This has felt like an awfully long week. There hasn’t been any single thing making the week drag, but rather a number of different things. About the only good note is that I finally got my sleep schedule back to normal, just in time to screw it up with the weekend. Then again, there’s snow forecast for today and tomorrow, so maybe I’ll be staying home more instead of going out and staying up late.
I forgot to mention the other happening on Wednesday. Went out for dinner at Sawatdee with a group of folks. A good time was had, and I realized that I haven’t had spicy asian food for a while.
Yesterday didn’t really have much of note at all. I managed to get to Target to pick up some new cookware (I decided I need a sheet-pan and a few smaller things), and shovelled snow off the sidewalk again, and dealt with some clients, but for the most part, it felt like a lost day.
- In Dinkytown, Art marks local landmark’s rebirth as the Varsity reopened.
The weekend’s opening was not heavily advertised and was intentionally low-key.
It sure was. Today was the first I heard of it. [daily] - Minneapolis mayor R.T. Rybak mails out 172,000 newsletters. When I got mine in the mail, I didn’t even look that closely at it. I just assumed it was printed with city funds, and that it was part of his campaign for re-election. Yeah, I’m pretty cynical. [strib]
- Here’s a look at A Political Cyber-Coalition between libertarians and conservatives. It’s often an uneasy coalition. [vodkapundit]
- There’s been a bunch of talk about how Michael Moores’ Armed Bodyguard Arrested... in New York. One of the things I haven’t seen mentioned in connection with this is that New York is not only treating this as a gun-control issue, but (at least to me) seems to be making a states-rights argument that their law applies, in spite of federal law to the contrary. It’ll be interesting to see how it all works out, but that probably won’t get much coverage. Over at Moorewatch there’s an update and a clarification. [endwar and instapundit]
- It’s finally been reported why the exit polls in last November’s preidential election were so out of whack with reality: Exit Poll Cats describes the report (PDF) done by the pollsters who got things wrong. The problems? Inexperienced left-leaning types working the exit polls seemed to get the numbers the wrongest. [instapundit]
- And in a follow-up, there’s more on Cory’s situation that I mentioned yesterday over at Schneier’s blog. I’m starting to agree with Ann Coulter that the way to make the airlines “safe” is to abolish the Dept. of Transportation and FAA. Open up the skies, and airlines that have shoddy security will find themselves with fewer customers flying at cheaper prices. People who want to feel completely safe in the skies will be able to pay more to fly on El Al or similar high-security airline.