Progress is Steady, But Not Linear

LWJ and I were at Dos Coyotes last night. I brought up the Republican debate, wherein three of the candidates said they didn't believe in evolution.

LWJ, the perfect foil for this post, was aghast. Why, I replied, would you be aghast when half the American public doesn't believe in evolution.

There I am, in a restaurant, having to provide chapter and verse (irony intended) on the ignorance of the American public.

Frankly, I don't care if they believe in evolution any more than I care if they believe in gravity. It is what it is.

And ignorance doesn't have to be permanent. Progress is steady, but not linear.

A hundred years ago, children worked the mills of this country. Women couldn't vote, nationally, until 1920. And today, some folks are still trying to disenfranchise voters. And of those three Republican candidates opposing evolution, none were among the top tier. Even if a Republican wins in 2008, we will make progress.

It's a sick joke

The deadline is today, if you're filing for an extension.
The deadline is tomorrow if you're not.

By definition, if you're filing an extension, you need more time. So, they give you less.

Senior Ball

The first pic is Molly arriving downstairs. Please note the 4D mug. (She's been fighting off a cold and was sipping tea in advance of the Jordan's arrival.)

Both sets of parents and one grandma were on hand to help got the corsage in the lapel.

She's not home yet...
(she arrived a half hour after I posted this.)

Google Desktop

Doesn't look like a keeper. It's taken days to fully index and is taking a boat load of disk space to do so:
drw-------   13 root  wheel       442B Apr  7 17:47 .drwxr-xr-x    3 root  wheel       102B Apr  4 07:27 ..-rw-rw--w-    1 root  wheel       329B Apr  7 12:35 Volinfo.plist-rw-r-----    1 root  wheel        40K Apr  7 16:59 indexr1_btesmam-rw-r-----    1 root  wheel        28B Apr  7 16:59 indexr1_btesmao-rw-r-----    1 root  wheel       477M Apr  7 17:22 indexr1_db-rw-r-----    1 root  wheel       160K Apr  7 17:23 indexr1_db-journal-rw-r-----    1 root  wheel       576M Apr  7 17:47 indexr1_fti-rw-r-----    1 root  wheel        10M Apr  7 17:47 indexr1_fti-journal-rw-r-----    1 root  wheel        32K Apr  7 12:35 indexr1_prop-rw-r-----    1 root  wheel       512B Apr  7 12:35 indexr1_prop-journal-rw-r-----    1 root  wheel       594M Apr  7 16:52 indexr1_repo-rw-r-----    1 root  wheel        32K Apr  7 17:23 indexr1_repo-journal

(and you have to su root to see this much info.. it's not exposed via the gui that I've seen.)

Two Links

If you work on web sites and you're graphically-challenged, as I am, you'll appreciate this:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/kuler/

It's a color theme suggester. If you want to know which colors go with which, or need some inspiration, this is the tool.

Just last week I consulted a graphics person because a web site I was working on looked goofy. My resource gave me some tips that helped. Next time, I can just use Kuler.

On a different theme, Shorpy is a site that presents images of working people and their life. It's named for Shorpy Higginbotham, a child mine-worker from the early 1900s.

This photo caught my eye.