long before bill maher, lewis black or jon stewart there was george carlin.
he was the first person who i heard say that ‘bad words’ are just words.
he was the first person that i ever heard question if there was a god.
he was the first person i ever heard tear apart religion with logic.
he was the first person who made me think ‘what if everything i’ve been told is a lie’.
here’s a tribute that i found that i think george would really dig:
this is a photo of Del Martin, 87, and Phyllis Lyon, 84.
they have been a couple for the past 55 years.
today, the state of california legally recognized their marriage; they were the first same-sex-couple to be married at 5:01pm PST.
i’ve said before that the way you respond to this civil issue will be one of the defining landmarks by which history will remember you. if you think i’m being dramatic, just talk to people whose parents/grandparents didnt support the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
so while i’ve heard the calls of fellow bloggers for this presidential election to be free from remarks about either candidates race and/or age, i cant help but get this mental image whenever i watch mccain struggle through his party’s teleprompter-lies.
so it’s become a tradition for me to make predictions on the eve of any Apple Expo Event. being that tomorrow is the WWDC, I shall once again either completely UNDERpredict or OVERpredict what Steve Jobs will have to say to the Apple-masses tomorrow morning.
here are my official predictions:
iPhone 2.0: the long awaited 2.0 firmware will be announced as “final” and bring all sorts of 3rd party application goodness as well as full-on Exchange support, etc. also expect a few more “apple developed applications” in this release. it will be available for download…IMMEDIATELY.
MobileMe: say goodbye to the overpriced .mac service and say hello to the all new premium offering from apple bringing over-the-air syncing of personal email, contacts, etc. MobileMe will be available for purchase…IMMEDIATELY.
3G iPhone: no more shall iPhone users be frustrated with lousy Edge network speeds when away from WiFi. Assuming that the major carriers (AT&T as well as international carries) will need time to field test the new hardware, expect to be able to pickup the new 3G iPhone in “later this month.”
GPS: throw in GPS and crazy Google Maps integration when the 3G iPhone ships…oh and while i’m at it…video recording, MMS (dear god let them include MMS) and a ‘lifeblogging app’ in the new version for good measure.
OS 10.6: given that this is a developer’s conference expect to hear about Apple’s next iteration of OSX and a complete LACK of PowerPC support. Sorry legacy users.
Total OS Integration: expect his Steve-hood to emphasize tighter integration between the mobile and desktop versions of OSX and the new online offerings in MobileMe.
i’ll update this post after the keynote address and we can all collectively laugh at my complete and total lack of understanding of what the hell apple chooses to do with their multi-billion-dollar-company.
so i’ve never been a fan of PDA (public displays of affection) but if we—as a society—are going to agree that it’s cool for a couple to make out at a baseball game, park, movie theatre, etc, then we must agree that said PDAs cannot exclude lesbian/gay couples.
this post is in reference to the nonsense that transpired in Seattle’s Safeco Field during a Mariner’s game.
You can read the full story here and look at a super-serious-looking photo of the woman involved here:
apparently a couple of chicks were kissing it up and some under-sexed-soccer-mom got nervous that her kids would turn gay (or worse yet atheist!) if they saw two girls kissing.
mom-of-the-year proceeded to throw a big-fat-hetero-fit and had the all-vagina-couple reprimanded by the kid making minimum wage as an usher.
total nonsense.
frankly if i were god for a day, i would ONLY allow lesbians to kiss in public.
of course this wouldnt settle anything, but i would be god for a day and god can do whatever the fuck he wants!
so the problems with twitter over the past 3 weeks have been rough.
tonight after the latest network outage, i found this message on my twitter profile page.
needless to say, i havent screwed around with my phone settings for months, but was wondering why my friends that i follow on my iPhone were suddenly so quiet.
if you’ve been missing your nearly hourly dose of ME then check to make sure that your phone settings are still groovy with twitter. (i’m looking at you @supertiff, @yesisaworld, @lcarter97, @st0ney, @gst0ne and @irinaslutsky)
so random-playlist-shuffle-mode on iTunes has been picking out some cool music for me tonight. in the past, i’ve had a notoriously love/hate relationship with the shuffle button; tonight all is forgiven.
busterthedog is peeling around the apartment intent on giving his squeaky-tennisball hell. i fear the squeaker may not survive the night.
outside the june gloom is threatening to make good on its promise to break up with springtime and shower us with rain.
tonight’s a random night, so here are some random photos from Madison to go with it.
ok so i was updating my facebook junk and the advertisement in the left column was the following:
now, i’ve met a fair share of “christian singles” in my time but NONE of them looked like her.
were there to be more “christian singles” that looked like this, then i might consider converting…or at least pretend to convert…or at least been willing to celebrate easter.
so was i always swimming in the wrong ‘christian singles’ dating pool or is this ridiculous?
so i finally got back from my week long trip to madison, wisconsin.
it’s taken nearly 24hours, but i’m finally unpacked and most of my laundry is done. in retrospect, i should have made use of the hilton’s laundry services b/c a weeks worth of dirty clothes does not make for a nice smelling suitcase.
also, busterthedog has finally realized that i am back home for good and is once again his playful, well-adjusted-self. (it was touch-and-go for a while though)
to welcome me back to campus, my department asked me to give two lectures in the neuroscience course today. being the meticulous planner that i am, i waited until yesterday to finish up 45 slides on the hippocampus, the papez circuit, long-term potentiation, etc. yeah…so that made for a long night last night. my poor planning, however, was not my fault…it was actually sam and farnaz’s fault for dragging me out to one too many “events” while i was away in Madison.
the good news of the day is that the lectures went smashingly well and everyone was giving me high-fives and ass-slaps afterwards. the high fives were cool, but if one more med school professor slaps my ass i’m going to start feeling weird about it.
i’ve also got about 60 photos from downtown Madison that I’m editing with the help of various adobe photoshop products. here are a few to tease you with until i finish with the rest.
the guest was former bush-whitehouse-troll scott McClellan. before McClellan came out the real hilarity ensued when Fred Schneider from the B52’s gave his interpretation of how the audio version of scotty’s book should have sounded.
if you need me, i’ll be busy listening to old b52’s tracks the rest of the evening.
my hotel is located right up against the Menona Lake and the $20 per night I spent on the lake-view-upgrade was totally worth it. (here’s a photo from my hotel room)
last night as i was walking around downtown Madison, i kept noticing that WI license plates all said “america’s disneyland“.
“what the fuck?” i thought, “…that’s pretty damn arrogant considering that disneyland is the happiest place on earth and all.”
today as i passed the cars parked alongside State St i realized that the plates actually said “america’s DAIRYland” which makes a whole lot more sense…you know b/c of all the cows.
“…when the smoke came out our mouths on all those hooded sweatshirt walks, we were a stroke of luck. we were a goldmine and they gutted us.” -Bright Eyes “Gold Mine Gutted”
so when i was only barely holding my self together, i had a friend who could do a once-around-the-room and change the fortunes of everyone in attendance.
she was brilliant; hers is a life bordering charm and innocence.
tomorrow night, ben harper & the innocent criminals are going to be performing “fight outta you” on last call w/ carson daly. this is a good reason to own a tivo and to set it accordingly. in fact, i’m blogging this so that i wont forget to do the same.
unlike the last time that benharper was on last call, i didnt go and see this taping. if, however, you want to take a walk down memory lane, then you should read these posts:
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