Here is an interesting prediction about the near future of computers and their role in home entertainment.
An interesting idea. I wish I had the $$$ to be one of the early adapters the article talks about but since I don’t I guess I’ll be waiting a couple years for these toys.
(link via Gizmodo)
I know I already did a Thanksgiving post but I figured I’d do another one since I have so much to be thankful for. I’m thankful for a beautiful, fun and loving wife. I’m also thankful for a smart, fun and very cool 2 year old daughter. Last of all I’m thankful that another kid is on the way and should be here in either late July or early August.
I mentioned UTOPIA (the plan to wire homes in 18 Utah cities with fiber optics) in this post. Here is another story on this issue and information from iProvo on their service.
UPDATE:
Dan stuck a link to this article in my comments. It is an excellent commentary on the issue of information infrastructure as a municipal service.
I’ve said a lot about what a weiner I think President Bush is…but this was pretty cool. Some Disagree.
Here is my Thanksgiving post.
Not much to say other than I’m excited to eat lots of turkey!
Here is a little piece that includes all 4 stanzas of the Star Spangled Banner. I’d never heard the third before (its not in the LDS Hymn book) but I love the 4th. It does a good job summing up my thoughts on Thanksgiving.
Corryn asking, “Where’d everyone go?” at halftime during the football game
Corryn and I went to the football game by ourselves on Saturday (Lisa was sick). Corryn had two words to say when Lisa asked her how she liked the football game: “Yay Tennessee!!!!”
We were a little bit late for the game and missed some of the pre-game festivities. We still had a very good time though. Everytime I go to a game at Neyland Stadium I am impressed by how cool the fans are there. Everyone wanted Corryn to enjoy her first game. One guy gave her a pom pom…another lady showed her how to use it and tried to teach her the words to Rocky Top (In case you didn’t hear…there was plenty of opportunity for the singing of Rocky Top during Saturday’s game.) One guy even offered to stand on the stairs next to our row to keep the sun out of Corryn’s eyes but got in trouble with the ushers.
Corryn was a little disappointed that everyone started to leave the game at halftime. We ended up leaving at the end of the 3rd quarter. The score was 48-0 and we figured the game was pretty much over. Next time we’ll try to go to a game that poses more of a challenge to the Vols.
Its been a while since I was in Neyland and I remembered how much I love going there. Walking out it was hard not to remember the first time I saw a game there (look at #76).
Corryn is going to do her best to make sure we don’t go a year without catching a game in Knoxville. When we were driving home she saw a stucture that looked a little bit like a football stadium and she said, “Dad, can we go there and watch football?! Yay Tennessee!!!”.
Corryn is lucky. She gets her first Volunteer football game tomorrow. It took her almost 2.5 years to get to this but I’m sure it’ll be worth the wait!
We’ll drive down to Knoxville in the van and meet my parents tomorrow after the game! I can’t wait. Hopefully it isn’t too exciting a game (it is expected that the Vols will cream Vanderbuilt and I don’t want any surprises) but I am still really looking forward to it! I would like Corryn to see a crushing defense and an unstoppable offense wipe Vadie out.
GO VOLS!!!! WOO HOO!!!
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I guess I’m too optimistic but I disagree with General Franks. I don’t think Americans would allow this to happen.
General Tommy Franks (Former CentCom):
Discussing the hypothetical dangers posed to the U.S. in the wake of Sept. 11, Franks said that “the worst thing that could happen” is if terrorists acquire and then use a biological, chemical or nuclear weapon that inflicts heavy casualties.
If that happens, Franks said, “… the Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we’ve seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.”
Franks then offered “in a practical sense” what he thinks would happen in the aftermath of such an attack.
“It means the potential of a weapon of mass destruction and a terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event somewhere in the Western world – it may be in the United States of America – that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event. Which in fact, then begins to unravel the fabric of our Constitution. Two steps, very, very important.”
He might be right…but I wouldn’t be in on it…
I know I’m probably a total jerk…but I couldn’t stop laughing when I read this story from Channel 7 ABC News here in DC.
Excerpt: (sorry about the capitalization…it is like that in the original piece)
THE TWO PEOPLE YOU’RE ABOUT TO MEET HAVE GONE TO EXTREMES TO TRY AND STOP SLEEP EATING … LIKE LOCKING THEIR REFRIGERATORS AND BARRICADING THEIR ENTIRE KITCHEN. BUT EVEN THAT DOESN’T WORK.
THEY WAKE IN THE MORNING TO THE SHOCKING DISCOVERY THAT THEY’VE EATEN EVERYTHING FROM FROZEN TURKEYS TO A WHOLE CAKE.
What a horrible…yet kinda funny…condition to suffer from.
Nathan Jones is an expert on Turkey’s culture, history and policy, and a good friend. He has written an interesting piece on the recent bombings there. Check it out on Dan’s site.
(Thanks to Dan for providing the space for this useful commentary)
Yahoo had a picture from Associated Press up on its site this morning. I’m guessing it won’t be up too much longer since the AP has asked all its outlets to remove it.
I’ve made a copy of the picture (Warning: It isn’t very family friendly) and posted it at this link.
Here’s the caption:
US Army soldiers take rest during patrol in Baghdad suburb, Monday Nov. 17, 2003. U.S. forces have reacted to the increasing attacks in which dozens of Americans and their allies have died by mounting a massive show of force in central and northern Iraq (news - web sites). (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
Those soldiers look pretty tired. I can’t say I blame the responding soldier for his reaction. I don’t think I’d enjoy having a photographer taking my picture if I were in a similar situation…especially when his employer has been accentuating the negative in everything the U.S. troops have been doing in Iraq and ignoring the positive.
(Link via Best Of The Web at Opinion Journal)
Note to self. Always type posts up in Word before putting them on the blog.
(I just typed a clever but long post about how excited I am for Lisa and Corryn to come home. It was destroyed when I accidently hit the backspace key while looking at the post in preview mode. My stupid browser went back to the post I just did about marriage and I lost everything I had typed. That sucks.)
This post is to remind me that all work needs to be done somewhere else then posted here to keep accidents from happening in the future!!!
I need to go buy a book by Frederick Forsyth
Instapundit posted this letter by Mr. Forsyth that was published in The Guardian today. I should probably just link to him…but I really want something this well written on my site too so I’m posting the whole thing here. I like it. I like it a lot. Especially the part about the pustule:
Today you arrive in my country for the first state visit by an American president for many decades, and I bid you welcome.
You will find yourself assailed on every hand by some pretty pretentious characters collectively known as the British left. They traditionally believe they have a monopoly on morality and that your recent actions preclude you from the club. You opposed and destroyed the world’s most blood-encrusted dictator. This is quite unforgivable.
I beg you to take no notice. The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Adolf Hitler and worshipped the other genocide, Josef Stalin.
It has marched for Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov. It has slobbered over Ceausescu and Mugabe. It has demonstrated against everything and everyone American for a century. Broadly speaking, it hates your country first, mine second.
Eleven years ago something dreadful happened. Maggie was ousted, Ronald retired, the Berlin wall fell and Gorby abolished communism. All the left’s idols fell and its demons retired. For a decade there was nothing really to hate. But thank the Lord for his limitless mercy. Now they can applaud Saddam, Bin Laden, Kim Jong-Il… and hate a God-fearing Texan. So hallelujah and have a good time.
Cool. For the record…a majority of British citizens agree that America is a force for good in the world. They are smarter than their continental cousins.
I don’t like Bush so much as a man and I really really don’t like most of his domestic policies…but as far as our foreign policy is concerned I agree with the Brits. Bush is leading us in the right direction.
