http://www.thechunk.com/blog Freedom hating on the internets since 2002 Sun, 11 May 2008 19:38:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Is that title too long to catch on? My morning troll through news feeds brought up two things that I think are somewhat related and that I want to highlight. Today is the 83rd anniversary of the day that John Scopes was arrested in Dayton, TN for teaching Darwin's theory of ... http://www.thechunk.com/blog/archive/continue-fight-against-ignorance-day/ According to the Dreamhost people, my WordPress install got hacked. I tried upgrading from 2.5 to 2.5.1 today and even though their install bot claimed that I'd upgraded, everything in WordPress still said I was on 2.5. I'm not sure if the hack that was exploited was the one fixed ... http://www.thechunk.com/blog/archive/ugh-wordpress-hacked/ marriedtothesea.com http://www.thechunk.com/blog/archive/oops-thats-not-funny/ Apparently, my web server is moving data centers and will be down from 11PM tonight to 11AM tomorrow (CDT). http://www.thechunk.com/blog/archive/site-will-be-down/ Scott Heim's third novel, We Disappear, will be released this Tuesday. I met Scott at KGB in NYC just after his first novel, Mysterious Skin was published and we've kept up a correspondence over the years. His novels have always included some autobiographical elements, but We Disappear, a novel he's ... http://www.thechunk.com/blog/archive/we-disappear/ So, the biggest day for primaries coincides with Mardi Gras. I guess this has happened before, but I just like saying "Super Fat Tuesday". I'm obviously for Obama. I think he'll do well enough to keep in the race today. I posted the letter from GYWO's David Rees yesterday. I've got ... http://www.thechunk.com/blog/archive/super-fat-tuesday/ Here's David Rees via John Hodgman with a good reason why you should vote for Obama instead of Clinton this time around. Tomorrow's Super Tuesday, so this is relevant for a lot of people. I'm kind of hoping that it stays close so that Texas will have some say in ... http://www.thechunk.com/blog/archive/another-reason-for-obama/ One day after The La was on News8, I got interviewed for Fox 7 while dropping off the sibling transfer request for The La at AISD headquarters. http://www.thechunk.com/blog/archive/two-days-in-the-news/ A friend hand makes coats for little girls. She needed some models for a News8Austin story. The La is in the video. The coats look nice, although they're a bit too much for my tastes. http://www.thechunk.com/blog/archive/in-which-the-la-tries-modeling/ Let's imagine a situation where I get to ask a town hall forum-type question of my two current senators, John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison. Two Republican senators who have pretty much rubber stamped everything their fellow Republican Texan President has done in the White House for the past 7 ... http://www.thechunk.com/blog/archive/stop-the-spying/