Nope, he's at the book fair and, without permission, he brought all his money to school and wants to buy a $20 Lego book, and the cashier insisted he call for permission first.

Oh, the kinds of trouble he will get when he has an amazon acct.

Very cute.

During the hurricane, I think it was, there was a map on Boston.com (a popular website, as you might imagine) that didn't work in IE. OK, I get it -- I should download a different browser, but come ON. That seemed ridiculous to me.

A completely neat thing Occupy Wall Street is doing: buying up delinquent debt then writing it off.

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It makes me wish I had a couple of hundred spare dollars to send them.

interesting. I wonder how the people whose debt is purchased and forgiven find out.

I really like the idea of micro-loans to help people out of debt, but I think it should be tied to some financial education also. Ramsey or Orman courses or somesuch.

I looked through that site of Romney's supporters and campaign workers mourning and I do feel sorry for them. I think they chose wrongly, but my heart goes out to them for being so sad and distraught. And I heard about the staff credit cards being cut off - that's just tacky. Also petty and mean; I'm assuming no one thought through what it was going to mean for people trying to get home afterwards - hope no one needed to take a plane home from the campaign - but it seems of a whole with the inability to think through what something means to people who don't have a lot of money to fall back on. Or even enough cash on hand for a cab ride.

I read that his staffers are getting paid through November, and the Romney campaign's first order of business is now helping them with their resumes. I'd like to think that credit card thing was just an isolated stuff-up.

(I also read that the Secret Service packed up Romney's detail immediately. He arrived to his HQ in a fifteen-car motorcade; he left in the back of a single car, driven by Tagg.

It is named ORCA? Like the whale?

I'm getting my pedant on. Technically, it's not a whale; it's the world's largest porpoise.

Big ass snow flakes silently falling down outside. It's very pretty and I don't have to drive anywhere. I think I'll light some candles and incense.

For those not sick of election discussion yet:

Mitt Romney's disastrous ground game and 7 other behind-the-scenes revelations - The Week

Or like the Seattle area transit cards. Of course, since they are ORCA cards as "one regional card for all" I always think of them in my head as "one card to rule them all", even if that would be OCRA instead.

A look at Orca from a techie perspective: [link]

As long as we're sharing links, this is the one that sends me to my happy place: [link]