Is it real?
More and more we have to ask this question when it comes to things we view on the Internet. Many thought this was real:
Then they became aware there was an unedited version:
So what are we to think of this picture posted to the web?
According to the waitress who posted this, that's the "N-word" below the word "none" written in for tip. Is it real? I don't know. It could be. But as more and more fake things get posted to the web, the normal amount of skepticism I have about anything online continues to increase.
The news media continues to battle more and more intensely in an effort to scoop other outlets. In their rush to publish, they sometimes don't get their facts straight. Why not focus on getting it right rather than getting it now and correcting later?
In 1994, David and Stephen Koepp wrote a great script for a film titled "The Paper." It was about a newspaper in New York City. Glenn Close played the managing editor while Michael Keaton was he paper's metro editor. He knew that the cops had it wrong when they arrested two African-American teens in the murder of two businessmen and didn't want the paper to run the wrong story, with the photo of the two doing the "perp walk." But she overrode his decision and when questioned about it said, " Tomorrow it's wrong. We only have to be right for a day."
That's the attitude of much of today's modern news media. As long as we are right at this instant, that's all that matters. If we were wrong, so what? We got it first. We got it now.
So as we rush to share warnings that turn out to be urban legends, and tall tales that turn out to be elaborate fakes, a healthy level of distrust of what we see on-line is a good thing.
* * *
I have officially postponed my "procedure" scheduled for next week. I could not get some straight answers out of the VA about what would happen that day and so I am going to wait until after I'm done teaching my classes. Yes, I said classes. I'm cutting back my hours in the office doing tax returns because I'm going to teach two sections of the tax course. It's actually easier for me. I teach both sections on the same three days of the week. One section in the morning, one in the evening on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and from 9-12 and 1-4 on Saturdays. Each day I will teach exactly the same lesson twice. It is good for me. I was lucky to get this.
The procedure can wait until November. It's a precaution anyway.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
Kudos to the 15 year old teen who gave back money his dad took when the dad mugged an elderly woman at a cemetery.
Now banks that are trying to foreclose on properties are sending property management teams out to "secure" the properties and in some cases those teams are breaking and entering. Where does it end?
Actress Leah Remini says she left Scientology because she was going to be interrogated due to the church barring members from questioning the leadership. That's not a religion, that's a cult. Unless of course I'm missing something. Does questioning something the Pope says lead to excommunication from the church?
Will a Victoria's Secret model saying she isn't a size zero really help the women who struggle with body image because of the media images that assault them constantly (probably not)?
So now Yelp is suing someone claiming he posted false reviews of his business after he won a lawsuit where he claimed they failed to deliver on promises in their contract for advertising he purchased. At the same time, they are pursuing legislation to keep people from suing them over false reviews. Hypocrisy thy name is Yelp.
What idiot in Wisconsin came up with the incredibly dumb idea of having a $9.11 special tomorrow on the 12th anniversary of 9/11? 9 holes of golf for only $9.11. Amazing the stupidity that is out there.
Buy a storage container for $100 and sell the contents for...$967,000. Not from the show I watch regularly, "Storage Wars" but the true story of how one couple bought a unit for $100 and found the actual submarine car from the James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me." That's the actual sale price at auction, including commission so they got a little less than that. Still, a nice return on an investment of a Franklin.
If Jared Leto wins an Oscar for his amazing work in "The Dallas Buyer's Club", it may start a real trend of actors trying to audition via Skype. That's how he landed that role, and how Jennifer Lawrence got the part that she won Oscar gold for herself, in "Silver Linings Playbook."
* * *
This Date In History:
506 – The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
1419 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
1509 – An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits Constantinople.
1515 – Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
1547 – The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the last full scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI.
1561 – Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima – Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.
1570 – Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.
1608 – John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
1798 – At the Battle of St. George's Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
1813 – The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
1823 – Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru.
1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
1858 – George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
1897 – Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 20 unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.
1898 – Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
1918 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.
1919 – Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
1932 – The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
1936 – First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship, Held at London's (England) Wembley Stadium
1937 – Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
1939 – World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss.
1939 – World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies – France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
1942 – World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
1943 – World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome.
1946 – While riding a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu of the Loreto Sisters' Convent claimed to have heard the call of God, directing her "to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them". She would become known as Mother Teresa.
1960 – At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
1961 – Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari.
1967 – The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
1972 – The United States suffers its first loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.
