Last night was really tough, I had a high fever and couldn't keep water down. The fever broke sometime this morning and I had some "Airborne" and am pumping Gatorade and water through. Later today I even plan on trying to have some soup. Turns out I was the only one to get sick. One of my assistants has been so sick that they had to see the doctor toady and another has Bronchitis now (the one that got me sick). Here is the point, there are a couple of flues going around and you don't want to catch it. Heck, even the queen of England just got out of the hospital with some sort of stomach flu.
I am just resting for the day; but, if I feel better I will try and post on the news. Have a great week.
Monday, March 4, 2013
Sunday, March 3, 2013
Tons of News Stories
The first article is from "Business Insider" - The Fiscal Times - We're Getting Closer Than Ever To Paying With Our Fingerprints. Here is a quote from the article, “We could have an ‘empty-pocket’ society, where you don’t have to carry your keys, cash, credit cards, nothing. You just have to use one finger.” A future where your individual biometrics uniquely identifies you.
Politicker - Mayor Bloomberg: Don’t Panic About the Sequester. My favorite quote from this article was by Bloomberg, the article said, "Furthermore, while saying the federal deficit does indeed need to be curtailed, Mr. Bloomberg argued the United States could owe “an infinite amount of money” and there is no specific amount that would cause the country to default." They do not intend to pay all the debt in my opinion.
France24 - China "fully prepared" for currency war: banker . All part of the global game being played to destroy the dollar and make a new world currency. Oh and lets not forget this article - Bloomberg - China Reserves Ample to Buy World’s Gold Twice. For those of you who may want to return to the Gold standard, China will have all the gold. If you need further proof of the coming death of the dollar, here is another article - Yahoo News - Reuters - UK nears yuan swap deal as London eyes offshore leader status. Basically, the deal will make the Yuan a world reserve currency further making the dollar unnecessary.
Yahoo News - Why you want to refinance your mortgage before April 1. I really am just posting this link as a favor to anyone who should refinance. It will be more expensive after April 1st, so if you are thinking about it, do it now.
BBC - Future - Making mobiles for the masses. The article states that there are now more mobiles in Africa than in Europe or America. Here is my favorite quote from the article, "Consider the growth of democratic participation via mobiles, and their use as forms of ID and for electronic signatures. These are practices that are likely first to become mainstream outside of Europe and America’s technology infrastructures, and then to be imported, together with new habits of action and interaction."
Finally, I seem to have the stomach flu.
Politicker - Mayor Bloomberg: Don’t Panic About the Sequester. My favorite quote from this article was by Bloomberg, the article said, "Furthermore, while saying the federal deficit does indeed need to be curtailed, Mr. Bloomberg argued the United States could owe “an infinite amount of money” and there is no specific amount that would cause the country to default." They do not intend to pay all the debt in my opinion.
France24 - China "fully prepared" for currency war: banker . All part of the global game being played to destroy the dollar and make a new world currency. Oh and lets not forget this article - Bloomberg - China Reserves Ample to Buy World’s Gold Twice. For those of you who may want to return to the Gold standard, China will have all the gold. If you need further proof of the coming death of the dollar, here is another article - Yahoo News - Reuters - UK nears yuan swap deal as London eyes offshore leader status. Basically, the deal will make the Yuan a world reserve currency further making the dollar unnecessary.
Yahoo News - Why you want to refinance your mortgage before April 1. I really am just posting this link as a favor to anyone who should refinance. It will be more expensive after April 1st, so if you are thinking about it, do it now.
BBC - Future - Making mobiles for the masses. The article states that there are now more mobiles in Africa than in Europe or America. Here is my favorite quote from the article, "Consider the growth of democratic participation via mobiles, and their use as forms of ID and for electronic signatures. These are practices that are likely first to become mainstream outside of Europe and America’s technology infrastructures, and then to be imported, together with new habits of action and interaction."
Finally, I seem to have the stomach flu.
Thursday, February 28, 2013
I was not going to post; but, you need to read this.
