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So this is going to my only comments on the recent law that was voted on in North Carolina.  At first I didn’t really want to get involved with any discussions about it because of “shit storm” that any discussion about it becoming because of how passionate the people on both sides of the issue.  I had started off the day just hiding ever comment, article, or picture about it on Facebook.  That is until I saw the one below which kind of “spoke” to me and said basically how I feel about the whole thing so I felt the need to write this rant.

I think Clint said it best “I don’t give a fuck about who wants to get married to anybody else”.  I wouldn’t say that I am a Gay Rights supporter or anything but at the sometime I don’t see how it is really anyone else’s business what anyone else wants to do with the free time or home life.  The most I thought about it seem that this goes back to the same sort of thing I was taking about in my earlier post “What the Hell is Wrong with People Today?”.  People are just way too worried about what everyone else is going and really think they have a right to tell people that their beliefs are wrong.  It is way past time that people need to just shut up and worry about their own shit.

Also this whole argument about the “sanctity” of marriage is really getting old and tired.  It is just time to give it up.

That is what the full title of the book really should have been.  When the book first came out I had been really interested to read about Jobs’s life an how he pioneered the computer industry even with my dislike of any of the products that he and Apple were responsible.

Before I had started reading it I had an opinion of Job that he just wasn’t a very nice person based on some news reports of him and how Apple did business.  As I went through the book I found it very hard to get though at times and I found out more and more that just how much I had underestimated just how jerk he really could be.  It is amazing how many times he was allow to get away with being a complete asshole to anyone around him through out his whole life and was never fired from places like Hewlett Packard or how it was that he was able to find it way back into Apple when he had fired for for that exactly that.  Even when he was in a position of power at Apple I am surprised that he was able to accomplish anything the way he would bad mouth people for their work if he didn’t feel that it was up to his and Apple’s standards.

As if that wasn’t enough I am amazed after reading about Apple’s business visions that anyone has ever bought a product from them.  I had never really cared for any of Apple’s Product because they have always seemed to be really over simplified almost as if everything is designed for a small child.  I guess that can work some some but when I read that Apple doesn’t do focus groups because they actually believe consumers don’t actually know what they want until they give it to them.  That kind of logic just doesn’t sit well with me.  I want to be able to use the products I buy the way I would like not the way someone else tells me that I should be using it.  Something like that just reaffirms my decision to never give a dime to Apple.

I could probably say a lot more but I am sure that if anyone is still reading at this point you probably don’t want to read too much more of my ranting.

Up next I have decided to start reading the Jack Reacher series by Lee Child starting with Killing Floor

There seems to be a growing trend the last few years where seem to forget the first and quite possibly most important amendment  in the Bill of Rights.  That of course is the Freedom of Speech.  The latest attack is coming from a group calling for a boycott of the new movie 21 Jump Street because of a line where the character played by Ice Cube says, ”This chart looks like shit, are you autistic?”  When did people forget how to take a joke?  Just because you find something offensive doesn’t mean you have the right to tell others that their opinions or the way they think is wrong.

Another similar attack came in the national campaign to get people to stop using the “R-word”.  When I first heard about this movement all I could think to myself is that is retarded.  Language evolves over time.  People can’t just pick and choose the words that they have deemed to be “inappropriate”.  If we are going to start allowing this to happen I would like to announce my new movement to try and get rid of work “dohicky”.  Why you may ask?  What is wrong with that work?  How about it sounds dirty and I think that people that us it are stupid.  If you a really open your mind and allow yourself to think about it that is the same motivation that is being used in both of these campaigns and exactly why people need realize that we have a right to our opinions and say what we like.  Just like the people of these campaigns do no matter how ridiculous it maybe.

It was a year ago now since I went to the dark side.  Seems so long ago when I didn’t have any desire at all to be on any social network at all really let a lone Facebook no matter how much everyone told me how awesome it was.

