Pokemon-Go
Coming home from a day with my daughter, 8:00, stop at the Kalamata Grocery...across the street, in Connaught Park, there's about 50 people standing in a circle, phones out and extended...briefly I wonder WTF, but the penny drops...by the time I get back to take a photo the crowd is dispersing.
It's surreal, this, a whole other level of engagement/disconnect from the world around you...
Pokemon-Go thing, it's quite the new craze, and I'd be curious to try if I were a bit more of a nerd and didn't give a damn about the EULA, (which is terrible, but people have long grown used to the idea of no-privacy). But it's the start of interesting things, Augmented reality, layers superimposed upon layers, there were always these layers, but it demanded a sound and reflective mind to find them, now, anyone with a cellphone and a good data plan can roam their neighborhood catching Pokemon, but there are ever the countless invisible layers they miss...
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Fresno - Black in America
"I hate my life" he says, before getting shot to death by the cops.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIdAgftgP5Q
Wonder why...this is your America. Hopefully they are laying plans for their revenge. They are owed this. He didn't even remotely fit the profile of the suspect, but was black (and unarmed), pulled over, and that was reason enough. ?
Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer:
"I know that in cases like this, no matter what the decision is, there will be people that question it, people that will not support it. And I always know in decisions that are this critical, you're not going to have everybody that supports it, not the officers, not the union. Perhaps not the family and maybe not even the community. But I promise I will do the right thing in this investigation and I'm asking people to trust me to do that,"
Just kill the police and start again. Really.
Meanwhile, in New York a police Captain argues the merits of profiling: http://gawker.com/heres-audio-of-what-sounds-like-an-nypd-captain-pressur-1783544682
And a worthy on how police made the Tamir Rice case just disappear. Without consequences for themselves or the involved officers. http://www.gq.com/story/tamir-rice-story?mbid=digg
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Diamonds or Not?
I'm pretty sure I'd recognize this if I found it in my pan. Clearly a diamond. But the vast majority of diamonds don't conform to what we think they should look like, any more than the vast majority of plenty of fish dates even vaguely resemble their profile pictures.
I've interspersed a few pictures of diamonds with some of the rough material I've picked from my concentrates. See if you can tell which are real diamonds and which are rod's imaginary diamonds. (perfect, by the way, for imaginary girlfriends. And at a fraction of the price of a real diamond you can celebrate your commitment to celibacy with the symbol and ceremony you deserve...).
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Tiny Gems
Cleaning up concentrates, with glasses on, picking out a multitude of tiny gems...
Some of the quartzes possible river worn topazes, the abundance of garnets, a few I don't recognize...
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