Another California Olympics? Freed Bloggers? Free WiFi??

(What year is it today?)

No, not LA 2016.

The Olympics in Tahoe? In 2018?

Hey, it's happened before. Who knows, maybe it will make the food at Kirkwood a little more palatable.

Plate of Pickled Herring all around.

Also...

By the way, for those following this kind of thing, blogger Josh Wolf, who filmed an anarchist rally in San Francisco at which a police officer was bashed in the skull -- has just ended his tenure as the longest-jailed journalist in U.S. history. Wolf has agreed to testify in federal court (which doesn't offer the "shield" protections written into California law) but only after the feds significantly weakened their demands.

Obvious implications from Plame to BALCO here. Oh, and the first... whatsit?... Uh-mendment.

Also...

Did you know Google offers you a whole WiFi kit and service for free? It's okay, they don't need money anyway... just to dominate the world.

I figure, it's my job as a blogger to coolly pass along discoveries like this... but as your friend, I promised to be as amazed and confused by them as you are!

Incidently, another surprise. My new phone, all of $30 from Sprint (yeah, yeah, the two-year contract) is not only super-thin but, among other things, actually acts as a modem whenever you're on the Sprint network. That's right, with nothing more than your phone and the USB cable that comes with it, your laptop (or desktop) now has "free" WiFi -- even without Google -- any time your phone has bars.

It's getting harder and harder to convince people I'm unreachable -- you know, in the event that I want to have a coffee with a friend, watch t.v., bathe...

-Zed

QWTOFDY
"The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."
-Friedrich Nietzsche