Celebrated National Handwriting Day with a Faceplant

Celebrated National Handwriting Day with a Faceplant

Hope your National Handwriting Day (http://www.wima.org/NationalHandwritingDay/tabid/79/Default.aspx) was better than mine. Picked up some hardware for a planned computer upgrade that became more urgent after some sort of software failure botched the ability of apps to save settings. Passwords won't save. Internet TV in Windows Media Center crashes. Needed a second had drive for storage anyway, so it kind of works out to have that place to move my files as I re-install Windows. What didn't work out was hitting my face on concrete steps at the Reston Town Center.

Day was all wrapped up and Tanya and I were entering the parking structure when I stumbled on the concrete steps. Should have caught myself but I had my hands in my pockets due totter cold. Scraped my face and cut my lip pretty good. Doesn't look that bad in the photo but that's after the blood was washed off. The scrape is going to make me look like a drooling vampire tomorrow. Hit my top canine too. Definitely scraped it a little, but it's not loose, so it's fine.

After getting home, I cleaned up, installed the hardware, and now I'm waiting for Windows to re-install. Yep, not letting a little concrete kiss impede my computer upgrade. One of the benefits of having fallen so often as a child is learning how to deal with it.

So that and seeing the Green Hornet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Hornet_%282011_film%29), which was quite good, is how I spent National Handwriting Day 2011.
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Whatever happened to critical thinking?

Whatever happened to critical thinking?

Yesterday, everyone was abuzz over a tweet from Hugh Hefner claiming Playboy for iPad would show full nudity. People questioned how it would be done since Apple does not allow nudity on apps. Today, it's revealed to be a web app, not bound by Apple's rules, and everyone claims to have been tricked, but here's the thing: Hef never used to word "app."

Never claimed it would be an app. Web is not subject to Apple's rules. 1+1=2. So why the hell did everyone add that up to 3?

Some hours ago I read a blog post that opened with an outrageous scare tactic and closed with a sales pitch (http://www.gottabemobile.com/2011/01/20/ifixit-tears-down-apples-diabolical-pentalobe-screws-which-they-can-fix-for-9-95/). Nothing wrong with that really. The problem is so damn many other blogs failed to recognize the ploy and parroted the post like It was gospel.

If only these were anomalies, but sadly these are just the most recent of a seemingly increasing pattern of mindless echoing. The truly outrageous aspect is how obvious the truth is. If it sounds unlikely, if it sounds ridiculous, that's not a sign to pass on the word; it's a warning to stop and think.
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I predicted the iPad five years ago

I predicted the iPad five years ago

So I was looking up something I'd posted a few years back and stumbled upon this gem.

[I have no doubt we will eventually see an Apple tablet (aka iPad) but I think it will grow from the iPod, rather than evolve from their notebooks; mobile devices that offer more computing rather than computers that offer more mobility.] (http://sumocat.blogspot.com/2006/01/intel-inside-macs.html)

That was posted in 2006, five years ago to this day, four years before Apple announced the iPad. Pretty amazing, right? Sure, Wired coined the name "iPad" (http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wired_predicted_the_ipad11_years_ago_picture.php) even earlier, but not only did I call it a tablet, I also predicted it would "grow from the iPod" and not be a Mac turned into a tablet. Keep in mind, the iPhone did not debut until the following year. I called name, form factor and product direction before I'd even seen the "little slate" iPhone.

And lest anyone suspects this is a hoax, not only are you welcome to do whatever digital analysis you can find, but I invite you to analyze my handwriting as well. Maybe I can fake metadata or feed false into to Google, but can I fake five and a half years of handwriting style evolution too? Sounds less likely than me accurately predicting the iPpt ad five years ago. The line to worship your new prophet forms on the right.
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Thanks for the cookies

Thanks for the cookies

Been remiss in thanking my sister for the best-looking cookies ever. In my defense, I just finished with my gift to her -- hosting our mom for two months.
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