I was recently chastised for calling women “ladies,” which I thought was a term of respect, by the hosts of the Women In Sci-Fi podcast, so women it is! (Check out their podcast via iTunes!)
First up is Enya singing “Caribbean Blue,” one of my favorites she performs:
I never quite get what some folks are thinking.
Take, for example, the man in Texas who, upon being arrested, listed his religion as “Redneck.” Check out the article below from thesmokinggun.com:
>>In Some Parts Of The U.S. “Redneck” Is Actually Considered A Religion
I don’t understand some people. I know gambling can be an addiction, but this? And that’s not the worst of it!
Here’s the story from the CBS Sacramento station’s website:
>>Deputies: Man Left Dead Uncle In Home For 30 Days
MERCED, Calif. (CBS13) — A man has been arrested on a number of charges after allegedly failing to notify authorities that his uncle died and then stealing money from the victim’s account.
The Merced County Sheriff’s Department said a relative of a 63-year-old man flagged down deputies and told them the man was dead inside his home on the 2000 block of Beachwood Drive on Monday.
I’ve enjoyed the work of Dwayne McDuffie for years. He did terrific things on television as well as comics. To hear of his passing today was quite a shock to me. Here’s the story from Reuters:
>>(Reuters) – Comic and television writer Dwayne McDuffie, perhaps best known as the co-creator of Emmy Award winning animated TV series “Static Shock,” has died, his publisher DC Comics said on Tuesday. He was 49 years-old.
McDuffie died on Monday due to complications in surgery, according to a report on the website Comic Book Resources, but the cause of death could not immediately be confirmed.
“Dwayne McDuffie left a lasting legacy on the world of comics that many writers can only aspire to,” Dan DiDio, co-publisher of DC Comics media division DC Entertainment, said in a statement on Tuesday.
Since I’ll be at the Farpoint convention this weekend, I thought I’d get an early start on the music, so check out some of my favorite songs below. This time, we’ll give the guys the spotlight. The ladies will come on another weekend.
First up is Lionel Ritchie singing “Say You, Say Me” live:
It’s an old sci-fi staple that computers would one day be better than humans at everyday tasks.
Well, the syndicated show Jeopardy found that computers were better than humans when it comes to playing that game.
Here’s the story from myway.com:
>>Final score on ‘Jeopardy!’: Computer 1, humans 0
By FRAZIER MOORE
NEW YORK (AP) – Note to self: Never play “Jeopardy!” with a supercomputer.
That’s a useful lesson for me or any mortal who has followed the Man vs. Machine faceoff this week on the popular trivia game show, where on Wednesday the second of two exhibition matches sealed the deal: Watson, the IBM-created megabrain, officially buried his flesh-and-blood opponents, veteran “Jeopardy!” champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.
When you leave your job to go home, you might want to check on the person working near you … they just may have given their all to their job.
Here’s the story from KTLA:
>>L.A. County Employee Dead in Cubicle a Day Before Being Noticed
The exact cause of death remains unclear.
DOWNEY (KTLA) — An L.A. County employee apparently died while working in her cubicle on Friday, but no one noticed for quite some time.
51-year-old Rebecca Wells was found by a security guard on Saturday afternoon.
She was slumped over on her desk in the L.A. County Department of Internal Services.
Yesterday, I focused on a story of a woman in a motorized cart who tried to escape in that slow-moving vehicle from a store with $600 worth of electronics in it.
I thought that was something until I noticed thieves who actually stole a motorized cart from a Wal-Mart for nefarious reasons. Check out the story from wsfa.com below:
>>Couple steals motorized cart, making 2 mph getaway
HUNTINGTON, WV (NBC) November 17, 2010- A West Virginia couple is accused of stealing a motorized shopping cart from a Walmart store and taking it on a joy ride to a strip club.
It’s hard enough getting away from the police on foot, but a woman actually tried to leave a store on a motorized cart that got stuck.
Here’s the story from macombdaily.com:
>>400-pound woman caught shoplifting when motorized cart gets stuck at Rochester Hills Meijer … police use Taser to subdue her
A Pontiac woman’s alleged theft attempt was foiled this week when her motorized cart became stuck at a Rochester Hills Meijer.
Time for more great piano music this weekend! This time, we’ll explore pianists I didn’t mention last week!
First up is Jim Chappell, a great composer and performer.
