I obviously don’t have the new schedule worked out, but it seems like a good time to do another update. It’s Sunday evening, and I’ve finished watching a bunch of things that my TiVo caught for me over the weekend. If I start anything else now, I’ll end up getting to bed late, so it’s time to shut off the tube for the night, and typing this up will get me about to the point where I’m ready to sleep.
I guess it was a pretty good weekend. Friday, I wrapped up the last item on the to-do list my manager had given me for the week, and cut out a little early. Saturday morning, I ran a bunch of errands, swung by the gun show in Stillwater, and drove state highway 95 most of the way up to mom’s. That’s a road which parallels the St. Croix River most up to Taylors Falls before heading inland, and even though it was snowing lightly, the views over the river were pretty cool. I visited with mom for a while, and headed home. Got everything cleaned up for the semi-regular poker game, but we never did get a quorum, so those of us who did show up just hung out and talked and had some beers.
Sunday? A slow day. Aside from installing a bunch of software and losing the pictures I’d taken on Saturday, I didn’t do much at all. Apparently I need to spend some more time to figure out everything about working with Camera Raw. The pictures I lost were probably culls anyhow, but I guess I’ve got a few things left to figure out about the camera. As for the rest of the day, there were a few things I should have done that I just didn’t, but I felt like I needed a day off, so I took it easy. I’ll worry about the list during the week. And that about does it for the weekend.
- A Ruling limits police searches of cars. Last Thursday’s decision says that if you’re pulled over, and a cop smells alcohol on the breath of someone in the car, that’s not cause for a search of the vehicle. So basically, it’s safe to try and be a designated driver again. [press-patch]
- I’m not the only one pissed about sudafed bans. John Varley’s got a good rant about the whole war on drugs. [jwz]
- Dean Barkley is in Search for a sequel in Texas, where he’s working on Kinky Friedman’s 2006 campaign for governor. Interesting politics down there this year, perhaps. [press-patch]
- This Thursday, there will finally be a hearing in the Gilmore v. Gonzales case.
At stake is nothing less than the right for all Americans to travel freely in their own country without ‘papers’.
[boing boing] - Vin asks If a black man is armed, is he a criminal? in the wake of several shootings of off-duty black police officers by fellow officers.
…the problem is not that Providence cops had trouble recognizing an off-duty fellow officer. The problem is that their first instinct when they saw a black man with a gun who was not obviously a police officer, was to shoot him.
[endwar] - A Federal Judge OKs bag searches on NYC subway, saying the imposition is minimal. But the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits searches without probable cause. It doesn’t say anything about how much of an imposition the searches are. It prohibits them. Seems to me that U.S. District Judge Richard Berman committed an impeachable offense. [police state]