Giuliani just said “We RAN a good campaign.” While he did not come right out and say “I’m dropping out,” it sounds like he’s done.

*does happy dance*

One down, three to go. Who are we gunning¹ for next? I’m thinking Romney. If he got elected, he could actually get things done, and that’s a threat.

EDIT: Mitt is talking now. He just said: “Our jobs are being sought by new competitors - countries like Asia, and India.”

*blink*

I bet The Iraq is seeking them, too…

¹Disclaimer: With recognition of the fact my blog has an AR-15 as a header, I feel the need to point out I am not literally gunning for anybody. I’m using the term metaphorically. Simma down now, Secret Service.

So I was taking a geek quiz last night (me = too much free time) and ran across a question about who came up with /(bb|[^b]{2})/.

Now… I knew the Slashdot slogan, I knew the name of the ship in Firefly, and I certainly knew who shot first. I knew enough to score 66%, which I’d say is a fairly accurate representation of my geek level.

But I still don’t know what in the hell /(bb|[^b]{2})/ is, and Google let me down because of all the symbols in it. So, blogfans? Help?

EDIT: Geeks to the rescue! Paul responded on LJ in about .000003 seconds, pointing me to regular expressions. Once I figured that out (kinda) I figured out the inside joke. Awesome!

EDIT #2: Ahaha… now I’m looking around ThinkGeek, which I don’t do nearly enough, and coveting all the awesome shirts. Like this! And this! And I really need to break down and buy this… And oh em gee this is just the mother of all awesome shirts.

Follow that? Let’s run down the line, one reason each, for now - I’ll even give Alan Keyes a shout-out:

• RUDY GIULIANI:
  

• MITT ROMNEY:
  MR. RUSSERT: So the assault ban that expired here because Congress didn’t act on it, you would support?
  GOV. ROMNEY: Just as the president said, he would have, he would have signed that bill if it came to his desk, and so would have I. And, and, and yet I also was pleased to have the support of the NRA when I ran for governor. I sought it, I seek it now. I’d love to have their support. I believe in the right of Americans to bear arms… SOURCE - Dec. 16, 2007

• MIKE HUCKABEE:
  “I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution,” Huckabee told a Michigan audience on Monday. “But I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And that’s what we need to do — to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than try to change God’s standards so it lines up with some contemporary view.” SOURCE (With video) - Jan. 14, 2008

• ALAN KEYES:
  Marriage is the God-ordained covenant between one woman and one man that provides the essential societal support for families.
  As we look at attempts to change that definition, we need to be very, very clear that it’s not a question of being against individuals, per se. It’s a question of looking at traditional marriage and what it requires, and saying we cannot allow, in principle, an understanding of marriage that excludes procreation.
  Because, that was God’s plan. Marriage exists for the sake of procreation, for the commitment made, man and woman, to God’s will as it is then exemplified in the child when the two become one flesh, and that is also a commitment of responsibility and self-sacrifice for the sake of respecting God’s will for the future. SOURCE

• JOHN MCCAIN:
  On April 2, 2001, the Senate passed S. 27, the McCain-Feingold bill, in the latest effort to enact campaign finance reform. That bill would regulate virtually all spending on speech by national political parties; regulate vast tracts of speech by state political parties; ban ever-increasing amounts of speech by business corporations, nonprofit organizations, and labor unions; and force disclosure of the individual identities of persons engaging in many types of political speech or political association. SOURCE

So let’s see. We have two candidates who don’t know what the 2nd Amendment means, and three candidates who don’t know what the 1st Amendment means. Since I don’t believe you can trust candidates that pick and choose which parts of the Bill of Rights they want to pay attention to, it appears The Guys Who Aren’t Ron Paul are batting a solid .000.

To move to Alaska. (For at least a while.)

Discuss.

Have any of you guys ever used a VoIP service? Our AT&T cell phones (which are our only phones) barely work at our house - they’re constantly cutting out and/or dropping calls. I’m sick of it and want to scale back our cell phone plan and get some sort of home phone. The cheapest plan with the local service (Verizon) is comparable to Vonage, but Verizon only includes very local calling. I’m trying to get the most bang for my buck, but spend the fewest bucks, so I think VoIP might be the most cost-effective option.

