Nice

If I had known about the 143(!) page California official voter information guide before, I wouldn't have complained so much about that alleged clean energy proposition that I couldn't find out any detailed information about. It's got quick summaries, more detailed arguments for and against the propositions, and even the full text. The actual text is really nice to have . . . in most cases.

The text of proposition 5 goes on for 20 pages of close spaced type (out of 61 that detail all 12 propositions in this section) and proposition 6 is another 14 of them. I'm tempted to vote against them just for that, but I'm going to set aside the time to plow through them. The only saving grace these things have is that they're revisions of existing codes, so their complexity is at least partially the fault of the codes being modified. I still think we'd be better off with the "Plain Speech Amendment" from Heinlein's "Over The Rainbow--"

How dissapointing

Last Thursday I mentioned the band Mogwai. Today I encountered something that lowered my opinion of them some. Does this tune sound familiar to anyone? (as usual, just ignore the video) How about now?

Sure, it's a simple tune. Sure, it may even have been developed independently from the same principles since both bands play around with the mathematics behind the music. But that's a lot more similarity than I've heard in some things that have been take to court over infringement.

Oh, and the Mogwai one is from 2001 while the other is from 1994.



Edit: Also, the static is part of the track, not anything to do with the quality of that video, so I was already predisposed to dislike this tune even before I remembered why it seemed familiar.