It was shallow and widely felt..
Things seem to be getting ever so close to the bigger event we know is on the way..
No damage reported after 4.2 quake near the Getty Center in Brentwood
Monday, June 2, 2014
No damage reported after 4.2 quake near the Getty Center in Brentwood
No damage reported after 4.2 quake near the Getty Center in Brentwood
Sunday, June 1, 2014
N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images
We already knew the database was extensive.. we already knew they were collecting information. And we already assumed they had our faces.
Our selfies..
Our couplies..
And doublies..
Or whatever elseies we will be coming up withie..
Have we surrendered our privacy for the fleeting moment of vain attention? Or is this just a product of the future being now?
It’s a big big world in a biometric land..
We are strangers in it.
I hope you smile!
You’re on camera.
N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images
Brazil's sex trade: How the country's one million prostitutes are preparing for the World Cup
Only a small part of the preps: Prostitutes are taking English lessons.. Limo services being offered.. Apparently one dental student will earn $5000 for giving ‘exclusive attention’ to a German businessman for two weeks.
The INDEPENDENT reports further:
In one zona, Santo stops continually to chat with the younger girls who stand at the doors of their rooms. “Those girls when they start, they are too crazy, they start making too much money. They have sex without condoms and sometimes they get boyfriends inside of here and that’s when they get pregnant. Loads work until just before they have babies. As I say, they get crazy. They also fall in love, but with the wrong guys. They could have all the businessmen and they end up marrying a builder. I’m not discriminating but they should see the prostitutes that marry a rich guy. One married a judge and lives in luxury. Another got pregnant by a guy, married him and now has eight maids in her house.” How many actually attain this particular fantasy is unclear.
What’s love got to do with it?
Money to be made.
The World Cup is there..
Brazil's sex trade: How the country's one million prostitutes are preparing for the World Cup
Saturday, May 31, 2014
The cast of the WONDER YEARS together again—20 years since the show.
Finally.. proof that Paul Pfieffer is NOT Marilyn Manson..
The MPAA squashed this SIN CITY poster because of the semi-visible breast.
Thanks to the Internet we can still see it.
Friday, May 30, 2014
It's a dog eat dog afterlife
I read a somewhat moving article on HUFF PARANORMAL about a man who lost his pet dog.. In death, he sought to find the animal’s spirit.. His method was to use a smoke bomb and camera.. The author of the article is sure that he saw the face of his beloved deceased pet on the foggy image..
Before you laugh and mock, there’s two things to note.. First off, science can explain so much. But there’s a cutoff when science stops.. At least at this point. Logic may say that this image is just smoke within smoke.. For for the believer when faith, it’s something more. And science by no means can explain even a morsel of faith.,
And secondly– perhaps this would be more for pet owners– who didn’t lose an animal and feel the presence of that same beloved pet after death? And even more, I have known a handful of people that claimed per visitation from an afterlife..
In my own circumstance, I fondly remember seeing my dog Newt walk by my door. It was after he died. I had a witness– he saw it but years later now claims he didn’t. And my dog Bailey loudly walked down the stairs in my house. After death. My wife heard that one and I think would still testify that it happened..
Death of a mystery. One that I have made myself willing and ready to investigate .. I crave answers on what happens to our soul when we perish..
In the case of Steve on Huff Paranormal, he thinks his dog is still with him. Or at least visited.
And that’s a nice thing to think…comforting in a sense , even when coupled with the dark mystery that death is..
Thursday, May 29, 2014
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This pitch and a 50 Cent can buy me a cup of coffee..
My God that was a bad pitch.
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Expect to see this cover of TIME magazine everywhere.. it may sell as good as their mother breastfeeding from a bit ago.
I credit TIME with one thing: They are able to still give us some provocative covers to keep themselves relevant. It’s journalism, sure, but it’s also about the bottom line. They are trying to make a profit in print during the age of Internet.
This is the type of cover that may help them..
The actual text and subject aside, this magazine will sell. Maybe not like hot cakes, but lukewarm pouches.. Or something.
And the real question: How many tough men will take a second or even third glance before they realize what they’re seeing?
All in all we're just another crack in the floor
I am already scared of heights.. but the thought of the floor cracking under me–while I’m on the 103rd floor!? No way..
Even worse.. apparently after the family joked about how the stability is safe and glass floor is unbreakable, they began to hear cracking.. and saw it happening.
Never again.
I don’t think I’d be a person yearning to stand on a glass floor that high up to begin with, but hearing this I never will..
Study claims: Possible cynicism link to dementia
I better get positive quick..
Though I think this study is a little quackery..
Study claims: Possible cynicism link to dementia
OOOH SNAP
Snapchat founder is ‘mortified’ over leaked emails that he wrote.. Even Spiegel wrote emails referencing cocaine, binge drinking, and urinating on women. Snap. They were the frat days..
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Just for fun, I logged into AOL IM tonight..
It was like an immediate blast from the past! The noises.. the messages.. the away messages. Just brought my back to a simpler time.
Remember those days? You’d post the away messages featuring some song lyric that symbolized your mood.. others would ponder its meaning.. you’d slam that ‘door shut’ noise when you offline.. how many fights between couples ended with that AOL noise? And the AOL chatrooms? My God.. those bizarre and weird chat rooms, making friends with people who you’d never see..
I actually made a few real friends on AOL believe it or not.. some are actually now “Facebook” friends.. So that’s the real internet now, right?
One shocking thing I noticed tonight: People are still on AOL, including MDrudge, who I think is the actual Matt Drudge. He messaged me once on there years ago a night before he was going to appear on CSPAN. He confirmed the air date .. I think I may have framed the conversation screen shot.
I also thought back to my original internet exploration.. besides that ridiculous ICQ program, I frequented the world of CHAT1.COM .. check that website, it still exists.. but the chat portion has some error that forever will stricken it from the net..
The good old days. Dial up—you could unplug yourself for a while when you were done online..
Now we are always connected everywhere. Then we chose when to be, and decided what others would hear.
Which time was easier? Which would you prefer?
The world of the net has changed.
I just wish those old AOL sound files would still be used somewhere ..
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