Conversation

(In case you didn’t know, today a judge ruled that prop 8 is unconstitutional, this is the context in which the following conversation took place.) I had the following conversation with a friend via facebook chat today. The conversation started when I set my facebook status to:

“fundamental rights may not be submitted to [a] vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections” West Virginia State Board of Education v Barnette

My friend responded with:

Then how to you determine what they are?

To which I replied:

I’m not sure, but certainly not by a vote. Voters have denied individual’s their rights in the past, there is no reason to think they won’t do it in the future.

Our conversation then continued over facebook chat which I’ve included below (be sure to click, Read more, below).

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by slayton on August 4, 2010 • Permalink

Posted in Politics

Tagged education, gay marriage, law, legal, people, prop 8, rights, speach, votes

Posted by slayton on August 4, 2010

http://quasicontrol.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/conversations/

BANNED!!

Recently, the Steamship Authority added free wifi to there ferry boats that travel from Woods Hole to Martha’s Vineyard. This is great except when they block a site I’m trying to access. I’m not sure what their criteria for blocking a site is but appearently mine doesn’t meet it.

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by slayton on August 3, 2010 • Permalink

Posted in Technology

Tagged blacklist, blocklist, censurship, content filtering, security, whitelist, wifi

Posted by slayton on August 3, 2010

http://quasicontrol.wordpress.com/2010/08/03/banned/

Therapy

Oh man, blogging feels good. I haven’t done it in a long time and I’ve forgotten how good it feels. Often I wonder if I am the only one who feels like blogging is therapeutic. Also I kind of treat my blog like a public journal of random ideas. Its funny how the false-anonymity that the internet provides gets me to open up and share my inner crazy person.

by slayton on August 2, 2010 • Permalink

Posted in Misc

Posted by slayton on August 2, 2010

http://quasicontrol.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/therapy/

Get out your duster

I snapped this picture in the trader joes parking lot today.

by slayton on July 29, 2010 • Permalink

Posted in Misc

Posted by slayton on July 29, 2010

http://quasicontrol.wordpress.com/2010/07/29/get-out-your-duster/

Too much control!

After having spent time in Mexico, Utah, and on Cape Cod I finally came home from the best summer vacation, the only problem is that I came home sunday night alone. My wife is going to continue with her vaca marathon. This means that I have 2-3 weeks by myself with no one to tell me to shower, sleep, or eat. I have no clue how I’m going to survive. Seriously!

To give you an idea of my current state look at these two pictures:

Notice the differences:

Tortillas
Cheese
Salsa
Yogurt
Grapes

Now the similarities:

Empty water bottle
Empty jar of pickels
Empty fridge

Before I went grocery shopping

After I went grocery shopping

Luckily I’ve survived on quesadillas before, and I can do it again.

by slayton on July 27, 2010 • Permalink

Posted in Health, Humor

Tagged food, fridge, grad students never eat, quasicontrol, self starvation, shopping, total control

Posted by slayton on July 27, 2010

http://quasicontrol.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/too-much-control/

I’m not dead

… I am extremely busy right now, I’ve been vacationing non-stop, working on a paper, and trying to get a lot of other things done. As a result I stopped blogging.

Don’t worry though, as I need my quasi-control fix as much as you do, expect some new stuff over the next week or so.

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