well, i'm about 1.5 chapters into this book. since i was one of the people having problems with the webcast yesterday, i opted to download the m4v file to watch on my laptop. i don't have an ipod, and i really don't like that people call these things podcasts, but whatever.
in the book and on the show they say that this is happening because we're reaching that crisis point. i think this is only partially true. part of why its happening now is because it CAN happen now.
take one of the sponsors: skype. skype's initial release was in 2003, and they didn't add video features until 2005.
consider also move networks, the people who's plugin you have to install to connect to the webcast. the copyright on their web page says 2004.
now, i remember seeing webcams as early as 1994, but the stuff behind the stuff that makes it all possible is all relatively new. i'm not really sure when it all started becoming more common.
anyway, what i'm getting at is that many people may have already been feeling or going through whatever it is that they are experiencing now....we just didn't know about it because it wasn't there yet :)
i guess the technical difficulties of yesterday show we're still not totally there, but we have made some incredible leaps. thank you al gore! (for creating the internet)(just kidding)
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i went to the caucus after work, but i was really, really hungry and didn't stay for the whole of it. i signed in and wrote down what candidate i supported (which btw was a different candidate than the one whom i early voted for)...
here are the current results for my county according to a local news site. it looks like we still have a long way to go.
Precincts Reporting - 5404 out of 8247 - 65%
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| President Democrat - Bexar County | |||
| Candidate | Votes | Percent | Winner |
| Hillary Clinton | 100,791 | 54% |  |
| Barack Obama | 75,266 | 42% | |
| John Edwards | 771 | 1% | |
| Bill Richardson | 700 | 1% | |
| Joe Biden | 242 | 1% | |
| Chris Dodd | 234 | 1% | |
i kind of wonder...(i'm going to pick on john edwards because i know he's no longer running), why the hell would 771 people vote for someone who's not running? then again, i've voted for someone who wasn't on the ballot so i probably should talk much. why are there no results for mike gravel? hmm. well, anyway...at the caucus things seemed a little unorganized but orderly. i heard some people trying to stir up a ruckus by talking about elections evils, but i didn't see any election evils firsthand. the hillary folks generally seemed older and/or female. the barack folks were generally younger and/or black. actually i'd say about 90 percent of the crowd was either hispanic or black. i usually don't notice things like this, but it kind of stood out to me tonight.
so yeah. i'm a little sad and i'm a little glad. tomorrow is another day and now i should sleep to be a little more ready for it.
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