CNN is running a story about a virtual reality cocoon. Basically this machine you can climb in, and run around a virtual environment.
I thought the article was interesting, but then they asked the designer about the possibilities.
“Imagine Amazon.com being fully 3D. We could walk through a 3D space where you have all the books lined up, and you could walk right up to a book,”
Wow. I imagined. And my imagination came up with this.
The future is going to be <b>wild</b>.
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I saw this at the Orlando airport. Grammar is so under appreciated in our country. It seems to suggest that if you want to beat cancer, you should get lung cancer.
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I also went through a 24 hour obsession with the greyhound bus beheading. I can’t help it. It was such a strange news item, and it made me think that there are some things the press just shouldn’t tell you. There’s nothing you can do about it. You can’t predict it. You can’t prevent it. All you can do is be freaked out and think that the world is going to s@#t. That’s all.
In case you don’t know the story (I am an expert) here’s what happened:
This bus was driving through Canada. At some point, this guy reaches into his bag, pulls out a rambo knife and starts stabbing someone in the chest. Unprovoked. Just totally random.
The bus driver freaks out, everyone else freaks out, they pull over, and everyone streams out of the bus. They’re sitting there on the side of the road, they call the police. A couple of guys run in there to try to save the victim, and they find the killer sitting there, eating the guy’s head. He then cuts it off. Then he chases after them with a knife, waving the head. The police show up, and after three hours they finally arrest him.
The guy sitting directly in front of him is Garnet Caton, and if you google him, you’ll see that he just can’t shut up about this thing. (Who could?) He is a quote machine.
There is a truly brilliant moment when Garnet, being interviewed by a TV crew (check the link for the video) mixes reflection and creativity and tries to describe the scream (“Hmm…something between a dog howling and a baby crying….”). You really have to hear him say it to appreciate it.
But my other favorite Garnet quote?
“When we saw the head, we knew he was dead.”
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