According to LinkedIn I should be connected with every Miller out there. While I’m not opposed to knowing more people with my last name, I would think that interests, work history, job titles, and other “professional” considerations should go into LinkedIn’s “People You May Know” area.
I’ve watched the show “Heroes” since its first episode. Even today, I await Tuesday mornings to fire up Hulu and watch the prior night’s episode. (I work nights so I can only watch most shows during the day.)
The first season was great. They had an over-arcing story that drew the entire season together and had a good final outcome. Since then, though, it’s been pretty bad.
Season 2 was rife with inconsistencies and confusion. It was as if the writers had some great ideas, but no clear goal on where they wanted to end up. Season 3 was just as bad.
Season 3 tried too hard to cover too much ground. Instead of having one solid idea and one solid destination, they had dozens of ideas and just as many destinations. Where they could have taken each idea and focused an entire season on each, they shoved them all into one failing to really give any single one the chance it deserved.
Season 4, the current season, had the potential in the beginning to turn everything around. They had a definite bad guy again. There was some animosity over some of the characters, but most had a goal. That goal: Kill the bad guy, of course.
But that’s all they’ve had so far. There’s the bad guy, everyone (including his own people) know it, but no one is willing to really do anything about it. No one is willing to stand up, say, “Fuck this shit,” and kill the guy, and not for lack of opportunity either.
At this point everyone, including the bad guy, need to just give up the whole “we’re scared to come out of the hero closet” thing. Pull on some spandex, start flying, or healing, or hell, brutally murdering if that’s your thing.
Admit to the world you’re there, you have these powers, and if anyone comes after you, you have friends that will help you. Start being Heroes and stop being big fat wusses scared of your own shadows already.
When I first saw the film “Minority Report” with that Tom guy, I wasn’t all that impressed by the multi-touch floating computer interface. To me this technology was a given and bound to happen soon (or soon enough.) Unlike my friends, I was more impressed with the eye-scanning advertisements that appeared on every flat surface.
These advertisements scanned your retina and started blaring ultra-targeting messages to Tom using his character’s name in their audio. But they bothered me. Not because they were creepy or anything, but because whoever’s name they said in the message, the message itself was the same.
“Dan, Tom, Janet, Sharon, you need this fancy, new, expensive, whatever it is we’re pitching….blah, blah, blah.” All just nonsense and noise, they just happened to insert my name to try and get my attention. Like I wouldn’t be able to filter this out after awhile.
A great man named Miles O’Brien once stated, “I’ll never understand temporal mechanics.” Poor guy, especially since he was stuck in an unending time-loop when he said this.
I, on the other hand, have a sadly strong understanding of temporal mechanics (and stellar dynamics, and string theory, but not the math behind any of them, go figure.) So since I’ve already been asked this question twice today, and hope to find a way of explaining it before asked again, here is WTF was going on with last night’s episode of “Lost” for those who are confused.
(Warning: Spoilers to follow, if you haven’t yet watched the show, start with season 1 episode one, and once you’ve gotten through season 6 episode 1, read this, otherwise it won’t make any futzing sense to you either.)
How Many Cops Does It Take…
Five police cars, one Cadillac being searched. What you can’t really see in the picture is the huge bag of marijuana sitting on the trunk of the Caddy. Hope he has a good attorney.
The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is a treaty that is trying to be passed by the U.S. and other countries that will basically create a 3-strike rule for Internet users. In the words of the act, if you are accused (not convicted) of sharing files illegally, you will be placed on a blacklist and denied Internet access from any and every provider out there.
To read more on ACTA go to eff.org and to sign a petition against the secretive nature of ACTA sign this.
In our system of government, the Congress (Senate and House) is supposed to represent the people of the nation and their interests. Here a picture of the Senate floor:
Here are some of those visiting citizens that this governmental body is supposed to represent:
Here is my interpretation of what is actually going on:
Yeah, I know it’s cynical to think like this, but other than a few freshman senators, I really believe this is how it works these days. Now the question is, what can we do about it?
Vote them all out, start a revolution and begin again, ignore the “laws” they make and do things our own way (thus starting the afore-mentioned revolution,) something else?
I really don’t know but something needs to happen soon, else I think we’re all screwed.
I want those glasses, I want society to be based on up and down ranking people like you do on YouTube, I want to get away from this cracked system we have where everyone thinks they have control but really it’s the big money heavy corporations without any ethical attachments to their consumers.
Can we start something like this?
After looking at the specs, the price, and the OS, I’m thinking the iPad is not for me. I thought about it, but I guess I just don’t think an overzealous iPhone (which I have and love) without a camera isn’t worth it to me.
Instead, give me the Lenovo IdeaPad U1 hybrid. Yeah, it runs Windows 7 on the base, but the tablet is all Linux. Multitouch, innate browser and photo gallery software, oh, and it actually comes with a keyboard.
Yeah, the price is a bit higher, but at least it can close it and protect the screen from the inevitable scratches.
Apple Tablet announced by McGraw-Hill? I have a feeling someone is going to get sued over this one.
