[00:36] <aaditya> MarkDude: thanks!
[01:50]  * MarkDude is headed to DVLUG tonight
[01:50] <MarkDude> will be late- to avoid traffic
[01:51] <rww> MarkDude: I'm not, the heat is still annoying me
[01:55] <akk> It cooled down nicely down here in santa clara county.
[01:57] <MarkDude> It has cooled down here
[01:57] <MarkDude> Not too bad
[02:03] <grantbow> MarkDude: too bad, you missed a special guest
[02:12] <MarkDude> Who
[02:12]  * MarkDude is leaving now
[20:14] <MarkDude> Hiring in SF at Minted >> http://www.minted.com/jobs all sorts of stuff
[20:15] <MarkDude> pleia2,  ^^^
[20:15] <MarkDude> :D
[23:38] <rww> pleia2: (re: twitter) I came to the conclusion a while back that everything in California causes cancer.
[23:38] <pleia2> ignorance is bliss
[23:38] <pleia2> I think every single building has one of those signs too
[23:39] <rww> 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] <pleia2> 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] <rww> Someone should do a study on how much money California's proposition system has cost in total.
[23:41] <pleia2> I think I read somewhere that props and other voter ammendments take up like 40% of the budget
[23:42] <pleia2> I wonder why we're in so much debt :)
[23:43] <pleia2> 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] <pleia2> but I get to go to the cool #1 fire station in SF to vote, so voting is cool
[23:43] <akk> It is hard to read through all that stuff.
[23:44] <akk> I bet not 1% of voters do.
[23:44] <akk> And the official summary often differs quite a bit from what's actually in the text of the proposition.
[23:44] <rww> 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] <pleia2> not exaggerating, the booklets we got totalled about 200 pages
[23:45] <pleia2> plus all the junk we get from prop people and candidates
[23:45] <akk> That goes straight to recycling.
[23:45] <pleia2> yeah, here too
[23:45] <rww> None of my house is registered to vote (because we can't), so we don't get any of that :)
[23:46] <rww> i grab the booklets from the library and read them, though
[23:46] <pleia2> for fun?
[23:46] <rww> being able to rant about things is fun :P
[23:46] <pleia2> hehe