Wine Labels Aren’t This Bad…
As a follow up to yesterday’s rant about Monster cable, here is my favorite tagline from their description of the grandiosely named Interlink® LightSpeed™ 100 High Performance Digital Fiber Optic Cable:
High velocity of propagation for less time smear.
No crap. It’s light. Its “velocity of propagation” is pretty darn high. Yes, they are selling this cable based on the fact that light travels quite fast. Sigh.
Anyway, I shan’t let that bother me. I just finished a very annoying cell biology prelim (even as a big old and supposedly wise graduate student I am Shanghaied into taking classes to satisfy the grant gods at NIH) and am now relaxing with a couple of beers and super-tuesday MkII results on the telly. All this election stuff is pretty exciting, a lot more so than the ye olde English stylee stuff from back home. The Americans really get into it all way in advance, instead of being all blasé and polite and basically boring. Maybe it’s just because I’m more aware of the process at this ripe old age.
Currently it looks like nothing much on the interesting (i.e. Democratic) side of things is happening, all two of them are still statistically tied. The big take-home message for me is that thank god my constituency doesn’t have lots of people in it. I cast my vote in about three seconds, whereas those poor kids in Texas are standing on tables and indulging in “organized chaos”.
Hooray for the boonies!