I had a cool burger last night. If you ever get a chance to try this one you should consider it. It was a huge rascal, so big that even my mouth had difficulty wrapping around it. It was a bacon and egg burger with all the trimmings. I must say that it was perhaps the best burger I ever ate. The leaky egg made it so moist and tasty. Of course, I like eggs with steak for breakfast on rare occasion and I really like beer with that dish as well, or champagne.
Hey, did you see where they are getting on the James Bond character for his boozing? Yeah. They already made it socially unacceptable for him to smoke. Next will be his womanizing, no doubt. Soon, all literature, games, movies, T.V. and print media will have all of us walking stiffly around saying, "Life is good, I am eating right". The dude, Bond, is not real. I am perhaps Bond's most ardent fan but he doesn't influence my life one iota. Come to think of it, I do drink...
I bought the Tomb Raider game for I-Pad this morning. It is 99 cents and I have yet to play it. This is not the Laura Croft game that you have seen around IOS for a few years, I gather. It is more like the ancient version of the game. The one that has been around for a while is called Laura Croft, I think; I tried it and quickly got stuck, back in the day.
Also in gaming. I have been playing the Mass Effect games on X-box 360. Man, is the first one slow. Mostly just walking around and chatting people up. I am going to skip to #2 today and try it. Hopefully I will get some of those cool weapons I got on the IOS version.
Things are quickly evolving in the tech world, as usual. Perhaps not so usual are the scary parts. Drones are in the news every day now. The police in one Canadian city have bought a bunch of them and will patrol areas with them. They will start that next year. The drones will have the ability to fire gas and bullets at some point. They will have listening and speaking capability, I understand. I hate crime as much as anyone, but the potential abuse of this tech, as I have mentioned before, boggles the mind. How long will it be before the night shift cops will have those bad boys humming around apartments with nice-looking women and eventually be selling videos on-line? I anticipate a booming business in blinds, drapes and curtains over the next few years. (Buy stock)
More important than that is the Zoo Principal. (I made that up.) You ever watch animals in the zoo? Sure. You've seen them crouch behind any small outcropping to get just a smidgen of privacy. You've seen a once proud animal reduced to walking around with its eyes to the ground, hiding from prying eyes. I've seen lovely women who got where they couldn't deal with the constant attention of men and began to dress in ways to make themselves less attractive. Is our society headed to the place where we shuffle around, looking at the ground, hiding our faces from hovering drones? Expect wide-brimmed hats to sell better in the future. (Buy stock) Ha, ha, not. Maybe? Hey, could one elected official spy on a contender during an election? Just saying...
You ever notice how the new tech is always for our good? Ever notice how the print and video media, even at the highest levels, is used to market unpalatable trends? The scariest thing about any nation is when the media loses its neutrality and independence. (By the way, have you noticed the media onslaught against indie books? See my post about The Ebook Conversation.)
We are a gullible people in the good old U.S.A. I love my country but I hate to see us spying on our friends like Mrs. Merkel of Germany. I think she has been very good to America and seems to be a nice person. I am naive about stuff, I guess, but is this friendly or decent? I understand that Snowden may go to Brazil, by the way.
I saw where a federal judge ruled that it was "Probably unconstitutional" to 'creep' all the phone calls and emails of every American, without a warrant. Gee, there's a news flash. Of all the horrible, unthinkable things that terrorists have done, the worst is providing big government with a convenient excuse to abuse tech on an unprecedented scale.
Are you curious about Google buying a robot company? Are you curious about the tech giants meeting with Obama about on-line privacy? I love Apple and I believe them to be one of the most decent companies that has ever existed, but they should squash some of the conniving developers on their own store before attending that meeting.
Hey, you remember my post about the coming water shortages? I see more on the internet about this all the time. Any real estate you buy, consider the abundance of a water source in the area. I'm talking about buying land close to major rivers for a long-term investment. Also, do you remember in my book called The Amulet Covenant, when a technique known as Black Hole Mapping was used to travel to remote parts of the universe by using black holes and mapping the places where they emerged? Some scientists are now advocating that very thing. Cool.
You think this post was wild? You should see the ones I don't publish. From the author's green retreat, I'm CE Wills on my rant day. I must have missed my nappy.
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