1974 – Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
1976 – A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
1987 – Pope John Paul II starts his 11-day papal visit to Fort Simpson, Canada and afterwards to several southern and western cities in the United States.
Famous Folk Born On This Date:
Pope Julius III
Maria Theresa of Spain
Elsa Schiaparelli
Arnold Palmer
Philip Baker Hall
Charles Kurault
Roger Maris
Jared Diamond
Cynthia Lennon
Christopher Hogwood
Danny Hutton
Jose Feliciano
Bob Lanier
Don Muraco
Bill O'Reilly
Amy Irving
Chris Columbus
Colin Firth
Randy Johnson
Guy Ritchie
Ryan Philippe
Movie quotes today come from 1995's "Crimson Tide" because Ryan Philippe was in it:
Capt. Ramsey: How do you like that cigar?
Hunter: It's good, sir.
Capt. Ramsey: It's your first?
Hunter: [coughing] Yeah.
Capt. Ramsey: Well, don't like it too much. They're more expensive than drugs.
#2
Capt. Ramsey: All I ask is that you keep up with me. If you can't, then that strange sensation you'll be feeling in the seat of your pants will be my boot in your ass!
#3
Capt. Ramsey: I have the con.
[to hunter]
Capt. Ramsey: Gimme the missile key.
[Hunter does nothing and Ramsey punches Hunter in the face]
Capt. Ramsey: [sternly] Gimme the missile key Mr. Hunter.
[Hunter takes the keys out and puts it around his neck and Ramsey punches Hunter in the face again]
Capt. Ramsey: [shouting] I am the commander of this fuckin' ship! Gimme the goddamn key!
Then they became aware there was an unedited version:
So what are we to think of this picture posted to the web?
According to the waitress who posted this, that's the "N-word" below the word "none" written in for tip. Is it real? I don't know. It could be. But as more and more fake things get posted to the web, the normal amount of skepticism I have about anything online continues to increase.
The news media continues to battle more and more intensely in an effort to scoop other outlets. In their rush to publish, they sometimes don't get their facts straight. Why not focus on getting it right rather than getting it now and correcting later?
In 1994, David and Stephen Koepp wrote a great script for a film titled "The Paper." It was about a newspaper in New York City. Glenn Close played the managing editor while Michael Keaton was he paper's metro editor. He knew that the cops had it wrong when they arrested two African-American teens in the murder of two businessmen and didn't want the paper to run the wrong story, with the photo of the two doing the "perp walk." But she overrode his decision and when questioned about it said, " Tomorrow it's wrong. We only have to be right for a day."
That's the attitude of much of today's modern news media. As long as we are right at this instant, that's all that matters. If we were wrong, so what? We got it first. We got it now.
So as we rush to share warnings that turn out to be urban legends, and tall tales that turn out to be elaborate fakes, a healthy level of distrust of what we see on-line is a good thing.
* * *
I have officially postponed my "procedure" scheduled for next week. I could not get some straight answers out of the VA about what would happen that day and so I am going to wait until after I'm done teaching my classes. Yes, I said classes. I'm cutting back my hours in the office doing tax returns because I'm going to teach two sections of the tax course. It's actually easier for me. I teach both sections on the same three days of the week. One section in the morning, one in the evening on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and from 9-12 and 1-4 on Saturdays. Each day I will teach exactly the same lesson twice. It is good for me. I was lucky to get this.
The procedure can wait until November. It's a precaution anyway.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
Kudos to the 15 year old teen who gave back money his dad took when the dad mugged an elderly woman at a cemetery.
Now banks that are trying to foreclose on properties are sending property management teams out to "secure" the properties and in some cases those teams are breaking and entering. Where does it end?
Actress Leah Remini says she left Scientology because she was going to be interrogated due to the church barring members from questioning the leadership. That's not a religion, that's a cult. Unless of course I'm missing something. Does questioning something the Pope says lead to excommunication from the church?
Will a Victoria's Secret model saying she isn't a size zero really help the women who struggle with body image because of the media images that assault them constantly (probably not)?
So now Yelp is suing someone claiming he posted false reviews of his business after he won a lawsuit where he claimed they failed to deliver on promises in their contract for advertising he purchased. At the same time, they are pursuing legislation to keep people from suing them over false reviews. Hypocrisy thy name is Yelp.
What idiot in Wisconsin came up with the incredibly dumb idea of having a $9.11 special tomorrow on the 12th anniversary of 9/11? 9 holes of golf for only $9.11. Amazing the stupidity that is out there.