GlobalPost - Agence France-Presse - Scientists link two rats' brains, a continent apart. This is going to be short and sweet, read the article. They are seeking ways to read our minds, read between the lines of the article. Do you think that a society that condones torture would prevent us from placing electrodes in a suspects mind if it meant we could know what they were thinking. We would do it and it is the ultimate violation of personhood. Even if all we wanted to do was what the article claims, it would still be evil. Using animals to create an organic computer is wrong and I am no animal rights activist, I do not believe in cruelty.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
No News, Just Personal Stuff
I do not know what I am doing right or I would keep doing it; but, I have had women flirting with me for the last four days, complete strangers. I am a fairly average looking man, nothing special. I think I am fairly polite, generally considered amusing and fairly intelligent. In the area that I live, I only shop or eat at places where I like the people. Okay, I will eat at a place if the food is really good and the people are not. When I go to my places, the people working there often know me and check on me. It is one of the best parts of my life to know that my cashiers think I am wonderful. LOL. I cannot imagine standing behind in a line at one of my places and watching how I am treated. A couple of the women who flirted with me were in exactly that situation. But, something interesting happened today that has not happened in a long time, someone flirted with me that actually got me wondering.
I was at work (won't say what I do or where) and noticed a lady who was waiting to talk to someone. I was pretty sure why she was there because I know about our work. I asked her if she had been helped, even though it is not my job; but, just good customer service, and she told me she had not. I told her I would find someone and instead found that nobody that could help her was in the office. I returned to her and told her that I would come back in a couple of minutes and look again as they were probably all in some sort of a meeting (turned out that they were). I was in the middle of a couple different projects and ended up being approached by co-workers for direction from me, she would have seen all of this. I had to take care of something, walked away for a short meeting and returned to see if she had been helped. By that time, she told me she had. A short conversation ensued and it turned out that this lovely lady grew up in the same area as me, graduated the same time as me and knew people I had gone to school with even though I did not know them.
In case you are wondering, this story does not end with me asking her out, you don't do that at work. So, we were talking and she got my attention. She was quite lovely, very pleasant, well mannered and intelligent. I like intelligent women. She had aged quite well and had a lovely figure, very curvacious. As I said, I have had a lot of women flirt with me lately; but, this one did something else. She took hand in one of those two hand holds, two of her hands on either side of my hand and she thanked me for having helped her. I have not explained this well; but, I will try. It was one of those times when someone holds your hand with a certain tenderness, very soft and gentle. She said some very kind things and I had to run off.
My friend that had dinner with this week and wrote about it, he reads this blog and has been with me when women have approached me. I am usually distant to say the least. I lived with a friend for a bit in a beach town and he complained that I was rude because I would not respond to women who attempted to catch my eye. I am not looking for a new relationship, I am enjoying my peace and quiet. This woman made me pause and that doesn't happen often. After we separated as I had things to do, I kept thinking about her and that never happens in this way, I wondered what she was like.
Pretty is never going to be my downfall, it is just not enough. I like pretty; but, understand it is nothing more than skin deep. This woman was pretty for someone her age; but, what caught me was her personality, she was so very friendly and intelligent. The fact that she was my age was equally attractive. I am not lonely, I am not desperately in need of affection and I am enjoying my peace; but, this woman got me to think about her and want to know her better. That doesn't happen often to me, less than a handful of times.
Sorry for the ending, my friends won't like it. Even this woman cannot do it for me. The mistake I made in my life was giving up on love because I had it once and she is dead. If I were going to date again, it would have been this woman and I didn't and won't. I am done with the thought of dating. Done. It is sort of freeing, knowing that it doesn't matter who I meet. I know who I should have been with and she is dead. I can now decide how I want to spend my life with one less issue to deal with and I like that.
I was at work (won't say what I do or where) and noticed a lady who was waiting to talk to someone. I was pretty sure why she was there because I know about our work. I asked her if she had been helped, even though it is not my job; but, just good customer service, and she told me she had not. I told her I would find someone and instead found that nobody that could help her was in the office. I returned to her and told her that I would come back in a couple of minutes and look again as they were probably all in some sort of a meeting (turned out that they were). I was in the middle of a couple different projects and ended up being approached by co-workers for direction from me, she would have seen all of this. I had to take care of something, walked away for a short meeting and returned to see if she had been helped. By that time, she told me she had. A short conversation ensued and it turned out that this lovely lady grew up in the same area as me, graduated the same time as me and knew people I had gone to school with even though I did not know them.
In case you are wondering, this story does not end with me asking her out, you don't do that at work. So, we were talking and she got my attention. She was quite lovely, very pleasant, well mannered and intelligent. I like intelligent women. She had aged quite well and had a lovely figure, very curvacious. As I said, I have had a lot of women flirt with me lately; but, this one did something else. She took hand in one of those two hand holds, two of her hands on either side of my hand and she thanked me for having helped her. I have not explained this well; but, I will try. It was one of those times when someone holds your hand with a certain tenderness, very soft and gentle. She said some very kind things and I had to run off.
