Inaugural Balling

16 responses to “Inaugural Balling”

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   biotron

   Jan 23, 2009 at 1:43 am

   so you went solo? *

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   biotron

   Jan 23, 2009 at 1:44 am

   you can be arrested for that as well, you know… *

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   Tanner Powell

   Jan 23, 2009 at 2:05 am

   What a great story. I’m a little amazed the day went off without a hitch, 1.8m people is hard to wrap your head around.

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4. 

   !MimosaMicheMichelle!

   Jan 23, 2009 at 2:20 am

   I love the blue satin dress and the polka-dot bow-tie and cummerbund!

   I am sure your first dance was memorable too in this nice evening full of enthusiasm!

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   David G Photography

   Jan 23, 2009 at 2:37 am

   8 cops to arrest 2 love birds? I hope they didn’t taser them, though there are probably some people who have a taser fetish…

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6. 

   ImranAnwar

   Jan 23, 2009 at 2:38 am

   Congratulations on getting to attend a historic day in person.

   Proud to be American.

   Imran
   "Live, Forever" neternity.org

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   msamaclean ©

   Jan 23, 2009 at 3:06 am

   Eight cops does seem like overkill, but like they say, "get a room!" LOL
   By the way, you look very nice!

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   AH in Pgh

   Jan 23, 2009 at 4:35 am

   Funny story but it is amazing that there was not only no violence or any threat to the Obamas, but no unpleasantness of any kind. It was a wonderful day and they were a magical couple.

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   !MimosaMicheMichelle!

   Jan 23, 2009 at 4:35 am

   I interpreted the number of policemen at the same arrest as representative of the incident/crime free day and evening. That is what Steve was surely trying to show.

   (My comment was written while the previous one was being written and posted.)

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    David G Photography

    Jan 23, 2009 at 4:46 am

    I guess it makes sense to have that many cops for those two. If you were a cop, who would you rather arrest: the happy couple or the angry ex-Bush staffer?

    BTW, the REAL crime they committed was hogging the ONLY stall in the bathroom.

    I was glad everything went well. The only real flaw in the event was the oath administered by the Chief Justice. I know he’s relatively new, but how hard is this to do, correctly?

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    twoeightnine

    Jan 23, 2009 at 5:38 am

    you’re about to blow up.

    gawker.com/5137596/inauguration-sex-sparks-linguistic-inv…

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    drona

    Jan 23, 2009 at 6:23 pm

    🙂 You look pretty happy…and ruffled…

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13. 

    jurvetson

    Jan 23, 2009 at 6:54 pm

    thanks…

    289: thanks…. yeah, several thousand views out in the blogosphere (but not here, because they, once again, used my photo without attribution; fixed now). My favorite comment out there is from Dagrolord, 3:05 AM

    Occasionally in life, you’re privileged to witness a combination of words that are so deliciously perfect and absolutely right together it’s as if watching the re-union of the twin halves of the Amulet of Life, separated from the days of the Pharaohs.

    ‘Inaugural Balling’ is just such a combination. Kudos Mr. Jurvetson.

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    PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE

    Jan 23, 2009 at 7:09 pm

    Oui !!! Superbe photo of the both of you =)

    (just discovered that :
    Obama inaugurated in Lego form )

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15. 

    !MimosaMicheMichelle!

    Jan 23, 2009 at 11:56 pm

    Steve, it is one thing for comments in the Valleywag to always seem to be unkind or disrespectful to you but I would protest when any comment is directed to your lady. Don’t you agree?

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    jurvetson

    Jan 24, 2009 at 5:33 am

    In theory yes, but I must have missed the comment directed to the resplendent lady bird…

    PhotonQ: the world is made of LEGOs… when we characterize the 3D holographic projection of a Plank-Voxel, we will have found the LEGOs of our universe, and they are much larger than we may have thought… the Duplo blocks of space-time. =)

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