If Bill Buckner can prove anything to anyone, it is that you can always pick your up and have a full life years after a very public and very monumental screwup at just the wrong moment.
Maybe he can get Steve Bartman and Moises Alou in a room so they can talk it out?
Cool would be visiting the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. Extra cool would be to get a behind the scenes tour.
Extra bonus cool would be the cast and crew of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter doing said tour and then finding this:
I have had this link on the history of wi-fi sitting open for awhile. I finally got around to reading – and sharing – it. Good stuff. Enjoy.
I have always been a bit torn about protest songs. First, most of them are before my time and those who still use the same old songs – not to mention drum circles – seem to be as out of touch as those backward-thinking cretins they are protesting against. Second, other than making you feel good, it often does nothing to advance the cause. Hell, it probably turns off more people than anything.
That said, here are a few songs that have – in the main – stood the test of time.
They may still be of little value, but a lot of good music here at least.
Apparently scientists are finally getting a human-machine translator chip in the works. Granted, this might be scary news but it will probably make a huge difference for those needing prosthetics or in delivering medical care to remote communities.
Also, IBM is making chips that are ever-more-so cognitive in nature.
Sure, this may all lead to Terminators and the end of mankind.
OR…
We might just be at the dawn of a whole new and better set of tools for our species.
Optimism. Try it.
One of the biggest blessings – and curses – of the digital age is that everything can be saved. Even things you don’t want saved. In Europe, they are debating a concept called the right to be forgotten.
Maybe your shopping history and various bits and bytes collected by companies should have a time limit put on them. Hell, I believe they should be unless you expressly opt in.
I hope Europe passes this. Then hopefully, like universal health coverage and interstates and civil rights, American can drag ass and adopt these laws 50 years down the road too.
There has been a lot of Vegas news recently with the caucus last week. Here is an interview with Zappos’ Tony Hsieh and his plans for downtown.
Apparently Nevada’s GOP presentation has not shined this past week.
Read this earlier today and it made me miss Vegas a lot. I may never move back there but it was probably as close to a home as I’ve had. Sure, I’ve made good friends in many a place, but I never felt as comfortable as I did there.