Category: Vince Rambles

Amazon Cloud and Others – Do We Really Own Anything Anymore?

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Amazon’s Cloud services are the newest in a long line of Digital Excitement – products and services out in the cloud or on your hard drive. You can own movies, music, books and more without ever going to a store, or putting a physical product in your hand.

The question is: Do you really own anything, anymore?

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The New Styx Reunion Album – I Made It Myself!

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And you can, too…

The Concept

These days, a “Classic” rock album has a second meaning besides the obvious – It also means “When everyone was actually in the band.” Face it, your favorite past band is never getting back together.

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Random Thoughts At Midnight – 03/14/10

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Wait a minute – it’s 2010? Crap. I’ve got to throw out half of my science fiction… Would authors kindly set their books WAY ahead from now on? Since we never move as fast as you predict, could you start setting your stories in 3000? That way, I can still dream of a brighter future.

Remember Toyota’s old slogan? Oh what a feeling to drive a Toyota?

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Random Thoughts At Midnight – 02/05/10

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More random thoughts, now with color-safe bleach…

  • iPhone:
  • Three more days until I’m eligible to upgrade my shattered iPhone. Kind of silly, really – I never wanted to upgrade, I just want the same stinking thing because I dropped it face first on the pavement. Speaking of -

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Things Blew Up Real Good…

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So, it was my first 4th of July in the mountains of Washington. There were definitely some differences for this humble city boy from Los Angeles:

First off – they actually SELL fireworks. Here. In the forest. If this were my old neighborhood, hundreds of Cub Scouts and Church volunteers would have been in jail for illegal distribution.

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