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November 7, 2000

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(idea) by tobtoh (4 mon) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Tue Nov 07 2000 at 0:17:52

One thing I have learnt about life is that really small insignificant things really give me pleasure. Take today for instance. It's a public holiday here in Melbourne which is in itself enough to make me smile. Yesterday, I visited Michaels camera store to get a photo print of a digital photo I had taken of a rose.

It was a macro (close-up) shot of the rose, not more than about 5 cm away from the flower. The luscious pink petals filled the entire lens while the greenery of the leaves were softly out of focus behind it. It was a very simple shot, but it looked fantastic.

Upon seeing the photo, the guy at Michaels (a chubby version of the talkshow host Phil Donahue) asked if they could take a second copy to display on their photo gallery in their store. They would add my name to it, the camera that I used (a Sony CyberShot F505V), and they would give me the second copy free when they eventually took it down. From that one simple gesture, my whole world took on a rosy glow (no pun intended) for the rest of the day. I cannot explain why - sure it was a nice photo and the Michaels staff obviously agreed, but it is just a photo. Still, my day has been great. Even now when I look at the 8x10 photo, I still feel good.

Such are the simple pleasures in life.

(thing) by JeffMagnus (4.8 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Tue Nov 07 2000 at 0:22:17

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(idea) by kaytay (1.7 wk) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Tue Nov 07 2000 at 3:23:19

I'm using the new computer - I don't think I like it. The keyboard is "state of the art," but I think that's computer-speak for the spacebar being too frickin' fat. It'll take some getting used to, I'm sure. Anyway, this new computer is supposed to be superior to the one we got last year, but I'm not too impressed so far. Perhaps I do not adjust to change very well. I am loyal to my computers, and having to transfer that loyalty at least once every twelve months is a little more than I can handle without feelings of guilt.

So what if it's got/is (a/an) 866Mhz CPU, 128MB RDRAM, 32MB NVIDIA TNT2 M64 4X AGP graphics something-or-other, 40GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive, DVD drive, etc. etc. I don't know exactly what most of this means, although it sure sounds impressive. I do remember that back in the day, we had a 90Mhz CPU and that was considered top of the line. Scary how fast everything is changing.

Today was not too bad, being a weekday and all. I was up until one or so doing A.P. Psych homework, only to fall asleep on the concrete floor and dream of experiencing all states of consciousness semi-simultaneously. It was frightening. Turns out I'm sleep-deprived, surprise, and my dreams are crazy because of all the back up REM sleep I need. I thought it was the prozac.

During art this morning, I wrote my composition for French class which I had decided to neglect all weekend. During stats class, I did the exercises that were due last Friday for French, and the homework due for today besides the composition. I'm so sick of that language, but next semester have the 295 class, which is three hours a day every day. Bitch.

Lunch was long and lonely; I lost Stacy somewhere at Burger King, and ended up driving down River looking for her car. I found her at Taco Bell. For some reason I can't even go in there without getting sick, so I waited in the parking lot for her to notice me through the window. She brought her poisonous tacos outside and we ate while sitting on the trunk of her car (I had my trusty Burger King 5-piece chicken tenders). We were late getting back to school, but no one cared, least of all us.

When I got out of French class, I drove over to Herrick to use a computer there since both the computers at my house were down due to some malice between Windows98 and WindowsME. The d00d at the desk made me go back to my car and get my ID, only to tell me I was not 18 and could not use the internet without supervision. I was not happy, but tried to humor him - there's been some big issue with censorship going around Holland.

I got home at 2:30 and napped till after seven. By then the computers were fixed, and I decided to give the new one a try. It's starting to grow on me already.

(idea) by Tannor (2 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Tue Nov 07 2000 at 4:06:13

And so the annoying week begins.

The three events, feared by all the peasants, have usually been separated. They fall one by one usually; handled with little difficulty with some teamwork and good planning. But suddenly, a shadow fell upon Tannorsville. Something was wrong. The streams flowed backwards. The sun didn't rise. The moon wouldn't set. The well dried up. Something was wrong.
The peasants began to worry.
What was happening? Could it be? The three feared events... were they converging on a single week?
And so, to prepare for the inevitable, the peasants planned what needed to be done.

