Grill time.
Like my socks?
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Well I heard them!!! Finally.
For the first time since this whole cicada thing started I finally heard them way off in the distance just right now.. When the forest is rocking don’t go a’knockin.. 17 years is a long time..
Philadelphia to Lay Off Almost 4,000 Public School Employees
`Cause I live and breathe this Philadelphia austerity
From the day that I was born I’ve waved the dime
Philadelphia austerity took me knee high to a man
Yeah gave me a piece of mama, daddy never had
Philadelphia to Lay Off Almost 4,000 Public School Employees
Vishal Thakkar, Oklahoma Man, Sues After Plastic Surgery Leaves Him Without A Nose
I suppose this truly is cutting off your nose to spite your face…
Vishal Thakkar, Oklahoma Man, Sues After Plastic Surgery Leaves Him Without A Nose
Alexa Ray Joel on lots of stuff
I like Alexa Ray Joel—not as much as a friend who harbors a long standing crush on her.. But I find her talented like her dad. The problem is she doesn’t have the same attitude that tells the world to go to hell.
Here’s info on an interviewwith her in which she opened up about bullying and plastic surgery.. She appears to have never gotten over when Perez Hilton labeled her a slut at the age of 19..
Worth reading..
Whoa!
And asteroid four times closer than the moon just flew by earth.. It was the size of a truck..
And if you’re wondering why you didn’t hear about it until now, it’s because it wasn’t discovered about a day ago..
When will earth’s luck run out?
Friday night fevers
Parenting is great….until he weekend virus hits. I assume they occur to my son at the end of the week because five days of germs and filth at day care..
It hopefully will be a silent and peaceful night for the boy. He needs sleep.
As does his parents..
Wish us luck.
Friday, June 7, 2013
Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks
Day three; another GUARDIAN blockbuster report…
Obama orders US to draw up overseas target list for cyber-attacks
Google Official Blog: What the ...?
Amazing how all of these tech companies suddenly DON’T know what we are doing online when they bragged for years that they knew everything..
Everyone wants to.. Break out of the PRISM they suddenly find themselves in…
Google Official Blog: What the ...?
The ricin diaries
News of the strange got stranger as an actress has now been arrested in connection with the recent batch of ricin mailings..
She has appeared in WALKING DEAD and the VAMPIRE DIARIES..
Documents: U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms; companies deny knowledge
U.S. intelligence has access to the servers of nine Internet companies as part of top-secret effort.
I suppose if the government would have attempted to extract data from Tumblr servers, they would have consistently received the same message that users typically receive when they try to update their websites: ‘WE’RE SORRY, SERVICE IS TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE’
Documents: U.S. mining data from 9 leading Internet firms; companies deny knowledge
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Boy, 9, shot while riding with mother: 'Mommy, I'm shot'
Police believe a 9-year-old boy was shot by a gunman who had been aiming at his mother’s boyfriend as they drove on the South Side.
Stories like this do nothing but make me sick… totally sick, and frustrated with the inhumanity people harbor..
Boy, 9, shot while riding with mother: 'Mommy, I'm shot'
President Obama’s Dragnet - NYTimes.com
Wow.. This is a MUST read from the NEW YORK TIMES..
And this was written BEFORE we found out that the FBI and the NSA tap directly into severs of nine top net companies getting just about everything that everybody does online..
Wow..
President Obama’s Dragnet - NYTimes.com
NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret files reveal
The UK GUARDIAN reporting continues.. This new amazing story is rocking the rest of the world that wasn’t rocked by the Verizon story this morning…
NSA has direct access to tech giants' systems for user data, secret files reveal
Matt Drudge was right
15 years ago, the Internet pioneer was remarkably prophetic about where journalism was headed.
Interesting story.. And he was right, regardless of your opinion on him. He called this one..
Every era of news reporting has a pioneer.. And often they are flawed, often we’re in awe.. but in the end they are human.
Reporters 15 years ago had disdain for Drudge. They may have more now that he turned out to be spot on..
Matt Drudge was right
Iraqi Birth Defects Worse than Hiroshima
There are some pretty tough images to see in this story.. But we need to perhaps at least be aware of the issue. If this claim is true, then we are seeing horror before our eyes taking place.
Read the story at your own risk..
No images re-printed on here on purpose..
Iraqi Birth Defects Worse than Hiroshima
YES. We hear you. And you hear us.
