2019-12-14

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2019-12-14 07:37 am

Hoping This Isn't a Musical Omen of the Morning

My iTunes installation - yes, I still use that - just flipped to Bear McCreary's "Prelude to War" from the Battlestar Galactica Season 2 collection.

If you remember your musical cues from the second iteration of that TV series, that tune was playing in the background of the staredown between fighter squadrons from the Battlestars Galactica and Pegasus in "Pegasus Part 1". Kara "Starbuck" Thrace asking "let's all be friendly, okay?"

I hope this isn't an omen for the day.

And I wish that McCreary had felt free to cut loose on Agents of SHIELD as a composer the way he did on Galactica. But, Marvel and ABC have had different needs than the SciFi/SyFy channel, right?
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2019-12-14 09:16 pm

USA: Weird and Worrying Political Data Story

Two questions inspired by this report from SFGate:

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/california-voter-registration-dmv-automatic-14902100.php

1) Where else is it possible for this to happen?

2) Why should/would any state government entrust this kind of data to the DMV ?