Sep 25, 2016 | Current Events, Philsophy, Tech |
I read this article today and was pretty shocked at the recommendations and viewpoints of the author. I felt it was not only fear mongering, but uninformed fear mongering (i know, what fear mongering is informed) but this was shocking in terms of the advice given.
Taping over your camera is like taping over the check engine light. You aren’t really solving the problem, just ignoring it and hoping it won’t get worse.
The article states that most of hackers get on your PC when you click on email links or website links. So maybe we need to teach kids in school a computer safety education (since it seems like kids get laptops in grade school now) like we do (or should do) with sex education. Don’t click on emails from people you don’t know, how to read email headers to make sure its coming from the right person, don’t punch the monkey, don’t send personal details/images etc.
The more prevalent technology is in society, the more infrastructure we need to support it. and that include education on how to interact with it safely
Jun 24, 2014 | Business, Current Events, Food |
One more week until the Mariano’s opens in Gurnee – yay! yay! yay! yay! I’m a litte sad I will be out of town for the opening day fun but its okay. I am already planning my list of stuff to purchase when I get back!
Apr 18, 2014 | Bright Ideas, Current Events, Tech |
Yup, I got a Google Glass – and I couldn’t be more excited about it!! I have so many ideas in my head of what I am going to do – and I won’t lie, most of them involve the kitties….
I just got it today but I have spent pretty much the whole day playing with it – so much so I ran out the battery! The obvious things are to take pictures and movies on it, but it can also send messages, make phone calls, play music, post to Facebook and YouTube and of course play games. It’s still technically in beta so there isn’t much “Glassware” (that’s what they call the apps) yet.
Taken #ThroughGlass !
One of the apps I got was a compass – now it will make sense when you give directions like “go west on Main St”! I also got an app that will translate signage by looking at it – no more confusion here:
I also got a field trip app that will tell you interesting information about the sites you are visiting. And another that will check your calendar for upcoming appointments then display an instant dossier about the people I am meeting. I’ll be like a spy! There are also fitness and food apps. I plan on trying to use this a lot more to post things here too. I can’t say enough how excited I am about this!!
Apr 5, 2014 | Bright Ideas, Current Events, Philsophy, Politics |
I am a bit behind on the new episodes of Cosmos and took some time to catch up this weekend. Episode 2 is one of the best presentations of evolution, mass extinction, and life that I have seen. It is clear, concise, and factual and (I think) a much watch. This is the type of things we should be use to educate children.
Check Out Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey: Some of the Things That Molecules Do on Hulu
Dec 19, 2012 | Current Events, Politics |
With the recent Sandy Hook shooting, there has been an increased call for gun control laws. Items such as the assault weapon ban, closing the gun show loophole, and magazine capacity limits are all back on the table. I will not try to argue that what happened at Sandy Hook wasn’t horrible – it was. It is made worse for many people by the fact that so many children were killed.
However we should not allow our outrage, shock and anger to have us make rash decisions.
In the wake of the 9/11 attack, many people – myself included – wanted a solution in terms of legislation. Something that would prevent such an attack from ever happening again regardless of how it affected my life. I admit that I was willing to give up some of my freedoms so that we could catch and punish the terrorists. After all – I wasn’t a terrorist so what did I have to fear?
Sadly, the effects of the Patriot Act do affect me and now there is no going back. I must provide proof of innocence when applying for a mortgage, I must go through x-rays machines at the airport, I must have my email/phone communications monitored. The government uses the Patriot Act as an excuse to harass good Americans but how much has it actually helped to stop terrorism?
Violence is a problem – but before we pass sweeping gun control legislation that turns honest Americans into suspects and criminals we need to step back, take a breath and think rationally. Any decision we make in anger will be the wrong one.
Feb 6, 2011 | General Chit-Chat |
So as you can tell I decided to move to WordPress – so far so good. I got it installed and a template picked and most of the options setup – yay! I also got all the old posts transferred over and am going to start working on the replys. I think I can do this just by posting as a guest and using your emails – so don’t be surprised if you appear on this site but don’t remember visiting here before 🙂
I have some posts ready to go so once I finish the transition there should be a goodly amount of new and exciting material to read. I also think WordPress will be an easier medium going forward so it won’t be that difficult to keep up on new posts. I configured an email-to-post addon too so I am excited to try it out! I am also looking into a facebook connector so when I do get a new post up it will automatically update my facebook status. For now you can subscribe to the RSS feed so you will never miss one of my genius thoughts!
I wanted a good picture for this first post on the new site – one that really defines “me” so obviously I searched for “Unicorn and Cats” and there are a surprising amount of cat + unicorn pictures on the internet. I couldn’t pick just one so I hope you enjoy the mini gallery of this post. Also – let me know what you think of the awesome screw-like horn on the Unicorn below. Those two are obviously a Pegasus-killing team!! Go Team Kittycorn!
Anyway – talk to yall soon!
Jan 25, 2011 | General Chit-Chat |
I have some new blogs ready to post but I have been holding off while I make a decision about this site.
I’m thinking of moving this blog from SMF (which is an awesome message board system) to WordPress which from what I hear from friends is great for straight blogging – which is more of what I do here anyway. It should allow me to keep the site more up to date – both in terms of blogs and patches and allow the use of some pretty cool mods. I am looking forward most to an easy to use and install spam control which should decrease the amount of time I am in here deleteing posts and increase the amount of time I can actually post new blogs.
I do want to give a shout out to SMF because I love there system and if I ever need a forum system (which, with the amount of video games I play will happen sooner rather then later) I will be sure to choose them. Its just a little bigger then I need right now.
If I do switch I am going to try and save the blog posts and responses. At the very least I will be able to save the posts but lose the responses that you guys made. The polls will probably be lost since I’m not sure how to migrate those but that might be okay, since the Unicorn vs Pegasus Poll was obviously hacked (there is NO way a pegasus is better than a unicorn!!)
So stay tuned guys, I hope to be up and running on a new system in the next week or two. I appreciate your continued support!
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