Aaron Winborn

My mom forwarded this to me. I usually don't get too many of this type of email from other relatives since they're mostly republican--and I tend to reply back fact checking them. But it's interesting to me to see this type of stuff flying around from the dem side... and I agree with it completely.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Sacred Soaps <sacredsoaps@yahoo.com>
Date: Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 10:54 AM
Subject: Obama/Biden vs. McCain/Palin: November is coming
To: My mom and 999 other people...

"I'm a little confused.  Let me see if I have this straight...

    * If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different."
    * Grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, a quintessential American story.
    * If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.
    * Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, and you're a maverick.
    * Graduate from Harvard law School and be President of the Law Review, and you are unstable.
    * Attend 5 different small colleges in 6 years before graduating, you're well grounded.
    * If you spend 3 years as a community organizer, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
    * If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.
    * If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
    * If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.
    * If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
    * If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option-even in the case of incest or rape, in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible.
    * If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's.
    * If your husband is nicknamed "First Dude," with at least one DUI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

OK, it's all much clearer now.

Jack Weingarten"

I bought a Mac mini last week to use as a work computer--now that I've got some income I'm finally appreciating the idea of a "work expense". I didn't spring for the RAM upgrade since I felt pretty ripped off after doing that for the MacBook.

Apple only sells them with 2GB of RAM but I'd read that you could upgrade them to 3GB. I figured what the fuck I'll just buy the 4GB and stick it all in and see what happens. Well the good news is that--as you can see from the screen shot--it'll use all 4GB.

If you do try to do the home upgrade read through this RAM upgrade walk through but skip their advice for getting the case off and watch this video instead. It has a much better technique that resulted in zero scratches. Be really careful putting it back together though, I tried to rush that and bent some of the tabs in the back so it doesn't seat quite right now.