Help me out here...

This morning, David Frum is in a fine mood. Commenting on some news stories circulating within the right-wing blogosphere that European courts have threatened to arrest George W. Bush, and so Bush has cancelled all trips out of the country, Frum writes:

If even a small portion of the news is true, President Obama has a duty to speak up and to warn foreign governments that further indulgence of this kind of nonsense by their court systems will be viewed as an unfriendly act by the United States. It is one more reminder of why the concept of an International Criminal Court is such an invitation to mischief.

And for those inclined to enjoy the mischief: Just wait until somebody serves an arrest warrant in Luxembourg on ex-President Obama for ordering all those drone strikes on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border

I'm trying to figure out why the arrest of someone for a criminal act is a bad thing. Aren't these guys all about law and order? Isn't the process-- especially for those that can afford it-- appropriate and right?

Stop that! You'll go blind!

I'm such a dirty old man sometimes.

There's a girls-only Catholic high school near my old office, and some mornings, if traffic is fine, I am treated to the most otaku sight possible: a gaggle of young women in the sort of uniforms that pepper fantasy anime landscapes.

Apparently, today is one of those peculiar fun rituals that high schools put their kids through, because today they were not all arrayed around the gates in school girl uniform, today there were a dozen of them all wearing colorful pyjamas and many were carrying overstuffed teddy bears.

Good heavens! I feel fiction coming on.

Web Development Meetup!

I had a good evening hanging out with the Web Development folks in Seattle. The beer at Pike Brewery is damn good, and the conversation was wonderful.

My experience was vaguely familiar: I did more teaching than learning. I did learn about the hashbang debate (a problem very near to me, as I'm developing a potential hashbang site), and someone put in a very good word for DotNetNuke, but mostly we discussed headless testing, the differences between Django, Rails, and Catalyst, the invention of Node, the importance of Promises in jQuery 1.5, and the blessings of Backbone. Oh, and I got a strong recommendation to use jQuery Mobile instead of Zepto, on the assumption that jQuery was the One True Library.

On the way home, I stopped and bought some fruit and yogurt. The machine gave me a coupon for candy bars. Yeah, that's brilliant.