Absurd Singularity

Waited about an hour to vote this morning which was new. My old voting place back in East Hanover was never busy. Anyhoo, it'll be an interesting evening.

beyond words. At least my Jersey City mayor selection won.

It absolutely boggles the mind what this says about the priorities of half of the American public, their tolerance of ineptitude in the presence of faith and their intolerance of a certain minority who typically does no harm to anyone except to expose their attackers' own insecurities.

Oh well, life goes on. To tell the truth, I wish I could revert back to my old politically-unaware self in my early twenties. It's too exhausting emotionally otherwise. Bah, no way I'm gonna back down now.

So by now we're probably all tired of hearing how divided the country is and it probably would be nice to be able find a middle ground. But after reading conservative posts throughout the web recently, I'm not entirely sure that's gonna be possible. You can't reason with someone who doesn't believe in it.

I first started reading Andrew Sullivan's site months ago cause I was fascinated by the idea of a gay Republican. I mean seriously, how the hell can you remain gay and a Republican in this day and age? Sure you can be pro-war and anti-tax but how do you stick with a party that has a central core which disavows your very existence? Masochism maybe?

Yum! So I've been poking around online recently for a digital SLR camera, going through the usual suspects, Amazon, Craigslist, eBay, and the like. I was interested in the Canon EOS 20D but felt it was rather cost-prohibitive especially considering that this was my initial foray into manual photography. But I figured if I could find it for a ridiculously cheap price, I might as well go for it since that way, I won't have to upgrade it for a good many years. Of course, being the savvy Internet shopper that I am, I should've known already that when it comes to cameras and camcorders, there's no way in hell you're going to get a ridiculously cheap price on any of it.

Went to a NJ Nets basketball game last night (against the Houston Rockets) with my cousin cause he wanted to see T-Mac and Yao Ming and during a break between periods, Continental had a promotion where they brought out some poor sap and made him shoot baskets in an attempt to win free airfare for 2 or some crap like that. This guy obviously was no where near being a sports player. First he had to make a basket from the three-point line at about a 45 degree angle. He missed all 10+ shots that they gave him and was boo'ed by the crowd. Then he had to try to make one from the top of the three point circle and he missed that one by a mile. And the crowd REALLY let 'im have it then. I felt so bad for the poor guy.

That's why I dislike standing out in a crowd. Cause the crowd's fuckin' vicious.

Salon's columnist seems to be amused by this guy's roommate troubles. While I agree that the letter-writer writes well, I don't think his roommate is all that unusual...

Ben Cheng by two days and Diana Gill by four!