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Took me a while to solve, but the lost time was worth the illusory sense of accomplishment.

I may be an Obamatard, but this is hilarious.

So maybe Sarah Palin doesn’t have all that much “experience.” Maybe she doesn’t pay much attention to your fancy-pants “foreign policy” or “domestic policy” or “policy.” Maybe she’s “crazy” and “corrupt” and was picked by a “vetting process” that consisted of “tossing darts at a phone book in the middle of an all-night Ambien-and-Ketamine binge.” But maybe that’s just because Sarah Palin’s just too busy being a real American to hang around with your namby-pamby liberal candidates with their arugula lattes and their east coast Ivy League universities and their “qualifications” while they tax the Jesus Fetus to pay for gay Muslim healthcare!

I remember reading this guy’s blog when I was in 8th grade or so. I was a bigger fan of his friend Simon Willison’s blog, to be honest, as it wasn’t as technical and was more relevant to my interests at the time. But Holovaty’s posts were my first exposure to the work I do now, which is web development — writing the behind-the-scenes code that makes web sites work. That he and Willison were doing pioneering work in Lawrence, so close to home, was inspiring. So, if you’re interested in reading about someone who has had a major influence on me, check out this excellent article.