Posts Tagged ‘ geekosaurus ’
This one made me tear up (just like the launch). The Shuttle Close Out Crew is a group of people who make sure that the Astronauts are all situated and properly closed into the orbiter before launch. They strap them in. They close the doors. They are the last people to see the shuttle crew face to face before they go into space.
When I was a kid, my brother and I had to each get our own Star Wars toys. Apparently we were unable to share. We both had an AT-AT. Best toy EVER.
AT-AT day afternoon from Patrick Boivin on Vimeo.
I can either wait until APRIL 2011 to get a new iPhone or pay $399. I can’t believe I am seriously considering paying the money. Apple updates the phone almost every year.
Paul Carr has a very interesting article up on Tech Crunch entitled “NSFW: Facebook Breached My Privacy, And Other Things That Whiny, Entitled Dipshits Say.”
It should be required reading for anyone who is on Twitter, Facebook, has a blog, or engaged in any other form of social networking. I wish I had seen it years ago.
Subsequent wailing about privacy settings on Facebook or any other social network is at best a red herring, at worst disingenuous bullshit. “Oh, but my Facebook account is private…. but my Twitter stream is locked!” Oh please. If all it takes to break a privacy system is for one of your friends to copy and repost your “private” photos or tweets then they’re not private at all. The only true privacy is not to post anything on a social network that you wouldn’t want the world to see. It’s like that old advice for sending credit card numbers by email: think of it like a postcard; you wouldn’t send your credit card number that way, so don’t do it by email. Think of photos on Facebook as the colourful side of that postcard. We can blame Mark Zuckerberg all we like for killing privacy, but the truth is all he’s doing is giving us the rope with which to hang it ourselves.
I have been using the free version of BumpTop for about a week on my Mac and LOVE it. It was purchased by Google, so will be going through some changes. You can still get the free version at www.bumptop.com. Works on both a Mac and a PC.
With the amount of space junk, we might one day get to this point. That is kind of a cool idea in a weird way.