the campaign is crazy

it has gone on too long, i'm bored of all of them, I still maintain my preferences, but I don't care about any of them enough to really try and swing voters, and of course the system is rigged so that our friends to the north get all the say and we here in the bluest state get none. blah.

My preferences right now:
0. Dennis Kucinich
1. Bill Richardson
2. John Edwards
3. Chris Dodd
4. Barack Obama

expensive software tools

Every now and then I wish I had some expensive software tool for a day or a week so that I could do some one-off gag or small project that it would be just the right tool for. This of course does not justify the $500-$30000 that these various tools cost. Right now I want Final Cut Pro or equivalent to do one cool video hack I have in my head. iMovie is just not up to this. Some day I may be superrich and not care, or the software industry will find licensing models that suit me (some pundits say this may yet happen, rent software for $n per year or logically $n/365 per day, yearly is already starting to happen). Until then I'll just do what I can with free/cheap software and grumble when it doesn't quite do what I want.