[00:36] MarkDude: thanks! === erichammond1 is now known as erichammond [01:50] * MarkDude is headed to DVLUG tonight [01:50] will be late- to avoid traffic [01:51] MarkDude: I'm not, the heat is still annoying me [01:55] It cooled down nicely down here in santa clara county. [01:57] It has cooled down here [01:57] Not too bad [02:03] MarkDude: too bad, you missed a special guest [02:12] Who [02:12] * MarkDude is leaving now [20:14] Hiring in SF at Minted >> http://www.minted.com/jobs all sorts of stuff [20:15] pleia2, ^^^ [20:15] :D [23:38] pleia2: (re: twitter) I came to the conclusion a while back that everything in California causes cancer. [23:38] ignorance is bliss [23:38] I think every single building has one of those signs too [23:39] WARNING: The thought processes used for ignorance may contain thoughts known to the State of California to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm. [23:40] I think it went like this: "you know this prop will mean we need to put labels on EVERYTHING because our threshold for danger is so low, right" "it will be good for the lolz" voter: "dangerous chemicals?! I want to know about those!" [23:40] Someone should do a study on how much money California's proposition system has cost in total. [23:41] I think I read somewhere that props and other voter ammendments take up like 40% of the budget [23:42] I wonder why we're in so much debt :) [23:43] MJ made me read through all the voter stuff last time with him, it was the worst thing ever, it's very hard to be an informed voter here [23:43] but I get to go to the cool #1 fire station in SF to vote, so voting is cool [23:43] It is hard to read through all that stuff. [23:44] I bet not 1% of voters do. [23:44] And the official summary often differs quite a bit from what's actually in the text of the proposition. [23:44] pleia2: apart from my usual blaming of all the politicians, I blame the "spend money on this!" and "freeze taxes on this!" propositions for a lot of our problems, yes [23:44] not exaggerating, the booklets we got totalled about 200 pages [23:45] plus all the junk we get from prop people and candidates [23:45] That goes straight to recycling. [23:45] yeah, here too [23:45] None of my house is registered to vote (because we can't), so we don't get any of that :) [23:46] i grab the booklets from the library and read them, though [23:46] for fun? [23:46] being able to rant about things is fun :P [23:46] hehe