"In Heaven, everything is fine. In the future, not so much."

I just linked to Why the Singularity isn't going to happen on my Facebook page. For those who don't use and don't ever intend to use social media (which likely make you part of a more advanced and wiser species than the rest of us), I also wanted to call attention to this thought-provoking article here.

Lo, there shall come a dragon....

This is my first post here using my new Dragon Voice Recognition Software, my second post overall. The first one was done over at the Liquid Diet website and posted without any corrections at all to show how difficult it's going to be to get some of the names and terms from the Philadelphia craft brewing world to be recognized.

I bought Dragon version 10 from Amazon at a good price. Version 11 has just been released and is apparently a quantum leap forward, but I figured I'd start with this cheaper older version on the theory that, if it works, I can upgrade to the new version a bit down the road. So far I'm using Dragon on my desktop computer but I suspect I'll find the notebook a better fit. I can see me sitting out in the backyard enjoying the weather and dictating my posts. A man's gotta dream right?

I've done all this without reading any of the instructions or looking at the tutorial because that's the kind of guy I am. When I get some time to be the kind of guy I ought to be, I'll check those things out. I'll keep you all informed about how this goes.

Why are the kind of people I would never hang out with choosing to hang out with me?

I find it fascinating that the site is loaded down with right wing political ads via Google Ads. Do you suppose they target sites with opposing viewpoints deliberately? Maybe they just have all the money.

Pat Toomey? Newt Gingrich? Seriously?

It makes me want to take a shower.

Anent my last post...

Well, I haven't really gotten my ass in gear over here like I said I would, have I? I had a wife once who would shudder and run out the room whenever I said "Trust me," so maybe it's congenital.

My excuses are at least solid. Yesterday was the Great American Beer Festival in Denver and I had to pay attention to the online broadcast of the awards and post stories on Liquid Diet and that other site which pays me to do so. Also we did a revamp of LD yesterday (thanks to the folks at the WordPress Support Forums who sent me in the right direction, Chris Olbekson of C3M Digital who did the heavy lifting and the always reliable Rob Davis for the new logo).

I was so far out of date that it took three progressions of updates to get me caught up, something I discovered just as I was about to embark on the task all by myself which would have meant going for one giant leap and who knows what would have happened. Those guys saved my bacon.

Go check it out.

So true.

Go here for the original.

I am very dependent upon my Gmail account.

It ain't perfect and sometimes if frustrates me, but it's the best email service I've ever had.

I don't want it to be Facebook or Twitter. I have Facebook and Twitter for those things.

I would seriously prefer that management does not screw it up so that it does more things that I don't want than the things I do want.

What are the chances?