The first event, a firestorm, was set for wednesday.
The second event, feard by villagers throughout the land, was the coming of the demons. The day would be thursday, in the early evening.
The third event, only experienced in some regions, was the tidal waves. The waves were expected mid-day on friday.
And so, early in the week, the peasants remained calm. There was some time. They played quake and Unreal Tournament between their tasks. There was time.

My god man!! who's idea was it to have a paper due on wednesday, a mid-term like test on thursday, and a lab due on friday!!!

/me enters the fray.

(idea) by gahachino (5.9 mon) (print)   ?   (I like it!) 1 C! Tue Nov 07 2000 at 4:29:56

I call in to work at 4:20 pm. I tell them that my sister is in town, and I want to go out to dinner with her, this will make me an hour late for my shift. I ask if anyone else has called in, or if anything bad is going on. Everything is peachy, they tell me. Go ahead. I leave my cell phone number in case of emergency... and tell them that I will be in at 7:00 pm.

At 5:40 pm, I get a call. I am at the mall with my sister and her boyfriend. It is work. "Dave's on vacation," they tell me. There is no one to cover, except for Tina, and she doesn't want to do it. You need to come in at your regular time.

I have to take my sister home, then go to work. I am forty minutes from home. I tell them I'll be there ASAP. I take my sister home, then go to work. I arrive, and Tina is there, along with two other people, and the partner for my shift. There are two more people than normal, basically. There was no reason for me to hurry to work. Of course, nobody bothered to think about that before they rained on my parade. What is the plural of dufus??

Once again, considered updating terrible seething gimletchops, but can't figure out what a gimletchop is. Green jaw? Updated Lee Stories instead, with Before You Hear It From Someone Else and KKKill the Fetus, Part II. I think the next one will be the end, and any further Lee Stories will be less dramatic. I don't like rehashing this "friendship," but reliving it like this makes me less likely to make friends with another one of these types of people.

(idea) by WWWWolf (1.3 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Tue Nov 07 2000 at 9:44:16

11:47

Oh god damn I hate this. Alarm clock rang at 9:00 or so. I got up at 11:15. Grrr. /methinks I should go to sleep earlier or something, and stop noding Pokémon at the night... =)

Well, at least it seems it isn't raining today...

12:54

I bought one book - "UML Distilled", by Martin Fowler. Seems like a decent book.

Onward, to the Usenet!

14:15

A random realization:

Real Web Designers die when they're 40 years 5 months (40.4 years) old.

=)

18:32

Time to panic!

Now, I'm supposed to make a review of a learning environment called Profiler and compare it to Telsi Pro, the thing we're using now for this digital media course.

The problem number 1: They haven't given me a password yet.

The problem number 2: Excercise deadline is in Thursday.

Well, I guess I need to just read the documentation and tell about the differences based on that...

22:08

Woohoo. Got the Flash plugin to work in Mozilla.

I read two chapters from the UML book. Cool. This is a cool book. Go read it. I mean it. =)

23:30

There are no black helicopters. Those are submarines. Don't ask me how they got those to fly, though.

Other day logs o' mine...

Noded today by y.t.:
Updated: Sushi-go-round

(idea) by break (3.8 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Tue Nov 07 2000 at 10:57:50

13:08

I'm simply drowning in work here. I've got one huge project on my hands, with a smaller one as well to keep me busy. And now one of the bosses wants to hand me 3 new jobs simultaneously with no chance for a raise. With all the PHP I hardly find time for noding or other relevant stuff anymore.
All this so I can spend 2 weeks in and around Tokyo a year from now. So this is what insanity feels like.

I'm pretty anxious to try out Escape from Monkey Island. If you've read my writeup on the subject written last summer, you know my expectations were initially quite low. They haven't actually improved either, but you never know.. Although The Curse of Monkey Island butchered the plot of the first two games, it was still fun to play. I just hate those cumbersome 3D controls they'll be featuring for part 4. Oh well, I'll see how it turned out tonight.

