TD Ameritrade, an online brokerage, introduced a character based virtual assistant type customer service system today. He goes by the name of Ted and, depending upon your question, he directs you to web pages while audibly expanding upon his text based answers ( Read more... )

You know, the idea that there's an infinite number of universes holding an infinite number of reality occurrences is complete and total bullshit. I think it's called multiverse or quantum universe theory and, on my way to try some catfish, it hit me how utterly absurd the entire notion is.

I'm going to do my best to not enter arguments over race, black presidents making up for slavery, and whether or not racism still exists- I'll just log this here and not waste time moving forward:

( The cost of slavery, racism, and wearing bling. )

Wow. That was a shocker ( I called it in FebruaryOne thing I truly do look forward to with Obama as President is seeing social shifts in the black community due to his example. Sure, black men will find loopholes in his past as an excuse for his success. They will say that they don't have the opportunities he did when they instead aren't making ( Read more... )

A lot of babble has been made about Palin not knowing what the "Bush Doctrine" is ( Read more... )

I've been thinking a lot about how conversation has changed and why the Internet has negatively affected it.

This for example:
People's relationships have always been about proximity. Obviously, circle of influence is entirely based upon geography and the ability to leverage communication over distance ( Read more... )

This evening on the news, they showed footage of Obama feeding a baby calf with a bottle as you do when they are nursing. Him in his suit, people were standing around him and taking pictures as he was on some farm or something- wherever this cow was. The anchor was talking about his visit there ( Read more... )

"Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories ( Read more... )

The news last night was talking about gas prices ( Read more... )

Happy Pi Day. Celebrate.