- I've been with Lisa and Jacob for 9.12054794505479452054795 years.
- I can honestly say that 9.081532158016554 years of it has been pretty awesome.
- We've been married for 6.795205479452054794520547945205 years
- I've had the same cat for 17 years.
- I've been legally elligible to drink for 6,570 nights. I don't remember how many of those nights I actually drank, but I can say I puked probably less than 20 times.
- This is only since I turned 21. Underage drinking gets expunged from your record.
- It can be assumed that I've consumed 462.6 gallons of booze. (This stat is based on normal American per capita consumption, That's 2.14 gallons per month. Jesus, America, slow down. It's not a race. Is this why Rick Perry is so popular? You bunch of drunks!)
- I've owned 11 cars
- 3 were bought new
- 10 were American
- 1 was German
- I've eaten 14,235 breakfasts, but I've only had 1,768 bisuits
- I've lived 9 places (4 apartments and 5 houses) in 4 different cities, all within 60 miles of my place of birth.
- I've voted in 5 Presidential elections. 3 times, my candidate won.
- I've been to 19 states
- I've had 7 jobs, with an average tenure of 3.4 years.
- I better get back to work now or this stat may be in danger
Friday, August 26, 2011
Thirty Nine
On the occassion of the 18th anniversary of my 21st birthday, I'd like to take a 3.25 minutes to review the stats for my life so far:
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Left Behind
I am forever fascinated when people don't embrace new technology. I have friends and family who aren't on Facebook because they aren't on the internet and don't even have a computer. WTF? There are two adults and a child in our house and we have ten internet access points (3 smart phones, 2 tablets, 2 PC's, 1 Laptop, 1 PS3, and 1 Wii), and I'm about to add an eleventh (a Roku player). The reason, it seems, that so many people aren't connected to the web isn't money based, and it's not because they're old and don't understand the technology. It's because it's just not a priority to them.
Newsflash! Technology should be a priority to you. It's not just about Facebook. We don't just use technology to stay connected, and to stay informed. This is how we advance our human civilization.
I have an app on my phone (a devise that fits in my pocket and has more computing power than we took to the moon) that allows me to have a spoken conversation with someone who doesn't speak English. I say something in English, and it speaks it in Spanish. The person speaks to me in Spanish, and the phone speaks it in English. I've almost eliminated the need for a wallet because there are apps for store cards and library cards, and coming soon a debit card app. And you want to know something? If I could get this technology off my phone, and implanted in my body, I'd be first in line to do it.
I can no longer conceive of a world in which I'm not constantly connected. I use the internet on the fly to find directions, movie times, restaurants, to settle arguments over trivia, to read, to watch movies, to listen to music, to work. Today we have all the world's knowledge at our fingertips. We can't be many years away from brain implants that give us the internet in our heads. Imagine all that information instantly available as a thought.
Cybernetic implants and prosthetics are already common place. Some day soon, every part of you will have the potential for an artificial replacement. Immortality can't be far behind. I'll tell you now, that as my human parts give out, I will harvest parts from the people who today don't even have internet access. That will be their punishment for hiding from the forward march of civilization. Their parts will be harvested by the cyborgs. And when those parts give out, I will replace them with robot parts. Then finally, even the last remaining bits of the people who aren't able to read this will get left behind.
Suck on that!
Newsflash! Technology should be a priority to you. It's not just about Facebook. We don't just use technology to stay connected, and to stay informed. This is how we advance our human civilization.
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| Google's Autonomous Car |
Google has developed a fleet of cars that drive themselves. They've clocked over 160,000 miles. The precision android driving of this technology will one day eliminate traffic by allowing us to have smaller lanes and leave smaller gaps between moving vehicles. There will never be an auto accident, a speeding ticket or a drunk driver.
I have an app on my phone (a devise that fits in my pocket and has more computing power than we took to the moon) that allows me to have a spoken conversation with someone who doesn't speak English. I say something in English, and it speaks it in Spanish. The person speaks to me in Spanish, and the phone speaks it in English. I've almost eliminated the need for a wallet because there are apps for store cards and library cards, and coming soon a debit card app. And you want to know something? If I could get this technology off my phone, and implanted in my body, I'd be first in line to do it.
I can no longer conceive of a world in which I'm not constantly connected. I use the internet on the fly to find directions, movie times, restaurants, to settle arguments over trivia, to read, to watch movies, to listen to music, to work. Today we have all the world's knowledge at our fingertips. We can't be many years away from brain implants that give us the internet in our heads. Imagine all that information instantly available as a thought.
Cybernetic implants and prosthetics are already common place. Some day soon, every part of you will have the potential for an artificial replacement. Immortality can't be far behind. I'll tell you now, that as my human parts give out, I will harvest parts from the people who today don't even have internet access. That will be their punishment for hiding from the forward march of civilization. Their parts will be harvested by the cyborgs. And when those parts give out, I will replace them with robot parts. Then finally, even the last remaining bits of the people who aren't able to read this will get left behind.
Suck on that!
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