How do you like my current home node picture? Since they did such a fine job in getting photos of me last weekend, I though I should share my ugly face with E2. For a while, anyway.
That picture got taken in a real paparazzi style, btw.
Rexx: "Hey, Break!"
Break: "Huh?"
Camera: *FLASH*
At least I represented "High" Everythingians with pride and tradition.


19:38

What to do with 10 meters of blue neon light cable?
My room soon looks like a club from the 70s. But it's amazing how colourful lights, lava lamps and such can cheer you up when it's pitch black outside 75% of the day. Hopefully it will soon get cold enough for me to keep all the flashy devices on without melting.

I forgot to tell you the good news. Or the bad news for those of you who find me annoying. :P My home account is now on monthly charge, meaning I can node all night if I'm so inclined.
I feel so liberated after having to sweat over the phonebill for 4 years and 11 months. ISDN is still slow, but at least I get to use 2 channels at once for free. Ahh.. I feel a mad noding spree coming on..


To be continued.


Random Tidbits:

(thing) by Akiro (4.5 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Tue Nov 07 2000 at 11:30:00

13:30
First of all it's my fiancees birthday today. Second, I'm supposed to meet her in 15 minutes. Third, I don't have a present for her (And no, I didn't forget, the present I was going to get for her just didn't work out, I found out about that 30 minutes ago.) And why am I sitting here noding instead of running around in shops frantically looking for a present? Well I'm at work, and cannot leave before a person confirming my order for a important order calls. So here I am stuck at work trying to figure out what I'm going to say to my fiancee. Just one of those days, makes you wish you hadn't gotten out of bed at all. I'll fill you in on how everything went later, if my fiancee hasnt killed me before that.

19:45
Well, end is well, all is well I guess. Just got home, my fiancee left to have dinner with her parents. (They didn't want me around, her father is ok, but her mother practically hates me. But that's another story alltogether and would only lead to a long personal rant, so I'll leave that to another time) Managed to cover for the lack of a gift by buying her a fancy lunch at a expensive restaurant and a bouquet of flowers bought about 10 seconds before I met her. Turned out to be a pretty nice day after all, against all signs, just proves that you shouldnt get depressed if things go wrong. After all EVERYTHING can't go wrong, just keep trying and eventually SOMETHING will work out the way you want it to.

Now I'll just see how the elections in the states go and see if more things go they way I want them to...

(idea) by beaneater (3.7 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Tue Nov 07 2000 at 13:22:12

13:23 UTC

So I never went to bed last night. I found myself getting really engrossed in some coursework for uni that I couldn't figure out; before I knew it (or at least, finished with it) it was 6 o'clock in the morning. Lecture at 12 - so "not much point going to bed" I thought. So I didn't.

I did little bits and bobs, went out to a shop when it opened at 9ish (what an odd experience), and eventually went to a lecture. So now I'm jittery with caffeine since I drank tons of coffee and I've been off coffee for a while, and on a sugar high because I needed to keep up with life as well as be awake. I can't stop moving now!

17:05 UTC - 30 hours and counting

Well, I made it, in a good impression of wakefulness, to a lecture and tutorial, but just missed another lecture because I was typing this node. Grr...

I think I'm getting drawn deeper into e2. Today I've put in a couple of longer writeups, and improved some writeups... I'm contributing more. Still not as much as I'd like, but there you go.

(idea) by dmd (1.7 mon) (print)   ?   (I like it!) 1 C! Tue Nov 07 2000 at 13:32:31

I hate Windows 2000.

No, actually, that's not true. I love Windows 2000; for the past 18 months, it's been nothing but wonderful. No crashes, very rarely a reboot -- I've had uptimes as long as a month (before having to reboot to, say, let someone borrow my hard drive).

But today I hate it.

I bought a DVD drive; I installed the software; I rebooted; I ran the software...

