October, 2012 archive
Intermission: Down at the Farm 0
Database issues. Looks like I’ve got it stabilized and just lost a few posts from yesterday and this morning. We shall see.
I hate databases.
The Galt and the Lamers 2
You Can’t Get There from Here 0
The bridge over the railroad tracks in Narberth always looked rickety to me as I crossed it back when I lived there. It still looked rickety when I took First Daughter to lunch at the Greeks’ back in July (and she got me a Greek’s 90th Anniversay tee-shirt!).
Abandon Ship 0
Second son worked on this ship last winter:
The 180-foot, three-mast tall ship had lost propulsion and was taking on water. Postings on the Facebook page of the HMS Bounty reported the ship was sinking.
Mitt the Flip’s Off-the-Cuff Links 0
Kelly Fordon, daughter of long-time Republican Congressman John William Stanton of Ohio, muses on the content of Mitt the Flip’s character(s) (emphasis added):
(snip Romney’s remarks about “the 47%”)
That moment sparked the feeling I’ve had on the few occasions I’ve had the misfortune of running into racists who believe that because I’m white I’m “in the club” and willing to listen to their prejudiced diatribes. Simply put, I was horrified. Mitt Romney believed that he was preaching to the choir. He felt comfortable enough to show his true colors. Later he said he was speaking off the cuff, which any politician will tell you is code for “speaking from the heart.”
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Sandy Sayings 0
As the storm approaches Philly, Field observes:
Afterthought:
The hypocrisy of “small government” conservatives is not that they want small government.
It’s that they want big government that benefits them, and only them and no one else, and, by God, they want it for free.
God Forbid Kids Should Explore Their World 0
This will take all the fun out of t-ping your 10th-grade English teacher’s front lawn.
Snap Secure, a smartphone security app created by Princeton, N.J.-based cloud service applications company Snap My Life, already functioned to control who children talk to by phone, text with and what they browse online.
The app, which comes with a $5.99-per-month subscription, is one of dozens of products developed by tech companies specifically for parents to monitor children’s locations. Snap Secure has rolled out new features just in time for Halloween that takes the surveillance up a notch by allowing parents to set perimeters on a GPS-enabled map that limits where a child is permitted to travel. If a kid steps outside of the marked area, parents receive a notification and can check the map to see just how far the child has strayed.
All seriousness aside, we seem to have a generation of paranoiac papas and meddling mamas. Maybe it was ever so, but cyber-stalking one’s own kids adds a new dimension.
I suspect that, if this practice grows, it will spur kids to defy the surveillance to do things which, if they weren’t relentlessly spied on, they might not otherwise do.
