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Eight But Not For Long

I am eight and act brain-dead but am alive

No drugs in this body but perpetually glazed over eyes

You are not talking about Yu-gi-oh, Playstation or Teen Titans

So your words are foreign and frightening

How dare you imply that I might do something outside!

I am innocent and working hard to change

I have grown up nice but some things must be re-arranged

How can I truly understand by which values I will stand

If I have not experienced them firsthand?

My brother and father have taught me to curse

Perhaps that’s the sin I will try on first

Already I am willing to stand my ground

I won’t do what the kids and my brother say

Even if they push me around

Time to have things my own way

You don’t have to call me by my name

From here on out just call me Burger King!

I am sweet and nice and try to do everything right

Still people get mad at me and sometimes they scream

It blackens my heart and tears my soul apart

Why don’t they say “thank you” and teach me right?

I know, although I’ve been told I still mess up

Give me a second chance, a third, a twentith! I can learn!

I live to please you. I am too young to understand

That whether your are eight or thirty-five

We are all fallible because regardless of age

We are simply man.

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Goodbye Google – We will miss your logos

I took this from Kurzweil which looks like a direct quote from The Guardian but it was so exciting I had to quote it directly.


The Guardian, July 15, 2004

Blinkx is a new search engine that’s taking on Google. Launched today, it has been recording 6 million hits a day solely from word of mouth.

Blinkx doesn’t only search the web but simultaneously scours news sites, blogs, emails, attachments and your own hard disk. It does all this unobtrusively in the background until you pass your cursor over icons at the top or bottom of the page, when it reveals a digest of related sites as well as material from Word, Excel or PDF files. If you are working in a word processing document, it provides the same service.

And unlike Google, it uses artificial intelligence to rate stories, not page rankings.

Note from the Blinkx website “blinkx is not currently available for Macintosh or Mozilla, but due to your requests, we’re working on it!”

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Gargoyle Cat

You should work at this computer. The cat rolling off the monitor in deep sleep into your hands is something to experience. When she does, she feels like a rag doll with absolutely no bones in her body.

The cat’s whole body just rose 2 inches and returned to the monitor as if it were in a Warner Brothers cartoon when the dryer buzzer went off. Then she slowly turned to me, squaked a complaint and returned to sleep.