My friend that had dinner with this week and wrote about it, he reads this blog and has been with me when women have approached me. I am usually distant to say the least. I lived with a friend for a bit in a beach town and he complained that I was rude because I would not respond to women who attempted to catch my eye. I am not looking for a new relationship, I am enjoying my peace and quiet. This woman made me pause and that doesn't happen often. After we separated as I had things to do, I kept thinking about her and that never happens in this way, I wondered what she was like.
Pretty is never going to be my downfall, it is just not enough. I like pretty; but, understand it is nothing more than skin deep. This woman was pretty for someone her age; but, what caught me was her personality, she was so very friendly and intelligent. The fact that she was my age was equally attractive. I am not lonely, I am not desperately in need of affection and I am enjoying my peace; but, this woman got me to think about her and want to know her better. That doesn't happen often to me, less than a handful of times.
Sorry for the ending, my friends won't like it. Even this woman cannot do it for me. The mistake I made in my life was giving up on love because I had it once and she is dead. If I were going to date again, it would have been this woman and I didn't and won't. I am done with the thought of dating. Done. It is sort of freeing, knowing that it doesn't matter who I meet. I know who I should have been with and she is dead. I can now decide how I want to spend my life with one less issue to deal with and I like that.
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Interesting stuff you should know
On February 20th the United States Geological Survey (USGS) released a statement on their website that said, "Earthquake Catastrophes and Fatalities to rise in populous in 21st Century". I bookmarked it because I planned to post about it with some questions. I went back today to the link and the article was removed from their website. I have no idea why; but, I had read the article and found it strange. Basically they said there would be more earthquakes and more people would die because the world has more people.
They never explained why we would experience more earthquakes, we are indeed experiencing more; but, are told it is just a fluke and nothing to be concerned about by the media. The second part is also interesting, that we would see more deaths. We should see less deaths and let me explain why. Most deaths occur from building collapses and non-structural earthquake hazards (your refrigerator falling on you). I live in earthquake territory and the fact is, cities in these areas tend to make buildings to withstand such quakes. The worst building to be in are made of Un-reinforced masonry (bricks without metal rods keeping them together through their middle). I am sure someone else picked up this story; but, I didn't look.
Next, we have this from Wired - 3 Radical New Brain-Mapping Tools Obama’s Plan Could Deliver. They are coming to map your brain, we want to know what you are thinking so that we can duplicate it with a machine and we don't need you anymore. The Obama administration is proposing a multi-billion dollar program to map out the brain in the same way they mapped out the genome. I am lazy so you will have to do an internet search for that one, I forgot where I read it.
Funny, when I was a kid they still gave people lobotomies. They used to take a needle and poke it into people's brains to cure them of their mental illness. There is a song that jokes about it, the singer says, "I would rather have a bottle in front of me then a full frontal lobotomy." What if they could identify the individual neurons that allow you to be unhappy, would you want them to? It wouldn't effect anything else, you would still be you would never be unhappy. When I got divorced my therapist (yes, I actually went and saw one and he was wonderful, for all I know he still reads the blog) thought I should consider taking some pills for anxiety. I saw the doctor and he wanted to give me something for long term depression, which I did not have. I opted for something short term that I only took as needed and at the lowest dose possible. My comment was simple, it is okay to be sad when circumstances call for it. The idea of being only happy is depressing, we would miss out on so much of life and learning and life is about growing.
Then we have this from the New American - Killing the Dollar: G20 & IMF Push for Global Fed, Global Currency. Basically, the 20 largest economies wish to create an international reserve bank. I have written about this enough in the past that my regular readers will understand. It is pretty simple, we are going to have a global currency and any currencies that appear to be local will not truly be so because international regulation will set their value.
MyFoxNY - Net providers begin warning of illegal downloads. Again something I have been talking about for years, when I first said how this would happen, I was called a conspiracy theorist. I have to say something, my most read posts were both highly unusual for my blog. The most read was about the dear Pastor Daniels and the second most read was about how Stephen Hawking is a douche. The vast majority of my posts are about corruption in the pension funds and news about technology. While I have written follow up posts regarding the dear Pastor, I don't think I have written about Hawking again. It makes me wonder if the people that came here because of those two subjects, just hated the rest of what I write about.