I didn’t really see the point of it I was already using my blog to post articles, videos, and anything else I wanted to here on my blog.  Some where in that year I finally started to get a it and realize how Facebook wasn’t really all the different then what I was trying to do with my blog.  I was actually making things a lot harder then the needed to be by resisting using Facebook.  The problem then became my blog was being neglected as you can see from the few posts that have been made since this time last year.

I again am trying to commit to not allowing cob webs to build up here.  To do that I hope to find a happy medium where quick shares and thoughts will be made on Facebook and things that I feel I need a more then a few lines to talk about will be posted here.  Now lets just see if I can stick with that plan.

Aramelle and I decided to take Zachary to Monster Jam and introduce him to the world of Monster trucks.  For a little boy that is very much into trucks right now, he was in complete heaven.  I don’t know if I enjoyed it so much just because of all the fun that he was having or if it was a bit of a reminder from my own childhood of how much I loved to watch Bigfoot and some of the older trucks on TV while growing up.

I was using our new point and shoot camera that we got a couple of months back to take some pictures and I quickly remembered that this type of camera wasn’t good for action shots but I still think I got some good pictures.

I have uploaded some of the pictures I took to my gallery here.

You can also see all of the pictures over on our family blog (yes it is still there and we might actually start posting move often) here.

In an effort of trying to actually show some life in my Blog here I have finally sat down and over hauled my Picture Gallery.  I even added some recent pictures from the Sacramento Zoo from last week.

Hopefully this time I can keep the updates coming on a some what regular basis as I try to find the balance of having and keeping up on both my Blog and Facebook Page.

Warning there are some story details in this post.

This book was probably the hardest for me to read out of this series.  To mean right after the ending of The Girl Who Played with Fire the story really slowed down again and almost reverted back a scene setting as if it was the first book of the series.  Much to my disappointment this type of narration seemed to take up the majority of the book.

The whole book was building towards the trial of Salander.  Finally when the process meter on my Kindle show 80% the trial was about to get going and the story really started picking up.  At times I was asking myself why I was still reading this book if it was taking so long to get to something exciting.  Just as quickly as the excitement came it was gone.  Through out the whole book I expected the part about the trial would be full of lots of detail and finally culminating at the end.  Instead the trial part of the book seemed to be over almost as soon as it had started.  This was very confusing  especially when the last 8% of the book just seemed to be wasted space.

In the end I would recommend this book if nothing else to finish the story so that you know what finally happened with all of the character.  Although in my opinion this book seemed very much to be an after thought and was by far the worse one of the 3 in the series.

Next up Steve Jobs.

Today is this the Birthday of the most wonderful person I have every know.  I have loved you since the first day we met and love you more and more every day as we raise our wonderful son together.

Happy Birthday Aramelle!

I hope you have a great Birthday!  I Love you so much!

Taken a little bit of time to get this post up as I have had other things taking up my time in the evenings (so long in fact I am already 10% into my next book).

As much as I loved the first book of this series The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo this one was even better.  The first book was actually almost dull in comparison.

The story in this book takes place after some time as passed since the last book ended.  Since most of the character from The Girl with The Dragon Tattoo are back in this story there isn’t that part in the beginning where you just have the voice in the back of your head wondering when the hell the “real” story was going to star.  There is actually a lot more action in this one through out the book and not just in the beginning.

Definitively one that needs to be picked up if you have started or plan on reading the first one.  There ware way more things that I wish I could say but as Aramelle will probably be reading this I better stop where I am so that she doesn’t get mad at me for giving a way the story.

More to come after I finish The Girl who kicked the Hornets Nest.

That’s right it is finally football season once again!  This has to be the best time of year.

As a 49er Fan I haven’t really had any thing to root for from the NFL.  Luckily I have had a bit to root for from the Nevada Wolf Pack (that is two words for you Wolfpack fans from NC State), including a WAC Championship.  This year will be hard since we weren’t able to get season tickets but we plan and hope to get them again next season.

This season with Zachary really understanding so much of what is going on around him I really look forward to watching games with him and sharing with the enjoyment of the game as I did with my own dad when I was younger.

Lets go Niners!

Lets go Pack!