Interesting: Is Jay-Z coming out as an atheist?
In his latest video, “Empire State of Mind” at the 3:05 time mark, we hear him say “Jesus can’t save you. Life starts when the church ends.” I’m not sold on the song yet. But I’m happy to see someone with that kind of renown that Jay-Z has openly dismiss the myth of Jesus Christ. Because it is just that, myth based on prior myths of the Babalonians, et al. All those prior gods had virgin births, rose from the dead, etc. It’s formulaic.

Happy Thanksgiving
So today we spent the holiday with our friends Nick and Beth, and Beth’s brother david as well as our new friend Danielle and her mom. Yours truly was the whirling dervish of the kitchen today. Even Keyron commented that I’ve gotten very chill in the last few years. Not a lot can bother me. I did the stuffed mushrooms, showed Nick how to thicken a gravy (It’s all about the fat and the flour!) and just generally drank a bit much. I’ve been flushing out with water since I got home. But it was a good holiday. Good conversation all around, much better than the old family affair days.

Tech: Caution on BIOS upgrades and iTunes
So I was running the A02 BIOS on my laptop. I decided to kick it up to the current version, A04. I’m so glad the update process has gotten so damned easy. It used to be you had to download the BIOS patch, burn it to floppy or CD, and then boot from that for it to path. Now it just runs as a windows application and tells you to reboot to use the new BIOS. It solved the disk stutter problems I was having with iTunes sure but when I went to sync my iPod Touch I was told I’d have to re-authorize a bunch of applications. So now I know that Apple uses the BIOS version key to authorize a computer. Grrrr… it reminds me of back in the early 1990’

Tech: Zynga and Facebook hit with class action suit
Now this is interesting.. Before I say this please put on your rose colored glasses since I’m about to cast a very wide net here. Most net users, and more to that most point Facebook users aren’t the most net or technically savvy people out there. To paraphrase P.T. Barnum, “There’s one born every minute…” At a minimum, ignore payment for points on games. Just take the old Japanese approach, play it out over time. How do you think I got two a few hundred billion dollars in game money on Mafia Wars? Just play often en

Politics: The New Republican Platform (And my response!)
Found this over on Joe.My.God. (1) We support smaller government, smaller national debt, lower deficits and lower taxes by opposing bills like Obama’s “stimulus” bill; I suppose government adequate to meet the needs of the people and perhaps a lower national debt. But that’s where my similarities with the Republicans end. I want to see taxes back at the levels they were at in the 1950’s. You know, when people making more than $300K a year paid a fairly high bracket, and corporations paid quite a lot more in taxes than the roughly 9% to 15%