Can’t go to sleep at night?
Maybe putting this by your bedside will help.
Beating a Dead Horse
That’s what I heard Video Only doing on a commercial aired this morning on 1190 KEX during the Rush Limbaugh Show.
So how did Video Only beat a dead horse?
Well, they were bragging how they rated better than Circuit City! 😆
Closed Circuit to Video Only: Circuit City is no longer in business. So stop trumpeting your ratings against them…or you’ll be sorry!
🙄
Yesterday’s News
I saw three stories last night.
Central Oregon man stuns cheesemaking world at contest
| A Brazilian-born cheese maker who traced an unlikely path from Silicon Valley to a former pumice mine near Bend just captured one of the most prestigious prizes in his profession.
Flavio DeCastilhos’ flagship goat cheese finished second in the 2009 U.S. Championship Cheese Contest, considered the Academy Awards for U.S. cheese makers. By all accounts, the accomplishment is extraordinary. |
Astronomers catch a shooting star for 1st time
| For the first time scientists matched a meteorite found on Earth with a specific asteroid that became a fireball plunging through the sky. It gives them a glimpse into the past when planets formed and an idea how to avoid a future asteroid Armageddon.
Last October, astronomers tracked a small non-threatening asteroid heading toward Earth before it became a “shooting star,” something they had not done before. It blew up in the sky and scientists thought there would be no space rocks left to examine. But a painstaking search by dozens of students through the remote Sudan desert came up with 8.7 pounds of black jagged rocks, leftovers from the asteroid 2008 TC3. And those dark rocks were full of surprises and minuscule diamonds, according to a study published Thursday in the journal Nature. |
Headline correction: They found it.
How nice that they can look into the past. 😆
U.S. to blame for much of Mexican drug violence
| “Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade. Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the death of police officers, soldiers and civilians,” Clinton told reporters during her flight to Mexico City. |
Obviously she didn’t read (yet?) this or this.
Oh well.
“Over the Top and Unworkable”
Well, that’s good news, isn’t it? 🙄
Facebook, Bebo and MySpace ‘to be monitored by security services’
| The private correspondence of millions of people who use social networking sites could be tracked and saved on a “big brother” database, under new plans being drawn up by the UK government.
Ministers revealed yesterday that they were considering policing messages sent via sites such as MySpace and Facebook, alongside plans to store information about every phone call, e-mail and internet visit made by everyone in the United Kingdom. There was immediate uproar from opposition parties, privacy campaigners and security experts who said the plans were over-the-top and unworkable. |
Yeah. Maybe so.
SEND: Don’t Be Dumb
Please, please!
Cell phone or email or blog or Facebook or MySpace or Twitter or whatever: Beware the Send Button!
“The moment you push ‘send,’
the damage is done.”
the damage is done.”
The link will take you to the tragic story about Jessica Logan, who took a non-clothes cell photo of herself and sent it to her boyfriend. In a terrible cascade of forwards and resends, hundreds (if not thousands) of people received it. And Jessica was verbally pummeled face-to-face as well as via phone, text, email, Facebook, MySpace, and who knows what other medium.
Things like this make me mad. And sad.
Our technology allows us to do so much dumb (and worse) stuff on a whim. And regret later.
She did something very foolish in taking that photo of herself. She compounded her error by texting that photo to someone else. At that point, a character flaw or a bad attitude or a wrongly-entered recipient or a wrong key pressed or another foolish choice — and the original recipient sent it on.
And the process was repeated. And repeated. And repeated.
Have you learned the lesson now?
Message to Albert and Cynthia Logan: May you find comforting grace in Jesus Christ. As a dad, father-in-law, and grandpa, my heart aches for your daughter…and for you. I’m sorry. 😥
He Deserves My Silence
That’s a good line to remember.
And use.
A very good one.
And a classy one, too.
Thank you, Mr. President:
| Former President George W. Bush says he won’t criticize President Barack Obama because Obama “deserves my silence….”
He declined to comment about the Obama administration…. |
A refreshing approach and tone in this day and age.
Missing Venezuela Missionaries
Here’s the March 13 story from the Huntsville Times:
| Aegis joins search for missionary family’s plane
A Huntsville company specializing in the enhancement of satellite imagery has joined efforts to find a missing Jackson County pilot, his wife and five other people whose plane apparently crashed in a Venezuelan jungle last month while on a missionary trip. Aegis Technologies is working with Colorado-based DigitalGlobal, an operator of high-resolution, earth-imaging satellites, to photograph the dense jungle terrain where the plane was last seen in the hope of finding any wreckage. […] Edwards said he believes Norton and his passengers could still be alive. “He’s an incredible pilot,” he said. “If anyone could stick a landing in that type of terrain, he could.” If they were able to survive the crash, he said, they would have a difficult time finding their way out of the dense jungle. But Edwards said they would have plenty of water, and the natives would probably provide them with food. |