RIP - Michael Jackson

I must say that I, as many I'm sure, was surprised when I heard the news that Michael Jackson had been rushed to a hospital for cardiac arrest....

I was working... actually, I believe I was taking a lunch break when the news broke on CNN.

As time went on they got more updates.... to where he was in a coma... and then that he had passed away.

Wow.

He was in fact trying to make a bit of a come back to sold out shows this summer.

Very hard to believe that he had passed quite suddenly.

But, as a couple of days passed, I started thinking a little more about him.... as I had before. About how he grew up, what he had possibly gone through being an international star... what people had accused him of.... and the constant bashing of him in certain media outlets for quite some time.

The fact of his passing became less surprising... really. I don't know (or didn't) know the guy. But I do know that being through what he had been through would have been rough.

I try to let the kids be kids. Really. I love seeing my daughter learn and discover.... and play. She's 5 years old. She has talents.... I know that... she even has musical and dancing talents. But I would never imagine of getting her to work at performing. No way. She's got to be a child while she is in fact a child. I can't imagine attempting to force her to be at a stage where she is not.

Mr Jackson had quirks.... for sure. In fact, I'm sure we've all had things in our closet (to varying degrees)... and many still do.

But I can't imagine the kind of pressures that were put on this guy... from childhood... and though he was loved and adored by many... seemed totally reclusive and lonely.

One interview I saw of him... he talks about being about 10 years old and being in the recording studio for hours... and at times watching kids playing in a park across the street and crying because he would have loved so much to be a part of that.

How far would you be willing to push your child for your own wants/needs/desires??

Mr Jackson obviously wanted to be a child while he was a child. He needed to be a child while he was a child.

Kids need to be loved. And they need to be kids.

Mr Jackson had great musical talent... a gift everyone saw early on.... but the focus many had on that gift for their own gain robbed him of his childhood..... and in part having a whole life. The focus was on developping the gift and delivering the gift instead of developping the person... the child in this case.

That is my opinion.

Your kids need love. And they need to be kids.

Pretty neat retro super computer

I found this off of slashdot  and somehow felt compelled to post a little "thing" on it.

It's a blog post about an old computer.... pretty neat.

The Non-Von Neumann..

Check it out here:
http://chrisfenton.com/non-von-1/

Retro - Atari touch tablet 1984

Over at technologizer.com have posted an article showing the opening and setting up of an Atari Touch Tablet.... a bit of technological history.

Check it out here!

A tale of Bill and Paul - Microsoft

I love looking around and reading articles about current news or of historical events gone by... about a wide range of subjects.

Technology is something that I both work in and love. So I'm often interested by "tech" stuff....

Here's a short article on Bill Gates and Paul Allen, and in brief how they started Microsoft.

Enjoy!

(Wired article)

1968: What some thought life would be like in 2008

I thought this was pretty neat.

I like looking back into history and seeing various events or predictions of the future.

Back in 1968, this is what some predicted life could be like. Some of it is quite accurate. Some of it is totally way off.

(What will life be like in 2008?)

When nuclear war was almost at hand

This is a very interesting story.

Back on September 26th 1983 the world almost changed in a way most had feared for decades.

A technological glitch could have cause nuclear war.

Technology only does what we tell it to, and is only as accurate as our knowledge and reasoning alows it to be.

Stanislav Petrov, a man who faced with an impossibly hard position trusted his gut and came out with the right decision.

Read the story here.


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