out of places it was never intended to be, but someone who is practical enough to know it’s probably never going to happen? I guess I’ll know more after reading a bit of the book…
Please stop sending $0.00 receipts to me via email for free updates to iPhone apps that I have previously installed. Thank you.
I know I haven’t written much. It’s been crazy. We have the house on the market. Supposedly, there has been one showing, but they didn’t leave a card and we haven’t heard from our agent on whether they actually opened the lockbox or not. He says there is a ton of interest on our house, though. I guess that’s good.
I’ve also been devoting a lot of time to shooting and, when I can’t be at the range, collecting supplies and accessories for shooting and surfing shooting forums. I got an awesome range bag, 3 more magazines for my XD (total of 6 now–whoo hoo), and I detail stripped my Makarov and replaced the trigger, trigger bar, firing pin, and recoil spring. I’m hoping some new, tighter fitting parts will help it be more accurate. It’s “Ok” but all the Makarov fans on the interwebs claim these are some of the most accurate little pistols around. I don’t expect bullseyes at 25yds, but I’d like it to group like my XD at 7-12yds (3 inches with no bench resting).
Lastly, work has been tough lately. Yesterday, I finally released Safe Eyes 5.2. A few months ago, AIM updated their software to use an encrypted connection. At that point, all of our code for logging AIM chats quit working because the data is encrypted by the time we see it. Working with some of the great people at AIM and some very different (to me) technologies and architectures, we were able to get AIM chat logging working again, but it was a long road. I was working in an area I was not at all familiar with. I can honestly say that this was the toughest project that I’ve worked on in my time at InternetSafety. It is rewarding to finally release it, though.
That’s it for now. I know I say this a lot, but I’ll try to be more regular about posting. Of course, baby is coming in a little over a month, so it’s going to get crazy again. 
It’s official, our house is up for sale. Well, it’ll really go into MLS (2 different listing services) this week, but everything is signed and there is a lockbox on the front door and a sign in the yard. We’ve put a lot of work into it the past couple months and our realtor was pretty confident that our house will show nicely and sell, so we’ll just have to see!
So, if you know anyone looking to move to a 3 bedroom, 2 bath with a nice, finished room in the basement and 1.3 acres (woods) in Paulding County, GA, let me know.
I like corn. A lot. I like the taste of corn on the cob (especially cooked on the grill), but being the neat-freak, obsessive-compulsive that I am, I hate the bits between my teeth that eating it inevitably causes. Hence, I love this gadget that my wife brought home from her weekend trip to see her family in SC. Her sister works for Williams-Sonoma which carries all sorts of kitchen doodads from the cheap to the crazy expensive. ($8000 for a coffee maker?!)
She brought me home the Corn Stripper by Good Grips. It does exactly what it’s advertised to do. Quickly and easily strips corn off the cob. I love this thing. Now, I can eat grilled corn on the cob without immediately running to the bathrom to floss! I’d gladly pay twice what Amazon wants for it.
This will be my last WWDC post as we’re leaving tomorrow morning to fly back across the country. It’s been a great week. The place we stayed was totally awesome, the events and sessions were (for the most part) great, and we ate too much good food.
Today, we had sessions as usual. I learned a few really great things that I want to go back and implement right away. Then, at the very end of the day, we sat around the Interface Design Lab and managed to catch a few minutes with one of Apple’s design experts. Can I just say the next version of Safe Eyes is really gonna ROCK! That may have been the best and most worthwhile 30 minutes of the entire week. The best part was that while he was giving us some general ideas and guidance, I really put into exact words what turned out to be a really well-received concept. Time to throw a few ideas on paper and maybe mock up a prototype using my new-found skillz with Interface Builder. Sorry I can’t be more specific, but we have to have some surprises! 
Tonight was the WWDC Bash at Yerba Buena Gardens. Apple brought in Barenaked Ladies to play and I actually kinda like them. We stood around for a little while and had some of the finger foods and cookies they had, but it was like 20 degrees out and windy, so eventually we had to leave to go defrost. Apparently, this is the weather in San Francisco–85 during the day, 45 at night.
I’m looking forward to getting home. Hopefully, we’ll be able to come back out here for WWDC ‘09. We’ll see…
I’m ready to go home. Not to say I’m not learning a lot and enjoying all the Apple goodness, but I miss the girls (and jellybean) and am tired of the shower in my room. Don’t get me wrong, the residence suite we’re in at the Ritz-Carlton Club is awesome (thanks, Forrest). It’s more square footage than my house! But…I got the handicap bathroom. The shower-head hangs about kidney-height. And the pressure stinks. It’s one of those hand-held jobs, so I don’t have to kneel on the marble to wash my hair, but it’s just a little annoying.
The sessions have been very good overall. There have been a few duds (mostly due to people who should probably not be presenting), but I’ve learned a lot so far. I just hope my poor brain can absorb it all. I’ve learned a lot about Internationalization/Localization, the voodoo magic of Interface Builder, and a bunch of Xcode tips, tricks and shortcuts to make using that IDE a little more natural and me more productive. We’ve fixed a few small things we were struggling with before while we’ve been here and we’ve talked to the Apple engineers about some other stuff. It was very cool to just sit and talk with some of these guys that do “Apple” all day, every day.
Last night, we went to the Apple Design Awards presentation. They showcased several really slick-looking Mac apps and handed out the coveted trophies (and apparently 30″ Cinema displays, MacBook Pros, and WWDC tickets for next year) to the winners. Then, it was “Stump the Experts” where Apple Engineers who have been here longer than dirt (seriously, they had the the project engineer for Hypercard 1.0 and at least one guy that worked on some part of the IIgs project there) took the stage, answered obscure questions from the audience, and asked the audience obscure questions. I randomly ended up with a “Stump” T-shirt which is pretty cool because apparently, they’re pretty coveted. The MC for the night just walked around, pointed to us, and said, “go get a shirt!”
Today is the last day and there are still plenty of good sessions (this afternoon looks pretty packed). Then, tonight, there’s a WWDC “Bash” at Yerba Buena Gardens, so hopefully that’ll be cool. There are sessions tomorrow, but we’re flying out in the morning since it takes nearly all day to get back across the country.
Well, this will cover some of Day 1, too. I was way too tired to post at the end of the day because after all the WWDC excitement was over for the day, I got to put in a few hours building a new release of Safe Eyes to fix a couple bugs. I worked with a couple guys in the Mac lab Monday afternoon to get our broken build process (Xcode 3.1 had broken it) back up and running and there were a few things in Safe Eyes 3.1 that needed fixed, so I worked into the wee hours getting a build ready and passing it along to our QA guy so he could do his part. It was a bit of a challenge since I’m here with my MacBook (not my primary build machine) and had to get everything set up just right for building.
Then, yesterday, the day was jam-packed with sessions. There were some good ones (all of which are covered under NDA) and I learned an exciting new thing about the debugger in Xcode that alone might have made the whole day worthwhile.
We finished it off with a quick dinner at California Pizza Kitchen (awesome) and a meet ‘n’ greet with a few fellow programmers. We just sat around for a couple hours and chatted about our respective companies, positions, and history. It was good to get to know them. One of them was one of the guys invited down by Apple to have a first crack at the iPhone SDK. He and a co-worker churned out a pretty good sample/proof-of-concept app in 2 weeks with no Interface Builder, no previous coding experience with Objective-C and on a very beta/alpha SDK. Respect that!
Well, it’s off to more sessions. I’m drinking way too much coffee this week, but I’m also doing pretty good on drinking my water, so hopefully I can balance it out.
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