As you might guess, Kat and I are so giddy today that we might as well be on the couch smoking a cigarette and grinning like idiots at the ceiling. Yesterday when I was supposed to be writing the final draft of a research proposal I instead spent a good hour calling friends in Montana congratulating them for somehow defying their own essences and voting Democrat. Of course anyone that I was calling in Montana was able to laugh at that. I'm not sure how the general populace would have responded if I'd said "I'm so proud of you for putting aside your redneck prejudices for a day!!!" But really I can't say anything bad, because they voted for a democratic senator. Even if the alternative was a psychopathic, alcoholic abuser they still deserve a big hug.
While talking to my father I said that basically every race that I cared about came out the way I'd hoped. He tells me that I should relish this feeling because (as he speaks from experience) I may not feel this way again for another 18 years or so. I suffer no delusions. We're in dangerous waters. Winning in the midterm is dangerous because this means that if everything that's fucked up in the world doesn't get fixed in two years you can bet that the republicans will seize on it to yell "WE TOLD YOU SO!!!" and use that argument to try and take back control (or worse...win the presidential). I'd almost be willing to give the conservative hate squad another two years of control and save the "ok...you've screwed around for 8 years...it's time for us to have a shot" statement for a time when it would give us a presidency AND the house AND the senate.
But really...all speculation aside, we're stupidly happy. The nation came around to the world view for at least one night. Seattle still allows lap dances (I suppose I should go out and get one now that it's become a secured right...) from women who can get abortions in South Dakota and accept that the government does not have to waive regulations that make sense just so they can turn their houses into strip malls and believe that it's okay to pay an estate tax. Unfortunately I can't get all that from a lesbian stripper and her legally recognized partner, that's unfortunately constitutionally impossible in several more states as of this last election...but we'll take what we can get.
Posted on November 09, 2006 @ 5:23 PM | 6 comments
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yay democrats! justin your point about the midterm is well taken. did you see the article in the atlantic magazine this month called something like "the battle to lose the election?" talking about how, yeah, if we don't fix things in these 2 years the republicans are going to fuck us in '08. fingers crossed! but it does feel good for now. sigh. hope!! also: completely unrelated: kat i know you are a computer whiz and justin maybe you are too, so maybe you guys can answer this for me. i would love you forever, etc. so, i have a crappy dell desktop from 2000. i used it 2000-04 and it was hooked up to a high-speed-internet network (NOT wireless). i have 2,000+ precious MP3s trapped there on the hard drive. my parents have comcast digital cable for their desktop. i've been told i can just plug mine into their outlet, download ITunes for free, move all the songs into ITunes (because it will ask if i want to search the computer for existing files), then plug an ipod into the computer and take all the songs. then shitcan the computer! does this sound plausible? i am a techno-retard and don't want to waste my time and money ... sigh ... i've been avoiding this for years because i LOVE those mp3s and don't want them to be gone forever. thanks a MILLION.
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4:53 PM, November 10, 2006
Using Itunes to just load the songs on your ipod in the traditional fashion won't do you any good. The ipod will happily receive the mp3s but it will not transfer them to your new machine. In order to do that you will need to enable the hard drive feature of your ipod. Google can teach you that more succinctly than I how to activate that.
Once it is activated as a hard drive then yes...just load your mp3s on it, shitcan your old machine and then pull them off onto a new machine. Keep in mind that while they are loaded on the hard drive enabled ipod you won't be able to listen to them, just move them. Once you're done moving them to the new machine you can then load them on traditionally and listen as you see fit.
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Justin, at
6:07 PM, November 10, 2006
thanks justin, you are beyond awesome. i, on the other hand, am apparently a huger tard than i realized. because i didn't really follow what you said. i just need itunes to pick up the files off my old computer (i'll hook up the old computer to the internet to download itunes), and then can't i just plug the ipod into the computer and load them from itunes to the ipod? i don't need them to go to a new computer. i don't understand why i'd need the ipod to be harddrive enabled ...
By , at
9:56 PM, November 11, 2006
Yes, you could just load them onto the ipod and then toss the computer. The problem would be that if you EVER wanted to put a new song on the ipod you'd lose all the other songs on it. Think of the ipod as only able to have songs that you currently have on your computer. If you load the songs on and toss the computer the ipod is ok with that. But if you then later get a new computer and want to put new songs on your ipod...as far as your ipod is concerned your music library is what is on the new computer...which has none of your old music. Make sense?
Also, if you ever had to update the ipod or reload it to fix a small bug (not uncommon) you'd have no old computer to load the songs from so your library would disappear. Long story short...the ipod is no good unless you have a computer that has the same songs on it in your possession. Otherwise you're just asking to lose the songs.
By Justin, at
11:59 PM, November 11, 2006
Hip Hip Hooraaaay! One set of Plutocrats won more votes than the other set of Plutocrats. Yay!
By , at
7:33 PM, November 12, 2006
Anonymous, if you actually believe that considering the state of the nation, the Bush administration and the war, you aren't worth responding to. (yay, i ended my sentence with a preposition! how plutocratic).
ps: justin, again, you rock the party that rocks my pants. er, kat's pants.
By , at
7:45 PM, November 13, 2006
