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My Freshman and Sophomore Dorm

Ivan sends over a story about the place where he, I and several others spent some time while we were in college. I note we were a bit slow on the pickup though.

Victim, suspect in Shadyside homicide identified
(Pittsburgh Post Gazette, 30 May 2008)

The Allegheny County medical examiner’s office has identified the 18-year-old woman who was stabbed to death last night in her Shadyside apartment.

The victim was identified as Lisa Maas, of Erie.

Last night, police took into Terrence Andrews, 37, into custody.

Both were tenants in the Hampshire Hall apartments at 4730 Centre Ave. where the stabbing occurred.

Fun. Our university, by the way, has not rented space in this building in many many years now.

Really, Please Stop, K?

Although I care about all five of these lines to some degree, I care most about the blue line. Down 46% over the last year as of the last close. I am really very ready for it to start going up again now please. Unfortunately, the amount I have in the yellow line is trivial. Oh well.

TSO 2008

Mail Backlog

Oh, and I haven’t even looked at my personal email in several days. Since election night, my time on the computer at home has been less than maybe 10 minutes a day. Essentially, I’ve been taking some time off of that as well. So if you’ve sent me email or even posted comments on my blog or such, I may well have not even looked at it yet, and I most definitely haven’t answered. Sorry about that. I’ll catch up eventually.

All Hands 9

Ten

It is 10:00 UTC. Ten hours after the first states got called. We are still waiting for three. Don’t know why they are taking so long, but I think I need to try to nap at least a little bit. Just watch though, 10 minutes after I decide to put my head on a pillow, they’ll start calling states again, and that would annoy me. I’ll try to check on the status of those three states periodically while I sleep, but I’m not sure how well that will work.

In the mean time, I’ll leave you with this:

My Old Counties

Places I have lived:

King County, WA (2006-Present): Obama
Brevard County, FL (2004-2006): McCain
Bucks County, PA (2003-2004): Obama
Middlesex County, NJ (1997-2003): Obama
Alexandria, VA (1995-1997): Obama
Allegheny County, PA (1989-1995): Obama
Frederick County, MD (1984-1989): McCain
Durham County, NC (1973,1976-1982,1983-1984): Obama
Washington, DC (1983): Obama
Marion County, IN (1982): Obama
Dane County, WI (1971-1973): Obama

Two of these things are not like the others.

Catch Up

OK, now that I have time to breath while waiting for these last five states to be called, I can look at the 936 items that have built up in my Google reader while I was tracking the results, or the 137 emails I’ve gotten in that same time period. (Yeah, most of those are automated mails I get whenever I make blog posts, of which I’ve done a few tonight. :-)

But still, lots to catch up on.

I hope those last five states get called quickly though. In the last 30 minutes, I’ve actually started to think that maybe I’ll be able to sleep tonight after all. :-)

People Watching

Wow. More than 40 people looking at this site right now. Most of them on the Electoral College Prediction page, but a bunch wandering around elsewhere too. This is a new record for this site.

5 Minutes

ARRGGH! Tick Tock! Tick Tock!