With the wedding coming up, I’m looking for a good videocamera which I can use to get video into my G5.

Any suggestions or recommendations?

Last Sunday, A. and I were driving out to suburbia for a family function, talking about the future and grooving to the iPod’s uber-mix.

On came the Schoolhouse Rock version of the Preamble to the Constitution, and since we’re both old we both started singing along at the top of our lungs:

We the people [of the United States], in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

I was thinking about that this morning, trying to surmise how President Bush’s proposed constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage fits into this charter. Justice? Blessings of liberty?

Wow, it’s been a while. Anyway, here’s the latest and greatest linky goodness:

Dooce is blogging an amazing series about her new baby. Read the whole series, starting with the due date.

The current state of the Chinatown buses. (BTW, these are definitely the best way to get back and forth to New York, if you’re on a budget).

MySQL is sneaking up on Oracle and SQL Server.

Hotlinks is a pretty neat Technorati/Daypop-type tool for seeing what people are linking.

Steve Jobs, Apple, and the Limits of Innovation.

The world’s most dangerous geek.

Kierkegaard quotes.

An excellent geeky primer on full-text searching. Also, Queryster is a neat little metasearch engine.

Malcolm Gladwell on How the S.U.V. ran over automotive safety. If you haven’t read it already, go buy The Tipping Point and read it.

Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.

Sitting together in the leasing office of the apartment building, filling out the rental application: Who to contact in case of emergency?

“Hey, I guess that would be you.”

Smile.

This is a great time to be looking for an apartment.

The last time I moved was in the fall of 1999, when I had to pay first, last, security and a full-month broker’s fee. This time, it was just $500 security deposit, no last month’s rent, $250 knocked off the monthly rent, and the first two months free.

If you are looking for an apartment in this market, you are entirely in the driver’s seat.

So, it’s been an exciting week and a half. We have a date (middle of August), a church (very pretty old New England wooden), maybe a reception place (screed to come on that little adventure), a veil (from A.’s mother and grandmother) and a new home (in an old cookie factory).

We are hibernating this fall.

p.s., about the “A.” My lovely fiancee, she of the unique and thus easily indexable name, will be referred to as “A.” in this forum. Damn me and my endless Google juice…

She said yes…

I’ve just been preoccupied, for reasons which may soon become apparent.

Every once in a while I get an email suggesting that one of my writings may have been misguided, suggesting my writing may improve if I moved my head from its current dark hiding place.

At least I’m not the only one; here’s how Chicago Sun-Times columnist Neil Steinburg responds to flame emails.

While I cannot sincerely thank you for writing, I do hope that, as your life progresses, you eventually come to realize just how wrong you were in disagreeing with me in such a rude fashion. If there were a shred of politeness or sense in your e-mail you would not be receiving this letter, but as you are, I would urge you to re-examine your life, and suggest that you reach out to all the people you have no doubt hurt with your brusque and offensive manner and beg their forgiveness. Though utterly indifferent to your taunts, I will myself set a good example by forgiving you now. It can be a terrible world, and I’m sure you have reasons for being the way you are.