And so it came to pass: Friday cometh

"Friday cometh". That sounds vaguely pornographic.

Either I watch too much porn (possible...) or too much porn mocks religion (also possible) or I have a dirty mind (a given, really) or all of the above (very likely).

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I'm still watching "Arrow" and starting to seriously question whether or not I am rooting for the bad guys. Sort of depends on whether or not the master plan of the bad guys is to obliterate Starling City and everyone in it. 'Cause the soap opera elements of the show are physically-painful.

The action/heroics stuff is kinda cool, so I'll probably stick with the show, but it's just... terrible. Yet entertaining. Arrgh.

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So a giant crane fell over on the Bay Bridge construction project yesterday. I imagine that was a lovely mix of terrifying and exciting. Glad nobody was hurt.

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Google's pushing the new Chromebook Pixel, a laptop that pretty much exclusively "lives in the cloud", meaning pretty much everything is online. Storage and all that is on remote servers elsewhere.

Am I the only person who finds the shift to "the cloud" a trifle disquieting? I like the convenience of online storage, but mainly as a backup. I like (indeed, prefer) having my data local, where possible. I don't want to have to rely on a wireless connection to get my stuff remotely.

Perhaps I'm just not seeing the big picture, or maybe my paranoid, myopic, Luddite brain doesn't want to see the big picture, but it just seems to me that relying too much on having our electronic devices take more and more of a dominant role in our lives and rely on aging, crappy, and vulnerable infrastructure (both in terms of wireless support and in terms of system security) is sort of asking for trouble.

News wonks are often speculating of late on how one day our phones (which are increasingly becoming more personal assistants and less "phones") will act as wallets, letting us transfer funds with a wave, act as ATM and credit cards, and all that. Hell, you can deposit checks with smartphones now.

Sure, it's not like someone can't steal your disparate ATM/credit cards, but tying everything together into one easily-stolen device seems... ill-advised.

Then again, what do I know? I carry a dumbphone brick that's off half the time. Doesn't even have a camera. I carry a freakin' point-and-click for my photo needs. I don't even have wireless at home.

Meh. Guess time will tell if my paranoia is justified.