With the imminent release of the iPad on April 5, it and its older cousins the iPhone and iPod Touch are getting increasing attention by the tech pundits. I have an iPhone, and I generally like it, but it seems to stand for everything I despise about where technology is headed. I love and hate Apple, Inc. Here’s why.
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Rights
We watched Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story last night. It was what I expected. That’s why I like Michael Moore, I think. He is anti-establishment, iconoclastic, and just doesn’t take shit. This makes him hated by the right and provides a necessary counterpoint to the dominance of the radical right media, like Fox News. [...]
Shooting with Nathan
I seem to be preoccupied with guns lately, and Nathan is not helping. We spent just over an hour at the Macon Police Department’s shooting range yesterday. Nathan was practicing his black ops shooting techniques for something he’s writing, and I was educating myself about handguns. One of the first things I learned is that [...]
Who Are Those Guys?
The middle of George Roy Hill’s famous Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is essentially an extended chase scene. The authorities — whoever they might be, the US government, the Union Pacific Railroad, or the increasingly powerful banks — have gotten fed up with Butch and Sundance robbing their trains, so they set up the [...]
Gun Fight
When I was a kid, Dad and I used to watch movies together. Our favorites were James Bond flicks, but we also got in the occasional western, like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Silverado. I mean, what American male doesn’t love a good western? What could be more of an archetypical symbol of [...]
Cut It Out
Talk of massive state budgets cuts for higher education has preoccupied everyone on campus for the last week. Ever since the state legislature decided that it might be a good idea to make up a budget shortfall of $1.1 billion by crippling the university system’s funding by $600 billion, the only business being done centers [...]
Ha Ha?
This cartoon by Mike Luckovich was forwarded by our VPAA today, on the cusp of announced budget cuts. I wish I could say it’s funny. I think I know what tomorrow’s blog post will be about.