The Future is Coming

So the human race is creating things at a new rapid pace. It seems like we are quickly reaching the "future."
From hand held face to face communication, to robots with "emotions," we are creating it all.
And now just recently we've created the car that can drive itself!

http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/driverless-vans-end-long-drive-in-shanghai-22681340


I like a lot of the new technology that humans have been creating, I'll admit it's a lot of fun. But if you really sit down and think about what it is doing to life as we once knew it, everything is getting a little scary. At least for me it is.
The family dinner table in many homes isn't a place to sit down and just be with the family. Generally the children have about 4 or 5 other friends at the table with them, through their phones. Texting, IMing, and skyping has taken over the way to communicate and in many ways it's made life easier to stay in touch. But what about staying in touch with the people right in front of you. It's hard for people to stay focused on one person, the actual person who is sitting and having a conversation with them, especially when three other people are texting that person.
It's like we have to be in 3 different places at once. We have to stay in touch with everyone 24/7 and that's really hard to do!

Technology is a blessing and a curse. That's all to be said. It helps and it hinders. And we all have to know how to use it correctly, or it can just become a nuisance to us, and the people around us.

Oh What a Wonderful World

I find it amazing that we have lived on this planet for countless years, and yet we are still discovering things in the world. I recently stumbled upon this short movie showing a new cave that was discovered recently and I was in awe of what people have discovered. This world is a magnificent place. Full of natural beauty and wonder. There is nothing more spectacular then what we have yet to find hidden in the natural confines of the earth.
I've explored caves before in my life when I was younger. I've gone up to old gold miners towns and getting tours of the caves, and my cousin had a hobby of going spelunking in the bigger more intense caves. But the caves that this short movie talks about are far beyond anything that I could have imagined.
Think for a moment about Superman's fortress, and now watch this link, and see it come to life.

http://whoknew.news.yahoo.com/?nc&vid=22589400

Potatoes

So everyone has their favorite food in life. Many peoples favorite food changes as they grow up, and many people can't decide what their favorite food is.
My favorite food hasn't changed in years, mostly because you can practically make anything from it.
This is my tribute to the wonderful food that is potatoes.
Potatoes may not be the healthiest food for a person when just on its own, but the beauty of a potato is that you can practically make anything from it. You can bake a potato, make it into a stew or even make it into a kind of pasta.

http://www.101cookbooks.com/archives/how-to-make-gnocchi-like-an-italian-grandmother-recipe.html


Potatoes have been the basis of so many meals for hundreds of years or more. They are a classic part of Thanksgiving, and the perfect part of a breakfast scramble.
Try to think about all the meals you've had where potatoes have been a part of it. I'm sure it's too many to count. The dishes you can make from them alone are numerous.
Potatoes are one of the best vegetables out there, and I swear they are one of the only foods I could not live without.

What's Happening in the world

As I was sitting on my Yahoo account trying to figure out something to write I saw two articles directly next to each other that I found slightly amusing, only by the fact that they were next to each other. One article is about a terrible storm that hit New York City this past week, and the other is about how the Bay Area is having an immense heat wave.
On Monday night a freak hail storm hit the areas of Brooklyn and Manhattan. The hail was approximately the size of quarters.  Last month the same area was hit with flash floods, just like what was occurring on Monday.
People had to run to get inside because the hail was so painful to be in.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_localnyc/hail-brings-brooklyn-to-a-near-standstill-in-a-freaky-fast-but-furious-storm

The Bay Area on the other hand is getting "excessive heat warnings" until this Wednesday. The temperature on the west coast is getting hotter and hotter. The North bay is getting Fire Warnings.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_localsfo/20101012/ts_yblog_localsfo/bay-area-weather-very-warm-today-red-flag-warnings-in-north-bay

So if you don't believe in global warming, or you think people are just overreacting to some minor weather changes. Think about it this way, even if global warming doesn't exist and this is all "perfectly normal" it's still not good for us, or the environment. There is still dangers, and people should still try to help out those "Crazy Global Warming People" just so that we can all sleep a little easier at night knowing our planet wont explode into a fiery blaze and then freeze the next night.

Invisible Children

This past Tuesday I attended a showing of a documentary on Invisible Children. The documentary showed the horrors that are currently going on in Uganda do to a group called the LRA lead by a man named Joseph Kony, who is now thought of almost like the boogie man. The LRA abducts thousands of children from Uganda and the surrounding countries every year. They are terrorizing the families and communities of these places and leaving the towns in ruin. Face to Face is an organization trying to bring help and relief to these places. They fund raise for schools, and scholarships for students so that those children who are there can have an education that can help them in the future.
One of the girls in the program from Uganda spoke about her past, and how happy she is now that she can attend school thanks to the program, Schools for Schools.
Her story was touching, and reinforced the fact that this is happening in our world. It reinforced the fact that people need our help.
www.invisiblechildren.com is the website where you can watch part of the documentary. Watch it and think about these children, and families, that are devastated by this war that has been going on for over 20 years.
Even if you feel there is no way for you to contribute to their efforts. The fact that you know about what is happening, and have those people in your thoughts will help. It will help spread the support that they are in need of.