[Translate] Same Sex Marriage would seem to be something that’s not controversial today – but then you haven’t met Odin. This older African American man was sitting on a fire hydrant at the corner of 14th and Broadway in Downtown Oakland holding a sign that reads “No Unlawful Sex,” and lists all of the kinds of sex that the man sees as, well, not legal. At the top of his list is same-sex marriage, although he thinks marriage before sex is just as bad, which pretty much means we’re all in trouble. The...
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[Translate] Dana Loesch, a conservative talk radio show host, made a statement on CNN’s Piers Morgan Tonight that would make any intelligent person want to hurl, or throw their TV set out of the window, or scream at Van Jones, who was served as the liberal counter to both she and Grover Norquist, the anti-tax advocate who also sits on the board of the National Rifle Association (NRA), for not aggressively talking her down. Loesch unbelievably said this: “I’m going to correct you, because I am tired of this talking point...
[Translate] Adam Lanza. The perpetrator of the Newtown Shooting killed 26 people – 20 children and 6 adults – in just five minutes of time, and before taking his own life. That was according to the Danbury, Connecticut State’s Attorney, who released new information on the December 14th shooting tragedy today. It’s clear now, that Mr. Lanza was the kind of mentally ill person who wasn’t pre-identified as a threat. And it brings back to clear focus the conversation this blogger had with Oakland and...
[Translate] Akira Takarada. Remember the name? Godzilla fans do! Godzilla 2014 (now in production in Vancourver) and its director Gareth Edwards reach back in time to bring forward Akira Takarada, the legendary actor who’s appeared in seven Godzilla movies, including the first Godzilla in 1954, where he played the Japanese naval diver Hideto Ogata. Here’s the original Godzilla movie trailer: And the Theme from Godzilla: And this portion of the original Godzilla, which demonstrates how effectively terrifying the first...
[Translate] NAB Show Las VegasYep. Proud to announce that Zennie62 (well, me Zennie Abraham) is a Media Sponsor / Social Influencer / Blogger for the 2013 NAB Show in Las Vegas. The National Association of Broadcasters NAB Show is in Las Vegas from April 6th to April 11th and expects to attract 90,000 to the Las Vegas Convention Center. What the Media Sponsor / Social Influencer / Blogger does is blog about happenings and events related to the NAB Show. So if your’re going to be at the NAB Show, send a press release or...
[Translate] Ah, gone are the days when IGDA parties were simple affairs where you had cocktails, met interesting people, and OK, interesting females-in-tech, and here are the days, or at least this week, where we have news of a party that bent what I thought were the unwritten rules of GDC / IGDA events: don’t piss off anyone. The last IGDA Party I attended, I interviewed this painter guy from SF: And other than his work, the party was just what I described. But this year, its apparent YetiZen and its CEO Sana N Choudary...
[Translate] Yahoo!’s $30 million purchase of the IPhone app Summly, created by 17-year-old Nick D’Aloisio, has royally pissed off the hacker wing of the tech community, and that’s putting it mildly. Summly is the now closed down IPhone app that provides a summary of online news for you. It’s very much like the app I found when I went to get Summly on my iPhone: clipped. Clipped.me provides the same summaries, but there’s no information on it (We’ll deal with that, later). To understand the collective...
[Translate] America’s Cup stiffs San Francisco Workers? Read on. America’s Cup, SF. If you’re as excited about the event being here in San Francisco and the SF Bay Area as I am, then you expect the organization to get everything right, and maintain good relationships with everyone. And if you’re as excited about the America’s Cup as I am, then you’re going to be as disappointed in America’s CUP CEO Stephen Barclay as I am after you read my blog post. America’s Cup CEO Stephen Barclay...
[Translate] Amanda Knox and her ex-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito have spent four years in jail, were convicted of the 2007 murder of Meredith Kercher the first time, then acquitted on appeal, and now, thanks to the Italian Supreme Court, have to stand trial again on the same murder case, only this time Knox has been back in America for just over a year. Be happy you’re in America, where this kind of double jeopardy is against the law. And be careful when you go to study abroad, because the legal systems in countries like Italy...
[Translate] The Chevron Ecuador case, which really should be called the “Tex-Pet Ecuador” case since Chevron was not operating in Ecuador at the time and up to Texaco’s departure in 1992, has produced another new and interesting development: U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan has refused the request of the Patton Boggs lawfirm to be recused from submitting documents as part of the discovery phase in Chevron’s own lawsuit against Steven Donziger, the lead lawyer for the plaintiffs who have sued Chevron in what...
[Translate] The U.S. Supreme Court will hear the same-sex marriage appeal at 10 AM, or 30 minutes from now. Beginning at roughly 10 a.m. ET, the justices will hear arguments in the appeal of a federal appeals court panels decision that struck down California’s Proposition 8, which defines marriage as between a man and a woman. Yesterday, California Attorney General Kamala Harris was on CNN and discussed why Proposition 8, the 2008 initiative banning same-sex marriage, is unconstitutional and how marriage equality is a fundamental...
[Translate] San Francisco TransBay Terminal Project Construction Update. Here’s the latest San Francisco TransBay Terminal Project Construction Update: 10 Day Look Ahead: Construction Activities Friday, March 22, 2013 – Sunday, March 31, 2013 NOTICE – STREET CLOSURE – BEALE STREET BRIDGE, APRIL 5-8: The third and final traffic bridge is scheduled to be installed on Beale Street, between Mission and Howard Streets, the weekend of April 5-8. Beale Street will close to through at 8:00 PM and will reopen Monday morning...
