{"id":573885900,"date":"2014-01-10T22:38:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-11T04:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573885900"},"modified":"2014-01-16T22:08:38","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T04:08:38","slug":"just-a-few-things-and-a-bit-of-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2014\/01\/10\/just-a-few-things-and-a-bit-of-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Just a few things, and a bit of stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is thundering, which means there is lightning. Accompanying them is rain. Two of those things are odd in January. They haven&#8217;t happened since &#8230; last January, apparently. So maybe it isn&#8217;t so odd. But it sure seems like it. The high today was 55, and it was overcast and that didn&#8217;t feel spring-like. But the lightning and thunder helps set the mood. <\/p>\n<p>Can it be spring yet?<\/p>\n<p>Spent a little time uploading 166 photos to Facebook last night. They are all older, pictures from the last 18 months, because I am a rebel when it comes to timeliness.  All day people have been liking and tagging and commenting. My Facebook account has never been so successful. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Went to the gymnastics meet tonight<\/strong>. Auburn hosted and defeated Texas Woman&#8217;s University <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.auburntigers.com\/sports\/w-gym\/recaps\/011014aaa.html\">194.875-189.825<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This was their opening meet of their season, at the Auburn Arena. I walked around a bit and strolled through the new &#8220;museum,&#8221; which isn&#8217;t as nice or complete as the old Lovelace facility was. I found this:<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/jan14\/jan07.jpg\" alt=\"trophy\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Those are the two trophies commemorating the first two Iron Bowls. The statue marked the second game. The cup, which has fallen from the perch just out of the top of the margin, celebrates the first victory. <\/p>\n<p>I hope someone notices that and puts it back on the little display shelf. We&#8217;ll check back next week. <\/p>\n<p>Yesterday I wrote here in passing about the documentary shot on Google Glass. Here&#8217;s the official site for <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/project2x1.com\/\">Project 2&#215;1<\/a>, and their promotional trailer. <\/p>\n<p>And, to wrap things up, the best 73 seconds of video you&#8217;ll watch tonight. Austin Hatch was in two plane crashes and lost his entire family between them. Now he&#8217;s back, finally, to basketball:<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/player.espn.com\/player.js?playerBrandingId=4ef8000cbaf34c1687a7d9a26fe0e89e&#038;adSetCode=91cDU6NuXTGKz3OdjOxFdAgJVtQcKJnI&#038;pcode=1kNG061cgaoolOncv54OAO1ceO-I&#038;width=720&#038;height=405&#038;externalId=espn:10269969&#038;thruParam_espn-ui[autoPlay]=false&#038;thruParam_espn-ui[playRelatedExternally]=true\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Austin Hatch says on <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ahatch33\">Twitter<\/a> is still planning to play for the Wolverines, making us all, for a time, Michigan fans.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, <a TARGET=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2014\/01\/how-the-us-almost-killed-the-internet\/all\/\">How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The hard-earned trust that the tech giants had spent years building was in danger of evaporating\u2014and they seemed powerless to do anything about it. Legally gagged, they weren\u2019t free to provide the full context of their cooperation or resistance. Even the most emphatic denial\u2014a blog post by Google CEO Larry Page and chief legal officer David Drummond headlined, \u201cWhat the \u2026\u201d\u2014did not quell suspicions. How could it, when an NSA slide indicated that anyone\u2019s personal information was just one click away? When Drummond took questions on the Guardian website later in the month, his interlocutors were hostile:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsn\u2019t this whole show not just a face-saving exercise \u2026 after you have been found to be in cahoots with the NSA?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow can we tell if Google is lying to us?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe lost a decade-long trust in you, Google.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will cease using Google mail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The others under siege took note. \u201cEvery time we spoke it seemed to make matters worse,\u201d an executive at one company says. \u201cWe just were not believed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact is, the government can\u2019t put the genie back in the bottle,\u201d says Face\u00adbook\u2019s global communications head, Michael Buckley. \u201cWe can put out any statement or statistics, but in the wake of what feels like weekly disclosures of other government activity, the question is, will anyone believe us?\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since it comes down to money and government contracts, no, probably not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is thundering, which means there is lightning. Accompanying them is rain. Two of those things are odd in January. They haven&#8217;t happened since &#8230; last January, apparently. So maybe it isn&#8217;t so odd. But it sure seems like it. The high today was 55, and it was overcast and that didn&#8217;t feel spring-like. 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