I had a great time at Foxwoods over the weekend, for Scott Weller's bachelor party. The night started at Union Station Brewery, where I had a surprisingly good meal. We then took a strech Hummer on a 45 minute ride down to Foxwoods. Usually I'm a little disgusted by the over-the-top ridiculousness of a stretch Hummer, but it was kinda neat to ride in side.

Anyway, I have a few "incriminating" photos, which knowing Scott, aren't incriminating at all. It is a bachelor party, so you will be seeing pleny of male-ness that you may or may not be comfortable with. Also note, that any women wanting to know what really happens at a bachelor party will be dissappointed.

Scott Weller's Bachelor Party

Wired News: Inside Look at Birth of the IPod

Knauss said Jobs' influence was sometimes idiosyncratic. For example, the iPod is louder than most MP3 players because Jobs is partly deaf, he said. "They drove the sound up so he could hear it," Knauss said.

Its funny how Steve Jobs' genius can shine through, even in the most accidental ways. Because of his partial deafness (no doubt due to listening to loud music in his acid-dropping days) the iPod is probably one of the few mp3 players that is perfectly audible on a very loud subway train. This fact, combined with the very conspicuous earphones and overall design, leads to a very powerful advertisement when you see 4 or 5 people on a given subway car all listening to their iPods.

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So, a friend of mine started a political internet consulting company called Blue State Digital with some former members of Howard Dean's campaign. Apparently, one of their projects was the Democratic Majority Makers, which is an effort to organize a grassroots network to help get a Democratic Majority in Congress. It's supporting the DCCC, which is trying to ensure that the Democrats field a candidate in every district, and provide money and support for close races all over the country.

While I know not all of you who read this have leftward leanings, I would appreciate it if those of you who do could go and sign up. If you want to, please give a little money to the DCCC so that we restore a measure of fiscal sanity to Congress.

So, we made the big move from Davis Sq. to Arlington over the weekend. This allowed us to completely skip out on helping Dave move, of course, but I think we paid the price; my back, hands and feet are all killing me. The mover's were awesome though, I was just amazed that 3 guys could move us so fast. They started at 8:30, and were completely done at 11. The house is a complete mess right now of course, we've got a lot of boxes left to unpack. We might be fairly close to done by the end of the week.

In other news, I see in the newspaper this morning that the US Election Assistance Commission is requesting the authority to delay federal elections from Congress. The Commission claims that the power is necessary in case there is an attack designed to "disrupt the election." Not that I'm any sort of Constitutional expert, but this might be legally possible, the only thing that seems to be required by the constitution is that the Electors all give their votes on the same day, as determined by Congress.

It seems to me that if the purpose of cancelling or delaying the election is to make sure that it is not 'disrupted', then you're not really doing the job, right? Wouldn't delaying or cancelling the election be extremely disruptive? Yes, that's a rhetorical question. I said a long time ago, that the only way that Bush would stay in office is if we didn't have an election this fall. Now that possibility seems frighteningly more possible.

I picked this up from Alton Brown's Good Eats.

• Start with a good proportion of liquid to egg. About 1 tbsp per egg. I use water, or skim milk. Add a little salt and beat.
• Put a small pan on low heat. Melt some butter in the pan. As soon as it starts to foam a little put in the eggs.
• Stir everything around. I've got a heat resistant spatula that I use that works really well. Once things start to coagulate a little, that is as you're stirring, you see large portions that are of a different consistency, crank the heat up to high.
• Stir everything more vigorously now. Well, Alton says to shake the pan instead, but I've got a heavy skillet, so I just keep stirring with my spatula. As soon as there is no more liquid take it off the heat. It will look undercooked. That is the point. By the time you get it to the plate, everything will be cooked up nice and fluffly.

Laura and I picked up the keys to our new place tonight. The back door key doesn't quite work yet. The deadbolt will only lock if the key is inserted. Its a new deadbolt, so hopefully the landlord will fix it soon! They seem like really nice people, they surprised us with a new built-in dishwasher in our apartment. I seriously did not expect that at all. However, they did throw away the washing machine we were planning on using (it was left there by the penultimate tenants), so we'll have to take a trip to buy a new one. I just hope the refrigerator doesn't go as well, as that would be a pain to replace. The new place seems really big. Sure it doesn't have anything in it yet, but I think the layout results in much more useful space. Right now we have a pretty big apartment, but there's so much wasted useless space in the kitchen and I guess would be the dining room.

Pictures of our new apartment