I've been trying to work on an image update all afternoon and my laptop keeps crashing. It goes slower and slower and then bluescreens. I'm not sure what's up and honestly I don't care what's up right now. Thankfully because of the BME maintenance software's design, it was really easy to just devolve to my old desktop (and in the process of doing so I figured out the things I need to do to perfect the process). Because it's built around external hardware now, it was almost as easy as unplugging from one CPU-box and plugging into the next.
I was going to go to the carnival tonight, but we don't have a baby sitter (so I'd have to ditch Rachel to go) and she brought me a whack of yummy food. Priorities!
Other than that I had some conversations about the Todd Bertrang case with people a bit closer to the facts. The more I learn about this, the more I get angry about them basically framing Todd for a crime that never happened and doing everything they could — including dangling $20,000,000 in front of his nose as an incentive — to make him even consider talking to them.
I know a lot of you don't like Todd because of his sexuality. Some of your might even believe that he's a sexual predator. But even if that's true, the simple fact of the matter is that Todd is not guilty of this crime. This really is a witchhunt, and if they win this the way they're trying to win it, it won't end with Todd. I think a lot of us thought that it might be limited to him but I'm no longer convinced of that.
He's committed no crime and there is no evidence against him and there are no victims. But still, he's in prison — being denied bail no less — and his assets are being seized and liquidated against his will. They've added patently false “child porn” charges (which I know the details of and can personally vouch for being total BS), which has meant that no lawyer will touch him without a major retainer, and all his old friends are staying away. Oh, and he's being denied a public defender (although they've given his girlfriend a public defender who's done nothing but try and trick her into giving “evidence” against Todd)…
In any case, it's incredibly messed up and — no matter what you may think of Todd — fundamentally unjust. If you think you can help, drop Connect a line, as she's probably the best contact for Todd on IAM right now.
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