http://www.adamklaus.net/ Off the top of my head. Adam A. Klaus Adam A. Klaus <web@adamklaus.net> http://www.adamklaus.net/images/akdotnetlogo.gif/ http://www.adamklaus.net/ Off the top of my head. http://www.adamklaus.net/weblog/entry.php?EntryID=55 For the last few months at work, I've been neck deep in online voter registration. I'm not sure I would have believed you a couple of years ago had you told me how much I was going to learn about the intricacies of the National Voter Registration Application. But, well, here I am, and I can't say I'm not enjoying it. Adam Klaus Copyright 2007 Adam A. Klaus Thu, 09 Aug 2007 17:17:42 PST http://www.adamklaus.net/weblog/entry.php?EntryID=52 At Working Assets, I've been working a bunch on projects that incorporate the use of mobile technology in our political work. I ran across textmarks.com, a site that seems to really leverage a huge potential for letting individuals creatively use text messaging in a wide variety of applications. Here's a widget that I created in about 30 seconds on the site: Adam Klaus Copyright 2007 Adam A. Klaus Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:59:34 PST http://www.adamklaus.net/weblog/entry.php?EntryID=51 Watch it. Adam Klaus Copyright 2006 Adam A. Klaus Tue, 19 Sep 2006 14:58:50 PST http://www.adamklaus.net/weblog/entry.php?EntryID=50 Adam Klaus Copyright 2006 Adam A. Klaus Mon, 03 Jul 2006 15:16:00 PST http://www.adamklaus.net/weblog/entry.php?EntryID=49 If there's any humor to be found in South Dakota's recent ban on all abortions, it is captured in this cartoon. Adam Klaus Copyright 2006 Adam A. Klaus Fri, 24 Mar 2006 10:07:08 PST http://www.adamklaus.net/weblog/entry.php?EntryID=48 One year ago tonight, I stepped down from the Amtrak into a puddle and a rainstorm and the sweet smell of eucalyptus on the night air. I'd just listened to Joni Mitchell's 'California', and to California here I'd come. Rob picked me and my 400 pounds (literally) of luggage, and we drove across the Bay Bridge. An hour later, we were sipping drinks at The Phone Booth. My new life in San Francisco had begun. Adam Klaus Copyright 2006 Adam A. Klaus Wed, 01 Mar 2006 18:39:36 PST http://www.adamklaus.net/weblog/entry.php?EntryID=47 Sweden has that kind of can-do attitude I admire in a small northern European country. Adam Klaus Copyright 2006 Adam A. Klaus Thu, 09 Feb 2006 15:24:34 PST http://www.adamklaus.net/weblog/entry.php?EntryID=46 Sometimes (ok, most of the time) I wonder what else there is to say. Maybe that explains my disappearance from cyber punditry over the past few months. I'd at least like to think I'm not lazy, and I did new years resolve to post to this thing more often (among a page and a half of other things, which I still adamantly defend as attainable). Adam Klaus Copyright 2006 Adam A. Klaus Wed, 01 Feb 2006 17:08:09 PST http://www.adamklaus.net/weblog/entry.php?EntryID=44 Shortly after 5pm last evening, the Governator of California lifted his veto pen to the first legisature-authorized extension of same-sex marriage rights in the country. Gay activists are up in arms, or at least their e-mails would lead one to believe so as the Castro has not exactly erupted in window-smashing protest. Personally, I'm having a hard time feeling anything but ambivalent about the issue. Adam Klaus Copyright 2005 Adam A. Klaus Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:42:09 PST http://www.adamklaus.net/weblog/entry.php?EntryID=43 From today's New York Times: Adam Klaus Copyright 2005 Adam A. Klaus Thu, 08 Sep 2005 17:42:29 PST http://www.adamklaus.net/weblog/entry.php?EntryID=42 Maybe it's silly, but I woke up in the middle of the night on Tuesday morning filled with an immense sense of sadness. Really. I lay in bed, staring at the ceiling, wondering what would happen next, asking how I would fill the emptiness. Ultimately, I was asking, 'Can TV really do this to you?' Adam Klaus Copyright 2005 Adam A. Klaus Thu, 25 Aug 2005 11:32:09 PST http://www.adamklaus.net/weblog/entry.php?EntryID=41 I've known about this song ever since Brian turned me on to it last fall, but I'd never seen the video. Wow. Adam Klaus Copyright 2005 Adam A. Klaus Mon, 25 Jul 2005 11:35:04 PST http://www.adamklaus.net/weblog/entry.php?EntryID=40 For the second time in the last two months, our neighbors have almost set the house on fire. In the tinderbox of San Francisco, especially in the rainless summer season, that means the whole block goes with it. It also explains why, after frantic knocking on the back door with pleas for a fire extinguisher, and the tossing of kettles of water into the smoke cloud on the ceiling, six firetrucks pulled up on the street. Fortunately, it hadn't really done much than generate a bunch of smoke and singe the molding around the window. The city's finest nonetheless smashed the windows and ripped out much of the celing with an axe, ensuring that the fire would not spread and that the neighbor could not possibly feel any more stupid. Adam Klaus Copyright 2005 Adam A. Klaus Mon, 18 Jul 2005 10:49:31 PST http://www.adamklaus.net/weblog/entry.php?EntryID=39 It's about the light. Of the many quintessential images, a poignant one is the thudding splash of a child taking one last swim at 11pm. The colors of the sunset are scrawled across the northwest horizon and the water is still, thick like quicksilver, taking up the colors of encroaching night and everything around. The ripples spread, the child splashes, and then there is quiet again. A pair of ducks takes off, wings skimming the water, the flapping gradually fading away. Adam Klaus Copyright 2005 Adam A. Klaus Thu, 14 Jul 2005 16:49:03 PST http://www.adamklaus.net/weblog/entry.php?EntryID=38 Return of the Jedi, I believe, was the second movie I ever saw in the theater. Catching Episode III today was the final bridge connecting a narrative that has spanned most of my life. Adam Klaus Copyright 2005 Adam A. Klaus Sun, 22 May 2005 23:02:30 PST