last week, jer’s video card seemed like it went out on him, and, thinking it was a hardware conflict of some sort, he swapped out his Hercules card for my ATI, and swapped his sony flat panel for my hitachi, since the hitachi has dv out and his sony one doesn’t. anyway, the monitor-card switch seemed to work for a couple of days. then the hercules\/sony combo went out on my machine, and we thought we were S.O.L.<\/p>\n
we tried it again tonight, and thankfully, it looks like it might be a cable issue rather than a card issue. the hercules-sony combo is working all right for now; we’ll look for a new cable tomorrow to replace this possibly faulty one.<\/p>\n
so anyway, i had some stuff i wanted to record from this weekend:<\/p>\n
– bumper sticker spotted on a ford explorer: “AMERICAN: NON-HYPHENATED!” complete with an American flag in one corner and a bald eagle in the other. now, there’s nothing inherently wrong with the statement, because you could also use it to mean “We’re all American, regardless of what color we are.” But in this instance, paired with Harley Davidson and NRA stickers, it’s clearly intended to reserve non-hyphenated Americanism for the rednecks of this country. I mean.. what’s that supposed to mean? as if you’re not white, then you’ll never be American? There are some fourth generation Japanese people living in this state, longer than some European immigrants who consider themselves “white” and “American.” Will these 4th generation immigrants ever not be looked at by skin color and be considered “American” because they look Asian? And who says these European immigrants should lose their ethnic identities and be automatically assumed to be American? It’s just not that simple.<\/p>\n
– spotted while driving along the 110 freeway: bulletholes in a ford windstar minivan. we’re pretty sure they were real. they didn’t look like the applique ones you can buy in a store.<\/p>\n
… and that’s all i can think of for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
last week, jer’s video card seemed like it went out on him, and, thinking it was a hardware conflict of some sort, he swapped out his Hercules card for my ATI, and swapped his sony flat panel for my hitachi, since the hitachi has dv out and his sony one doesn’t. anyway, the monitor-card switch … <\/p>\n