pride

Texas gets all the glory, but it looks like the people in my home state are definitely pulling their weight [CNN article].

Arkansas took in more than 60,000 refugees after Katrina arrived—only Texas took in more. Gov. Mike Huckabee is out preaching the Golden Rule and reminding Arkansans of the help they receive after their nearly perennial ice storms and tornadoes.

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Tonight I understood that things were Really Going To Work. As in, were Really Going To Work, in the cosmic, hit-over-the-head fashion that’s completely impossible to ignore in the way that things like the success of internal-combustion engines are hard to ignore. True, everyone but me has known that things were Really Going To Work for a good deal of time (and have been waiting on me to see the obvious) but about an hour ago, I finally got it:

me: my. god. this. is. really. going. to. work.
Gareth: well of course
me: yeah, but…um, I coded the vast majority of it.
me: the two are generally incompatible
Gareth: psh
Gareth: tell that to php