Chris

I am useless for work.

Poll closing times.

Google's election results map.

*bites nails*

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#1: Unofficial Ballot Returns – November 4, 2008 General Election – Oregon

I will be dropping off my ballot tomorrow, most likely, at which point I will become a statistic. *pleased*

#2: Copied from a comment I made here: "Some day, when I have time and infinite money, I want to devise something like Oh No Robot (comic strip transcription thing) for online videos and podcasts.  Maybe a wiki or something, so that anyone can contribute easily."

For example, Amanda at Pandagon posted a video in this post. So you you grab the URL from the YouTube video and plug it in at The Site(r). It grabs the video ID from the URL and redirects you to a page that has the current transcript for that video. If there's no transcript, you can create one, &c &c.

(For Vimeo videos, you can right-click on the title to copy the link. Hulu I don't know, I can't get videos to load for that one. Google Video, you can go to the GV page directly, then copy the URL.)

Hrm.

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A friend elsewhere engaged in a sort of project or pledge or what-have-you – to post daily something that you're grateful for.  I keep contemplating it, because my default setting is "too stuck in my head".  I think it'd be good for me, as it were, to remind myself of the world around me.

Today, I am grateful that I get to vote.  My ballot came in the mail today, which pleases me.  I wish there existed a factcheck.org for non-national politics (non-national because factcheck.org covers the Presidential part), but that's why wiki sites exist, I suppose – so I can create wikis.

*resists*

I won't say who I voted for in the primaries, but I will say I voted Democrat for both the Congressional and the Senatorial elections.  (FF's spellcheck says that latter is a word…?  Okay.) That's Jeff Merkley for US Senator, and Earl Blumenauer for Congress.

Tomorrow I'll be researching what all of the other positions are, whether there's a reason not to vote for the only person listed in a section (such as Martha L Walters, Judge of the Supreme Court, Position 7), and the various and sundry measures.  I'll also be buying a stamp off one of my roommates.  I may even figure out what the terms are for the House of Reps (these are congressfolk, yes? Stupid Civics class never tells me anything).  That's the danger of contextual definitions – I can't always tell if I'm using the right word.

I will not, not, be making a wiki or site or something to compare local candidates.  Dammit.

Originally posted at Xtinian Thoughts.  Comment here or there.