alt.larryanderson.org

Home early today and taking advantage of the time to do some tidying up of my online world. Here’s what’s changed:

1. My previous (and horribly underutilized) home page has been euthanized. Requiescat in pace.


2. Its web address (www.larryanderson.org) now points to this page. This page’s previous address (blog.larryanderson.org) is now dead. I would love to have pointed it here as well, but Tumblr doesn’t yet allow two subdomains (in this case, blog and www) to direct to the same page. now redirects to my long-form blog.


3. As part of all this, mail directed to the larryanderson.org domain is now temporarily being lost in the ether until Google straightens out the records.  Eventually it will redirect to my regular email account.


4. Additionally, I’m giving up my lazarusanderson.com domain and its associated web pages and mail accounts.


5. Finally, I have a new domain, larand.tel, where my contact information can be found, and which will be updated as needed.

Some messages in my inbox just kind of stand out…

(I know, it’s probably automated, but still cool)

I too voted no on the props today. Our problems stem from the fact that we not only screwed up the property tax base with Prop. 13, but we’ve also voted in idiotic spending mandates like Prop. 98. It’s a recipe for disaster. Plus, we’re gerrymandered out the wazoo, as wGraves said, and while there’s a fix coming for that it hasn’t taken effect yet. The only real fix for all of it is to rewrite the state constitution, since all of those lovely tax cuts and spending mandates were voted in as constitutional amendments. I’m hoping the failure of the props will spur exactly that.

—My comment on Megan McArdle’s blog at The Atlantic