If you’re in the Science of the Web class, I would be happy to create a journal entry with the link text <andrewid> is a rankmaniac linked to the page of your choice. (Hopefully that’ll help boost your rank a bit.)

Leave a comment with your andrew id and desired page by tomorrow.

Edit: alanv is a rankmaniac
Tim: I had it as a link back to this entry that would keep expanding similar to above on the next page, but enabling PHP on this post broke my RSS feed, so you’ll have to settle for a Javascript expanding link for now.

Had a nice long talk a couple nights ago that really made me feel a lot better about everything. It occurs to me that I often lose sight of all the awesomeness in my life and how lucky I’ve been and focus too much on the stuff that’s bothering me. I should try and do that less often, especially given how much awesomeness fills my life each and every day.

Life is good.

That is all.

I have no idea what to even say to this

Cindy McCain lashed out at Barack Obama Tuesday [saying] the Illinois senator has waged the “dirtiest campaign in American history.”

It’s frightening if she actually believes that.

Edit: Just to make clear… I don’t believe Obama’s campaign is clean, I just believe that McCain has run a far, far dirtier campaign (and this is yet another example of it). Obama’s campaign didn’t throw me into an introverted depression for 3 days, thankyouverymuch.

Edit edit: The fact checks are telling. On the first page, all of the McCain criticisms that I saw were either True or True (but incomplete), compared to all of the Obama criticisms which were either Misleading or False. Seriously, who’s running the dirtier campaign?

All the big problems in the world are suddenly on my mind, for some unknown reason, causing insomnia and general contemplation.

What is wrong with humanity?

Also, RE: yesterday’s post, thank god Congress isn’t totally fiscally irresponsible. Yet. (Link stolen from Zeke.)

Edit: I need to stop reading news sites. Everything I read just makes me lose more faith in humanity. I suppose that means I should go to bed or something. Blah.

So today, when browsing the web for randomness at work, I came across In 2007, which most of you have probably seen before (I know, I’m way behind on internet stuffs).

Reminded me that, in 6th grade, my humanities/history class did our own version of the song (spanning the years 1986 through 1996, I believe).

It’s now posted here in case anyone is interested in listening to it.

Apologies for the crap quality. It was recorded from some professional equipment onto cassette tape… then duplicated on different tape… then digitized through a microphone into WAV format… then converted into MP3 (it was the 90s, give me a break :P).
As I recall, the class split into groups of 3 or so, each responsible for a year. We researched events that happened that year and assembled a verse. The verses were stitched together (hence why it mostly doesn’t rhyme) and we got a semi-professional artist to record it for us. Whee.
There’s a version of this with the entire class singing it somewhere on a cassette tape in my closet… I should dig it out if I’m back in Arizona at some point.