BSOD

The Blue Screen of Death. The first one I'd ever seen, mind you. But then the Troubles began. I couldn't boot to uninstall the offending software. Even when I attempted to boot to the command line recovery console, it BSOD'd on me. And here's where a more unix-like philosophy would have been appreciated -- with everything shoved in \WINNT and/or the Registry, how am I to know what the offending software is? I'd like to mount the drive on another box, remove the badness, and be merrily on my way... but no.

Flash. Perhaps here's an idea -- install a new copy of W2K in \WINSUCKS. Take a directory listing. Install the bad software. Do it again. diff.

We'll see how it goes.

(idea) by Alpheus (1.6 mon) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Tue Nov 07 2000 at 13:53:40

"How to write a day log and be interesting without trying too hard."

Today I miss my pal Danny. It's just managed to get cold here in Texas, and the fact that it is cold reminds me of when I lived in Boston. My roomate at Berklee was a guy named Danny. He's a songwriter, he looks just like Elton John, he's gay, and he comes from a mormon/army family that totally doesn't support him and has only fucked him up.

Danny's innocence when I arrived at Berklee endeared me to him, although he didn't much want to be my pal. We ended up being friends, but at the end of the spring term I left Boston and came home to nurse my hands.

He was left pretty much alone, wasn't mixing well with our old group of friends, and eventually retreated into self-deprecation. Danny was afraid of being gay because his upbringing taught him that Jesus would hate him and his life would be horrible and that he'd burn in hell. He only went after straight men because he knew it wouldn't lead to anything. He wrapped himself up in the Mormon church and hated himself for no good reason. We've lost touch now .

He wrote really great songs.

German augmented sixth chords resolve down. I learned how to apply that five part writing last night. Go figure.

(idea) by Shanoyu (2 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) 1 C! Tue Nov 07 2000 at 14:31:04

(This daylog is a chronicle of the Election events today in the United States)

Today is the first day of our barreling towards the apocylapse, look at our choices? Why do you think it's so close, eh?

For the republicans, George W. Bush, affectionately known as dubya, who is "not big on booklearning".

For the democrats, Al Gore, who invented everything and wants to punish artists guilty of thought crimes.

Vote Harry Browne, of the Libertarian Party, at least then your vote will mean something, even though you'd be voting for your own abilities to function in the world without government.

If you want to value the enviornment over your ability to drive a car or run a buisness, You could Vote Nader.

Better yet, if you are just planning on voting for the hell of it Don't Vote!

9:04 am, George W. Bush gave an intresting interview this morning to a bunch of reporters in his home in Austin, TX. He was asked what mood he was in, (he said calm.) He was asked why he was not at all nervous, and he replied "In case you haven't noticed by now, I trust the people."

On funbets, US PRESIDENT 2000:

11 - 7 - 2000, 9:34a                 
              HIGH BID   |  LOWEST ASK  | TODAYS VOLUME | LAST TRADE |  TODAY'S CHANGE
AL GORE        76.60     |    89.00     |     26150     |    76.60   |     -12.40
GEORGE W BUSH  96.05     |    99.99     |     21050     |    99.99   |       0.01

As you can see, Al Gore is currently the safer (long) bet if you assume that they are dead even in the polls. Even if George W Bush is far ahead I wouldn't put any money on him though, (The return for a winning bet is $100 a share), since at the max of 1000 shares you have $10 to gain and $99990 to lose. An extremely dangerous waste of cash to tie up for just $10. This thing is a horse race, if you are betting here, i'd go with gore.

Personally, I have 1000 shares shorted at 95.03 back in August on Dubya. GWB is of course, a safer bet to short than AG is to buy. Espically if you can get that Last Trade of 99.99 for 1k shares, which would then give you $99990 to win and $10 to lose! The stupidity of people, eh? 

