The Tedder P. Schoenhopfer Policy Exchange

Here is Auntie Sue, Graduation Speaker. This photo isn’t that great but it’s the best one of her being the star of the whole graduation. Other photos are here.

Auntie Sue is also a columnist for the Kenosha News! Here is her first column.

But where did the egg come from?

Update:  It passed!!  If you have a committee member in your state you can make this call — I don’t — it really does make a difference and it’s easy and quick. The person who answers the phone is always nice. You can see the hearing live here: http://judiciary.house.gov/
Sensebrenner, Republican from Wisconsin, has sponsored this bill, so he’s on our side on this. (more…)

What is a Net Bot?

Today there was some messup with our web host and the 2 blogs we host (this one and Gramma’s book club) were messed up but they fixed the problem. The message from the help desk is below with funny English. But also, I don’t know why we got that evil netbot. (more…)

above: Maggie Sommer, graduate below: Randall Munroe, graduate; below that: Susan and Arastu, graduates

Our esteemed Vice President is a man of dreams, too.  That’s twice in key meetings since April 22.

It was indeed a great moment.  Else and I among others yelled loudly.  (Susan has my genes).

OK, the evil telecom empire is trying to take over the gloriously democratic internet as we know it. The Tedder P. Schoenhopfer Policy Exchange could lose out to a family blog that pays more money. Unlikely as it seems, there is a possibility our audience would not pay to read this blog. There is a great video explaining the issue entertainingly here.

Here is my argument — help and improvement welcome:
Net neutrality is about preserving the internet’s utopian realm as it has come to exist at this moment in history — at the moment in the forward march of technological innovation when all internet content is still transmitted at an equal speed and before telecoms have figured out how to give preference for paid content and before they have convinced the government to let them. At the moment when the ideals of freedom and democracy reign on the internet and the power of money is secondary to the power of ideas. All men are created equal and at this moment in history all ideas are transmitted with equal speed on the internet.

We have a window of time now, at the dawn of the creation of the internet, to seize the moment for future generations and impose regulations to preserve internet freedom by requiring that all internet content transmitted with equal speed (net neutrality).

Even if such regulations “burden” the telecom industry, regulations do nothing to limit the profit of telecoms or their freedom to develop innovate consumer products and choices. More later about former Clinton Press Secretary, current telecom spokesperson Mike McCurry and his shameful telecom ad campaign “Hands Off the Internet.” They even are buying ads on blogs like BlueJersey, where I wrote another post about it.

Here is a photo of the moment when Susan was ‘hooded’.  Hooray!!

 

I am not wild about crab and I know I am in the minority on that.  I don’t hate it but i don’t go “ga-ga” over it as some do.

Does anyone else have foods that they finally realized they don’t like, even though you’ve been eating it for years because it never even occurred to you not to like?  For example, I finally realized a few years ago that I don’t really like falafel.  Darcy said the same thing happened to her with sundried tomatoes.  Often there are foods that you feel like you’re “supposed to” like, because everyone else does.  For example, I don’t really like Chinese food, and that amounts to a travesty of sorts by some people’s standards.

Other foods I don’t really like:

Onions, except in certain contexts

Chocolate, unless it’s in a moist/cakey form

I guess this could happen with books or music or movies too, but I can’t think of any examples.

This is for Marshall: there is a government site that displays accurate time and you can change your computer setting so it uses a time server that is closer to you and therefore might be more accurate. Here are the locations of the servers. I would like to know where the server that is the default setting in the Windows is. I changed mine and didn’t notice what it was before. The instructions to do this are on page 9 of a pdf file with instructions here. But you have to find the url to fill in from the locations page — (copy and paste the IP address numbers, not the regular name.com thing).

I put a link to about preserving network neutrality and thus the internet on the right sidebar at the bottom. The question is should I help by giving the name of this blog as “joining” the coalition? It might make links or something bad to this blog. MoveOn is supporting this, by the way.

i walked to the library yesterday to watch Jon’s presentation and got there an hour early so got a book and read it until he started his presentation. It was really great.
Since I know nothing about chess I thought I would be bored but he had some of his chess collection there and interspersed showing chess moves with showing and giving the history of some of his chess pieces. He was great. I think that took about an hour. There was a break when he answered questions and then he moved outside to the plaza where tables were set up with 20 chess sets. He played 20 people at once. Players were of all ages from very young to adult. I left before that was over but heard that he had one draw but won the rest. He then played three adults while he was blind folded and he won those matches also. It was a beautiful day and many people were watching. People would wander in and out of the plaza. A young boy played a violin for a while. It was a pleasant afternoon. Jenny said it wasn’t over until 7:00PM. Since it started at 1:00pm it was a long day for Jon.