I was reading on the Time.com website that there was a fatal shooting last night in South Carolina. A twelve year old boy was shot to death while trick or treating! The person who shot him used an assault rifle and shot thirty rounds! The assailant has been arrested and charged with murder and assault (he shot his brothers and father that were with him too!) The assailant claims he thought the trick-or-treaters were robbers. But the assailant was not even a resident of the house! That excuse sounds wacky to me; I suspect he was high on something! What a horrible tragedy.
From time to time I see an article that sings the praises of telecommuting. I think that telecommuting is a great thing because it saves the employees a lot of time and money when they don’t have to drive to work. The only problem I’ve run into is that some companies only allow telecommuting to a select few management employees, and refuse to allow non-management employees that opportunity. I know quite a few people who feel that they could do their job just fine from home but their company won’t allow it. It seems that the company doesn’t trust the non-management employees to do their work if a manager isn’t standing right over their desks breathing down their necks.
I found it really sad that the folks in charge of the Olympics decided to have a seven year old girl lip sync a song during the Olympic opening season this week. I was reading that the officials decided that the girlwhose voice was used at the age of ten was “too old” to actually be the one to perform for the ceremony, and the seven year old girl’s voice was not good enough to use, so they recorded the ten year old girl’s voice and the seven year old lip synced the song. I think that is plain and simple a rotten shame, the ten year old who sang the song should have been the one who participated in the ceremony and gotten full credit for the song. Having a seven year old girl lip sync and get all of the applause is just plain and simple an immoral act.
I’ve been hearing on the television news that Barack Obama visited the Wailing Wall and left a written prayer in between the cracks only to have the paper removed and sold to a tabloid paper, who ran the prayer. This is just such a very sad commentary on the lack of morals of so many people in today’s world. I can only shake my head in disgust at the situation.
I don’t know that much about digital cameras, but I like the fact that you can see your picture immediately and take another one if you don’t like it. I also like that you download your pictures and print them off on your computer immediately so you don’t have to take film to the store to be processed. What I don’t like about them is how quickly they go through batteries! I’ve noticed that prices on digital cameras are going down, which is a good thing and that is a big reason why I’m thinking about buying one. I’m just not prepared to spend several hundred dollars on a camera that has high megapixels and high zoom numbers. So I have to settle for lower megapixels with higher zoom or higher megapixels with lower zoom. I don’t know which is the better feature to have so I’ve stalled in my tracks. Which do YOU think is better, and why?
