Your signature is your ID.
When you register to vote, your signature is placed on file.
When you go to vote, you sign in and your signature is compared to the registration.
If it matches, you can vote. If it doesn’t match, you can prove who you are or cast a provisional ballot pending identification.
Budget?
Books are always a good choice, but depending on how much you like them… ;)
https://www.foliosociety.com/usa/howl-s-moving-castle-collection.html
vs.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/howls-moving-castle-diana-wynne-jones/1100638381
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/castle-in-the-air-diana-wynne-jones/1102542364
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/house-of-many-ways-diana-wynne-jones/1103371092
American, dies in America. Not World News. Good for just regular News though!
Already watching… Dixville Notch voted an hour ago. 3-3 tie.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/05/politics/dixville-notch-new-hampshire-2024-results/index.html
Don’t forget how the bad guy is just a bigger, badder version of the hero.
Yeah! We demand something original and compelling! Like Megalopolis!
Oh, wait…
https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt10128846/?ref_=bo_se_r_1
If Trump gets elected, and he mass deports millions of people, there will be a surge in construction demand.
Call in sick 3 days a week.
Dolphins are scary smart and would figure out how to game the system:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2003/jul/03/research.science
I liked the first one well enough. 3rd one came out and I had absolutely ZERO recollection of the 2nd one. I know I watched it, it just made no impression on me good or bad.
Watched it a 2nd time and was expecting to go “Oh, yeah, I remember this now…”
Nope. Blank slate. I don’t think I watched the 3rd one. Even now, knowing I watched the 2nd one twice, I still don’t recall any of it.
Apparently common in Asians, weird for me not being Asian.
When I was a kid, working in a mall, there was this french fry place across from us that made AMAZING french fries, with this house made dijon sauce. Just phenomenal.
You could buy a POUND of fries, so the other guys and me on the shift would get a pound and split it.
Except I’d get sick from eating them. Only me, the other guys were fine.
OK, process of elimination…
Fries by themselves? Fine.
Fries w/ ketchup? Fine.
Fries w/ dijon sauce? Horribly sick, puking, the whole bit.
Now, you might already know, dijon sauce is made with white wine.
Ok, maybe it’s the alcohol? I don’t drink so… let’s test the theory…
Had A beer. One. Within 30 to 45 minutes I was throwing up everything I had eaten since I was 12. Was sick for 3 days.
Turns out, my liver doesn’t have the enzymes to correctly process alcohol.
Alcohol -> Enzymes -> Acetaldehyde
I have those, Acetaldehyde is what makes you sick when you’re hung over. Cousin to formaldehyde.
Acetaldehyde -> Enzymes -> Sugar and water.
Those I’m missing. :(
If you want to end the war in Gaza, vote Harris.
If you want to accelerate it until everyone is dead and the war ends faster, vote Trump, 3rd party, or abstain.
It’s really that simple.
They will move the goalposts to whatever the issue of the day is. “Buh, buh… Gaza!”
“When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different.”
https://theweek.com/speedreads/575962/donald-trump-tells-biographer-hes-same-now-first-grade
Fun fact… Fred Grandy (Gopher) went on to become a United States Congressman from Iowa.
Drive your car like it doesn’t have brakes. Treat it like a boat.
When you get parked, knock the snow and ice out of the wheel wells before you start driving again.
It’s a modern repro of a 1958 Philco Predicta. The tube and electronics are all Phillips. I spent a little extra to get Component and S-Video inputs on it. It’s a full color television. :)
My plan had been to buy an original and fix it up, but the originals are FULL of paper capacitors and each one has to be replaced. :( It was actually cheaper ($2,500 counting freight) to buy the repro in 2001.
Dropped a Tom Swifty on my wife… the other day.
“They want me to check in at the hospital…”
“She said admittedly.”
I got “the look”.
I’d think the signature would be way harder to fake than an ID. Nobody signs my name like I do, but I bet there are plenty of bad ID photos that kinda/sorta look like me.