Of course, now I'm going to be sorely disappointed when the voting machine doesn't make the Law and Order "chunk chunk" noise.

Dude, I'll bet that would get people faster to the polls than Arizona's million dollars. (Go erika, choose erika!)

I'm still trying to decide if I'm going to vote before or after work. Considering my relationship with early mornings, I think after work is going to win by default.

I can't bear to take that chance, waiting all day for whatever crisis would keep me stuck at work and out of my voting district.

Since you're discussing voting machines, have folks here read Black Box Voting? It's certainly interesting research, especially the section on how the Diebold machines create a secondary copy of the voting data in order to tally votes.

Huh. Ocean Spray is setting up a cranberry bog outside my building this week.

Huh.

A cranberry bog? C'est quoi ca?

ME: That is so a shout-out!

Of course I'm a freak and miss the productive typewriter clack, too.they should make that an option, on word processors.

See, there's next to no chance that there will be a crisis keeping me at the office past 4:30pm, whereas it's highly likely I'll hit snooze a whole bunch tomorrow morning.

Huh. Ocean Spray is setting up a cranberry bog outside my building this week.

We had some of that here last week.

It could only be improved if each voting machine came with a monkey that started shrieking once you placed your vote.

And risk his voice before he delivered his acceptance speech?

You mean the part where I said your name just then?

Cranberry bog - kind of sandy, marshy areas where the berries grow on vines, and to harvest them the flood the bogs to bring all the berries to the surface where they can just scoop them up.

How this will all translate to a plaza in downtown Chicago I have no clue.

Cranberry bogs are bouncy!