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    Guests and Games

    Today we're actually going to have guests over at our house. It's been… how long now? Last Thanksgiving, I think. (Edit: informs me that it was the TDay before last TDay. Wow. Hermit much?) Anyway, today we're having a former co-worker and a friend of his over for hot food (it's chili season!) (as in chili peppers) and cool games. We dug out the extra game controllers and charged up the game boy yesterday. ;) Yesterday was spent cleaning the downstairs. I'm declaring the upstairs as completely off limits. But downstairs doesn't look too bad. I want to run the…

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    Slippin’ and a-slidin’

    Now Disneyworld is fingerprinting visitors. That's swell, but what happens when – not if – Fatherland “Homeland Security” gets access? I particularly liked this paragraph from the commentary: “Now that our national immune system has begun to attack us in a terrible anaphylactic spasm — indiscriminate NSA wiretaps, meaningless TSA security theater, secret aviation rules and no-fly lists, “free speech zones,” suspension of habeas corpus and all the rest — it's absolutely irresponsible to gather this kind of information and leave it where the savage toddlers of the national security apparat might find it and wreak havoc with it.” Nice…