Well, I’m not the only one who got a new camera as we snagged Management a Kodak V803 for Mother’s Day and a Flickr account to boot and since then she has been happily pointing and clicking her days away. Below are a couple of shots that I really like.
Gabi playing on the awesome handmade blanket her 3rd cousin Tiffany made.
Needy Peri getting some love.
What’s not to love about irreverence in everyday life? For a good portion of my life I’ve been focused on being all about gravitas and have come to the conclusion over the past couple of years that life is much too short for living life like a stone. Reading the news it becomes quite apparent that plenty of people out there take themselves and their ideologies a touch too serious and could benefit from a daily does of absurdism.
On May 11, Cote initiated contact with the supposed teen via instant messaging to renew their online conversation. In the course of a subsequent online conversation on Monday, police said, Cote admitted that he “was arrested for trying to meet a young girl,” and that “they still have my computer.” Cote wrote that he “got a new one,” referring to a computer.Cote further wrote, “I am home but not supposed to be on a computer,” authorities said.As the online conversation progressed Monday, Cote and the undercover detective discussed plans for a meeting in person. At one point during the conversation, Cote asked, “do you have any condoms?” (Hartford Courant)
It would seem that I know way too many people who have a penchant for underage girls. Now, I could feel largely dispassionate about Matthew Glasser since I had not seen him since I graduated high school some 15 years ago but this time I feel a little more soiled as I work with Cote’s wife and had been over his house a couple of years back to let our dogs play together and had most recently seen him at last year’s Shad Derby in my hometown.
Six months after agreeing not to have unsupervised contact with minors as a condition of his bond in a case in which he is accused of trying to arrange a tryst with a child, a local man is accused of trying to arrange another similar tryst [this time] contacting a Newtown police detective posing as a girl under age 18. (Journal Inquirer)
Ignoring for a moment what Cote is prowling for, what kind of idiot does this twice? Your mother and brother put up their home ($300k) and your wife takes you back all in good faith that maybe your are misguided and maybe made a mistake but your right back out there looking to get caught, especially when your using your full name as your screen name. Jackass.
What about the wife? Terms of the release on bail was that he would be subject to electronic monitoring and to not use the Internet. So how did the PC get in the house and how did the Internet service get restored? If Cote did it himself why the hell would she risk herself by not reporting it? Infinitively more baffling is the possibility that she bought it and had service restored as if nothing had happened. My brain hurts trying to understand.
For myself, it feels incredibly fucked up as I have shook this guys hand, made small talk, watched our dogs run around, and thrown a couple of burgers on the grill. Sure, I didn’t know about his predilection for underage girls but I cannot help but feel tainted by the reduced degrees of separation between myself and his crime, especially when I sit back and think about my daughter and my niece as being potential targets of his.
I think I need to go take a Silkwood style shower.
This past Friday while perusing Digg I came upon a story about a web only Sci-Fi series named Sanctuary and the distribution model instantly piqued my interest. As far as media distribution and consumption goes the Internet is still a in its infancy and though we are beginning to see companies dip their to in the water like Apple and Joost the majority of material being released is still in a physical space and format.
Stage 3 has jumped into the fray with what is arguably a very expensive investment of television production quality on an iTunes sales model of $2 per episode or $7 for a pack of four. I’m going to guess that they would have to move 25k units per episode to break even so it is very possible that Stage 3 could see a modicum of success with this venture but the challenge will be to get noticed amongst all the other things clamoring for their audience’s attention. From what I can tell, they are essentially doing it on their own with carefully placed PR and word of mouth with only the backing of a pile of VC.
Enough about the business side, how is the inaugural episode? Well, I purchased a 4-pack sight unseen and have to admit that I really enjoyed it. The editing was tight and the story opened at a brisk pace with fairly crisp dialog that was at times Made for Sci-Fi Channel cheesy but it was overcome by the hook of a mysterious characters that appear to move through time (Victorian London to what appears to be present day NYC) and a lurking horror in the body of a little boy that has quite the hankering for brains. Initially, I was apprehensive of the potential production quality but the show makes ingenious and very creative use of green screen work and CG graphics, painting a decaying city shrouded in darkness and rain, which allows it to appear as if it has a bigger budget than it really does. Overall, they have introduced a story that blends a sort of horror meets science fiction that at once feels like it was a collaboration of Lovecraft and Verne but has been slightly reworked for today’s palate.
In the end, I certainly feel as if I got my money’s worth and am looking very forward to watching each episode as it is released, every two weeks according to their blog, and would recommend it anyone remotely interested in Sci-Fi or horror, especially since the price is right for what they have delivered so far. For more information, check out Sanctuary’s blog or peruse the freebies over at their fan site.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. —Voltaire
My education in canning continues. This time with tomatoes. #
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Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
by Paul Hawken
