http://www.lechtanski.net/weblog More on the Fej than you care to be. More on the Fej than you care to know. Sun, 09 Nov 2008 04:37:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I’m standing a little taller tonight. Our guy has won it. As this night has been wrapping up, a few concepts have gotten clearer in my mind. Here are some of them. 50 State Strategy I want to give a shout out to Howard Dean for making the decision four years ago ... http://www.lechtanski.net/weblog/2008/11/04/closing-thoughts-on-the-election/ 1000 miles since April 2007. A thousand miles running on trails, sidewalks and roads in Bellingham, Orlando, Las Vegas, Seattle and more, baby. This last weekend I hit that pretty cool milestone. Using my Nike+ system with my Nano, I have kept pretty meticulous track of my mileage. I was about ... http://www.lechtanski.net/weblog/2008/10/30/1000/ As you can see, Japanese eyeglass designer Kazuo Kawasaki is grateful to Sarah Palin for the publicity. Her Rimless eyeglasses are all the rage. Masunaga Optical Manufacturing, based in Fukui, usually makes 12,000 MP-704 glasses in a year and a half. Thanks to Palin, it has already received 9,000 global orders, ... http://www.lechtanski.net/weblog/2008/10/03/why-does-sarah-palin-hate-american-eyeglass-manufacturers/ In what I am now calling the best political response ever to an attempted curve ball, I get a great F*#K Yeah moment. Let me set this up, if you're not paying attention. McCain announced today that he is suspending his campaign to head back to Washington to help negotiate a ... http://www.lechtanski.net/weblog/2008/09/24/obamas-smack-down/ So, I was listening to last week's Political Gabfest and one of the topics was Palin and the brouhaha around Obama making the "lipstick on a pig" comment. I thought three things: OMG, are we still talking about this. Palin's the lipstick. McCain's the pig. Whether Obama meant this or not, I understand why ... http://www.lechtanski.net/weblog/2008/09/15/palins-not-the-pig-shes-the-lipstick/ I found such high a level of weirdness in McCain’s speech Thursday night, I now feel compelled to share. Those were some wacky images on the enormous screen. From a not-so-random school in California, iStockphotos of people and windswept prairies, the pictures didn’t seem to match the speech in any way. ... http://www.lechtanski.net/weblog/2008/09/06/weirdness-in-mccain%e2%80%99s-speech/ From BoingBoing: The Daily Show has a segment with video clips of Dick Morris, Karl Rove, Bill O'Reilly, and others complaining about the media's unfair treatment of Sarah Palin, along with earlier video clips of these folks dishing out the same garbage about other women, including Hillary Clinton. http://www.lechtanski.net/weblog/2008/09/04/who-will-point-out-republican-hypocrisy-the-fake-news/ Ok. Ok. Sarah Palin. I just don’t get it. Every time I try to rationalize a reason the VP choice should make sense I just have to stop myself, because my rationalization becomes irrational. So, I’m in a political bizarro world. She’s a woman who will attract the disappointed Hillary supporters who ... http://www.lechtanski.net/weblog/2008/09/03/bizarro-vp/ Back in January, Wired magazine had a special "Why Things Suck" issue. One of the articles has stayed in the front of my mind. It was a short piece written by Thomas Hayden about why science sucks: Morality, spirituality, the meaning of life — science doesn't handle those issues well at ... http://www.lechtanski.net/weblog/2008/08/22/why-science-sucks/ Last Saturday, me and about 150 close friends snuck out to Lake Samish for a sprint triathlon. It could not have been a nicer day. There was a 10 o’clock start, which is kind of late for a race, and by then it was on the way to being the ... http://www.lechtanski.net/weblog/2008/08/21/lake-samish-triathlon/