America Votes 2006
The big question everyone is asking: Did you vote today?
My question to America is have you watched Hacking Democracy? If you haven’t, you should.
Thanks to CNN.com, you can keep up with the Election Results as they happen.
In closing, I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
Quote of the Day
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Once upon a time
Once upon a time…
We were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.
- Ellen Goodman, “The Human Factor,” The Washington Post, January 1987
This is such a true statement. In today’s day and age, most of us (including me) depend on our mechanical or electronic systems and devices. Examples would be our laptops, computers, cell phones, palm pilots, pagers, etc.
I wonder how many of my readers would go bonkers without access to any or all of the normal every day use of technology type items?
I know personally that I’d go a little bonkers without at least having my cell phone or Palm Pilot handy. I don’t even really remember phone numbers anymore since I’ve started using my Palm and cell phone thanks to speed dialing.
I use to have a hand written phone book that I would check for numbers and then have to hand dial them which also helped me remember frequently called numbers.
Granted, I still remember some phone numbers and I have a printed backup just incase but I think you get my point. Most modern middle class people can’t live today without some sort of technology device.
Here’s an idea. How about we all give up at least one technology item for 24-48 hours? If you’re game, post a comment and let me know what that item will be and then check back in 24-48 hours letting me and my other readers know how you did.
Ok, ready set go!
Quote of the day
“You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.”
- Albert Einstein
Mark Twain Quote of the Day
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
- Mark Twain
Great Attorney Quote of the Day
Just imagine that you ask your attorney a very important question about what he or she is working on for you and they answer with the following:
You know, I really have mixed feelings about that. It’s kind of like when your Mother-In-Law drives off a cliff in your brand new car. Its really good, but at the same time it kinda sucks.
Due to attorney-client privilege, I can’t say who or what attorney firm said that but lets just say he’s a very highly paid Los Angeles attorney.