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63.3% Turnout, originally uploaded by Brian Knight Photography.
November 2008 Unofficial Results for my Fairfax County Precinct as found on the Virginia State Board of Elections.
Pretty sure I did […]

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Thanks for the heads up @samerfarha…

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My Twitter feed is locked (mostly - you can always see the latest in blog’s sidebar), so here’s a recap of this morning’s micro-live blogging of my early morning voting experience (in chronological order - times as of 5:15pm or so):

Going to bed now (so I can get up at 5am, head to my polling […]

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Words, when spoken out loud for the sake of performance, are music. They have rhythm, and pitch, and timbre, and volume. These are the properties of music, and music has the ability to find us and move us, and lift us up in ways that literal meanings can’t. Do you see?
- President Josiah “Jed” Bartlet, […]

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UPDATE: Apparently 11PM is past my bedtime now… I was just watching the March 3 edition of The Daily Show (thanks Verizon FIOS DVR!) and Jon Stewart just totally made my joke (as seen below)!
I just hope whoever is elected in November can answer the damn phone before the 6th freakin’ ring!

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It’s somehow reassuring to me that our law makers have always been preoccupied with minutia. In a story about a penny auction that raised $10.7 million dollars we learn this about the US Congress…
The collection of 301 cents featured some of the rarest and earliest examples of the American penny, including a cent that was […]

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Looks like a deal has been reached (tentatively) and eventually I might have as much as $600 in my pocket to do with as I please. Instead of stimulating the economy though, I’ll probably end up like Charlie…

From Season 3, Episode 17 “Stirred”
Original Air Date: 27 March 2002
(Teleplay […]

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I don’t often watch the local news, so I am maybe a little slow coming to this story, but it’s really quite funny I think, especially as the student goes to my old high school.
I’m not sure if back in the day I would have ever called up a school administrator, but I did […]

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laundromat, originally uploaded by catbagan. used under a Creative Commons license.
This started off as a simple comment to this post. I was about to write something like “ha ha, that does sound like an excessive amount of laundry. ” But then I got to thinking about the subject a little more and it […]

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The dream…
It was mid day, summer, and I stood in front of a familiar looking two car garage. It was quite possibly the old Reston AR commune house from a few year’s back, but you’re never really sure in dreams. In the garage was a mid-sized truck, green and with a longer bed […]

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