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OK, so if you ask me this, though extremely geeky, is DAMN COOL!!!! 
So, imagine, you go into a club, and when the lights are on, you walk through a plethora of multi colored bubbles blown from bubble machines, and as you get further in, where different blacklights color them differently as they move from one area to another... INSANE I TELL YOU!!!! Also, for educational purposes, in the class room or at home they would be great for teaching the colors of the rainbow, or just color wheels in general. Can you mix and match the colors? Create your own? Imagine the possibilities! learn more here!
This is more an interesting observation to me than anything else, and it does make sense considering the regional business cultures, but when I was recently on my trip to San Francisco for a weekend with a friend, I was actually blown away by the overwhelming percentage of coffee shop internet surfers that were on Macs. I was just about the only one in the shop with a PC laptop. Conversely when I was in Seattle this last Wednesday for the Depeche Mode concert... that by the way rocked so hard I couldn't feel my legs afterwards... or maybe that is what all the alcohol I consumed. Back on subject, In the coffee shops I walked past in Seattle it was a clearly all PC laptop environment.
Considering the Businesses of each respective area, the Bay area having the Apple headquarters in Cupertino, and Redmond based Microsoft being in the northwest.
I guess I'm just more surprised at myself for being surprised by the largely regional differences in computer culture, but I'm not surprised at my jealousy that arose as I sat in a coffee shop across the street from the San Francisco Trolley Museum and saw a cute couple sit down at a table near me, and both pulled out thier respective Powerbook and started typing, sipping and talking away with each other... DAMN COUPLES!! :P
I've become a little confused in my own head lately, as with the recent events in Spokane involving the tragic murder/assault of a family on the south hill here in Spokane raises the question of what punishment is appropriate for the degree of the crime committed. What makes this more personal to me is the fact that I know someone closely involved in the issue, and for concern of privacy of the party, I wont go further down that road. Considering where my formidable years bear on this,I was raised in a catholic family, and yes I was even an alter boy (please no dirty priest jokes), and well, the Christian thing to do is not take the life of another, but to forgive, and find a punishment that is more along the lines of life imprisonment, despite the perps age. What troubles me though is the fact that I don't feel we should impose the death penalty for criminals, I am pro choice. The only connection I can see in this is that I guess I don't feel that we as a society can impose our wills upon others, I respect life, and I respect the need of the state not to rule over the physical being of it's people. So Do I actually oppose abortion? I can't go as far as saying I am pro life to the extent of not allowing an abortion, but I guess I feel it is morally incorrect. I find that those who take the pro life cause to the extreme of threatening the lives at clinics such as Planned Parent to be the most hypocritical of all, and I understand that these individuals are a minority of that movement, but I also know that those employees whom work in clinics such as these do not promote the use of abortion, and instead work to council those with unexpected pregnancies to alternatives to that choice, and also work to promote means of preventing such situations. I know, in and of myself, let alone anyone out there in general, can come anywhere near ending this debate. At this time, I feel that I am just as big of a hypocrite for feeling one way and acting another, but what I do know is it is not my place to inflict my will upon other people's lives/well being.
