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Total 212,888/230,000 (to make 300,000 this year)

Current work:
editing Glad Hands
editing Niko-Chan

Movies 31-32

The P/F is whether it passes or fails the Bechdel Test 1) there must be 2 female characters, 2)who talk to each other, 3) about something besides a man.

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An interesting encounter

This week I bumped into an interesting driver. I showed him a little about how doubles and lift-gates worked. He looked and asked "Where are you originally from? You have the most interesting accent."

Turns out he used to program speech recognition software with the major American accents. Apparently mine is midwestern, with a heavy TV overlay.

I told him that I learned to talk in rural Missouri and learned not to talk like a hick by watching TV. He said the TV overlay was common among whites between the age of 50 and 25. After that, there were enough dialects on TV that most people didn't lose their accents.

*headdesk*

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/05/palin-misquotes-albright_n_131967.html

At a rally on Saturday in California, Sarah Palin offered up a rather jarring argument for supporting the Republican ticket. "There's a place in Hell reserved for women who don't support other women," the Alaska Governor said, claiming she was quoting former Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.


Governor Palin?
Let's see:
Allowed rape-victims to be charged for rape-kits
Is against allowing raped incest victims abortions
IgnoranceAbstinance-Only teaching
Cut funding for services to families of special needs kids
In bed with CWA and the Eagle Forum

We have your seat in The Special Hell reserved.

A song for Bristol and her "F'ing Redneck"

I think of that poor kid every time I hear this:

Since I listen to a classic country station, I hear it a LOT.