The world of telecommunications was rocked today when the UK GUARDIAN reported that a FISA court ordered Verizon to provide records of calls of millions of Americans on an ongoing, daily basis. And now the Obama Administration is defending the program as ‘critical’ for safety and the fight against terrorism..
Another report on CNN attempts to break down what exactly the Verizon/FISA/NSA/FBI/Patriot Act issue means for you.. the report concludes that the government cannot hear what you are saying.. At least we think that according to the document released today in the GUARDIAN. We don’t know what other documents exist that have not been leaked…
Lots of people are angry. Some, including Senator Lindsay Graham, assert that they are fine with it because they didn’t do anything wrong…
But the far-reaching program appears to presume someone is doing something wrong.. Constitutional questions are involved.. privacy questions are involved.. Lots of big issues are at stake. This is important, and another issue of government surveillance that hits directly into every home across the United States.
Let's answer Al Gore's question
He asked this:
In the digital era, privacy must be a priority. Is it just me, or is secret blanket surveillance obscenely outrageous?
I ask the same. Is it?
According to this document obtained by The Guardian, the federal government, through a court order granted to the National Security Agency, is using the Patriot Act to collect the phone records of millions of Verizon users over a three-month period. Awesome. Read the full document here. It’s like the AP thing, except extended to everyone else.
The court order doesn’t allow the NSA to collect any information whatsoever on the contents of phone calls, or even to obtain any names or addresses of customers. What’s covered instead is known as “metadata”: the phone number of every caller and recipient; the unique serial number of the phones involved; the time and duration of each phone call; and potentially the location of each of the participants when the call happened. All of this information is being collected on millions of calls every day – every conversation taking place within the US, or between the US and a foreign country is collected.
Telephone metadata and what it can tell the authorities about you | James Ball (via rubenfeld)
Big data, federal-style.
(via shortformblog)Verizon order: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily
Exclusive: Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama administrationThe National Security Agency is currently collecting the telephone records of millions of US customers of Verizon, one of America’s largest telecoms providers, under a top secret court order issued in April.
Verizon order: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily
Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Monday, June 3, 2013
Yahoo users informed that company has right to scan and read all of their emails.. So Tumblr users, are we scared yet?
Sunday, June 2, 2013
For weeks (actually months) .. wait. .. actually years, my wife has been screaming at me to wash the layers of dead insects off of my car, or at least just take a hose to it. Apparently, last night, Ayden got so convinced that his mommy was right that he decided to wash the car himself. First time in years.. and maybe the last time unless he keeps trying.
Oh, and yes, that is a ‘miracle hose’ and it does in fact work as it does on TV..
Pretty sure this won’t happen again.. I threw some money down on a desk in front of co-workers and a nickel landed on its side, as you can see. Those who saw it are witnesses and can attest to the fact that the photo wasn’t a set up.
For a moment I felt like Dick York from the TWILIGHT ZONE episode where something similar occurs. As for my fate, though, I wasn’t able to hear voices from people walking by me on streets and I could not read anyone’s mind. Which may be fine, since York’s circumstances ended badly in the show—as did most people’s..
So the one day a cookout is planned is also the day when violent thunderstorms are set to strike after 11am
Looks like food will have to be cooked early and preserved in aluminum foil..
Friday, May 31, 2013
Fire bad
I walked into my local convenience store this morning and caught the aftermath of two workers trying to dry out their lottery ticket by microwaving it. They thought the microwave would thoroughly dry the paper, but did not realize that it would set it on fire as well..
Yep, we are the world and this is our future..
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Dying girl, 10, spurs fight over lung transplant fairness
The parents of a 10-year-old Pennsylvania girl who has waited 18 months for a lung transplant are waging a fierce fight to change an organ allocation regulation that they say is keeping their desperately ill daughter from the life-saving treatment she needs. But organ transplant &
A must read..
Dying girl, 10, spurs fight over lung transplant fairness
The wired future.. I will make my prediction for the record.
Not to be outdone by Google, APPLE is now hinting that you will soon be able to wear their technology.. which propels me to re-re-re-state my prediction from ten years back concerning wearable devices. At some point in our near future we will have technology implanted. Your phone will be your hand. Your brain will be wired to the Net.
Unless that big solar flares gets us all..
So yes, that means if the world doesn’t end, you’ll be on Tumblr will be literally in your fingertips. But do you really want Yahoo to be that close to you?
By now you may have heard of those persistent rumors of a ‘tsunami’ in the Atlantic resulting from solar activity. Here is the video of Dr. Simon Atkins that started it all..
