Dustin and I are hooked on our new game. Marvel Alliance. It kicks ass. We were both off yesterday and had planned on playing it but we caught up on our shows and then went and had dinner with Jenny, Ali, Rachel, and Alex at the Olive Garden. So I have a feeling tonight we are going to be planted in front of the TV playing our game all night. Well at least until Danny gets off. We have been going over there after he gets off and playing Sega Bass Fishing. We are hooked on that game too. It's a lot of fun. I hardly ever have the time to play my games anymore. I am hoping to try and find a good deal on a laptop for Christmas so I can play my Sim games and listen to music off of that while I am at work. If that doesn't pan out I am going to buy myself an Ipod after Christmas because it drives me crazy not being able to listen to my music. Especially since I don't have cable in the office so I have to watch/listen to crappy TV all damn day. It drives me up a freakin' wall.
I am hoping I can get Dustin to hook up the scanner tonight so I can finish making copies of those pictures for Debbie. I have some of them on the computer and I just have to hope she has an email address that I can send them too. I tried sending Linda an email but it came back postmaster.Failure. So I will have to call tomorrow and see if I can't get her address again. For now I thought I would post some pictures and vent.
It's really horrible when you disagree with someone politically when its a parent or similar. Dustin's mother is very religious which is great, I commend her for it. But with that usually means they are very republican. Which is where I find it hard to keep my mouth shut. Now I don't really consider myself aligned with any particular party. I like to go with the person that best fits my views and meshes with my beliefs and stands up for my issues, which is increasingly hard and harder to find. And yes I do tend to lean towards the democratic side, because for my really important views they seems to see eye to eye with me. Now I am not very politically active, and I do not go lout looking to debate. Last night however when dropping off his mothers pictures I almost found myself arguing with her about the Stem Cell Research issue. She thinks it is wrong to clone human embryos to use for stem cell research, but of course she thinks it's wrong that they have been using REAL human embryos as well. Apparently there is no other solution to her other than to stop, because no matter what we are killing human beings. Scientifically, however we are not. We are merely taking cells that create human life and using to cure all these different diseases and helping injured people. Why is that wrong? Personally I feel that if God created us and gave a free will, he wanted to see what we would do with our lives, our dreams, our talents. There are so many horrible things being done and created, why not give life out of a life created. It doesn't make it wrong it makes it special. When we die I don't see people throwing fits about our eyes being donated to the blind! Or our organs saving someone else life. It is one small way we can make a difference. I may one day need help that this research could provide. Maybe my child will one day need it. I can bet you anything in the world these people on their high horses would change their tunes if they needed it, or their child needed it. So I just shook my head at his mother and chose to keep my mouth shut, because in this day and age, a whole lot of bad can come from discussing one's political views. And I would never want to have some falling out with his mother. She is a wonderful woman.
Another thing that really blew my mind the other day was these android things. Freaky! I feel like the end of the world is coming. Apparently in Japan, they have made several different types of robots that act like humans. To a degree at this point of course. A traffic robot, one in a university and a few others. They have the emotional range of happy, sad, surprise, fear, anger, and revulsion, and are designed to speak Japanese, English, Korean and Chinese and to reply to 500 questions with a pre-programmed menu of 1,000 responses. Somehow they claim that growing up with the anime cartoons and movies has help their culture and that they are really advancing with their robotics in order to create more realistic androids, and enjoy interacting with them. I think that perhaps in their culture, they are taught to be pretty emotionless and that has a lot to do with why they would enjoy interacting with a droid. No worry of hurting a droids feelings, or making it mad, no reason to treat them nicely. They can be cold and emotionless without feeling guilty. The very thought creeps me out. I am seriously disturbed by the fact we are now creating droids to take the place of people. I mean, my god aren't there enough people out there without jobs without some droid being designed to take over more. It's sad and its creepy but if you would like to read more about it you can, here :
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14270827/site/newsweek/from/ET/
I am afraid that is all for now. I will chat back later. Most likely tomorrow or Monday.
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