I mean, I really wanted it, but I guess I didn’t look at the price too carefully.

What a lame response by the Republicans. Jindal spoke like a local car dealer doing his own commercial, and the stale Republican “taxes and terror” talking points just sounded so tired. I keep hearing that Jindal is a Republican Obama, a real up-and-comer for the conservatives, but he did not look good following Obama. He [...]

This is a president who knows how to leverage political capital without saying, “I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it. It is my style.” He laid out what he wants, he made the case, and he dared the Republicans to be obstructionist. Agree or disagree with him, [...]

Got a new netbook, the Asus N10J, a killer netbook. Giving the HP Mini 1000 to Mona, who has had ideas about a laptop. But the N10 blows it away: 320GB HD, nVidia video card with 256mb VRAM, fingerprint scanner, it’s cool. THe right shift key isn’t great, but otherwise the keyboard feels better, too. [...]

One, they’re going to start making money off the user data soon. I don’t feel a need to help. Two, I just took a quiz that someone else had pinged me about (fine, whatever, I was bored), and when it asked me if I wanted to send notices to anyone else, I said “Skip this”. [...]