Moot Points

- Ok, this is the first of what will become, I'm sure, a long running series. Things I don't understand: - Facebook is going public and it is somehow being valued at $100 Billion or more? Why? This would make Facebook more valuable than most companies that actually, you know, make things. Evidently, Facebook is 'used' by something like one out of every nine people on the planet. I call bullshit on that.  I have a Facebook account that my daughter insisted that I 'must' have.  I logged in exactly three times, two years ago, and haven't been back.  I still get their alerts (that I've found no way of stopping) but I've not been back since they flooded my inbox with the first round of crap and I started getting 'poked' by people who claim to have been in 3rd period English with me in the 7th grade. What possible reason would anyone have for striking up an uninvited conversation with someone they haven't seen in more than 40 ye...

The first post of a blog that no one will read and fewer people will care about. - Sometimes I really worry about myself.  Driving home today I was listening to NPR and there was a woman who due to environmental concerns had her breast milk tested. - Among other things, her milk tested positive for flame retardant chemicals. - And the first thought I had was 'well, you wouldn't want your breasts bursting into flames would you? - Like I said, I worry about me.