The Digital Dad » Geek Shiek http://www.drewperry.com/digidad raising a family in the information age Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:36:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Curfew http://www.drewperry.com/digidad/2011/06/the-curfew/ http://www.drewperry.com/digidad/2011/06/the-curfew/#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:28:34 +0000 Drew http://www.drewperry.com/digidad/?p=378 Civil liberties are something we often take for granted. Speech, expression, the right to gather publicly. We live in a country where the constitution guarantees everyone those and many other basic rights. But what if all that changed? There are multitudes around the globe living today under oppressive rule where some or all of those rights can be taken away on a whim, if they ever existed at all. In a post-9/11 world, fear has many times proved strong enough to sway governments, even our own, into acts that many consider oppressive.

Richard Jackson, in a book published by Benjamin Franklin, wrote, “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” What would you do if your basic civil liberties were revoked in the name of public safety? How would you respond to a government of oppression? How important are your freedoms? Would you risk imprisonment or even death to fight for all of our freedom? Would you break Curfew?

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Gotta love the cyborg name decoder. I’d have never suspected myself as a cylon. :)

Get Your Cyborg Name

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Yesterday was my 30th birthday. And to celebrate my headlong jaunt into obsolescence, my family got me a brand spankin’ new Amazon Kindle 2. This thing is really cool. For those of you not among the digerati, the Kindle is Amazon’s e-book reader. It’s basically an electronic book. Using an e-ink screen that simulates text on paper, the Kindle can download books from Amazon.com over the air with its free built-in cellular connection and store 1,000 of them internally. I have a subscription to USA Today and wake up every morning to the daily edition waiting for me on my Kindle… automagically!

I’ve read several short stories on it so far, Stephen King’s Ur and Cory Doctorow’s Overclocked stories and on Wednesday will begin my first full-length novel via Kindle. The only caveat is I can’t decide what to read first. I’m leaning toward Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, but I love the idea behind Max Brooks’ World War Z. Of course I was recently reminded that I’ve never read either of the cyberpunk staples Cryptonomicon or Neuromancer. Also, I’d love to finally get through Deception Point. Ooh, and the rest of the Dark Tower series, and all of the Southern Vampire Mysteries. And some Tom Clancy, and Michael Crichton, and….

Why is it I feel my literary budget is about to increase drastically?

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