Buy a storage container for $100 and sell the contents for...$967,000. Not from the show I watch regularly, "Storage Wars" but the true story of how one couple bought a unit for $100 and found the actual submarine car from the James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me." That's the actual sale price at auction, including commission so they got a little less than that. Still, a nice return on an investment of a Franklin.
If Jared Leto wins an Oscar for his amazing work in "The Dallas Buyer's Club", it may start a real trend of actors trying to audition via Skype. That's how he landed that role, and how Jennifer Lawrence got the part that she won Oscar gold for herself, in "Silver Linings Playbook."
* * *
This Date In History:
506 – The bishops of Visigothic Gaul meet in the Council of Agde.
1419 – John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy is assassinated by adherents of the Dauphin, the future Charles VII of France.
1509 – An earthquake known as "The Lesser Judgment Day" hits Constantinople.
1515 – Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal
1547 – The Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the last full scale military confrontation between England and Scotland, resulting in a decisive victory for the forces of Edward VI.
1561 – Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima – Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts.
1570 – Spanish Jesuit missionaries land in present-day Virginia to establish the short-lived Ajacán Mission.
1608 – John Smith is elected council president of Jamestown, Virginia.
1776 – American Revolutionary War: Nathan Hale volunteers to spy for the Continental Army.
1798 – At the Battle of St. George's Caye, British Honduras defeats Spain.
1813 – The United States defeats the British Fleet at the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812.
1823 – Simón Bolívar is named President of Peru.
1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine.
1858 – George Mary Searle discovers the asteroid 55 Pandora.
1897 – Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 20 unarmed immigrant miners in Pennsylvania, United States.
1898 – Empress Elizabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
1918 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army captures Kazan.
1919 – Austria and the Allies sign the Treaty of Saint-Germain recognizing the independence of Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.
1932 – The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
1936 – First World Individual Motorcycle Speedway Championship, Held at London's (England) Wembley Stadium
1937 – Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
1939 – World War II: The submarine HMS Oxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMS Triton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss.
1939 – World War II: Canada declares war on Nazi Germany, joining the Allies – France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia.
1942 – World War II: The British Army carries out an amphibious landing on Madagascar to re-launch Allied offensive operations in the Madagascar Campaign.
1943 – World War II: German forces begin their occupation of Rome.
1946 – While riding a train to Darjeeling, Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu of the Loreto Sisters' Convent claimed to have heard the call of God, directing her "to leave the convent and help the poor while living among them". She would become known as Mother Teresa.
1960 – At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Abebe Bikila becomes the first sub-Saharan African to win a gold medal, winning the marathon in bare feet.
1961 – Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari.
1967 – The people of Gibraltar vote to remain a British dependency rather than becoming part of Spain.
1972 – The United States suffers its first loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany.
1974 – Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
1976 – A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
1977 – Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
1987 – Pope John Paul II starts his 11-day papal visit to Fort Simpson, Canada and afterwards to several southern and western cities in the United States.
Famous Folk Born On This Date:
Pope Julius III
Maria Theresa of Spain
Elsa Schiaparelli
Arnold Palmer
Philip Baker Hall
Charles Kurault
Roger Maris
Jared Diamond
Cynthia Lennon
Christopher Hogwood
Danny Hutton
Jose Feliciano
Bob Lanier
Don Muraco
Bill O'Reilly
Amy Irving
Chris Columbus
Colin Firth
Randy Johnson
Guy Ritchie
Ryan Philippe
Movie quotes today come from 1995's "Crimson Tide" because Ryan Philippe was in it:
Capt. Ramsey: How do you like that cigar?
Hunter: It's good, sir.
Capt. Ramsey: It's your first?
Hunter: [coughing] Yeah.
Capt. Ramsey: Well, don't like it too much. They're more expensive than drugs.
#2
Capt. Ramsey: All I ask is that you keep up with me. If you can't, then that strange sensation you'll be feeling in the seat of your pants will be my boot in your ass!
#3
Capt. Ramsey: I have the con.
[to hunter]
Capt. Ramsey: Gimme the missile key.
[Hunter does nothing and Ramsey punches Hunter in the face]
Capt. Ramsey: [sternly] Gimme the missile key Mr. Hunter.
[Hunter takes the keys out and puts it around his neck and Ramsey punches Hunter in the face again]
Capt. Ramsey: [shouting] I am the commander of this fuckin' ship! Gimme the goddamn key!
posted by me at 11:37 PM
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