I am really fascinated by this article. That is just crazy how after 24 years of this bottle with a message inside of it lying on a beach, someone finds it now. You would think that someone would have found it much earlier, especially with the amount of people that have probably walked that beach in a matter of 24 years. The boy and the father that wrote the message said they barely remembered the trip they took that encouraged them to write the message and leave it on the beach. But hey, I still think it'd be cool if I wrote a message when I was 5 and someone replied to me when I was 29.
Friday, April 1, 2011
Years Later and You Find This NOW?
Headline: Baltic Sea letter in a bottle found 24 years later
I am really fascinated by this article. That is just crazy how after 24 years of this bottle with a message inside of it lying on a beach, someone finds it now. You would think that someone would have found it much earlier, especially with the amount of people that have probably walked that beach in a matter of 24 years. The boy and the father that wrote the message said they barely remembered the trip they took that encouraged them to write the message and leave it on the beach. But hey, I still think it'd be cool if I wrote a message when I was 5 and someone replied to me when I was 29.
I am really fascinated by this article. That is just crazy how after 24 years of this bottle with a message inside of it lying on a beach, someone finds it now. You would think that someone would have found it much earlier, especially with the amount of people that have probably walked that beach in a matter of 24 years. The boy and the father that wrote the message said they barely remembered the trip they took that encouraged them to write the message and leave it on the beach. But hey, I still think it'd be cool if I wrote a message when I was 5 and someone replied to me when I was 29.
Google is becoming Facebook?
Like every website on the Web, everyone wants to be just like Facebook. Google decided to make something similar to Facebook's "like" button. They're calling it the +1. So, if you're on Google and you want to "like" an article or something you +1 it? I really doubt anyone is going to do that. We use Google to type in a word we don't know or if we can't remember someone's name. In my opinion, it's really dumb and no one is going to want to +1 anything. But, I could be wrong...
"Betty White's Off Their Rockers"
Betty White's coming back to NBC with a Hidden Camera Reality show. Normally, these shows I save for when I'm dying. Ashton Kutcher? Congrats, you've shown that "That 70s Show" was your life. Jamie Kennedy's Cry For Help? I mean, Experiment? However, this show sounds like it'd be hilarious. I mean, Betty White is funny on her own. And now she gets to prank folks? This will rule soooo hard. Like, how much Quidditch rules harder than Baseball, times Betty White.
Biblical Excuse for Stoning?
John Thomas is crazy. He confessed last month to stuffing a sock with a rock and bashing a mentally handicapped 70 year old over the head until he was dead.
His reason? The man was making "homosexual advances" towards Thomas. He had read in the Old Testament that gay people should be stoned to death. Is that a legitimate reason for murder? No. And, there's a catch! Seidman wasn't gay. He was asexual.
During one of Thomas' psychotic episodes, he met Seidman, the 70 year old man, at the Mercy Fitzgerald hospital. The two became close, and Seidman agreed to make Thomas the sole beneficiary of his will and gave him power of attorney. So was money the motive?
I think it's more complicated than that. Of course, money probably helped, but Thomas suffered from a mental illness that after so many hospital trips, he should have been watched over more carefully. It's also clear to me that he took religion too far and misinterpreted the Bible.
The Bible is definitely no excuse for a violent murder, and Thomas should pay for his crime. I would not be okay with him walking free in the world!
Article Headline: Defendant in fatal stoning devolved from zealotry to apparent madness
News source: philly.com
His reason? The man was making "homosexual advances" towards Thomas. He had read in the Old Testament that gay people should be stoned to death. Is that a legitimate reason for murder? No. And, there's a catch! Seidman wasn't gay. He was asexual.
So how did this happen? Thomas became a priest in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was VERY involved in the church when schizophrenia began to control him.
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During one of Thomas' psychotic episodes, he met Seidman, the 70 year old man, at the Mercy Fitzgerald hospital. The two became close, and Seidman agreed to make Thomas the sole beneficiary of his will and gave him power of attorney. So was money the motive?
I think it's more complicated than that. Of course, money probably helped, but Thomas suffered from a mental illness that after so many hospital trips, he should have been watched over more carefully. It's also clear to me that he took religion too far and misinterpreted the Bible.
The Bible is definitely no excuse for a violent murder, and Thomas should pay for his crime. I would not be okay with him walking free in the world!
Article Headline: Defendant in fatal stoning devolved from zealotry to apparent madness
News source: philly.com
Let's All Sue Google!
Headline: Microsoft adds to EU's Google probe
I really don't know how to react to this article. Some of you may not say it's a big deal, and some of you don't really care. I have to say I'm not sure I really care a lot either. I just find it rediculous that Google is getting sued for a "broadening pattern of walling off access to content and data that competitors need to provide search results to consumers and to attract advertisers."
Obviously Google isn't going to advertise it's competitors. Competitive search engines should cut them a break. Google is probably the most widely known search-engine in the world. Microsoft just came out with Bing! but that's not even in the running really.
Google is just too widely known for anyone to catch up, in my opinion. Yahoo!, Bing! and others just can't live up to the expectations people now have for user friendly search engines. Sure, they are good search engines and I can find stuff when I use them. But if I have a gmail account, my subscriptions are on Google reader, I share documents with Google docs and I see everything on iGoogle I am obviously not going to go all the way over to Bing! just to look up a definition, get current events, or find a picture.
Just sayin.
I really don't know how to react to this article. Some of you may not say it's a big deal, and some of you don't really care. I have to say I'm not sure I really care a lot either. I just find it rediculous that Google is getting sued for a "broadening pattern of walling off access to content and data that competitors need to provide search results to consumers and to attract advertisers."
Obviously Google isn't going to advertise it's competitors. Competitive search engines should cut them a break. Google is probably the most widely known search-engine in the world. Microsoft just came out with Bing! but that's not even in the running really.
Google is just too widely known for anyone to catch up, in my opinion. Yahoo!, Bing! and others just can't live up to the expectations people now have for user friendly search engines. Sure, they are good search engines and I can find stuff when I use them. But if I have a gmail account, my subscriptions are on Google reader, I share documents with Google docs and I see everything on iGoogle I am obviously not going to go all the way over to Bing! just to look up a definition, get current events, or find a picture.
Just sayin.
Fukushima Workers Expect To Die
Remember that whole thing in Japan, with the quake and the nuke-ya-lers Plants? The guys working at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant are EXPECTING to die within weeks or months. This is one of the saddest things I think I've ever read. These are people that have now literally devoted their lives to helping this cause. There better be some sort of movie about these guys. Quidditch is better than baseball.
The Voice of Our Mighty Phillies
Headline: Phils say yes to Harry Kalas Statue
Source: Check it out!
The famous voice of the Phillies franchise is finally being honored in a different way. Harry Kalas will be having an all-bronze statue built for him at Citizens Bank Ballpark in Philadelphia. This statue of course, is to honor and remember HK's time and effort put into Phillies broadcasting for 50 some years.
In May 09' a month after his death, an $80,000 grant was given to the organization to pay for his statue to be put up. The statue has been finished since January, but the date that it will make it's debue is still unknown. For it's location- rumors say, that it could be in Ashburn Alley, in front of the stadium, or somewhere else in or around the stadium.
Being a Phillies fan for my whole life, I really appreciate that he is being honored so greatly. I'll always remember his famous 2008 World Series call, "The 0-2 pitch- swing and a miss, struck him out! The Philadelphia Phillies are 2008 World Champions of baseball!" What a good day to be a Philadelphian... Over and out, Montague