November, 5, 2002 archives

member, state board of equalization, 4th district

• kenneth a. weissman, libertarian
• john chiang, democratic
• glen r. forsch, republican

state board of what? too many elected positions.

united states representative, 28th district

• kelley l. ross, libertarian
• david r. hernandez, jr., republican
• howard l. berman, democratic

well, berman is clearly out. ross froths at the mouth too much. my kingdom for a none of the above choice.

member of the state assembly, 43rd district

• ingrid geyer, republican
• sandor j. woren, libertarian
• dario frommer, democratic

frommer got $5,000 from disney, so he's clearly not my guy, but i can't find any info on the other two. did i mention something about a none of the above choice?

too many judge positions to count

they're kidding, right?

county measure a is a bond measure that would issue up to $250 million in bonds to pay for bring the natural history museum and other county museums to earthquake and fire standards (while requiring them to raise $250 million in private donations for the same, and providing 50% more free admission for student groups and children). nice goal, stupid way to fund it.

county measure b would impose a 3¢/ft² tax on buildings to maintain and expand the county trauma network. i really don't like the text of the measure (it is a heavy-handed play of the terrorism card), so i won't vote for it.

school measure k would allow the issue of $3.35 billion in bonds for a whole swath of school issues. schools good, bonds bad. sorry.

special reorganization f would split the san fernando valley off from the rest of the city of los angeles. although the valley is clearly getting the shaft by contributing more to the city than it gets back, at the end of the day i'd rather see the city united. i also have a hard time swallowing the argument that a distinct city government wouldn't widen the pool of bureaucracy, and eventually end up costing the city, as a whole, more money.

name the new city

• camelot
• mission valley
• rancho san fernando
• san fernando valley
• valley city

camelot? that's a joke, right? san fernando valley is the obvious choice, even if it is too damn long.

mayor

• david raymond hernandez, jr.
• benito benny bernal
• bruce john boyer
• henry duke divina
• mel wilson
• leonard shapiro
• jim summers
• marc strassman
• gregory eagle roberts
• keith stuart richman

clearly strassman has to be my guy here, even if he's running a whatevernuke-based site.

member of the city council, 12th district

• earl howard
• david molony
• victor n. viereck
• dion n. gazzaruso
• frank j. shieftel
• daryl a. sanchez
• carlos e. ferreyra

too hard to really distinguish between the candidates.

special reorganization h would split hollywood off from los angeles (and the valley) as a new city. same goes as for the valley. if they'd proposed to name the city hollywoodland, i might have felt differently.

go vote!

i tried to sign up with rackshack today, but their signup is broken. at one point, you get to a page to attach an account to the server (or something to that effect, the signup process is pretty tedious), and the form on the page has read-only fields for the password (and confirmation) that are empty, but which it tries to verify on submission. and since they're empty, that fails.

wanted: unmanaged dedicated server with reasonable connectivity and bandwidth, debian installed (or installable), and a signup process that works. i'm willing to pay $99/month. i'm not too picky about machine configuration, although a reasonable amount of ram (≥512megs) would be preferable.

i should probably look at building a server and using something like the california community colocation project, since one of the main reasons i'm looking at a dedicated server is so i can improve blo.gs. time to research the costs of putting together a rackmount server.

winona ryder was found guilty of grand theft and vandalism. oh, and just in case you were wondering, there was an election yesterday, too. some people won, others lost. (and los angeles will remain one city, at least for now.)

until i stumbled across a mention of it by peter merholz, i had no idea that not everyone calls it duck, duck, gray duck. i guess you really can learn something new every day.