1.5 TB HD for $175.  That’s about $0.12 per gigabyte.

It was only a few years ago I was paying more than that for crappy no name CDs!

1.  It is true, Mccain makes emotional plays better.  He really comes off as the “I am your grandpa vibe”.

2. Obama’s speaking abilities are totally overrated.  I just kept hearing him stutter where as McCain stuttered significantly less.

3. Obama keeps bringing up how Iraq is a bad idea.  Seriously, get over it.  I understand its a bad idea, but we are there now, what do we do from here.

4. Why aren’t our overseas wars fought more economically?  Instead of tanks, let’s build schools, and infrastructure.  Suicide bombers which stop your kids from going to school or prevent water going to your house will probably not get much sympathy.  Recently watched Charlie Wilson’s War, and wonder why we aren’t doing more to build infrastructure instead of bringing in tanks. 

5. Given that we are stuck in Iraq, I don’t thinK Mccain’s ideas are so wrong.  Yes, the initial decision was bad, but now that we are there, what are the next steps.

6. Both keep talking about being world leaders and rallying other countries.  All I can think is that Bush already destroyed any good will we had built up, so not sure what they can do what they say they want to.  Of course, Mccain responds to the Isreal question by saying “Obviously I would not wait for UN security council”.  You know what, that probably isn’t the best way to make friends.  It is also a statement I STRONGLY disagree with.  Iraq was the same problem.  If we are going to play in the world politics, we should listen to others too.  I would say, “its okay to go in and help defend, but absolutely no attacking without UN okay.”

7. I don’t like the attacks on Obama’s terrorist friend.  He’s a professor now and had won Citizen of the Year in Chicago.  Seems like he can’t be that bad anymore.

8. The story about Palin’s husband being part of group which wanted Alaska secession scared me a little.  To be fair, Alaska is close to Russia.

9. I was sent this: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/hongop.shtml.  To me, its similar to the Spain and slanty eye thing, only I think he really should’ve apologized.

I don’t understand any of this Bailout stuff.  The more I read, the more I get confused.  Quite frankly, I still don’t really know how it would affect me (no debt guy).

Still, to look at these graphs, its very interesting to see who says no, and what their leanings are.

It looks like the rollerblading has helped my thighs in that they don’t feel the least bit sore.  What is hurting though are the calves.  Since rollerblading specifically removes a lot of the pounding of cement that occurs from running, I think it causes my calves to not be used to the running involved with basketball.

Also, it turns out, the rollerblading does not help keep me in shape enough for basketball as I was tired almost as quickly as when we had first started playing.

In actual basketball news, I was a sadly pathetic 0-4 shooting missing 3 layups and a wide open shot.  Hopefully it comes back as the season progresses.

I have been waiting on this thing for months now. Previous news has said that they expected screens sometime this year, but all the laptop manufaturers have already released for the start of the school season (Main interesting ones being the tx2500 from HP and the t5010 from Fujitsu).

The thing is, you can find the part on the wacom component site. There are two, a SU5R-12S05A, which is for a standard 12.1″ screen (maybe we will see it in the X200 from Lenovo?), and a wide screen version SU5R-12W03A (which most people will be leaning toward as majority of tablets now are in this widescreen form factor).

One interesting thing to note, without a 13.3″ version, expect Fujitsu to update their t4020 line with this and NOT the t5010.

I can’t get over the craziness that is fashion. Here we have jeans which are pre-worn?!? and they are sold at a premium over normal jeans? Somehow, people don’t have the time to actually wear jeans but instead are asking others to wear them first.

Does no one see this as being absolutely crazy?

More importantly, I wonder if there is a business for this. You can outfit the poor with clothing, and then resell it at a premium. Seems like a win-win for everyone.