My mother is $% years young today.
She is in Florida. I am in Pennsylvania.
Not difficult to see who the smarter one is.
Mike Williams
A Life Online
Do not live your life online.
If you do, you are doing it wrong.
The time you spend messaging, texting, or posting on Facebook or Twitter could be time better spent with someone you love. Who deserves the attention more?
I would tend to think your real flesh and blood loved ones do.
I can say this because it’s my blog and I’ll write what I damn well please.
That is all.
Weekend Update
First, I’d like wish my friend Tabitha a very happy birthday!
Now, some stories from my Instapaper that I found interesting this week.
Social workers tend to have more ethics problems personally than most.
Louis C.K. knows how to market himself.
Notice how the articles so far come from GigaOm? Yeah, me neither.
20 New Year’s Resolutions for folks who are twenty-something.
Fruit Ninja Cat.
That’s all I got for right now.
I’ll be devoting most of my free time to meeting an April 30th deadline for the warehouse movie that John Miller and I have been working on and off on for about 2 years. Wheels are in motion and it looks like this thing might actually happen.
Top Instapaper Stories
A short listing of stories that caught my attention this week.
Apple using facial recognition to unlock your iOS devices?
Why it’s dangerous to allow key infrastructure systems to have an internet address.
A website devoted to showing why A.D.H.D. and similar “illnesses” are complete bullshit.
North Korea night time overhead shot. How many lights can you make out?
Hope everyone has a great day!
Oh..and one more thing…
..here’s yet another story about using false science to advance an agenda. Not that we’ve ever seen such a thing (see Al Gore…everything he’s ever done)
My New ZaggFolio Case for iPad2
This is the first article that I have written with my new iPad 2 case and my first impressions are…
…wow.
I like the sleek design of the Zagg Folio case.
A piece of paper that comes with it describes that I may only need to charge my keyboard “a few times a year.” Say what?
This thing is awsome and I can easily see why I may end up using the iPad for writing much more than my iMac.
The keyboard is built right into the case and while these types of things have been out for a while now, it was Harry McCracken’s article in Technologizer that tipped the scales towards Zagg for me.
I’ve had this thing for only an hour and I have already learned a couple of new things about Blogsy.
A case like this one isn’t for everyone with an iPad. It’s better suited towards those folks who plan to do a fair bit of writing with their iPad.
All the links you need about the case can be gotten from the Technologizer article that I linked to previously.
Someday & Stuff
Someday, I’ll get back to regular posting. After this holiday season me thinks.
Here are a few stories that I’ve saved for no particular reason at all other than “they caught my eye.”
How to make the perfect hamburger using liquid nitrogen.
Clay Shirky on the future of news and news media.
In A Flash…
We are half way through December and so far, I barely remember it.
Things are absolute “off the rails” busy at my day job.
Night projects have picked up.
And I barely have time to right a post about how busy it is.
Ain’t that some shit? (insert chorus here..”Ain’t that some shit”)
Calling Bullshit on This One
According to TechCrunch, retail spending is up over last year.
Thanksgiving brought record online retail sales for the holiday, with spending up 39.3 percent over Thanksgiving 2010. And today, IBM Coremetrics data shows a 24.3 percent growth in online sales on Black Friday compared to the same period last year.
Yeah. I don’t think so and here is why.
1. Unemployment has been steady at around 9%. That means that every week 9% more Americans are out of jobs. The numbers aren’t getting any better.
2. Food versus Retail purchases. I’m pretty sure that the massively unemployed are concentrating on buying food rather than anything else. Keeping their homes, cars, and the electricity on are going to win out over the black friday shopping craze.
3. Common sense. Common sense should tell you that retail sales HAVE to be down. Stores are going out of business at a record pace. Companies that are still keeping their heads above water are not hiring.
All the signs and environmental conditions point to a retail sales season that might make it out of the red and into the purple but certainly not the black.
Shortest Walk in History
Wendy and I took a walk around the block yesterday. She wanted a longer walk but I’m old so I could only do about a block.
Global Warming Just a Bunch of Hot Air?
I’d write more about this but I can’t stop laughing.
via The Register…
Climate scientists funded by the US government have announced new research in which they have established that the various doomsday global warming scenarios are in fact extremely unlikely to occur, and that the scenarios considered likeliest – and used for planning by the world’s governments – are overly pessimistic.
Hmm. At what point do we begin to sue people like Al Gore for perpetrating and forcing a known fraud on the American people? Charges of exploitation, theft by deception, perpetrating a hoax for the purpose of personal financial gain, and I could go on and on.