TIME - Finally, Tattoos That Let You Control Objects with Your Mind. Have fun with this article.
Wired - Freescale’s Insanely Tiny ARM Chip Will Put the Internet of Things Inside Your Body
The articles I link to are the ones that will really change your life, not the Academy Awards, these things will change our lives and not enough people seem to care; but, enough do. Have a great week.
They never explained why we would experience more earthquakes, we are indeed experiencing more; but, are told it is just a fluke and nothing to be concerned about by the media. The second part is also interesting, that we would see more deaths. We should see less deaths and let me explain why. Most deaths occur from building collapses and non-structural earthquake hazards (your refrigerator falling on you). I live in earthquake territory and the fact is, cities in these areas tend to make buildings to withstand such quakes. The worst building to be in are made of Un-reinforced masonry (bricks without metal rods keeping them together through their middle). I am sure someone else picked up this story; but, I didn't look.
Next, we have this from Wired - 3 Radical New Brain-Mapping Tools Obama’s Plan Could Deliver. They are coming to map your brain, we want to know what you are thinking so that we can duplicate it with a machine and we don't need you anymore. The Obama administration is proposing a multi-billion dollar program to map out the brain in the same way they mapped out the genome. I am lazy so you will have to do an internet search for that one, I forgot where I read it.
Funny, when I was a kid they still gave people lobotomies. They used to take a needle and poke it into people's brains to cure them of their mental illness. There is a song that jokes about it, the singer says, "I would rather have a bottle in front of me then a full frontal lobotomy." What if they could identify the individual neurons that allow you to be unhappy, would you want them to? It wouldn't effect anything else, you would still be you would never be unhappy. When I got divorced my therapist (yes, I actually went and saw one and he was wonderful, for all I know he still reads the blog) thought I should consider taking some pills for anxiety. I saw the doctor and he wanted to give me something for long term depression, which I did not have. I opted for something short term that I only took as needed and at the lowest dose possible. My comment was simple, it is okay to be sad when circumstances call for it. The idea of being only happy is depressing, we would miss out on so much of life and learning and life is about growing.
Then we have this from the New American - Killing the Dollar: G20 & IMF Push for Global Fed, Global Currency. Basically, the 20 largest economies wish to create an international reserve bank. I have written about this enough in the past that my regular readers will understand. It is pretty simple, we are going to have a global currency and any currencies that appear to be local will not truly be so because international regulation will set their value.
MyFoxNY - Net providers begin warning of illegal downloads. Again something I have been talking about for years, when I first said how this would happen, I was called a conspiracy theorist. I have to say something, my most read posts were both highly unusual for my blog. The most read was about the dear Pastor Daniels and the second most read was about how Stephen Hawking is a douche. The vast majority of my posts are about corruption in the pension funds and news about technology. While I have written follow up posts regarding the dear Pastor, I don't think I have written about Hawking again. It makes me wonder if the people that came here because of those two subjects, just hated the rest of what I write about.
TIME - Finally, Tattoos That Let You Control Objects with Your Mind. Have fun with this article.
Wired - Freescale’s Insanely Tiny ARM Chip Will Put the Internet of Things Inside Your Body
The articles I link to are the ones that will really change your life, not the Academy Awards, these things will change our lives and not enough people seem to care; but, enough do. Have a great week.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
Time With A Friend Again
Quite unplanned, I had an opportunity to have a very nice dinner with a friend and will not be making a big or useful post tonight. In fact, I have bookmarked some articles that I will talk about; but, it will have to be in a day or two and I will continue collecting more articles if I see anything interesting.
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
A little spiritual post
The bible says that the devil walks all over the earth, and accuses us before God for being imperfect. Yet, Satan is imperfect, he misread Job and didn't know if Jesus was the Christ. Satan is a moron with lots of practice. He seeks to show off the worst in humans and misses the best in us. Oh, he sees it; but, it upsets him because it highlights why God said that we would command angels and that includes him. Here is an example of something that even the angels cannot do. Miss Jackie Evancho, at 10, singing with Barbara Streisand. Remember what humans are capable of, both good and bad. Nothing can beat us at our best.
YouTube - Jackie Evancho - Barbra Streisand - Duet - HD
YouTube - Jackie Evancho - Barbra Streisand - Duet - HD
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