The Apple Transition

Saturday was one of the few days i have the rather cultural experience of riding New York City Transit... the subway. And as i rode to my destination i noticed what apple has done and the affects of the company on our lives. If you take a gander around, its not hard to see that nearly everyone in your train car is listening to music for a morning pick-me up. And nearly everyone jamming out is doing so with an iPod. 

                                  And not just on the trains my friend. You'll see this everywhere. The most popular mp3 device out there is on the hips and in the hands of everyone on the street. Apple still dominates the big NYC with its standard in technology for listening to music. But slowly, we are seeing this brilliant company grow to greater accomplishments. 

                                   Apple, although was most widely known for the iPod, is now growing more popular among computers. I, like many others who have been converted, love my mac to death. Its what i'm typing to you all now on. But not only are people breaking out of their tight PC shells, they are allowing Apple to run their phones. This is great if you ask me. I mean, all mac products are reliable, so why not use mac for all of your things? You know your already covered, so its actually most sensible. 

                                   Still, a percent of the people out there today are still a bit scared to break free of the PC. After all, thats all they have used. But once you go mac, you never go back.

                                                                        ---BuTtOnS 

A Game Show with a Twist

I just saw one of the weirdest game shows i've ever come across. 

             

           The show is called "Wanna Bet?" (as shown in HUGE letters above lol) hosted by two british men. They have 4 celebrities sit down on this couch. Than they have guests come on the show and say they can do crazy stuff. Before they try to prove what they say they can do, the celebrities bet on whether they will succeed or fail and wager money. If your right, it works like Jeopardy. You win what you wagered. If your wrong, its deducted. In the end, the celebrity with the most money wins.

           So now that you know the rules, you should know how crazy some of this stuff is. The oddest for me tonight was a man who claimed he could tell what artist and album a CD was if he sniff/licked it. Two celebrities said he'd succeed. Two said fail. He was blind folded and randomly given 5 CDS to lick. The hosts showed us the CD before he did his job. He got 4 out of 5 correct, which was the requirement. 

           My question is not so much as  how he does does this, but how he DISCOVERED he could do this! Was he in his apartment one day like "hmm...i bet i know that iron maiden CD so well that if i licked it i'd know it."? Better yet, this guy has been doing this for ten years! 10! 

          I recommend someone to see this show once. Just to see how ridiculous/amusing it is. 

 

                                                               still wondering how you discover such talent,

                                                                                             ---BuTtOnS*****

A Ban On Porch Couches?

Thats right. A tiny town in P.A is trying to ban sofas on outdoor porches. Why you ask? Just as i was surprised, they say that 8 recent fires in the town were due to "porch couch fires". The final decision on the matter well be discussed at a town meeting. Don't believe it?

        

                                                                Go to the this link,

                                                                          ---BuTtOnS*****

Little Girl Born With 8 Limbs Recovers.

            Watch the amazing work of medical science reconstruct this girl's lower body. 
  

            http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/06/19/eight.limbed.girl/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

                                                                                    Thats amazing! 

                                                                                      ---BuTtOnS*****

A True Hero

A few days ago i heard a story of an undiscovered war hero. Now this story might be a week or two old for some of you readers, but i thought it should be shared. 

           So the story goes that a class was assigned to finding a hero that has gotten no publicity or in other words was completely under the radar. One student found a a very special old women. Her name was Irena Sendler. During the Holocaust, she lived in a town where a large camp of Jewish people were kept. She, however, wasn't a Nazis and felt horrible for the children of the camp. So she convinced the Nazis to let her in and "control disease" with her medical talent. Once she was in, she smuggled children out of the as soon as possible by giving them a sleeping drug and  out them in baskets and than in an ambulance and out of the camps. People of her town also helped and took in these children. Irena buried all of the children's medical and birth forms in fire proof boxes in her yard, labeled with their names. She kept this up until one day a baby cried in the ambulance due to not being fully drugged and she was captured. She didn't give into torture.  She did get out and after the war she dug up all the safety boxes and tracked down the children again. Some got reunited with family and others had the comfort of knowing their real names and who their parents were. 

            In total, Irena was said to have saved the lives of of nearly 2,500 babies. When she was spoken too, she did however express regret-for doing too little.

                                                 now this is an angel,

                                                              ---BuTtOnS*****