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Election daze

Student Government elections were yesterday and today. Exciting. I didn’t really know much about the elections until recently… like, yesterday, maybe. Apparently there are these two parties, the Gator Party and the Progress Party, and they were running candidates for the Student Senate or something like that. Anyway, people from each party have been making sure you go out and vote for them. They’ve been bothering me since yesterday, so I voted today. It wasn’t just so they’d leave me alone, but because I wanted to have a say in the democratic process and other things like that.

It wasn’t as easy of a choice as I thought because it wasn’t like the two parties were for or against things. They just had their own different ideas. But the Gator Party wants to produce “tangible benefits for students” (as my dorm’s incumbent SG representative said to me in a harangue that was given in one breath) or “do stuff” (as my friend Luke said when I showed him their platform). The Progress Party seems more concerned with fixing Student Government so that it can “do stuff” in the future. They had less money and less of a visible presence than the Gator Party. I voted for them.

There were also referendum-type questions on the ballot. One asked whether a non-profit, student-run café should be built on campus, and the other asked whether the university should build a homeless shelter. Well, here’s an idea that I should have thought of earlier. We should have a homeless-run café on campus. That should give them a livelihood (or at least something to do). Or maybe a café where people who can’t pay can work instead. That’s another way to put both ideas into use (not that they’re incompatible with each other, of course, but it might be more economical to put them together). Also note that I am only kidding. I voted against the café and for the homeless shelter.

Do you hear that? It sounds like Ask Jordon!

Fabi: This isn’t a question, but you should definitely check this out https://payperpost.com/

This may or may not be the same Fabiola I went to high school with. It probably isn’t, despite what the IP address indicates. But anyway, Fabs, I’ve heard of the whole “get paid to blog” thing before. J-Walk of the J-Walk Blog partakes in it once in a while, with fair warning to readers (“I was paid to write the following” or something similar). In any case, it’s tantamount to selling out, even if you don’t believe what you’re writing. I think ads on the Internet are obnoxious, but none are worse than ads that replace content. If I got a few bucks to fill up a post with a review of some amazing web site, I’d have a few bucks, but not much dignity. I’d have sold out, you see. If ever I try to make money from this site, it will be in a more tasteful way.

natasha!: do you know anything about the string theory? if so, could you possibly explain it for me? (the wikipedia explaination is confusing). <3 lotsa love.

Unfortunately, I don’t know anything about string theory. I had a physics teacher in high school who called it nonsense. Apparently it’s very controversial, as most new ideas are. Maybe a reader can help us out. (Brian.)

The 2008 election is a little over a year away, but the primaries are sooner. Here’s a handy table to see where the candidates stand on many issues.

Find your birthday star, a star that’s as many light-years away as you are years old. In other words, the star’s light that reaches Earth was emitted when you were born, and when you’re looking at it in the sky, you’re essentially seeing it as it was at that time.