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Despite the long absence from the blog I’ve not quite disappeared off the face of the earth. Something about the three classes along with working full time, trying to keep up to date with piano lessons, and some extra special surprises have kept me too busy to keep this up to date.

Fear not, though – I have lots of amusing photos stored up from my travels, plans to complete the HL7 browser, plenty of rants to complete and post here.

On an off note – if you’re a friend of mine and have an interest in reading Science Fiction novels, drop me a line – I have a favor to ask.

At the risk of being political, I’m posting a link to an article that my friend Jeff sent me:

http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0403a.asp

It talks about how the Nazis came into power in Germany, even though they never had a majority stake in the Reichstag and Hitler did not win the popular vote. There are some frightening similarities to the situation we find ourselves in now. Leaders using terrorism as an excuse to hold people indefinitely without charge and to allow the erosion of civil liberties. Even if you don’t agree with the parallels between the situation then and what we’re going through now, remember that those who do not know their history are doomed to repeat it – this is good stuff to know.

I’ve been really apathetic about politics thus far in life. It took a leader as bad as Bush to get me off of my ass and to get involved. Hopefully a lot of like-minded people have been similarly spurred into action.

Today I’d like to introduce you to a new category of posts here on nule.org: reviews. (n.b. I’ve moved this from the reviews section in an attempt to make that part more serious.) For our inagural edition we’ll be reviewing a piece I picked up in the least likely of places. This is a work of literature I found in the grocery store checkout aisle stuffed in with the packs of gum. An unlikely place for a work of high literature? You betcha.
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I was feeling the love from other drivers Saturday. I managed to get cut off, have to swerve entirely out of my lane, slam my brakes on, or honk obnoxiously at people no less than seven times. Because I own a beetle, when I honk at them they look angrily at me, then realize that my beetle is so damn cute and they manage to smile and wave at me anyway – which is entirely unsatisfying when I want them to hate me as much as I hate them. In the midst of this storm cloud of bad drivers there was a ray of sunshine that put a big smile on my face for the rest of the day.
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