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Facebook to Launch Ambitious Brick-And-Mortar Expansion Plan?

Today I heard from a friend with Silicon Valley connections that Facebook is going to be launching a new initiative this coming Fall, and it has been secretly guarded. Specifically, Facebook will be opening brick and mortar locations in major U.S. cities, including Chicago, San Francisco, New York & Atlanta. The new brick and mortar Facebook stores will be a place to hang out, make friends, share "likes", and network. This new and innovative forum will serve beverages and small food items, as well. The program will be led by John Verarschung. I'm not sure if this is true, but what an amazing possibility!

Dude, Seriously - Kelly Wicks for Ohio House?

Friend of the family for ten years now, Kelly Wicks is running to be our representative for District 3 of the Ohio House of Representatives. Good luck Kelly!

Sony Style Sucks! I was scammed by Sony

http://www.sonyscam.info

http://www.schutze.com/sonyscam

Never again will I buy from Sony.

RSI -a thing of the past?

Aside from the obvious stumbling block of having to speak aloud with others around you (and using the microphone when others around you are speaking aloud), I'm rather convinced that speech to text software has now hit the point where the software is entirely useful. In the grand total of about 3 1/2 hours of training the software to my own voice, the software is now so accurate that the only mistakes I make our mistakes of word choice, sentence structure, etc.

I hope that if you currently have RSI, carpal tunnel, or any of the other problems that are associated with keyboarding/typing, you'll stumble across this blog and buy yourself a copy of Dragon naturally speaking. It costs less than many of the questionable hand devices that you will find on random websites or "as seen on TV" items, and it will reduce the number of keystrokes you use in a day by 95%.

If you've seen the rest of my blog, I think you'll realize that this is not an advertisement. I make no money if you buy this product, and excuse me if I'm a little bit hokey, but this is just so damn amazing.

And if you're wondering, this entire post was "typed" using this Dragon naturally speaking voice recognition software. I only had to make one correction, and I'm reasonably sure it is due to background noise made by another person in the room.

Life, flavored with orange peels and exotic spices

Life flows down the spiraling drain
and its the equinox now
no chorus of screams
but a gentle wafting

Life eternal buoyant
as always
though sinking like a stone
with giggles

every second stopping
without stopping
no more cockamamy metaphysics
just the nerves

orange peels
steeping in my cerebellum
and a memory of exotic spices
just another day

8 months!

I guess facebook has taken over from the bloggers, which is sad, because it only allows for such short statements.

Well, that's actually good when you have RSI like I do.

So, to make it short: This guy rocks : http://www.bandiantal.de/ I saw him selling Hand Made Ceramic Water Flutes, as well as dry flutes, at a renaissance/art fair in Krefeld Germany. He seems like a really nice guy, too.