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Some may say I’m using this election as an excuse for an evening of hookers and booze. These are cynics, however, who do not understand the liberties that make this country great.
— John Moltz, Crazy Apple Rumors Site

And I hope that he realizes that a leader can say he made a mistake without seeming like less of a leader.
— Dave Mancuso, splitfocus.org

Listen, thank you all. I look forward to working with you. I’ve got a question for you. How many of you are going to be here for a second term? Please raise your hand. Good. Gosh, we’re going to have a lot of fun, then. Thank you all.
— George W. Bush, whitehouse.gov (dot gov, not dot com!)

I might play a little rhythm guitar, but I’m not going to sing. I know my limitations.
— John F. Kerry, MSNBC

Look at these studs. We’re just too cool for school, man.

Seriously though, this picture was taken this past spring at REAL World 2004 in Austin, TX. That’s Thomas Reed of BitJuggler on the left, Will Leshner of HaranBanjo in the center, and yours truly of bradrhine.com on the right. Thomas developed Coffee Break Pro, Gaps, App Bundler, and other programs, in addition to his many contributions to the REALbasic community in the form of both open source code and his tireless help on the RB mailing lists. He also helped me figure out how to use eSellerate. Will is the maker of Weblog Poster (which inspired me to write Frequency), KidzMail, and KidzLog. It’s cool to see internet software aimed at kids. What a great idea! He maintains an almost constant presence on the RB mailing lists as well.

I got to know both Thomas and Will online through being involved in the RB community, a close-knit group of professional and hobbyist developers. It was great to get a chance to put their faces and voices with their names and email addresses at REAL World. I was struck by how tall Thomas is. For some reason, I had him pegged as a little guy. But you can see in the picture above that he’s certainly someone I can literally look up to. Will looked pretty much like I figured. I don’t know if he’ll be pleased to read that or not.

Anyway, REAL World 2005 is in the works already. Here’s hoping I get a chance to go again. It was a fantastic conference. I’d really feel like I was missing out if I didn’t go next year.

I would vote for Bush if for no other reason than to be at the airport waving off all the people who say they are going to London if he wins again. Someone has got to stay behind.

see 13918,1340525,00.html” target=”_blank”>Tom Wolfe

Halloween story for nerds: click here.

With the election just hours away, I thought I’d mention a candidate of my own: Tangelo 1.0 Final Candidate 1. You can grab it here if you want to beta test. Unless any significant bugs are found, this is the build that will become 1.0 final. Ahhh, sweet relief. I’ve been working on Tangelo since December (well, since March with the current codebase). Dang, just found two bugs while in the process of writing this post. Crap. Well, they look easy enough. Hopefully I can fix them tonight.

The new version includes some more minor interface improvements and … drum roll please… spell checking, possibly the single most requested feature. The Windows version now ships as an installer, so everything goes in the right places. The Mac version is now a bundle, which was needed to support spell checking.

It’s available for Mac OS X and Windows 2000/XP. If there are any brave 10.2 or Win2000 users out there, it could probably still stand some more testing there.

Thanks to Bill for this tip:

Walt Disney Co.’s Miramax Films unit forged a deal to co-produce animated movies with Wild Brain Inc., adding another Hollywood player to the increasingly competitive world of computer-generated animated feature films. The deal comes amid uncertainty over the future of Miramax and its co-chairmen, Harvey and Bob Weinstein, after repeated clashes with their corporate parent. Disney, Burbank, Calif., has its own partnership with a CGI-animation house, Pixar Animation Studios, but that deal is set to expire in 2005. Disney also plans to make its own computer-animated movies. Miramax and animation company Wild Brain, San Francisco, will kick off their new venture with “Opus,” based on the penguin character from the “Bloom County” comic strip. Miramax, together with Bob Weinstein’s production outfit Dimension Films, will distribute the films and share financing of the movies with Wild Brain, which will animate them. This is Wild Brain’s first move into feature-length movies.

An Opus movie. Now, I’m trying not to get too excited. It could suck. Like The Flintstones or something. But then again, it could be great.

This leads to all sorts of interesting questions, the most important of which is who would voice Opus the Penguin?

The election looms near, although I doubt anyone really believes it will be resolved by this time next week. I expect it will drag on for at least two weeks past November 2.

I may or may not write something up on how and why I’m voting this year, but in the meantime, we can finally discover if Bill is truly White House material by seeing his score on this game. Actually, play it yourself, too. It’s kind of fun.

Thanks to Dave, currently in San Francisco rubbing elbows with the Macintosh elite, for the link.

Vote Bill. A Desperate Choice for Desperate Times. Extra points to anyone who gets the reference.

It just never stops. More spam…

Hi again,

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[address removed]

Thank you.

Best Regards Ina Vang
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My Dearest Ina,
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Thank you.

Best Regards Brad Rhine

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Song: “Superman’s Dead”
Artist: Our Lady Peace
Album: Clumsy

Sad to see him go. We can make all kinds of cheesy Superman jokes, but let’s face it: the guy died with dignity. In the face of debilitating injury, his courage was inspirational.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable. – Christopher Reeve.

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