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I built a bed.

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The Bedframe I Built, originally uploaded by snarkhunt.

I got a bed from my buddy Sol. It was huge and too big for my bedframe. So I built one with my neighbor Matt Scott.
The central bit is built out of 2X4 douglass pine in a ladder frame sort of way.
The sides are sanded oak veneer plywood.
The legs are 4X4s, I forget what.
Behold my craftyness!
Click through the picture for a bigger view and notes on how it was made.

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Surveil me better

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I’ve joined the travel site dopplr. It’s pretty simple. Put in trips, connect through them. Useful for the frequent flying types that I’m supposed to become soon. You can see the little badge over there on the left telling you that I’ll be in Mount Snow this weekend.

Except that it tells you West Rutland, because neither Mount Snow or West Dover are understood as places by Dopplr. I picked a town near Killington, but that seems a bit lame to me.

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Why?

Alex Barnett is someone who writes amazing ideas about technology, and he’s written why he would vote for Obama if he could. It’s not too long. One of the reasons that I’m starting to shed my cynicism about the process and get excited is that these smart nuanced positions that Obama takes don’t see to be entirely empty rhetoric. There’s some meat there. I don’t know if the guy can implement any of it, but trying is a damn sight better than not.

I always tell my friends to vote based on ideas. Vote for who you really want, because your little vote only matters to you and matters in an aggregate. That’s why when I had some crap choices I was one of the guys who voted for Nader.

But if you think about this election as a horse race, I’d urge you to take ten minutes to watch Larry Lessig’s presentation on “winnability.”