For the record, here is his bio
(Source: http://www.glgresearch.com/)
How to NOT be a parent..
Parenting 101: Don’t do this. Ever.. Two parents are facing chargesfor a choice to put their 10-year-old daughter in a dog cage—and then driving through the Pennsylvania turnpike. They are now facing charges for endangering a minor..
If you read the the snews a few days back, you’ll remember the story and controversy of whether the Pope exorcised a demon from a man from Mexico.. The Vatican said no. Other priests said yes. Now the man has weighed in..It turns out that the man named ‘Angel V’ is 43, from Mexico, and claims to be possessed by demons.. Could he be wrong, too?
Changing times..
40% of moms are now the family breadwinners..
Don’t think for a second that it means women are making more.. Women are still underpaid when compared to men in certain positions. Equal pay remains an issue..
This story also means everyone is making less, fewer have pensions, only some have 401Ks, and finally, unemployment has hit construction and manufacturing—industries that primarily have affected men. I think this is less a good thing and more a sign of bad economic times. They say the Great Recession is over. If that’s true, it’s certainly a long time to recede..
The United States of disaster
The disastrous states of America.. a new study releases the list of the ten most dangerous states to live in when considering where natural disasters hit..
Sadly some of those states are some of the poorer states in our union. How unfair Mother Nature can often be..
Tuesday, May 28, 2013
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It’s a long video from 1941 about the great American company, Coca Cola. But I’d love to hear people’s thoughts?
(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
Ham and Bean’s big day out at the Jersey Shore.
Bean couldn’t get a touchdown, but Ham nailed it on the first try.
And he got to take home the prize..
Gooey Louie
The teacher got the lyrics wrong. The FBI never questioned the maker of the song to see what the actual words of the song were. So how much money did the FBI super snoopers spend on investigating this one way back in 1964?
U.S. Military ‘Power Grab’ Goes Into Effect
Pentagon Unilaterally Grants Itself Authority Over ‘Civil Disturbances’
If you were paying attention to Coal Speaker a few days back you’ll already know this. But hopefully will not be unphased by the possibilities of what this means …
U.S. Military ‘Power Grab’ Goes Into Effect
Why New Zealand?
A tool called ThinThread, a US spy device, has reportedly been tested on the public of New Zealand.. A spy expert told the NEW ZEALAND HERALD this information.. the Prime Minister and other officials that could potentially be involved with this issue have not made public comment and refuse to speak to the HERALD about the allegations..
Smoke em while you got em: Potentially lethal gamma-ray burst from star WR 104 could reach earth
Earth may lie in the path of a lethal gamma-ray burst that could wipe out a quarter of our atmospheric ozone.
This is a serious news story. It’s gone mainstream.. WR 104, a ‘Wolf-Rayet star’ about 8,000 light years away, could go supernova any day now.. Really, ANY DAY NOW. And if it does, rays from the explosion deep in space could actually reach our our little blue dot known as earth.
As FOX news reports:
"We could see it go supernova anywhere from tomorrow to 500,000 years from now," astronomer Grant Hill told Forbes. "For all intents and purposes, the gamma-ray burst and optical photons from the supernova would arrive simultaneously."
A quarter of our atmospheric ozone could be wiped away..?
The earth should follow this story as closely as it can…
Smoke em while you got em: Potentially lethal gamma-ray burst from star WR 104 could reach earth
Monday, May 27, 2013
What is causing the earthquake swarm in Arkansas?
Dozens of quakes in one week…
1811 here we come again?
What is causing the earthquake swarm in Arkansas?
Stuart Walton: Care plan sees dystopian future arriving early
In Scotland, the government plans to give every child a ‘state appointed overseer’ from birth on.. There would be a government employee mediating the bond between parent and child, with the intention on preventing abuse.
With plans like this your don’t need enemies…
Stuart Walton: Care plan sees dystopian future arriving early
MEMORIAL DAY 2013: American War Deaths Through History
There’s been a lot of people who we should pause for today.. the numbers tell the story on their own.
MEMORIAL DAY 2013: American War Deaths Through History
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Thanks to TLC, we can all watch the world’s fattest man, Ricky Naputi die.
And this is ‘entertainment.’
Another example of the sick society we have become..
Disruptions: At Odds Over Privacy Challenges of Wearable Computing
Fans of wearable computers can capture what is happening around them with a wink or a subtle click, which raises the question of whether bystanders have a say in being recorded.
