All kinds of things to ponder in the high tech headlines today. One of them is all the buzz about the new version of Apple’s operating system (Snow Leopard) that started shipping on Friday. Accompanied by stories like “Snow Leopard reveals new spots“, and beset with a few bugs when it comes to HP printers, Snow Leopard seems to be heading Apple in the direction of a multicore future.
None too soon, it would seem: AMD has come out with a new six-core chip called an Opteron which features ultra-low power consumption.
All of which has gotten me to postpone buying anything new for my main computer for a while. When I start to pencil out the cost of any upgrade versus the actual performance, I can get more done by throwing another 1 TB external drive onto the USB port than going through the grief and agony of a complete software platform roll. Besides, my typing speed is relatively fixed, anyway. don’t see anything in Windows 7 or Snow Leopard that says it can improve my typing accuracy. Damn.
Twits or Tweets
Ah…here’s another one of those data points which supports my 1,000 channels of digital wastelands theory. “Fox lives up re-runs with Twitter commentaries.“
With all the places to see in the world, all the things to learn, all the cool and really personal stuff people can think of in their highest creative moments, is this what humans come to? OMG we are sooooo screwed as a species.
Say Cheese
You saw where India has lost contact with a satellite which it had orbiting the moon? My theory is the aliens with their bases on the backside of the moon shot it down or somehow zapped it. It couldn’t possibly has been a power supply level component failure, now, could it? Naw…let’s blame the aliens for this one, too.
Chinese UFO Siting
Still, there have been enough crop circles this year – and now a huge UFO sighting in China to at least keep the possibilities of something other than humans being about open. For example, I trust you’re aware of the Chinese UFO sighting case where literally thousands of people in a 300 kilometer range reported a mass sighting in Shandong province?
Of course, to my simple mind, having UFO’s sighted in this wide an area being written off as ‘paper lanterns’ being released in a park just seems a little…oh, you know…improbable.
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Here’s the real deal: Far as I know, China hasn’t been as aggressive about shooting down UFO’s as the West has been, so why wouldn’t any other-worlders go there? Besides, they own the US, right? No wonder the Western press will marginalize such reports, LOL
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Outlandish stuff? Of course! But, what the heck, it’s Monday and this is a 4½ day work week anyway. (Nobody’s gonna do squat on Friday afternoon ahead of a three-dayer, right?) So go ahead, pour another cup and go read the “Global UFO Event to Occur in 2010?” story and ask yourself this: “Why is that story there, why is there this UFO stuff in the linguistics out in 2011, and why does the US Navy have a Space Command and what are they doing?”
As long as youi know the grays are essentially hydraulic and all you need to do is severe one of their internal hoses to disable them (which is why a good tinfoiler will never go anywhere without a knife) it doesn’t really matter does it?
Why, drop by tomorrow and we’ll get into the latest Michael Jackson sightings. My theory is he and Elvis have been working on comebacks.
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