Brown, Black, Red, Gold

Happy 1K day (with some tolerance)! Hope everyone is celebrating 1K day to it's fullest potential. I know I didn't do much. Maybe next year. At work, for the celebration today was Hack Day. It is where everyone is supposed to come up with unusual projects centered around the tools we use everyday at IBM. A fellow team member was showing me his hacks and projects he came up with in previous years. Stuff like a comment visualizer and editor for our code or a blog aggregator. We were going to check out the other hacks people made this year, but before we knew it, both of us got tied up in our work and he went home early. I know there's a blog site that has the info on, so I'll have to check it out. Maybe next year I can come up with something small. From what I saw, most of the hacks seem to be software related, so I'm curious if any hardware hacks were present. Although my software skills are rather limited when it comes to application hacks, I'm sure I would like to try.

I've been invited to a Halloween party. Yay! But with such short notice, I need a pretty quick, easy costume. I wonder what I can whip up in about week. Using what I have since I practically am one, it would be easy to be a very stereotypical nerd (even more so than normal for me). I'm just worried that it may just bring out how nerdy and uncool I really am since, let's face it, I wouldn't have to change much... Also, being that most of the people are engineers, maybe it wouldn't go over quite as well, or it may go over even better, depending on how I accessorize.

One last quick note on political candidates. I remember at the beginning of the election process people were saying how young Obama was. Well, I wonder what they would say about Roger Calero of the Socialist party. He's only 38! Over 10 years younger. And I was also surprised to find that Ralph Nader is 74. He's older than McCain. I wonder who will be the defacto independent nominee after he doesn't do it anymore, for age or otherwise. Oh well, I guess no one ever questions their age since they have little to no chance as it is. Just weird to find out.