                                                                   
as of 11 - 7 - 2000, 11:06a                                                   
	      HIGH BID   | LOWEST ASK   | TODAYS VOLUME | LAST TRADE |  TODAY'S CHANGE
AL GORE        92.00     |   95.00      |     32800     |    94.00   |       5.00
GEORGE W BUSH  96.08     |   99.00      |     25250     |    96.07   |      -3.91

Well it looks like Al Gore has made up his daily, his lowest ask has increased by $6, and his volume has outnumbered GWB's 2:1 in the last 2 hours. Al Gore has shot up insanely at this late hour. Both Candiates are now a great short (sell) and an awful long (bet).

11:36 am, Dubya is now at the polls. I think we all know who hes voting for. He got some sleep but Al Gore has not had any sleep at all after the last day of Campaigning since he has not yet completely stopped campaigning, he is expected to visit some elementry school children in class later today.

11:38 am, Just got news from the Libertarian Party (or rather, just read it) that Harry Browne's results will be reported on the air on Fox News instead of just being stacked in with the 3rd party votes. Fox News is taking "Fair and Balanced" to new heights. Too bad more news outlets can't do this. 

as of 11 - 7 - 2000 11:59a
              HIGH BID   | LOWEST ASK   | TODAYS VOLUME | LAST TRADE |  TODAY'S CHANGE
AL GORE        89.00     |   95.00      |     40000     |    89.25   |       0.25
GEORGE W BUSH  96.75     |   99.00      |     30900     |    99.00   |      -0.98


With about 12 hours left to place a bet good deals keep getting done for Bush Sellers with that insane Last Trade rating. $100 to place on the line for $99,900 is not a bad bet in a shorting of Bush.

12:11 pm, A snowstorm around West Texas looks to be preventing some people from going to the polls. 

as of 11 - 7 - 2000 12:14p
              HIGH BID   | LOWEST ASK   | TODAYS VOLUME | LAST TRADE |  TODAY'S CHANGE
AL GORE        76.30     |   95.00      |     41000     |    76.30   |     -12.70
GEORGE W BUSH  96.50     |    NONE      |     32900     |    99.99   |       0.01


No one is selling Bush! The sellers sold out! Some more people are bound to figure out what a great deal this is pretty soon.

12:15 pm, Al Gore ad his wife Tipper are voting right now outside his small hometown of Carthage, TN.

12:25 pm, Al Gore as talking to a bunch of kids at an Elementry School, in Elmwood, TN and hes doing very very well with the Kids say the darnest things factor. "What would you do if you were president?" - Gore "Improve Congress." - Female Elementry student. "Thats certainly presidential thinking." - Al Gore.

12:52 pm, Hint for those of you running presidential campaigns, don't distribute cigarettes to homeless people in exchange for votes. 

as of 11 - 7 - 2000 1:03p
              HIGH BID   | LOWEST ASK   | TODAYS VOLUME | LAST TRADE |  TODAY'S CHANGE
AL GORE        75.00     |   76.30      |     48450     |    75.00   |     -14.00
GEORGE W BUSH  96.75     |    NONE      |     37900     |    99.00   |      -0.98


Everything people sell of Bush is selling out pretty quickly. Gore is all over the spectrum of prices. Clearly Bush is considered the legitimate favorite. (since when people are playing for keeps, they don't make false predictions with the chips.) 

as of 11 - 7 - 2000 2:18p
              HIGH BID   | LOWEST ASK   | TODAYS VOLUME | LAST TRADE |  TODAY'S CHANGE
AL GORE        70.00     |   89.99      |     59750     |    70.01   |     -18.99
GEORGE W BUSH  96.00     |   99.99      |     52350     |    99.99   |       0.01


Bush is catching up with Gore in volume of trades. Gore is falling out of the trees. People don't seem to trust Gore to win the election, but as they say, it's going to depend alot on the Electoral Votes given by Florida. I imagine that Gore will fly upwards once the results start comming in at 7pm.

