Starry Wisdom

I did this over the weekend. Much much better than FM modulation. It was pretty fun to do, although my back was pretty mad at me… I would be a cripple if I did car stereo stuff for a living!

As for the Republicans – how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on a bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in (consciously or unconsciously) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion the real liberty is synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic license, or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene some vague and mystical “American Heritage”…) utterly contrary to the fact and without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.

– H.P. Lovecraft, August, 1936

On my door when I got home from work today:

Today I received my new Dell Ultrasharp 2005FPW monitor. It is very nice. I recommend it highly.

I went to the tide pools at the Fitzgerald Marine Reserve in Moss Beach, just north of Half Moon Bay today. I took some mediocre pictures.