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..but only one (for now). We took quite a few clips over the past week, but Audrometer has a knack for cutting off her cuteness as soon as the “record” light winks on. This clip is the best of what we took last Wednesday night, IMO — she’s sitting up in her Bumbo chair, stripped to her diaper (it was *really* warm), and her baby pudge makes her look like a little Buddha. The kicker: this is the ONLY clip where we caught a smile :)

Embedded video after the jump, or watch it at youtube…

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Forwarded to me, with the note “In case you needed to get your heartrate up…”.

He wasn’t kidding: http://littledemocrats.net/

Be sure to see the sample pages — my “favorite” is the illustration used to show mommy keeping her children safe: preventing them from being trampled by an elephant. What a quaint and clever jab at ye GOP, doing it’s part to make this book even more trite and worthless than the concept alone could achieve. Like, well, nearly everything else the Democrat party has produced. I have to give them credit for sticking to the program, though: one of Marx’s key stepping stones was the institution of a government education system (sound familiar? I’ll take “The Department of Education” for $1000, Alex) to “instill” proper socialist values in budding young minds. If we can start the brainwashing before they’re even potty trained, all the better! Workers Socialists of the world, unite!

…or, “I’m such a big nerd that I’m writing a tribute to my startup’s website hosting company.” Even though we pay them for services. Sheesh :)

I’m now at Rimu (http://rimuhosting.com) and they are nothing short of outstanding. It’s more expensive ($20/mo, billable 1 month at a time if you prefer) but they give multiple site discounts and their customer support is THE BEST in the business. All that and you get a VPS thats like you’re own *nix box. Only thing you can’t do: recompile the kernel. If you can afford the higher price and the logistics of moving your site, don’t waste one more minute of your life using any hosting service other than Rimu.

Oh — and you get a choice of four available *nix kernels when you purchase a new VPS. I went with the latest Ubuntu, so installation/configuration went something (approximately) like this:

> apt-get update > apt-get install mysql > apt-get install apache2 > apt-get install python > apt-get install mysql-python

I manually checked out the latest Django subversion trunk and configured it, as I wanted to be able to keep up with the bleeding edge Django state (as it’s far superior than their released packages).

And no, I’m not a Rimu employee or something — just someone who has fought with craptacular (or at least “less-than-90%-satisfying”) hosting services for years.

Plugin hybrids + new nuclear power plants = a new economic chapter for America

Am I just naive in thinking that this seems like such an obvious solution to our current state of affairs? I just posted the following comment on a randomly-stumbled-upon article:

Immediate problem(s): - dependence on oil causes dependency on countries that we would -ahem- prefer to not be dependent on - mass rollover to an alternative fuel source involves enough risk and infrastructure expenditures that those entities who could best make it happen (large car companies, oil companies) are still financially better off maintaining the status quo - the “we’re destroying the planet” meme - reference earlier comments about the moonbats sleeping better, etc.

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Some random Audrey pics >>

..and more videos will be up soon. I promise. For now, we’ve got a pumpkin to carve!