3:11 pm, It appears that Al Gore's actions of talking to children across the gym in the same room where there was a polling place may have violated election laws, in this case, apparently the distance from which you cannot campaign is 100 feet from the polling place, a distance he would not have left during his talk. However, this raises other questions, first of all, is it campaigning if the elementary school students he is talking to are not of voting age? (Which they are not.) Secondly, are people being prohibited from voting while Gore is talking? Were other people trying to vote and being prevented from it during his talk? Moral of the story? Keep everything squeeky clean when running for president. 

as of 11 - 7 - 2000 3:17p
              HIGH BID   | LOWEST ASK   | TODAYS VOLUME | LAST TRADE |  TODAY'S CHANGE
AL GORE        96.00     |   97.50      |     68650     |    97.00   |       8.00
GEORGE W BUSH  98.00     |    NONE      |     55400     |    97.00   |      -2.98


All of the sudden Al Gore and GWB have pulled even in last trade, and are about as close as they will probaly get in bidding and selling. George W. Bush would probaly be caught up in volume if his sellers did not keep running out of stock to sell. There are about 8 and a half hours left to place orders, and roughly the same amount of time till the last poll, in Alaska, closes. 

as of 11 - 7 - 2000 5:02p
              HIGH BID   | LOWEST ASK   | TODAYS VOLUME | LAST TRADE |  TODAY'S CHANGE
AL GORE        70.00     |   70.01      |     84450     |    70.01   |     -18.99
GEORGE W BUSH  95.95     |   99.99      |     68950     |    95.95   |      -4.03


Gore has once again dropped off, but his Volume has once again outpreformed bush over the past two hours.

5:12 pm, It should be noted that Nader may decide this extremely close election, based upon the amount of votes his ultra-liberal platform draws away from the also liberal Al Gore. Most pundits say that nationally, if Ralph Nader gets 5%, hes trouble for gore, and if he makes 7%, hes flat out poison.

5:16 pm, Intresting little predictions thru insane divination. At a pumpkin shooting contest out in the mid-west, they attempted to divine the result of the election by shooting pumpkins with Gore and Bush posters taped on them. Gore won this contest. In an overseas poll in France amongst americans voting absentee, (Where most of the balloters are Republican buisnessmen and they were right in all elections over the past 24 years except when they went for Gerald Ford over Jimmy Carter.) They went for Bush 58% over Gore 42%. On Monday Night Football, The Tennesee Titans played the Washington Redskins, which brings up two intresting divinative possibilities. The Redskins lost, and whenever the Redskins lose their monday night game before the election, the party in power loses the Presidency. However, Al Gore is from Tennessee, the location which defeated the Redskins. This is extremely intresting, because formerly the Titans were from Houston, Texas! The home state of George W. Bush!

5:28 pm, The turnout for this election is huge, various groups and people are recieving turnout percentages of around 65% to 80% from place to place, which would make this one of the highest turnouts ever.

as of 11 - 7 - 2000 5:33p (27 MINUTES TILL FIRST ELECTORAL RESULTS)
              HIGH BID   | LOWEST ASK   | TODAYS VOLUME | LAST TRADE |  TODAY'S CHANGE
AL GORE        70.02     |   71.00      |     88950     |    86.70   |      -2.30
GEORGE W BUSH  96.50     |   99.75      |     68950     |    95.95   |      -4.03


We have about 27 minutes before the candidates start filling out their score cards with the first two states, Indiana and Kentucky. It looks like the volume has settled and the vast majority of the people placing wagers have played their cards, as Bush has remained static over the past half hour.

5:36 pm, It's crunch time in NYC between Hillary Clinton (Wife of President Clinton) and Rick Lazio for US Senate, they are running just as close a heat as the Presidential Candidates. Democrats need to pick up 5 seats in the Senate to claim a majority, and 7 seats in the house to claim another such paper thin majority. The Democrats actually need 6 seats in the senate to claim a majority should Al Gore win and his running mate Joseph Leiberman leave his senate seat to be appointed by the governor (Tom Ridge) of his state, Massachusetts, who is a republican, who will obviously fill Leiberman's seat with a Republican. 

as of 11 - 7 - 2000 5:51p (9 MINUTES TILL FIRST ELECTORAL RESULTS/EXIT POLLS)
              HIGH BID   | LOWEST ASK   | TODAYS VOLUME | LAST TRADE |  TODAY'S CHANGE
AL GORE        70.00     |   79.98      |     92950     |    71.00   |     -18.00
GEORGE W BUSH  96.50     |   99.96      |     71950     |    96.50   |      -3.48


We'll be able to monitor the bail outs once the tally that counts starts counting. 

