Revolution...not exactly

Revolution...a "new" show from NBC. It doesn't make much sense, and is trying to put itself forward as something different and "revolutionary". It's just another crappy TV show in the vein of Lost. The world is suddenly deprived of power through some mysterious (i.e. magical) event. Even gasoline engines stop working, and we're expected to accept that fact with a simple explanation of, "...physics just went crazy, it didn't make any sense, and still doesn't!"

Yeah, it just doesn't make sense to viewers either. All I can figure is this show is a mouthpiece for the Republican party, wanting to scare Americans into thinking that something is going to happen soon that's going to take away our civilization, and that we'll be safer if they take care of us. I didn't have too high a hope for this show when I first saw trailers for it, and I doubt that I'll bother with even watching a second episode. If I want to watch a crappy network show with the same old plots we've been watching for decades, I'll just go to Hulu and watch one of the hundreds of others that have come before this one. Why watch a bad copy when I can watch an original bad show!

Additional Review After Seeing The Rest Of The Show...

OMG!  I didn't think it could get any worse! I was so wrong. This show was made by someone who has no idea how to put together a coherent plot! And at the end of the show, this chick pulls out another "Magic USB flash drive" like the one the main character has. It magically makes power come back on for her so that she can turn on her computer and chat with some mysterious person over their "secret internet"! I'd go on and on about how bad Revolution is, but my head hurts much too badly to keep this up! I can guarantee you that I will never, ever watch another episode of Revolution, it doesn't deserve my time, and it doesn't deserve yours either!

Long, long ago...and far, far away...

It seems scientists have discovered a spiral-arm galaxy from long, long ago and it's far, far away...sounds like it could be a galaxy full of Jedi's and Storm-troopers!

I doubt there are any X-wing fighters swooping around the stars in this galaxy, but you never know. Apparently this galaxy formed some 10.7 billion years ago, only a short time after the "big bang" that created our Universe. Scientists find it exciting because apparently it shouldn't be possible for a galaxy that old to still look so good, all other galaxies that have been discovered around that age have disintegrated to the point that they, "look like a train-wreck".

Here's a link to the original article on io9

I WANT...I WANT!!

Amazon Kindle Fire HD

I so want the new 8.9" Kindle Fire HD with 4G LTE! OMG! at $499 for the 32Gb version with 4G LTE for just $50 a year and the other specs this tablet has, this really could be the IPAD killer! This tablet has it all, and I thought the Nexus 7 looked good when it debuted just a month or so ago.

It looks sleek and sexy, and looks to have some real horsepower under the hood, with innovative features that I haven't seen in ANY other tablet on the market to date! I don't know how I'll afford one but I'm definitely on the warpath to get one somehow!

I HAD AN EPIPHANY TODAY...

I've heard of people having epiphanies, but as far as I know, I've never had one, until today that is. I've been unemployed since last December and I've just started my fall term in community college. I'm only 3 weeks in, but of course in this hectic world we live in today, it's already time to start registering for Spring classes. I've declared a major of "Design Technology". Now, there are several career paths available in this major, when I first happened upon it, I was leaning towards the one they termed, "computer graphics". As time went on though and I actually registered for classes I'd talked myself into trying to pursue a degree that would lead me into either mechanical drafting or civil engineering, both a far cry from computer graphics.

So far, I'd been doing fine in my classes but I started seeing a recurring theme when it came to the areas I'd decided I would pursue, they're very math heavy! Now, I'm not that great at math, but more importantly, I don't really enjoy math. Everything I'm hearing about people that go into the engineering/draftsman fields is that they invariably enjoy math. I don't. So I decided that I would go back to pursuing the computer graphics path in my major, so I went in to speak with my adviser about what classes I should sign up for in the Spring semester. She started off by giving me some bad news. My community college was no longer (starting next semester) be offering the computer graphics electives in Design Technology! Then she saved me by telling me that they were splitting that off from Design Technology into it's own major entitled "Visual Communication". So, while a couple of classes that I'm now taking won't count towards a degree in visual communication, I can still switch majors next semester and pursue what I want to. At this point she got up and asked me what it was I wanted to do as she retrieved some paperwork from a shelf. She asked me if I'd rather pursue a field of "Graphic design", "Web development" or "animation".

It was at this point that I had my epiphany, and it only lasted a split second but seemed to last long enough for me have a whole conversation with myself in my head! I thought to myself, "I don't know what I want to be when I grow up, but I know what I enjoy doing and that's what I want to study at school, and someday, I'll get a job of some sort allowing me to do what I love!" And only a half a second after she asked me that I shouted out, "Animation!" Even though the little niggling voice in the back of my head was saying "Graphic design and web development either one are a better choice, there are more and better paying jobs available for either of them!" But I didn't listen to that little voice that has shot me in the foot so many times over the years and stuck with what felt right.

Sometimes, you've just got to let go and do what feels right. I've worked for nearly 30 years at jobs that I've HAD TO DO. It's time now to do what I WANT TO DO!

Google Doodle = Racism?

Looking at the Google Doodle on August 7, 2012, commemorating the track and field event of the hurdles, I began to wonder if I was seeing some hidden racism in it's image. Look at the screen capture above and tell me if the runner that you're looking at who is depicted as African-American is standing on a track that appears to be a little reminiscent of a slice of watermelon? Is it just me, or is there really some hidden racism going on in this image? Then of course there's the obvious tie that blacks are often considered faster runners than non-blacks. I'm not sure if the person who created this doodle actually meant to inject some racism into this image, or if their choice of color palette was just unfortunate.

It's a beautiful day in the fiberhood...

Is everyone out there as excited about Google Fiber as I am? I hope so, because I think that Google can make a huge difference in how we access the internet, and the entire world. I'm sick of the monopoly that the ISP's in this country have had on the internet and Media giants like Comcast and Time Warner on the media that we watch. I see Google Fiber as a fresh start that can change the way we receive our content, and here's what I'm hoping... I unfortunately don't live in the Kansas Cities, so I imagine it's going to be a little while before I have a chance to see Google Fiber myself. I am however a FIOS customer, which is a fiber network. Now, your guess is as good as mine as to who really owns FIOS. Verizon was when I got it, then they claimed they were getting out of landline internet and sold it to Frontier. Then Frontier dropped the TV portion of it and sold everyone out to Dish network. Now, Frontier is advertising packages again including television, and their commercials always have a blurb at the end that claim they're owned by Verizon!! What the Hell is going on here, anyway? All I know is that I cut the cable on the TV portion of my package and while the internet is decent, it's certainly not as fast as Google is promising, which means that Frontier, or whoever, is actually throttling my speed to something much slower than it could be, since I'm on the exact same type of fiber network that Google is going to be running. My hope is that Google will get a huge response in Kansas City, and they'll make an offer to whoever it is that actually owns FIOS to buy it and thereby become the biggest fiber network provider out there! I'd sign on with Googles $120 a month plan in a New York minute! Could something like this happen? Your guess is as good as mine. It'd be a smart move by Google though, all those FIOS customers out there sitting at the end of a perfectly good fiber optic network, yet receiving end results that are little better than DSL, simply because the folks at FIOS know they're the only game in town and they don't have to provide the fantastic sounding services that Google is claiming to be bringing to the table. I'll be watching Kansas City with great interest and hoping against hope that Google will be bringing me their fantastic service as well!