Brent Nyitray
Fairlington Blade
Let the mutherfuker burn!
jnc4p
Kevin S. Willis
Michigoose
lmsinca
markinaustin
Arcanaut
novahockey
quarterback
ScottC
yellojkt6 Real People with Mind-Blowing Mutant Superpowers.
Pin Up Calendar Ladies Survive the Sex Apocalypses.
The Sexy Side to Being Buried in Garbage
Man Dies Gaming at Internet Cafe and goes Unnoticed forNine Hours. Gamers are very intense.
A class M Planet discovered practically next door to us. Let’s move!
I just have to add these:
First, the best Super Bowl ad you didn’t see–
Second, a poet who is also a public school teacher–
And we were talking about body painting the other day, and this song caught my eye–
—Michigoose
Filed under: Bits and Pieces | Tagged: apocalypse, mutants, new planet, super powers |
All Things in Moderation 
For NoVAH
http://www.economist.com/node/21546059
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Kevin S.? Willis
S for Superior?
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Patent Law is so screwed up:
“Inside the Nest: iPod creator Tony Fadell wants to reinvent the thermostat
By Nilay Patel on November 14, 2011 11:00 am
Tony Fadell is fired up the first time I meet him.
The man who created the iPod and guided the first three iPhones through production has come to the Verge offices to show us his newest product, and though we’re just sitting in our modest conference room, he’s building up an introduction worthy of Steve Jobs himself: there’s scorn for an existing broken market and examples of laughable competitive products, all while my eyes are drawn to whatever is under the black cover on the large wooden box he’s set on the table. Finally, he stops and removes the cover with the same obvious delight he must have felt when Jobs introduced the first iPod, almost exactly 10 years ago.
He is showing me a thermostat.:
http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/14/2559567/tony-fadell-nest-learning-thermostat
“Honeywell goes after Nest Learning Thermostat for patent infringement
By Matt Macari on February 6, 2012 12:07 pm
Honeywell International filed a patent infringement suit against Nest Labs this morning, claiming Nest’s new Learning Thermostat infringes several Honeywell patents. The lawsuit also aims at stopping Best Buy from selling the Nest thermostats through its stores. Including a retail seller like Best Buy in a case like this is a fairly common strategy used to choke off the supply going to the end consumer — US patent law allows a patent owner to go after those that “make, use, offer to sell, or sell” allegedly infringing products.”
http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/6/2775190/honeywell-goes-after-nests-learning-thermostat-for-patent-infringement
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I swear this is the first time I’ve ever heard this term. Helicopter Parents?
So-called helicopter parents first made headlines on college campuses a few years ago, when they began trying to direct everything from their children’s course schedules to which roommate they were assigned.
With millennial children now in their 20s, more helicopter parents are showing up in the workplace, sometimes even phoning human resources managers to advocate on their child’s behalf.
That’s exactly what the car rental company Enterprise Holdings aims to do, says Marie Artim, vice president for Talent Acquisition.
Parents are “an influencer,” Artim says. “So if they feel more comfortable that it’s a solid, stable, growing company with a lot of opportunities, and a good culture and people who care, they’re going to feel better about encouraging their son or daughter to consider it.”
To that end, Enterprise is happy to send parents the same recruitment packages it sends their children. And when Enterprise interns present their final projects and are considering full-time positions, parents are invited in.
OMG
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“I swear this is the first time I’ve ever heard this term. Helicopter Parents?”
You are lucky then.
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I know a pair of helicopter parents. Their kids are gradually learning to push back, lovingly but firmly.
I just mailed off 5 dozen origami hearts and cards to a hospice for the staff to give the patients around Valentine’s Day. It feels good.
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I just mailed off 5 dozen origami hearts and cards to a hospice for the staff to give the patients around Valentine’s Day. It feels good
That’s great MsJS……………I can guarantee you those little things like that really help. We have a group of women who crochet afghans for our patients. I can’t tell you how many times I go in and see them snuggled up with them or they’re laid across their laps. I don’t spend a lot of time with patients, mostly the families, but it means a lot to everyone.
And my kids would have killed me if I ever pulled a bone-headed move like what I’ve read some of these parents do. It’s hard enough to get them to leave the nest and be responsible adults. Haaaaahaaaa, our son picked up a computer disc that was laying on a table once (out of the packaging) at a Sears when he was about 15 and they arrested him for shop lifting. A very nice police officer called us to come pick him up and I said “later”. I made him stew for about 6 hours……..that’s the way I roll.
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Re your planet Kevin. I think we’ll have to work on a way to extend life first.
because with today’s technology, we could send a robotic probe out there, and within a few hundred years, it could be sending back picture postcards.”
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-river-forest-man-accused-of-sex-abuse-of-2-girls-20120204,0,2096252.story
Another person accused of sexually abusing children. $50 mil bail. He was a foster parent to a lot of kids, so this could get bigger.
What makes it poignant for me is my Bacon number with this guy is 1. In other words, there is only one person (a friend of mine who attends his church) between us.
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I hope I am the opposite of a helicopter parent. Perhaps a submarine parent. Several times we’ve had to tell our kid to go see the professor or to see the career center. I would never dream of intervening directly. I see no percentage in it.
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Dayen has a half dozen posts up over the weekend and today related to the bank settlement of fraudulent foreclosure practices. Haven’t read all of them yet.
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