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Democrats Abroad - Germany

Here are the results from the Democrats Abroad (Germany) Primary vote:

In-person voting tally: Obama won with 69% of the vote to 31% for Hillary, which seems to confirm the trend from the other German cities and what just happened in the Potomac Primaries.

Interestingly, Hillary evenly split the male/female vote (9/9) while Obama garnered slightly more female votes than males (20/18).

Hillary also did roughly all well with the 20-somethings, but had no 30-something votes compared to a strong Obama count.

Also, curiously, Obama did better in the 60+ vote – perhaps the sample size of 56 would be considered not statistically significant by pollsters.

Best of Barack

awwwwwwwwwww, thanks mom!

America's Inertia

The trickle is turning into a massive flow. American democrats were pulling a balancing act with Clinton hanging on one arm and Obama the other. More and more people are jumping to Barack's side and pulling the nation in his direction. John Lewis, a Clinton supporter and prominent figure in the African American community, is now saying that as a super delegate he will likely vote for Barack Obama, so as not to act in conflict with the process of democracy.

As Josh Marshall points out, the argument of whether or not super delegates can legitimately counteract the votes of the American public, is an argument that will never fully sprout. About half of the supes are still uncommitted, and the only possible explanation for that is that they are waiting for the rest of America to firmly establish who their candidate is. Once it is undeniably obvious, they will not deny the rightful candidate of the nomination.

aka bye bye Hillary

Surfing in Munich

Thanks Adam for the link to the stellar slide show of surfing in Munich. My favorite part is when the big rafts float down the river and the surfers taunt the drunken Germans and the drunken Germans sing, and yell back. That is the spirit of Germany that I've come to know and love.

Best of Barack Image Contest

so far i'm winning the contest

Charge your MP3 Player by dancing to its music!

This is such a cool idea! It isn't gonna be able to generate tons of power or anything, but iPod and cell phones could run off it for sure.

A nanotech invention by a US research team offers an intriguing glimpse of the future: slip on some nanowire-embedded clothes, plug your MP3 player or cellphone into them, and as you dance or walk around, your outfit generates enough power to run the gadget.

Best of Barack Image Contest

I put up the original Best of Barack Image Contest stuff as a joke, because I found some sweet pics of Barack, and I thought that literally nobody was reading this stuff. But now that I've checked the comments, and have found that at least two people have read my blog at some point, maybe you guys would be willing to participate!! So if you have a sweet pic of Barack either that you found or made yourself send it to me!

OBAMA WINS VIRGINIA

next up.... the nomination.

I've now seen about giga-many people call the nomination going to Obama, including Penn from Penn and Teller which was interesting. All this stuff about Clinton stealing it away through super delegates is interesting, but can you imagine anything being more hypocritical of the DNC? I just don't see it happening.

Best of Barack!

I love this pic. In a recent interview he said that he always does well in primaries when he plays basketball the morning of. What a baller.

Best of Barack Image Contest

Today's Winner is

$500 for 32GB???????

Are you effing kidding me?? Is this not nuts? I thought you were supposed to laugh at how expensive memory was in the past, not the present. I give this 6 weeks till prices drop cause that is just stoooooopid.

super duper

I dont know why I haven't written anything about Super Tuesday yet. I mean, I am pretty pumped at how well Obama did, but I can only maintain a level of suspense and anticipation for so long. I just want him to take Hill out already. After surviving tuesday, he's in a pretty good position though, considering how much more money he's got to spend on ads than Hill does at this point. Considering where they each started from before their campaigns, he is royally kicking her ass, which just goes to show you that his message is winning. And that means that the only reason he isn't completely dominating is because he can only reach so many people at a time, and that ultimately, among the people who are somewhat informed about this election Obama is the clear winner, and Hillary is the winner among those who aren't paying any attention, and the few hard core democrats who will do whatever they can to piss of the GOP. Hillary is the new Bush.... let's hope the message reaches enough people.

F-ysics

jeeeeeesus physics is kicking my ass. in the beginning it's 30 sec of work for an hour of satisfaction and brain tickling, and now it's about 4 hrs of work for 10 sec of brain tickling and this ratio is just effed up.

Fastnacht

Yesterday I observed the German holiday Fastnacht. It was a lot of fun. I got about 30 different explanations about the holiday from my German friends and host family, and I thought I was completely confused about it, but then I checked it out on Wikipedia, and it turns out, it's about as complicated as I understood it was. So, it wasn't just a language thing.

Basically we watched the parade where they marched all of the winter spirits away, and then there was a giant party with plenty of alcohol in the middle of the city. It was really fun to watch a place, that I'm not gonna lie, is usually kind of up tight, become completely chaotic and wild.

I watched the movie Bodysong yesterday, and I'm reading The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond, so of course the whole time all I could think about was the human animal, and why we do all the bizarre stuff we do blah blah blah. That's the problem with Diamond, he just messes with your head, and then you can't just mindlessly enjoy watching witches and liquor flow through the streets.

Our Only Hope

Badass Physics Applets

I was doing some hw today and needed some help graphing vector fields. I found this awesome site with tons of physics applets. It's pretty effing cool if you're into that kind of thing.

WTF Jobs?!?!?!

Yes the MacBook Air is one of the sexiest tech items this world has ever seen, but this year's Macworld, continued what is becoming a deadly trend for Apple. What made the iPod the biggest tech success in the world today? Was it the design, was it sex appeal, was it the logo, was it the "oooh shiny thing!" factor?? No, It was functionality combined with an innovative and effective user interface at reasonable price.

Apple started drifting away from a focus on functionality and features, and has honed in entirely on glitz, glam, and sex appeal with the iPod touch. The MacBook Air is yet another Apple product that sacrifices functionality for a pretty design. What is the point of having a pretty little box, or a beautiful touch screen display, when it doesn't do what you need it to? At 1800 bones this machine has got to be able to function as your one and only computer, but with only 80 gigs, and no optical drive you're going to find yourself shelling out hundreds more on essential computing ad-ons pushing the price to somewhere around $2300. This just isn't practical when the MacBook and MacBook Pro are in the picture. Especially considering the MacBook pro starts at 2 grand, and is still a very compact computer.

The iPod touch suffers from this same flaw. No matter how cool the screen is, no matter how fun the multi-touch user interface is, only tech geeks are going to be willing to spend 400 bucks on 16GB. If Apple doesn't shape up quickly and make products that (god forbid) are maybe a little less sexy, but maintain the great user interface and have respectable specs at a decent price, the future of Apple will not be so bright.

I'm Back

So it's been over a month since my last post which is completely unacceptable by blogging standards. I would feel guilty about it buuuuuuut nobody reads this anyways.