Hi everyone! You know that this blog is not political, but it does follow the stupid and the funny, and when that intersects with politics, it’s certainly welcome here. I also think it’s possible that some of you don’t TiVo Saturday Night Live, which started back up this weekend. If so, you missed this gem of an opening set:

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It’s great to see Fey and Poehler together again, but sadly, Amy Poehler has announced this is her last season on SNL. I wish her all the best, and lots of the funny in her final season. As for last weekend’s host, Michael Phelps, don’t quit your once-every-four-years job.

Also, while we’re political. One of our statistician CS guys has created http://election08.cs.uiuc.edu, a site which he says will predict who will win the 2008 presidential election. His website has been up on the video wall in Siebel Center, shocking a whole bunch of under-21-year-olds who just realized there was someone else running against Obama. As of today, McCain is projected a 53% chance of winning, and over 80% of the map is red. I guess we’ll see over time how well Jacobson’s models go, but remember, this is the same prof who told us fat people are ruining fuel economy. Seriously. (Because, you know, nothing else has changed about automobiles in the last 40 years.)

As always, take everything you read with a grain of salt. Preferably licked off the neck of Innocence, chased with a tall shot of tequila, and followed with a bitter limy wedge of Reality.

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• Pshaw. Day shot. Productivity waning. Getting surly. Losing patience. Time for a Twix bar. #

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• has been baked, broiled, steamed, and finally boiled today. Had enough. Time for bed. #
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• @Musebrarian shut your analog hole. #
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• can haz B10NHD now. sooo pretty. want to watch utes beat michigan, but duty calls… #
• This seems to be the kind of day where I should outside washing my car instead of inside working. #
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• Oooh, great movie plot idea. Thanks @APnews http://tinyurl.com/6aok9s #
• That’s a half a day burned. (Or, AKA, why IT Pros will always have jobs.) https://agora.cs.uiuc.edu/x/vIAKAQ #

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• ponders trying to go to ILA 08 in Chicago. #
• landmark: under 100 clients still using Networker, and less than 25 failing overall. Woot. #
• is surprised how many grad students don’t know their office room number. I need to know which one; you can’t guess and have the net work. #
• just found a newsgroup bug in Vista’s version of Outlook Express (now called Windows Mail) It doesn’t see the class.cs598mcc ng. #

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