6 PM, BUSH HAS WON THE ELECTORAL VOTES OF INDIANA AND 
KENTUCKY ACCORDING TO FOX NEWS EXIT POLLS
...
Kentucky will give Bush 8 electoral votes.
Indiana will give Bush 12 electoral votes for a total of 20.
270 Electoral Votes are required to win.  
Thats 250 more for Bush and 270 more for Gore.
518/538 votes are not yet given!
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Please note that only Ralph Nader, Pat Buchanan, George W. Bush 
and Al Gore are considered for exit polling.  Harry Browne, who
is polling above Pat Buchanan is not listed in most exit polls, 
except with Fox News.
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as of 11 - 7 - 2000 6:18p
              HIGH BID   | LOWEST ASK   | TODAYS VOLUME | LAST TRADE |  TODAY'S CHANGE
AL GORE        70.01     |   86.70      |    101050     |    84.44   |      -4.56
GEORGE W BUSH  96.00     |   99.97      |     76950     |    96.01   |      -3.97


Still major uncertainty with Gore Betters after the First Electoral Votes have been cast.

6:20 pm, Miles to go before we sleep, and miles to go before we sleep.

6:44 pm, The Democrats pick up one house seat in Kentucky, they need 6 more seats for control of the house. 

According to exit polls...
7 PM GEORGE W. BUSH HAS WON SOUTH CAROLINA AND VIRGINIA 
ALSO, AL GORE HAS WON VERMONT
FLORIDA (super battle ground state with 25 Electoral Votes)IS TOO CLOSE TO CALL!
GEORGIA (Now important!) IS TOO CLOSE TO CALL!
NEW HAMPSHIRE (4 Electoral Votes) IS TOO CLOSE TO CALL!
South Carolina will give a total of 8 electoral votes to George W. Bush for a total of 28.
Virginia will give a total of 13 electoral votes to George W. Bush for a total of 41.
Vermont will give a total of 3 electoral votes to Al Gore.
270 Electoral Votes are needed to win. Thats 229 more for George W. Bush 
and 267 more for Al Gore.
...
494/538 Electoral votes are still available!


Foxnews has given Bush 41 votes, CNN has given him only 28!



The Libertarians, who have Georgia as close to a stronghold as they could possibly consider having, may have taken away votes from George W. Bush and given them to Harry Browne!

Bill Nelson wins the Democrats another seat in the house. They need 5!

The Democrats are now in need of 4 seats for control, 5 if Gore wins the presidency. 

7:30 PM GEORGE W. BUSH HAS WON GEORGIA
Georgia will give a total of 13 electoral votes to George W. Bush for a total of 54.
270 Electoral Votes are needed to win. Thats 216 for George W. Bush and 267 for Al Gore.
481/538 Electoral Votes are still up for Grabs.


Georgia was dropped from contention and George W. Bush has it. So much for the Libs.

The Democrats lost a senate seat, putting them back at 6 seats with a gore loss and 7 seats with a gore win needed for control of the senate. 
as of 11 - 7 - 2000 7:46p
              HIGH BID   | LOWEST ASK   | TODAYS VOLUME | LAST TRADE |  TODAY'S CHANGE
AL GORE        72.00     |   79.99      |    120550     |    72.00   |     -17.00
GEORGE W BUSH  95.00     |   99.00      |     96150     |    95.00   |      -4.98


Lots of movement with Al Gore still. Not quite an outright bail yet at 54 - 3 electoral. 

7:51 PM - AL GORE HAS WON FLORIDA
Flordia will give a total of 25 Electoral Votes to Al Gore for a total of 28.
270 Electoral Votes are needed to win.  Thats 216 more for George W. Bush 
and 242 for Al Gore.
...
456/538 Electoral Votes are still up for Grabs.


