This week started off right with a three day weekend and the first Lake House of the season (blog post and videos to come.) The weather was beautiful, the new deck is awesome and summer has started off in grand style. I closed out the last of my coaching duties last night with our annual end of season Potluck, then went to my first book club meeting. I spent Tuesday and Wednesday night at home working on the team movie. Now? June is knocking on our door this weekend and I intend to swing that door wide, hoist up my bottle of booze and shout, "Come on in Summer!" Of course, before you can go gallavanting around Fleet Week or the city for something else this weekend, here's 10 things you can think about on your way out the door. Cheers!
1) As a Sci-Fi reader, I've been wondering this for years...dude, where's my future technology? Ties nicely into the book I just finished and would recommend to even non-sci-fi readers, Ancient Shores by Jack McDevitt.
2) As the social media sphere moves from Facebook to things like Twitter, Flickr and others, it's getting harder and harder to keep track of all your pages. That's where an app like Zensify comes in...I might need to try this one.
3) A word of advice...if you're going to do something completely illegal, like rob a bank, don't brag about it on your Myspace page!
4) In addition to upholding the spiteful, ignorant and completely ridiculous Prop 8, judges in California this week upheld a ruling to allow mandatory DNA samples taken from people who are arrested but not yet found guilty of a crime. Gattaca is just around the corner...how do you feel about your right to genetic privacy?
5) Speaking of Prop 8, one of the few silver linings in that cloud is how vocal celebrities have been on the subject. The latest to speak out is David Hyde Pierce from Frasier, and more power to him! Equality now.
6) Not even good samaritans are catching a break these days...after giving a homeless man a place to stay, Charles Rogers got beheaded for his efforts. Doesn't the murderer realize he's just ruining it for everyone else?!
7) Let me get this straight...California is going through a monumental budget crisis. Because of this crisis, Schwarzenegger wants to close 220 state parks to save $70M, but isn't seriously moving forward on Ammiano's idea to legalize and tax pot, a cash crop worth between $1-2 BILLION per year? Am I missing something? Elsewhere in the country (Mississippi), the government has a huge stash of their own...for research purposes.
8) They say truth is stranger than fiction...but what happens when the truth is identical to fiction? Like this story about a cop shooting an off-duty cop in New York...The Wire in real life.
9) For you photo lovers out there, here is an impressive set of photographs taken in and around Saddam Hussein's palaces in Iraq, which have been used by US military personnel as bases. A true juxtaposition of the old and the new, the native and the occupiers.
10) Gotta love it when the old school rappers keep on rapping. That's what 43 year old "Wild Thang" singer Tone Loc was doing when he passed out on stage during his gig...
And that's it from this end folks. Don't forget to wear sunscreen!
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thanks that book looks interesting i will try to read it. :)
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