Reading the news today, I've been unsure about whether we're getting some articles for tomorrow today. After all, who would believe a new TV series about a former governor who decides to become a crime fighter and builds a secret high-tech crime-fighting center under his house in Brentwood, or Google being so blatently copycat as to introduce a " ( Read more... )

Some quick lunchtime news chum for your dining enjoyment:

• From the “Well, Shit!” Department: An appeals court has overturned the FCC Indecency Rule. Expect society to be totally warped as fleeting expletives and wardrobe malfunctions overtake violence on television in popularity.
  
  
• From the “There’s an App for That” Department: A Facebook app, that ( Read more... )

Last night, I had the opportunity to reconnect with a childhood friend, uisna. We hadn't spoken in, oh, about 35 years -- we had lost touch with each other when I moved from Playa Del Rey to Brentwood (the community, 90049). Going through the photo albums got me searching out folks from my youth, and I was lucky enough to reconnect with her. But that's ( Read more... )

Today’s San Francisco Chronicle has an article that dovetails quite well with something I’ve recently been thinking about. The article talks about Facebook, and how its user demographic is aging. The issue is not that Facebook is losing younger users -- they are still flocking to the site. But people 35 to 54 are now the biggest group on the site, ( Read more... )

My father died in 2004 (story at grandpa_a). One of the various collections I inherited* was his collection of photo albums... at least 200 of them. Although my dad had lots of cameras, he wasn’t the best of photographers. There were a fair amount of blurry pictures, which he would dutifully put in albums. He would also go on lots of accounting seminar ( Read more... )

Today’s lunchtime news reading has been light, so I’ve been thinking.... always a dangerous thing.... My recent review of history (triggered by going through my dad’s photo albums), combined with friend rediscovery, has reminded me how I am in many ways quite an anomaly in my surroundings ( Read more... )

Not much in the way of news chum today, so I guess I’ll have to report on life ( Read more... )

There have been a number of news stories of late that have gotten me thinking about growing older and the aging process:

• From the “She was as pure as Ivory... oh, never mind” Department: Yesterday’s news brought word of the death of Marilyn Chambers at age 56. For you youngsters out there, Marilyn Chambers was the one time mom on the Ivory Snow box ( Read more... )

A number of articles today seemed to resonate with me as my birthday approaches:

• From the “It’s No Longer Cool When Your Parents Do It” Department: USAToday has an article about the percentage of older adults on social networks is growing. According to the article, 35% of adult Internet users now have a profile on at least one social networking ( Read more... )

• Observation the First. There’s a new Austin Lounge Lizard’s Video/Song, done for Consumer’s Union: The Balance Transfer Switcheroo
  
  
• Observation the Second: Well, we’re now in a relationship with a failed bank. Our mortgage is with Downey Savings, or should I now say U.S. Bank. Still, it might provide us an opportunity. We’ve been wanting to ( Read more... )