Nick Bilton, who wrote this article for the NY TIMES, presents quite a stark question: What do you do at a party when someone you are talking to is wearing Google Glass? Stare at the all seeing camera, or just leave the room?
I wonder what will happen with the Google Glass future. We have accepted most of the internet’s privacy defects. We are seemingly ok with Google snapping photos of our houses .. we appear alright that every movement we make online is snapped, cataloged, and often given over to government entities for ‘national security’ reasons.. But Google Glass? A contraption that will snap your life in images? One that will also see everything you do.. and if you can see it, Google can see it? … creepy. With a capital C.
But this is the future. Where privacy isn’t existent.
It once was said that, on any given Street Corner, USA, you did not possess any true privacy. No presumption. But what about that dark corner in a bar room late on a Friday night… and someone wearing Google Glass snaps your image? Or .. in your own home .. or.. anywhere.
I have had some major problems with friends who send me “People of Walmart” jokes. Do I chuckle at the first image or two I glance at? I did. I do.. But I often send back a reply telling them to take me off of their list of folks who get these ‘jokes.’ After all, what is it that is funny about them? The odd images of people shopping late at the store…. or the souls of those who mock and degrade them..? We are just fine with people snapping photos of other people, posting them online, just to make light of their either mental or physical conditions? I am not ok with it. I never liked the People of Walmart forwards, still don’t like them… and sadly… I’m outnumbered.
You know why? Because we are going to be entering the new phase of life.. the GOOGLE GLASS phenom.
Get ready..You may be recorded .. all of them time. Without knowing it.
And what happens when People of Walmart turns into the next ‘joke’ …? What happens when your privacy has been compromised?
We may have no presumption of privacy in public places. But for God sakes, don’t we at least have a presumption that other humans will be thoughtful? Other humans .. .being thoughtful? Nah. They will simply just forward the next best joke, making light about someone else..
We are turning into a very different society than we once were..
Disruptions: At Odds Over Privacy Challenges of Wearable Computing
Researchers hurt at Ibaraki nuclear facility
A big heads up on this for you, this may very well be a huge story that you’ll never hear about on tonight’s evening news..
Researchers hurt at Ibaraki nuclear facility
Memorial Day weekend continues. Three days for many, but the pain that occurred to create this holiday is purely evident.
It all began as a celebration of those who perished during the Civil War.. Perhaps just too many other wars had taken place by the time it was expanded to dedicate a day to all lives lost during warfare.. We celebrate with barbeques and picnics, family outings and trips.. but pause for a moment and hear the distsant and faint sound of canon fire, musket fire, and gunfire from the past. And realize that even today wars are continuing (for better or worse) that will lead many more names and lost lives to be cherished for Memorial Days to come..
Saturday, May 25, 2013
The New York City Port Authority has released a stunning photograph of workers placing the spire on top of One World Trade Center.. They are 1,700+ feet above the ground in the photo. Just contemplate that.. The image is amazing, and surely enough to cause persons acrophobia to look away with fear..
The picture was taken on May 10, 2013. The building is set to open in 2014—when it will become the tallest building in the Western world and third tallest on the planet..
Friday, May 24, 2013
Two more funerals for Oklahoma schoolchildren to be held Friday
This Oklahoma tornado story has been making me feel quite down this week. The horror and heartache that occurred is overwhelming. And now these sad funerals taking place only add insult to the injury… Any time a child loses a life is beyond distressing to me since I had my own …
And I’ve been doing a lot of deep contemplation lately about life.. Lots of prayer, perhaps you can say. But I just don’t know what I’m praying to anymore…
Two more funerals for Oklahoma schoolchildren to be held Friday
'Winter' - maybe even snow - to return for Memorial Day weekend
The weather is always weird.
But this is weird
'Winter' - maybe even snow - to return for Memorial Day weekend
5.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Northern California
Must have been shallow as it was felt to San Francisco and two other states
5.7-magnitude earthquake strikes Northern California
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Cockroaches quickly lose sweet tooth to survive
It’s a story about how evolution protects a species… So what will pest control experts do now?!
Cockroaches quickly lose sweet tooth to survive
I debated going there, but I'm going to go there
If anyone saw the news yesterday you most likely witnessed at least snippets of the video of the machete/hatchet attack in London.. It was considered to be a terrorist attack, two men hit a young British soldier with the car and began to hack and attack him, almost behead him and let him die in the street..
