And You Just Thought Technology Was Too Much With You

Or The Grid Comes to the the Common Man:

Phew! My mind is running wild with the possibilities for this thing — good and bad. :D

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What’s Your Take on Kony 2012?

I get all sorts of notices on Vimeo, and a little over a week ago, there was a notice about something called Kony 2012. I watched it, and I had questions and have asked them of the sources I have in Uganda, but I didn’t get a chance to come back to the internet about this until a few days ago. Thursday I came back to query and realized the video was on YouTube as of Monday and already had tens of millions of hits. As I’m typing this, the video has almost 66 million hits.

Since I want to hear what you think, I’m not going to tell you my thoughts so far, but this is what SO and I have been discussing for the last two days:

More info on it below, but I hope you watch the video first if you haven’t seen it and don’t know anything. I’m really curious about your reaction before you hear all the rhetoric.

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Tangent — Cannabis Wunderbar?

As soon as this becomes a reality, there will be no more debate about the legalization of pot in America. It will be a done deal. But really, it’s pretty much legal where I live. Medical marijuana is very prevalent and is obtained from a place called a dispensary. You might be thinking these are fairly clinical looking places. Here’s the one near me:

If you hang around my blog, you will figure out I’m not into liquor. Don’t smoke pot either. Heck, I have a hard time taking an aspirin. I like to be clear headed most of the time. However, it is absolutely none of my business what others do, and I don’t believe someone can keep another person from seeking something out if the person believes it makes them feel better. Could be anything; like maybe an anonymous blog? :D. Doesn’t matter if it could be harmful. And gaining comfort for a medical condition is nothing compared to appeasing someone’s vanity. Yep, I feel the tide coming.

Plus, a pill like this can’t be any worse than all of the other crap we ingest.

Photo courtesy of my local paper, but I can’t specify ’cause then I would have to kill you. ;-)