Some items made news recently showing the steady march of mankind to embrace the new and create even newer ideas -
1. A chinese girl offered up her virginity for ownership of an iphone - I think she tw'i'tted this request to her fans.. a lot of girls after all have offered it up for a lot less (depending on your aptitude and how tech savvy you are) - I like this idea of reverse Dahej to be honest..
2. The secret service gave up their secret after all - they too like prostitutes whether at work or away from work - Obama said he was angry when he heard this ... I wonder if there was an iphone involved
3. Apple sold 35 million iphones in 3 months (generally the slowest 3 months of the year) ...most of them were bought by Chinese - except the virgin who could not afford them this quarter.
moving on to the non iphone and bland news ...
4. The town of Dull in Scotland became a sister city to a town on the left coast of the USA - the sister city is aptly called Boring, Oregon.
This autumn the weather gods cooperated as we took a family trip in the northeast to see six states that qualify or makeup what is known colloquially in America as New England. Mass, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island (tiniest state in the union). The outing helped tally up the states we either lived in, visited or have worked in to 47. Guess which three have eluded this intrepid traveling family. Any rate the drive was all in about 1,800 miles and included some memorable geographic wonders or points of interest. Easternmost part of state of Massachusetts being one. Furthest drivable road east in Mass being another. Visit to all Ivy League schools (term harkens to a collegiate athletics conference and generally regarded as elite academic institutes of some repute worldwide) is another random bucket list item of which this trip afforded the chance to knock two more of the list. Dartmouth in Hanover, NH and Brown (and its sister institute the RISD - school f
There is a club called Bowring Institute in Bangalore that can be an add-on to the above towns. Comapred to China, news really seems a bit dull around here!
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