{"id":356,"date":"2003-10-09T00:22:00","date_gmt":"2003-10-09T00:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/10\/09\/"},"modified":"2003-10-09T00:22:00","modified_gmt":"2003-10-09T00:22:00","slug":"356","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2003\/10\/09\/356\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, the vote is over. It’s times like this that I wish Frank Zappa were still alive – I would love<\/i> to hear him \"Happy<\/a>expound on the recall – heck, he might even have run. I’m sure he would have made a better governor than Arnold<\/a>, and I sure would have stumped for him.<\/p>\n

I’d also love to hear his take on the whole RIAA vs. filesharing thing. Arguably one of the earliest, most prolific, and most successful indie label self-promoters, he was also very conscious of both where the money goes and intellectual property rights.<\/p>\n

If you ever get a chance, you should read The Real Frank Zappa Book<\/a>. He had a lot of interesting ideas like this one: to stop people from laundering huge sums of cash for illicit purposes, periodically change the color of the money to force people to exchange the old color for the new color – then if someone has, say, $150,000 in large bills, they got some ‘splainin’ to do.<\/p>\n

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By the way, I did vote yesterday. I voted against the recall and for Bustamante. I should note that I’m not at all surprised by the outcome.<\/p>\n

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I get a couple hundred spam messages a day that make it through our company’s spam filter, and the trend lately seems to be offers for vicodin, which has got to be illegal.<\/p>\n

I understand the spammers’ theory of direct marketing – if you contact 1,000,000 people, and 0.01% respond, then that’s 100 orders, right?<\/p>\n

But I mean, come on, I’m sitting here thinking, ‘what kind of idiot in their right mind actually opens a message from Abdul Moran (my apologies to Abdul, I’m assuming they don’t know someone by that name) with the subject line ‘ma-ke yo’urs-elf a m^an lohwljivyxtkd’<\/b> and ends up sending that guy their credit card for an order of pills from naturalherb.biz?’<\/p>\n

But then I remember that I live in a county where 65% of the people voted for<\/i> the recall, and for<\/i> Arnold, and fully half of all<\/i> people are below average in intelligence.<\/p>\n

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To end this post on a much happier note, my investment portfolio briefly peeked its head above break-even for the first time in about three years – Go Tech Stocks! Go S&P 500!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, the vote is over. It’s times like this that I wish Frank Zappa were still alive – I would love to hear him expound on the recall – heck, he might even have run. I’m sure he would have made a better governor than Arnold, and I sure would have stumped for him. I’d … <\/p>\n

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