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I can always toss on a light jacket here in San Francisco… if they make air-conditioned suits, I sure missed them when I lived in Tampa Bay…

About to head out to RecentChangesCamp 2008 in Palo Alto, CA… see y’all there!

California’s primary election comes up in the morning, as are those of a buttload of other states. These combine selections of the various per-party presidential candidates in preparation for the November election, as well as various vital local and state ballot measures — parks, cops, and of course Indian gaming agreements.

Unlike everybody else with a blog, I’m not going to presume to tell y’all who to vote for.

But I have to admit I’ve been pleasantly surprised poking about Obama’s web site. I stumbled on this speech he gave on religion in politics, which is probably the first thing a mainstream American politician’s said about religion that hasn’t made me cringe and want to run away to Canada.

Fun election fact: California has a “modified open primary“, allowing voters who haven’t registered a party affiliation to cast their votes in the primary nomination process for a party of their choice… but only among those parties which have opted into it. We briefly had a completely open primary (so you could pick *any* party), but this got shut down on constitutional issues. Currently only the American Independent and Democratic parties are opted in to the system.

Ugly winds & rainstorm hit San Francisco yesterday; our power was out all day, and even the local Starbuck’s eventually went out, so no more internet in the afternoon. Some disruption to public transit, but still managed to get around. Yay!