19 October 2008
Two + Two 'til No on 2
Two weeks and two days to go until the election. Here's an update re: No on 2.
First, there's this great post by Marc Kevin Hall at Hidden City.
Second, new polling on the amendment is showing 53% yes, 42% no, 5% undecided, and since in a surprising (for Florida) smart move several years ago we boosted the level required for an amendment to pass from simple majority to 60%, that's looking good. But it's no reason to be complacent. So please, if you can, give or continue to give your time and your treasure to Say No 2.
Addendum: Let me encourage my Florida readers to argue politely with people who intend to vote yes. While the amendment won't be enacted unless it gets 60% of the vote, it would still be better to have a majority of folks vote against the amendment.
Last, Mack and I are mentioned in this article on Amendment 2 by Eileen Zafirro at the Daytona Beach News-Journal. I hope features like this help, but I gotta be honest: even when you're kind of excited about being in the paper, it's a little freaky to see your name mentioned in the excerpt of the top story on the front-page of their web site, and, I presume, on the front page of the print edition (gotta run and pick one up). (I will barely grumble, here and now is it, about the photographer that didn't show up yesterday.)
First, there's this great post by Marc Kevin Hall at Hidden City.
I don't mind the name calling, really. Some withered bitch on the phone calling me a "goddam faggot" rolls off my back; so do all the violent phone-slams and the "my wife will vote the way I god damn tell her to vote" statements. But those are more than compensated by the people who don't understand the wording of the amendment, and who appreciate me taking the time to explain it to them. Hearing people say "Hell no, I'm not going to vote for that!" also feels good, and the occasional person like 78 year old Elaine make it all worthwhile. Elaine didn't really understand the proposal at first, and then said "Wait, are we still fighting this battle? What the hell is wrong with those people in Tallahassee? Who gives a good God damn who wants to fuck who? Let everybody be happy for Christ's sake!"The irony about those folks calling Marc a faggot is that he's not gay.
Second, new polling on the amendment is showing 53% yes, 42% no, 5% undecided, and since in a surprising (for Florida) smart move several years ago we boosted the level required for an amendment to pass from simple majority to 60%, that's looking good. But it's no reason to be complacent. So please, if you can, give or continue to give your time and your treasure to Say No 2.
Addendum: Let me encourage my Florida readers to argue politely with people who intend to vote yes. While the amendment won't be enacted unless it gets 60% of the vote, it would still be better to have a majority of folks vote against the amendment.
Last, Mack and I are mentioned in this article on Amendment 2 by Eileen Zafirro at the Daytona Beach News-Journal. I hope features like this help, but I gotta be honest: even when you're kind of excited about being in the paper, it's a little freaky to see your name mentioned in the excerpt of the top story on the front-page of their web site, and, I presume, on the front page of the print edition (gotta run and pick one up). (I will barely grumble, here and now is it, about the photographer that didn't show up yesterday.)
Labels: amendment 2, eileen zafirro, florida, hidden city, mack mckinley, news-journal, tim wilson
14 September 2008
What Are You Doing?
I've recently started using Twitter, and I like it. Posts of 160 characters or less answering the question, "What are you doing?" go to other subscribers who are "following" you. It also auto-updates my Facebook status. You can have the posts ("tweets") sent to your cell phone as an SMS message, but that costs money under most plans. If your phone supports applications, there might be a Twitter-serving application for it; example: Twitterific on the iPhone (and the Mac, as well).
So, if you're following me on Twitter or see my Facebook updates, then these are old news. But, to answer "What have y'all been up to?", we went to an old friend of mine's wedding last night, got up this morning and took the dog to the dog park, then drove around DeBary checking out where there's still flooding three weeks after Tropical Storm Fay. After we got home, I took some pics of the cats in the back yard, then spent a couple of hours messing around with the pictures and uploading them to our Flickr site.
There's not that many photos overall, even though I put some of them into sets, so maybe the best way to proceed is to start here and work backwards through the photostream. Some representative samples:
Me, curiously earnest in performance of the very serious task of checking my gas gauge.
Lake at Paradise Cove Watersports, where the wedding took place.
Jim and Amy cut the cake.
Mack and Ursa, after the dog park.
Hoses, still pumping flood waters from Tropical Storm Fay away.
Carrot, on the go, on the fence.
So, if you're following me on Twitter or see my Facebook updates, then these are old news. But, to answer "What have y'all been up to?", we went to an old friend of mine's wedding last night, got up this morning and took the dog to the dog park, then drove around DeBary checking out where there's still flooding three weeks after Tropical Storm Fay. After we got home, I took some pics of the cats in the back yard, then spent a couple of hours messing around with the pictures and uploading them to our Flickr site.
There's not that many photos overall, even though I put some of them into sets, so maybe the best way to proceed is to start here and work backwards through the photostream. Some representative samples:
Me, curiously earnest in performance of the very serious task of checking my gas gauge.
Lake at Paradise Cove Watersports, where the wedding took place.
Jim and Amy cut the cake.
Mack and Ursa, after the dog park.
Hoses, still pumping flood waters from Tropical Storm Fay away.
Carrot, on the go, on the fence.
Labels: amy, carrot, cat, debary, dog, fay, flood, florida, hose, jimmi, mack, mckinley, paradise cove, park, swift, tim, tropical storm, ursa, wilson
29 January 2008
Voting Day in Florida
Today is voting day in Florida.
If you are a Florida resident, a registered Democratic Party member, and haven't already voted early or by absentee ballot, please vote today for Barack Obama.
Thank you.
If you are a Florida resident, a registered Democratic Party member, and haven't already voted early or by absentee ballot, please vote today for Barack Obama.
Thank you.
Labels: election, florida, obama, presidential
30 July 2007
Photo Active IV
On the way home from work today, I saw a fawn on the side of the road. It let me take three photos: one with the cell phone and two with my camera. Here's both real pictures.
Labels: daytona beach, deer, fawn, florida
