No big deal, but I can’t figure out how this person got their twitter like this, and I’m too embarrassed to ask! 
Of course, you can alway follow me on twitter @chelseablacker or http://www.twitter.com/chelseablacker.
Can you believe this is actor John Hodgman, the “PC” from the Apple commercials!  Dare I say he’s got that techy geek thing down pretty well, I bet he likes macs…
Hi there,
Welcome to my website, clearly you’ve figured out that my name is Chelsea Blacker. Â Well done. Â PLEASE EMAIL ME BACK, at the address I contacted you with, if you are interested in me (as you should be!). Â Thank you.
A little about me, that may be important to know when you’re picking a new resident for your flat:
1. Non smoker. If you do smoke that’s cool, I will just use a lot of Febreeze.Â
2. I don’t own any pets, but enjoy them.
3. Employed! Â I have a job here in the UK (legally too!) as a marketing consultant at Base One Group. Â I also do some freelance as a search engine optimization & pay per click consultant.
4. Social. I graduated from NYU and already have plenty of friends in the UK, so I wont bother you too much. Â But I do like getting to know my roomies, and will probably ask you how your day was, did you have a good night out last weekend, & if you want to chill with me & my friends, etc.Â
5. Clean Floor. Slightly obsessive, I like to have a clean floor. Â I will go out of my way to clean it every day if need be, because I can’t stand walking on dirt. Â In my own room, shoes will not be allowed.Â
6. Active! I used to work at Crunch Gym, I enjoy playing tennis, a bit of squash, skiing (Utah), horseback riding, and jogging along the west side highway.Â
7. Party! While I’m up for going out and clubbing a bit, I don’t drink a lot which means I wont make a lot of noise late at night nor will I dirty your toilet. Â I also don’t do any drugs, including pot.Â
7. Artistic. I love ballet, painting, and comedy. UCB is a weekly event for me when in NYC.Â
8. Sleeping. I have a normal sleep cycle, from about 11pm to 7am or 8am on week days. Â I do appreciate people not playing loud music while I sleep. Â I cannot live with a roommate who has a weird sleep cycle (I’ve tried it before). Â
Please don’t hesitate to contact me with ANY questions at the email address I contacted you at. Â Or leave a comment with your email. Â
Cheers,
Chelsea.
Note the pink ad along the bottom for a hair removal cream!
Obama has started taking some good action, most notably announcing his intent to shut down Guantanamo Bay.  The NY Times said one issue in shutting it down was finding new housing for the 250 odd prisoners.  I tell you, real estate worldwide  skyrocketed,  who knew caves were in such high demand?
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Hores & Horses!
This is what’s happening in the American school system! Â This student, I think, is in 3rd grade and likes “horses” not “hores.”
This drives me up a wall. The link below (don’t worry, it’s =no follow) is a petition for people who think Hallmark’s same sex couple cards are a sinful disgrace. They blast about with their Bible sayings and “I’m holier than thou” ideas.
Why can’t we all just be tolerant of each other? The Christian right doesn’t need to flip out because a card company is targeting the gay market. Do they see gays and liberals petitioning about Hallmark creating Christian oriented cards? (xmass, communion, etc)
Actually, I listened to NPR’s On The Media podcast yesterday, and they were talking about how atheists aren’t taken seriously, and the negative impact the phrase “there are no atheists in foxholes” has on their beliefs (apparently they’re very offended). Then this journalist talked about how guilty he felt for saying the phrase. Perhaps petitioning Hallmark is their next move too!
Ah yes, and my plug for the libertarian party!
Obama vs. Bush
Watch the great Obama-mess-up video.
It’s so much more fun playing offense! Everyone bashes ol’ Georgey, but (shockingly) it looks like Obama is human and also makes mistakes in public speeches! Oh wait, this wasn’t even a speech, he was just trying to recite a sentence.
Watching it on BBC1, you would have thought that blacks make up the majority of Americans (2006 census = 12.6%).  What happened to balanced media?
My favorite part was people yelling “change has come! it has come! change!”. Seriously, we’re not talking about the second coming of Christ here, he’s president and that’s all very exciting but he’s not going to change the world alone. I’m no political pro, but I’ve watched enough West Wing to know there’s a lot more to getting things done in Washington than a president alone.
“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.“
- Thomas Jefferson
And so, the Democrats with their big government and nationalized healthcare aspirations, roll into the White House.
I’ve been readings Dreams From My Father, Barack Obama’s first book, and it’s this section on page 194 of my UK edition which summed up to me, why I don’t agree with this man. In this part, he’s reflecting on how to organize a poor black community on the outskirts of Chicago:
“Give the black man some tangible skills and a job. Teach that black child reading and arithmetic in a safe, well-funded school. With the basics taken care of, each of us could search for our own sense of self-worth.”
Is this guy kidding? Two points. First, BASICS are not safe, well funded schools - basics are parents taking care of the children they bring into the world, basics are food, water, and clothing, basics are every one’s right to live their lives as they see fit without persecution(assuming they don’t harm others in the process).
Secondly, “give a black man tangible skills and a job”; who decided it’s the government’s job to give away skills and a job? There’s a reason skills and a job are highly valued in societies around the world, it’s because they’re WORTHY of value. And everybody knows that items of value don’t come for free! Giving skills and jobs to people won’t improve their self worth - people WORKING hard to learn new skills and get jobs themselves will naturally create self worth!
Barack, we don’t need to finagle the government into forming an individuals self worth. Let us live without your idealistic big brother interference so the American people can truly be free.
… was a joke.  Sorry guys, i really want you to go to THIS FUNNY SKILLS CLOUD!
This guy just sent me a wicked email explaining why java fx will never triump/really compete with flas:
Thanks for the link, I did have a look at JavaFX when it first came out, but not recently. I’m sure the technology is great but there is more than one reason why flash is used it seem to me. JavaFX will loose out until there is good tool support. It seems to me to be quite difficult to write a decent tool to target JavaFX and that is just one part of it. I’d love to see an alternative to Flash/Flex mainly because I think Adobe overcharges. But this seems to be some years off. I can’t see much in JavaFX that would convince a web-designer to use it over flash for instance. Silverlight which has video codecs has a difficult job too. If anything I am expecting flash to get more prevalent as people want more in the browser. It is ideally placed to write the next generation of in-browser application. AJAX/Javascript still run into problems with speed, something that only now is being addressed, and there is no support for fast communication protocols. For instance drawing realtime graphs. It’s going to be interesting. I heard some talk about adding sockets to javascript recently. God help us.