work Well, I'm off again today, but I'm having a quarterly audit of the account I manage at work conducted on Monday, so I'm about to go to 'my' cafe downtown and make sure the spreadsheet lines up. At last count it didn't but that was because of some programming problems... think I got all of those settled. It was raining hard this morning but I think it's calmed down a little, which is good because I still don't have my car fixed.
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Got pissed off on MySpace yesterday... a friend of mine in California who is a well-thought and educated Liberal, as opposed to those who haven't thought through what they're saying (I'm a Libertarian... I don't like most of the rubberstamp Liberals or Conservatives that just go around parroting off their approved talking points; to sum it up in a bumpersticker I didn't write, "Under Republicans, Man Exploits Man; Under Democrats, It's Just the Opposite") posted an appeal for the annual 'Gas Boycott', the one that says that if we all just don't buy gas for one day, we'll rob the oil companies of millions of dollars in lost revenue. My views on the subject are summed up pretty well here but let me just add that I just want to know if the person who started this thing really thinks that the oil company executives are going to be sitting in their board rooms Tuesday evening, biting their fingernails and screaming "We didn't make any money today! Now we can't buy gas for tomorrow!" Now, if people would join me in bike commuting (which is hard to do in this country, or at least harder than it is to do in Japan) and boycotted gas for a week or a month, that might actually make a difference. The whole idea of a boycott is to show that you're willing to seriously inconvenience yourself in order to make a point. Montgomery, Alabama, the bus boycott? They did that for over a year (not just one day of saying 'let's not take the bus and show them!') and many of them were beaten, harassed, even arrested for operating "unlicensed taxis"... on top of that, the ones who didn't run into trouble were still often walking ten to twenty miles a day, on top of the backbreaking work they did all day. That was a boycott.
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Movies... watched Tideland last night because I'm a big ass Terry Gilliam fan. The best rating I can give it is 'eh...' The imagery was great as always, and the acting was the best I'd seen in one of his movies since The Fisher King. Phenomenal acting. But the story just dragged and dragged and dragged. There was no dramatic energy to it whatsoever. Really disappointed.
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