Traffic lights high above in the wood-railed marshes
News, Work ·Monday March 10, 2008 @ 23:56 EDT (link)
20080310: 0945-1000, black Lexus RX330 SUV, WA 847 RID: super-slow, and then sped up to abuse the HOV lane (no passengers) to pass people, getting off WA-520W to 40th/51st.
20080308: Went shooting with AF from work, at a range in a small town called Ravensdale; not very busy. He brought three handguns for us to try, a Glock 34 (9mm), FN P-40 (.40 S&W), and an SA XD 45 (sorry, Flash). I prefer the Glock, may get a 17 or even the same 34 (longer barrel, easier magazine release).
I had a strange dream: I, and several others, were in a huge marsh, with wood-railed (think bank teller line guides) swamps with traffic lights suspended high above, with the swamp divided into "rooms" by the wooden rails. Some family was there, I think. At one point we had to crawl into a swamp tunnel. We were talking about it and Honey proposed having a certain loud person on a submerged skateboard for Honey to ride on. It was a bit weird.
20080310: Finished Coulter's Slander, and almost finished How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must) (primarily a selection of her columns). Fear the unholy trifecta: "Icky, yucky, and nasty", like spaghetti dried on a plate. Honey's working on a Great Depression essay, which I helped her conclude, bravely, with "... a strong and stable human environment!" (We thought of other additions with potential for high marks from the politically correct: "Of multi-cultural communication!" "And Indians!" "Running casinos on their native hunting grounds like they did in the 1600s." (And drinking firewater and huffing gasoline.) "Praise Allah!") At work, finished the ECMA OpenXML diff tool: oh the wonders of multi-pass XSLT (node trees in variables) and the full flexibility of XPath.
Watched the Canterbury Tales pilot; not impressed; as one review says:
[Margulies] plays Elizabeth Canterbury, a reckless and rebellious defense attorney who isn't averse to tweaking a few rules to secure justice for her clients. In her legal playbook, the ends definitely justify the means. From "House" to "The Shield" and beyond, flawed lead characters are all the rage on television, and Canterbury fits right in. She drinks too much. She cheats on her husband (Aidan Quinn). She abuses her underlings and she taunts witnesses with an almost malicious glee.
In other words, she's a law unto herself, which makes her not the hero, or even a "flawed lead character", but just another villain. Hello, liberals in Hollywood: people like good guys (or gals), and it's not "edgy" to pretend evil is good, it's morally bankrupt. (Godwin:) Hitler thought he was right, too, and that the ends justified the means, and look what that gave us.