The entire affair was bizarre including the fact that it’s a police 30 minutes to get to the scene, the gun of the attacker supposedly blowing up in his hand, and throngs of people simply standing around aimlessly watching the entire thing happen.. It even appeared that some of the people in the background were doing nothing to stop an attacker stop the perpetrator but instead simply filming the entire event and watching as the body lay bleeding in the street..
I don’t know what to make of the crowd’s reaction to this event.. Obviously the video did not show the actual attack and we only see the aftermath, but there appeared to be no one ready to challenge the two attackers.. I just don’t know what to make of this..
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
An Honor for the Creator of the GIF
Steve Wilhite, who invented the enduring GIF file format in 1987, will receive a lifetime achievement Webby Award.He is proud of the GIF, but remains annoyed that there is still any debate over the pronunciation of the format.
“The Oxford English Dictionary accepts both pronunciations,” Mr. Wilhite said. “They are wrong. It is a soft ‘G,’ pronounced ‘jif.’ End of story.”
Gif guff? Or respect to the ‘jif’?
So this is the guy that did it?
Thanks for all those cats, spinning sirens, and exploding bombs. Thank you.
An Honor for the Creator of the GIF
German based company SAP promises to hire people with autism
This is actually some pretty cool stuff.. Good work SAP
German based company SAP promises to hire people with autism
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
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Video: Elderly lady reunited with her dog after Oklahoma tornado
Among so much devastation from the horrendous mile-wide tornado that has ripped through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, there is, at least, some good news as an elderly lady and her dog have survived the storm.
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/350539
Finally good news
The Moore OK update
So much heartache.. so much disaster. The latest is in Oklahoma, as you may have been seeing if you followed Earth Informer yesterday and other sources as well. Thelatest reports lament 91 dead so far—so many were children from elementary schools that were flattened by this tornado. Winds were 200 miles or more. The spread was over a mile.. And it was one of the biggest tornadoes in history.. The massive path of destruction is now evident..
KFOR is reporting the latest from the ground..
At least 91 counted dead at this point..
A desperate search for survivors ongoing.. But time is running out fast.
Rubble..
A school destroyed..
Chaos..
Life in tornado alley..
When comedy is too quick. Ever hear the comment ‘too soon’ after someone tells a joke? Comedian Lizz Winstead tweeted something yesterday after the tornado saying'This tornado is in Oklahoma so clearly it has been ordered to only target conservatives'.. this was before the bodies of dead children were taken from the elementary school.. this was before the death toll rose to at least 91.. She was forced to Tweet an apology three hours later..
Monday, May 20, 2013
This is horrendous
The AP is now broadcasting this to the world: KFOR-TV reports that up to 24 children are believed dead at the Plaza Towers Elementary School and that it has turned into a search and recovery effort
This is a worst case scenario ..
This brutal tornado has now etched itself into the annals of weather history… And with its short presence in Moore Oklahoma it also stole the lives of so many..
Block after block is only debris. Winds cracked and demolished all in its path.. So many lives tonight now undone. So many people hurt. So many killed.
This is terrible and heartbreaking news… May God ease their suffering immediately and keep them.. If he’s there..
A Conversation about poop with my two-year-old son
Me: I smell poop!
Ayden: I didn't poop
Me: But I smell poop!
Ayden: I smell poop too Daddy
Ayden: I didn't poop
Me: But I smell poop!
Ayden: I smell poop too Daddy
Today's main event: The Rumblr on Tumblr
There’s a rumblr on Tumblr..the new billion dollar man is coming to us from the tech world. Yahoo! is shelling out over $1 bil for the blogging service Tumblr.
Some users are concerned.. After all, it seems anything corporate Yahoo! gets its hands on fails or gets forgotten..
Also interesting, David Karp, the founder of Tumblr who dropped out of high school and made the blog service in his mom’s New York City apartment, said he wouldn’t sell as recent as a month ago. But money talked. Apparently talked very loud..
Get out while the gettin’s good, perhaps?
Either way, Karp is about to become the tycoon of the age.
The first of only a few since last century. Oh, and by the way, it was last century that Yahoo! bought another blogging service: Geocities. That failed too. And about two years ago, Yahoo! completely deleted all Geocities sites from its archives and database… leaving users to frantically try to save years of infancy of the internet.
So if Tumblr users think Yahoo! will care about providing a platform for independent thought to flourish and creative activity to occur, doubt that one..Big time.
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