Digital Brainwaves

A few weeks ago, the news world was all aflutter in reports that Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, was having a baby. Half the world is saying, “how can you be part of this conservative administration and allow your gay daughter to have a baby,” and the other half is saying, “how can you love your lesbian, pregnant daughter and be part of this conservative, gay-hating administration?”

Truth is, there’s only one relevant question: “Who gives a shit?”

She’s not getting married to her partner (not that, in my opinion, there’s anything wrong with them doing so). Having a baby — while single, married, in a civil union, or any other status — isn’t illegal in our country. Thus, I don’t see how any of this is the business of anyone outside of the families of Mary Cheney and her partner. Lay off and leave her alone.

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The technology blogosphere has been buzzing for several years now on the concept of the Apple iPhone — a cell phone to be released by Apple that will combine elements of the iPod lineup with a cellular phone. Tech news/rumors site Gizmodo announced a week and a half ago that iPhone would finally be announced on the following Monday.

Indeed, an iPhone was released that day, but it wasn’t an Apple product, it was a Cisco/LinkSys product.

In the aftermath of what was reported and what was actually announced, the best quote I’ve heard has to have been from Merlin Mann, on last Tuesday’s episode of MacBreak Weekly:

“Yeah, I thought it [Gizmodo's post rumoring the release] was like the journalistic equivalent of, like, winning a bar bet, ya know? It was– yeah, okay, it was truthful, and, like, I’ve gotta buy you a beer now, but you’re kindof a tool.”

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Hot cocoa with a shot of Godiva Chocolate Cream Liqueur is damned tasty.

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My girlfriend Yvonne has found Facebook. ph33r.

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She’s also becoming more American each passing day. She just wrote “behavior” without the U. “I still have a weird accent, though.”

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On this day in 1968, the crew of Apollo 8 orbited the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. On orbit 9, they sent back a live TV transmission to Earth, describing what they saw on the surface, and sending Christmas wishes to the people of this world. In that vein, I do the same: to the dozen or so that keep reading my site, and to the rest of the world as well, I wish a Merry Christmas.