This means we are going to be up for a while tonight, boys and girls. 

8 PM - AL GORE HAS WON MICHIGAN, ILLINOIS, NEW JERSEY, MASSACHUSETTS, 
MARYLAND, CONNECTICUT AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
...
ALSO, GEORGE W. BUSH HAS WON TEXAS, OKLAHOMA, MISSISSIPPI, KANSAS AND NORTH CAROLINA
PENNSYLVANIA IS TOO CLOSE TO CALL
MISSOURI IS TOO CLOSE TO CALL (The polls wll be open an extra hour.)
TENNESSEE IS TOO CLOSE TO CALL (This is Al Gore's home state.)
MAINE IS TOO CLOSE TO CALL
AL GORE'S states win him 91 electoral votes for a total of 119! 
GEORGE W. BUSH'S states win him 67 electoral votes for a total of 121! 
(Fox reporting 130, however!)
...
270 Electoral Votes are needed to win. Thats 149 for George W. Bush 
and 151 for Al Gore!
...
298/538 Electoral Votes are still in play!


Gore Catches up! Nader does not prove to be his Kryptonite... yet!

8:12 pm - funbets.com not accessible to me. 

8:30 PM - GEORGE W. BUSH HAS WON ALABAMA (The 9 missing Foxnews Electoral Votes!),
ARKANSAS(6) IS TOO CLOSE TO CALL
George W. Bush gains 9 Electoral Votes from Alabama, giving him 130 Electoral Votes.
270 Electoral Votes are needed to win.  Thats 140 more than George W. Bush has 
and 151 more than Al Gore has.
...
289/538 Electoral Votes are still in the Saddle!


George W. Bush picks up 9 Electoral Votes in a situation where now Every Vote matters. If one Candidate had picked up all the electoral votes cast so far, he would still need 19 to win. 

funbets as of 11 - 7 - 2000 8:35p
              HIGH BID   | LOWEST ASK   | TODAYS VOLUME | LAST TRADE |  TODAY'S CHANGE
AL GORE        72.22     |   90.00      |    130850     |    72.22   |     -16.78
GEORGE W BUSH  95.01     |   99.00      |     98150     |    95.20   |      -4.78


Gore is shot back into the race and funbets reflects it subtly. Notice the increase in volume and the lowest ask. 

8:40 PM - AL GORE AND GEORGE W. BUSH HAVE BOTH TAKEN ELECTORAL VOTES FROM MAINE
Maine is one of two states (There is also Nebraska) which splits it's electoral votes
based on district.  Maine has 4 electoral votes and 2 districts.  Whoever wins the popular
vote then wins the extra 2 bonus votes (for the senators).
Al Gore has picked up at least 3 of these, pushing his total up to 122.
270 Electoral Votes are needed to win.  Thats 140 still needed for Bush,
and 148 for Al Gore
286/538 Electoral Votes are still Available.



8:50 PM - AL GORE HAS WON PENNSYLVANIA
Pennsylvania gives Al Gore 23 Electoral votes, his total is 145.
270 Electoral Votes are needed to win.  Thats 140 more for George W. Bush,
125 more for Al Gore.
263/538 Electoral Votes are in the cards.


Bush needs to run the table to win now! He can't afford to lose anymore small states! 

HILLARY CLINTON DEFEATS RICK LAZIO FOR SENATE
9 PM -  AL GORE HAS WON NEW YORK, RHODE ISLAND
GEORGE W. BUSH HAS WON NEBRASKA, NORTH DAKOTA, WYOMING, SOUTH DAKOTA, AND LOUISIANA
WISCONSIN IS TOO CLOSE TO CALL
MINNESSOTA IS TOO CLOSE TO CALL (Nader acts as poison here.)
COLORADO IS TOO CLOSE TO CALL
NEW MEXICO IS TOO CLOSE TO CALL
ARIZONA IS TOO CLOSE TO CALL
OHIO IS TOO CLOSE TO CALL
WEST VIRGINIA REMAINS TOO CLOSE TO CALL 
(A total of 90 votes have closed polls but no