Art Crawl

I've been invited to the Art Crawl tomorrow night by a coworker. I think this sounds really fun.

The interesting thing is to see how many people actually get into the downtown fort wayne experience. I think that this city is great, but I am not so sure about paying a quarter million dollars for a condo overlooking a minor league baseball stadium.

Let's hope it's not lame.

UPDATE:
Friday after work brought horrible thunderstorms and rain. I didn't feel like braving the weather for the event, so I stayed home. I did eat a great meal at casa d'angelo. I highly recommend their rigatoni special.

Pork and Beans

Venture Brothers Trailer

Caution Wet Floor

I need to buy some more bleach.

I'm on vacation and it's time for cleaning.

Today I threw out about 30 pounds of old magazines, junk mail, and other junk. I scoured the kitchen floor and the bathtub. I'm reorganizing the dining room / office, and cleaning up my bedroom and the third bedroom. I call that the record room because it houses my turntable and record collection. There's still much to do, but I feel much better about the house now that I have at least made a dent in my clutter.

My sister just bought a house, so it's been kind of a helpful impetus for my cleaning agenda. I realized now just how much stuff I have crammed into every square inch of my 1400 square feet, plus the garage and the basement. I think I need to simplify. Keep your eyes peeled. I may be posting a garage sale soon.

Elitism, Youth, and Novices

Obama won in Allen County. Even if the people I know did cross party lines to vote for Hillary, they were thwarted.

This map is also very interesting because it really shows where many of the state's urban centers are. Marion, Lake, Allen, St. Joseph, and Elkhart Counties; which are home to Indianapolis, Gary, Fort Wayne, South Bend, and Elkhart/Goshen respectively, went clearly to Obama. In Vanderburgh County, home to Evansville, Obama lost by just 1,293 votes.

Another interesting fact is that counties with major universities tended to go for Obama. Monroe County, home to IU Bloomington; and Tippecanoe County, home to Purdue both went to Obama.

Speaking of colleges, CNN's exit polls page had some fascinating statistics on how people with college educations voted, showing that people who graduated college favored Obama to Clinton 56% to 44% and those with post graduate education favored Obama 57% to 43%.

For the all-important Youth vote, the voters in the 17-29 demographic favored Obama over Clinton 61% to 39%. The 30-44 demographic (my fellow GenXers) favored Obama 56% to Clinton's 44%. Clinton captured the two-thirds of the votes from those over 60, which is really not a shock.

One thing of note is that neither candidate really got that many inspired new voters, according to the exit polls. Of the respondents, only 7% had never voted before, so it makes me think that a few voters may have been put off by the constant pandering by the candidates. But still, for those who did brave the primary process, 60% went for Obama and only 40% chose Clinton.

So you may wonder how my personal coin toss went. Well, let's just say that I live in an urban area and I am a college graduate. You do the math.

I'm sorry, I'm just not that into you

I heart politics, but this election cycle is increasingly on my last nerve. The Democrats keep sending me e-mail telling me to get out the vote, but I'm still undecided. I have yet to make up my mind for whom to cast my vote. I think it may come down to a coin toss in the voting booth after work. Yes. After work. I am not voting early in the morning because 1) I am still up at 1230 a.m. and 2) I don't want to be stuck in line and be late for work.

I'm 31, so I am in a key demographic that both campaigns want to woo to their side. But in reality, issue tracking websites show a 86% similarity between Clinton and Obama, so there isn't that much of a swing for swing voters.

It could all be over tomorrow night when the NC and IN primary votes are tallied, but it probably won't be. I just hope my conservative family doesn't end up voting for Hillary out of spite. I think they're scared that Obama is a Muslim, which he isn't.

As landmark candidates, they both capture my imagination. I think Obama would be more effective, but Hillary could get more older people away from McCain. Who knows. I better get my thumbs ready for flipping.

Self Promotion

There are some subtle tweaks to www.tomboyer.net (redirects to my comcast hosted page.)

Check it out when you have a chance. Feedback is always appreciated.

My only hate sprung from my only queasiness

There is a report that two and a half men is swapping writers with CSI.

No good can come of this. Both of these shows make my stomach turn, but for very different reasons. Now I have a great reason not to watch either.

She should have used spell check

I found this on the SFGate.com website's daily pictures roundup. Maybe she'd have better luck spelling in Spanish.

I love Butters, just not in that way.

The VISTA

My Friend Dave is the scary guy in the glasses. I heart this video.

Avert Yer Eyes

Okay, No one in the world needs to eat this much pork. I was recently in Georgia and found this sandwich on the menu at Dreamland Barbeque.

I was so very full by the time I had less than half the sandwich gone, I just had to give up. Oh well.

UPDATE: I think a better title for this may be "I can Haz Heart Attack?"