Because sometimes thinking hurts…
This website has gone through many revisions since college but always maintained a spirit of fun. This is where I get to speak my mind, as a child would, spilling my thoughts without filtering them. I'm not likely to say anything profound or moving, but hopefully someone gets some entertainment value out of my ramblings.
This weekend, Michelle and I went down to San Diego to hang out with Desiree. We went to The San Diego Zoo. It’s one of those things that you never think to do, but it’s something that you can do a few times a year and never get the same experience.
Peer to peer technology has created a frenzy on the Internet. It is most famous for its reputation as a means to pirate copyrighted material, but it has a lot of other uses too, some of them legal. Probably the most famous legal application of peer to peer technology is Skype. Well the same guys, who created Skype have put peer to peer to other uses. Joost is the Internet television software that uses peer to peer technology to distribute high quality video. I was fortunate enough to get an invite to use Joost, and I have invitations to give out as well. Let me know if you want to check it out.
I came home late last night, so I didn’t even get a chance to talk to my parents. This morning my dad poked his head into my room and asked, “Did you get the snake?” What kind of a question is that to ask a person, who is still half awake? My mind began to race. Did he find a snake in my room? Maybe they closed the room of my door to trap a snake and I was too tired to notice a note they left me. Was I supposed to catch a snake in the house? Well apparently he was just asking me if I saw the dead snake at the edge of our driveway last night. It was still in our driveway this morning, so my dad took the garden hosed and washed it down to the sidewalk. Can you imagine going for a walk, not paying attention, and then seeing this?
Everyone asks the question, “Are we better off with all this technology?” I say the answer is a definite yes. I can’t wait to get my own robot clone. He will go to work for me, do the cooking and cleaning, and even see those chick flicks Michelle’s been wanting to see so badly. How did we ever live without speakers that provide ambient lighting, keyboard shaped waffle irons, or fake jellyfish aquariums? Alright, so most all of those inventions are not really making life better. They’re merely toys for our amusement, still awesome. Who wouldn’t want a realistic looking cat that actually mimics breathing.
For those of you that don’t like technology or maybe have a grandparent that doesn’t know how to use the Internet, I present Presto. It’s definitely a luxury item, but now you can send grandma emails with pictures and updates on your life and she doesn’t need to know how to use a computer. The only problem is that you have to wait for grandma to snail mail you a reply. I’m glad my grandpa lives next door to me and has a computer with email.
