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Friday, June 1, 2012

Mathew's Riding His Bike

Matthew's learning how to ride without training wheels and doing great!

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Thursday, May 31, 2012

The Middle of the Forest #menvswomen #humor

If a man stands in the forest & no woman hears him... is he still wrong? from Dave Royer

Battleship INSPIRES! DON'T MISS IT!

Mary and I are sci fi movie freaks. We love The Avengers, Spiderman, Batman, on and on and on, and we will make every effort to see each version as often as possible this summer.
BUT!!
There is a movie that doesn't have the large following of an already committed fan base, and doesn't have men and women that have been transformed by technology or the gods or evolution into super heroes that is losing money AND IT SHOULDN'T.
That movie is BATTLESHIP.

Mary and I saw it this week for the first time. THE VERY NEXT NIGHT we went again.
The movie shows how ordinary men with very real limitations go up against an enemy with superior fire power.
Great moments? When the museum piece battleship The Missouri is put back into service, manned by both American and Japanese sailors (inspiring in itself, two former enemies working together) and aided by the very necessary old veterans who are the only ones who know how to run the old girl.
Great moments? When a discouraged amputee vet finds himself called back into service man to man against a very foreign invader.
Mary and I will get back to the other summer block busters. As soon we've seen Battleship a few more times.

Google Wins, Oracle Loses, God's Side?

The second phase of the three part trial has gone a different path than the first part. The jury had decided in the first part that Google had infringed on Oracles patents, but at the conclusion Oracle was not allowed to pursue any judgement against Oracle, tipping off those in the know that the future looked bleak for Oracle in this case.
Now the judge, who has written Java software himself, pointed out that, in my language, that you can patent the ladder, but you can't patent the window you want to go into. You can patent the tool, but you can't patent what the tool does.
This is the foundation for patent law, a guiding principle that the control freaks guarding the money bins lose sight of so easily.
Price your product too high, (which you have to do to buy a mass of marketing, a slew of patents, and a gaggle of high priced patent lawyers, and somebody creative will invent a more efficient method of doing the same thing.
And yes, God DOES take a side in this. When ever poor people complain that they've been shut out, God LISTENS.