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Well I got productive today and put up a photo gallery of about 70 of the pictures I took. And I even got to use the
various techniques I've been reading about lately, so it's made with PHP and the comments are stored in an MySQL database
so that I only had to create one page instead of 70. So cool. I'll have the trip the report sometime soon, but you can get the
basic gist just from following the order of the pictures.
The 4th of July is tomorrow, and that means hotdog eating contests. If you want to do well, some
experts have tips and suggestions on how to eat 50.5 hot dogs
in 12 minutes. There's even a whole circuit for this type of thing, pretty incredible. I've only been in one food eating contest,
and I never wanted to eat pumpkin pie again afterwards. I only got through about 3/4 of one pie before I couldn't take it anymore.
If you think gas is expensive, try a gallon of printer ink for
$2,701.52. Cool chart
And finally a piece of news that was all over the place while I was on vacation, the Supreme Court striking down
Texas's anti-sodomy law. I remember
when I first heard this was going to the Supreme Court I was shocked that it was even illegal to begin with. It's really sad that
homosexuals are still discrimated against these days and can't legally marry (though Canada gets it right),
but I think it'll eventually change. I figure it'll be like the civil rights
movement back in the 50's and 60's, and we'll look back on this in 50 years and yell "Duh!" and wonder how we could ever be
so stupid. Then again, I was reading an article in the paper a few weeks ago, and it said that 67% of people in the South, and
80% of the nation as a whole, still don't approve of interracial marriages. I can only hope that those who don't are old and
just don't know any better. Once again my faith in humanity is lowered a little bit, but hopefully with my generation and beyond
we can get past these petty things and if two people love each other then they'll let them be.
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