So my first graphics note for the evening concerns the "cutaway" graphic that both CNN and NBC are using copies of. Basically there is a little screen within the screen that is tinted blue or red and has a picture of the candidate, the word winner, maybe the word incumbent, and a check mark on it. The weird thing is not this basic graphic, but the fact that they have made this graphic a sort of free-standing and rotatable billboards. For some reason it doesn't just sit in the middle of the screen and like, usefully convey its information. Instead it sort of swoops in from the side and then slowly turns back and forth right to left. Maybe this is supposed to be some sort of waffling from conservatism to liberality, I don't know. If it wasn't consciously done for some purpose like that, why the fuck would you bother to design your graphic in this way. Doesn't it just seem like an assload of unnecessary work? Maybe I'm just lazy, but I'm not gonna go through and highlight every letter "q" in the papers I grade, even though it might look cool, its a waste of my fucking time.
CNN just had a 10 minute countdown to the 10:00 poll closings and at the end of that 10 minutes Wolf Blitzer told us the shocking fact that CNN was prepared to call...Utah. Thanks Wolf, we were all pretty concerned about Utah. We knew they would probably keep liquor sales limited to between 11 and 11:15 on Tuesdays, but we thought they might vote Democrat. Lets do a quick countdown here...5....4....3.....2........1........Pizza tastes good. See how much of a fucking waste that was, now do it for 10 minutes and end with an even less surprising fact.
Random unrelated note. I started a moblog. That makes me officially a cool hip tech wizard. I am like fucking Nick Burns up in here. Other random note, there was a pug halloween costume contest on the news the other day. There were pug dogs dressed up like tootsie rolls, hot dogs, batman, raggedy ann, a rasta-dog, and other really really cute things. I fucking love pug dogs.
Kerry is down 171-112. Not a single swing state has been called yet. As of yet the election is not close, but it hasn't gone either way yet. To say the election is "shockingly close" is like saying a 3-0 football game is that close after one possession. Wait until there is at least one relevant decision before you talk like this. Two more irrelevant facts: Bush wins Arkansas and Utah. 182-112. This can either end in half an hour or linger on for days. I am scared.
Peace,
MB-K
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