Sunday, May 9, 2010

Enjoy the Little Things

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'Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.' --Robert Brault

Why I hate Mother's Day

Why I hate Mother's Day

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Saturday, May 8, 2010

Not all Publicity is Good Publicity

After the Ellen DeGeneres iPhone dust-up, does Apple need to lighten up? - CSMonitor.com

Ellen DeGeneres does a fake iPod ad that takes a poke at Apple, iPhone, and herself - video is embedded in the bottom of this article. Apple overreacts. Ellen apologizes. The blogosphere blows up with criticism of Apple.

The best line I heard was that Apple should be suing AT&T because their service makes the iPhone difficult to use as a phone. I don't remember who said it.

And now, obviously, the original fake commercial is getting a whole lot more publicity for Apple and DeGeneres than if Apple had just ignored the whole thing. And all the publicity for Apple is bad. sigh.

Friday, May 7, 2010

Fighting Over the Living Will of J. Bruce Llewellyn - NYTimes.com

Fighting Over the Living Will of J. Bruce Llewellyn - NYTimes.com

End of life issues always seem so clear. Although in several instances I've heard people who are actually near the end express very different opinions than those they had when the end of life was not so near.

Shock and Amusement

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked. --Robert Browning

Who Adopts a Rejected Kid? - Page 1 - The Daily Beast

Who Adopts a Rejected Kid? - Page 1 - The Daily Beast

Rather difficult to read story about families that adopt older children who have problems. The message is not that the woman who put her adopted son on a plane back to Russia was right, but that sometimes the situations are difficult for everybody. And sometimes the best thing for everybody, including, sometimes especially, the child herself is that the child be put in a different home. Some children require more expertise/help/time than is available at a given home. And the whole adoption angle adds even more difficulty - especially for children that have been given up previously. Sometimes given up on more than once or twice.

Obama death group on Facebook shows the dark side of digital culture

Obama death group on Facebook shows the dark side of digital culture:

"The Obama death group, the South Park Muhammad episode, and even the Supreme Court case about a Christian student group point to a common lesson for today’s social-media age: We cannot foster freedom from a veil of anonymity."

One thing I've noticed is how little tolerance people seem to have for other people's opinions - at least when people don't agree with those opinions. On the other hand, those same people seem to think it is completely intolerable that people vociferously disagree with them. One good thing about anonymous opinions - I don't have to think that I may know those idiots - I find them intolerable.