Random Thoughts 6/2/10

• Church camp is coming up fast. I'm the assistant dean and teacher at Junior High week this year as well as the evangelist for the second week of Sr. High (Deeper Life).
• Google is so fed up with the security issues in Windows 7 that they're dumping Microsoft in favor of Linux machines and Macs. Gotta love that, especially since Google hasn't been too friendly with Apple lately.
• I know it's too late now, but Memorial Day weekend was a great time for classic war movies. Several channels were showing some of the best historical movies ever made. Fox movies had Patton, while Spike was showing a "Band of Brothers" marathon. Turner Classic Movies had 72 hours of war movies followed by a 24 hour Clint Eastwood marathon. I taped a few shows here and there but in future years my boys will get their classic movie education on weekends like this.
  
• Apple has sold 2 million iPads in its first two months. That's an insane amount. Personally, I'm going to stick with a laptop for a few more years but I fully expect tablets like the iPad to start working their way into our lives. The iPad, in particular, is so easy to use that I could see it make huge strides in educating children and personal computing for the elderly. Right now, it can't push my iPhone or my Mac laptop out of my life, and since I can't afford (or justify) three devices for my computing needs, the iPad will have to be on my Christmas list, 2011 or later.
• For the first time in almost three weeks, I finally saw another cyclist while riding my bike. I saw two cyclists yesterday while commuting to work.
  
• One question for Tipper: is Al a true believer or was the whole global warming thing a political means to an end? And either way, who gets the ginormous carbon footprint of the Gore household?
• The Royal Society is going to "review" its formerly uncritical support of global warming. Oops.