Being Me

Didn't spend much time with Natalia over the Memorial day weekend and spent most of the weekend with Roisin. Headed to Big Bear which to my surprise was not that busy. Stopped by a few antique shops, smelled quite a bit of candles and got to see some really pretty photographs at the local gallery. Also got a few nice pictures from Big Bear as you can see. This week, on the other hand, has been full days at work and looking forward to a few days off cooking and staying in town with Natalia doing the "small town thing" on Saturday.

Finished reading The Mote in God's Eye and found it very entertaining. A classic in the genre as is really dwells into the lives of the Motes, their beings and their history. It shows us how violent humans are and starts to explain the motives and history of an alien race. I know there is a sequel and already on my shelf and on my "to read" list. My next book is The Last Threshold and I eagerly turn the pages to see how the huge story ends and how it may lead to R.A. Salvatore's new book coming out in the fall.

The XBOX One is due to release later this year and getting some press but I feel it will be revolutionary in the sense that there will be a camera inside your house always listening and watching. Thus far I do not see many people thinking and writing about this aspect but today I just read how it may even monitor if you watch commercials. That alone is scary for it to track all your moves inside your house. I don't think the engineers deep down felt this device could be so bad but knowing how government works and so many agencies and companies very quickly I am sure they got their hands on the developing of this device. I can even see this device seeing how many people are in the room and charging you more for a movie or just not allowing its viewing to make more money. Will I get an XBOX? Yes, but I want to know more if the Kinect sensor actually has to be plugged in. I would not install the camera device and I am sure very shortly people will figure a way to disable its microphone function. It would be evil of them to force the Kinect device to be plugged and setup to use it. That I feel would cost them in sales. Sony should not follow this trend.

On the cycling front I must say I haven't been keeping up lately but this past weekend Freddy Gonzalez makes it his 4th National jersey. Amazing he still has the motivation to race at his age and his roller coaster career. Lance Armstrong again making news, like a true politician he will keep denying and lying and not speaking hoping it goes away. After all his words on how he will help the sport clean itself has yet done anything to help. But at least he is out of the sport and unable to cause any more harm. The corrupt system is still governing the sport but hopefully with more eyes over it. On the Livestrong Foundation it is being put to light how much of the money this organization collected went to pay high salaries. I knew all along this was used as Lance's secret hush money/legal fund and so many people leeching of this. When will people realize so many of these "non profits" are really high profit scams. Why find a cure for a disease when it makes more money to not find a cure.

Amazing how a lying and disgraced politician is running to be mayor of New York City. Yes, Anthony Weiner is running and experts have him winning. Makes me think if people are actually that stupid or are elections that corrupt and fixed?

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