We have DSL, so our connection should be fast enough for any VoIP. The only services I’m familiar with are Skype and Vonage. Any reviews? Other suggestions?

Filed under “People I Definitely Did Not Have On My Death Watch” - Heath Ledger.

Well. That sucks.

Now WTF are they going to do about The Dark Knight? I don’t think they’d wrapped filming on that yet.

It’s currently 2.6 degrees in my neck of the woods.

The current “ALERT” text reads: SC EXIT POLLS: MCCAIN, HUCKABEE LOCKED IN TIGHT RACE

Directly below that, on the scrolling results ticker, it reads:

South Carolina Primary
MCCAIN 8 21%
PAUL 7 18%
HUCKABEE 6 16%

Um… WTF does that even mean?

ETA #1: Okay, they’re updating now, and making more sense…

ETA #2: Paul is (by a wide margin, mind you) 2nd place in Nevada and they haven’t so much as said his name thus far on this broadcast. Also, I hate Chris Wallace.

ETA #3: Okay, Brit Hume finally mentioned him in Nevada… the way he said it makes me think Fox was already getting pissed off calls from Paul supporters bitching about him not being mentioned. Ahh… politics make me LOL. :)

I don’t have time to mess with the exposure on these, and the MacBook’s built-in iSight isn’t exactly a DSLR. (The battery in my point-and-shoot just died, and I have to find the charger.)

Anyway, if any of you want to futz with the balance, go for it. But in the interest of haste, here’s the hair (and more behind the cut):

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I’ll tell you what: Citizen, Arm Thyself is a tough act to follow. Heck - my grandma knows about the Instalanche. (Hi, Grandma!) So, after pondering various topics in metaphysics and game theory and quantum cryptography, I decided to not even try.

Thus, this post is about hair.

I am not one of those chicks that likes doing her hair. You know the type - the girl who, in high school, got up at 4 am to set her hair in hot rollers. (Yeah, Laura, I’m looking at you!) Even if I wanted to be that girl, my hair would not cooperate. It takes a full can of hairspray to get it to stay other-than-straight for more than four or five seconds.

You only think I’m exaggerating.

Anyway, I have nice hair. It’s just very brown, and very straight, and quite sleek and thick. I tend to chop it all off to chin-length, hate it, grow it back out to some significant length, hate it, and chop it all off again. Rinse, repeat. (Pun intended.)

I dyed my hair once, when I was 15. I got a free sample of some new hair dye in a not-quite-natural shade of red (my mom said it looked like movie theater seat cushions) and tried it out. I thought it was alright, but I didn’t want to fall into the vicious cycle of continuous hair upkeep. I don’t care that much.

Lately I’ve been in a long-straight-brown phase. The upside to long hair is the ability to do different things with it. The downside is my complete lack of interest in doing anything with it… so it winds up in some fashion of messy bun/ponytail thing, thus defeating the purpose of having long hair in the first place.

Anyway, long story short, I was bored and decided to dye my hair black. We were grocery shopping and I, on a whim, picked up a box of semi-permanent “midnight black” hair dye. I was tempted to try the not-quite-natural shade of red again, but they didn’t have it in semi-permanent, and I once again didn’t want to fall into the constant-upkeep trap.

So I get home, don an old t-shirt, mix the gunk up, follow the directions, pray I come out looking more Bettie Page than Morticia Adams…

…And come to find out, my hair is already really dark. Dark enough that, after dying it black, I barely notice a difference. Nobody else has noticed a difference (other than Mike, but he knew I was doing it). For crying out loud - I dye my hair a supposedly dramatic color, and I get nothin’!

Now, instead of just giving up and returning to hair mediocrity, I’m more tempted than ever to invest in goodies from Manic Panic and just go for it. I’m seriously considering something along these lines.

I’m just such a damn chicken… mostly because I don’t want to fry my hair. (Question, to those of you better-versed in this stuff: Is it possible to permanently fry your hair, or are you always a grow-out away from normalcy?) I don’t want to have to constantly re-do my hair. I am just so bored with it.

…I have no idea why I just wrote this entry. Instapundit, eat your heart out!