The Next Google?
June 17, 2008
Probably not. But I admire their efforts to improve upon the way we search the web. Viewzi is more intuitive than other visual search attempts I’ve seen (of which I can’t remember any of their names). Remember when Google was the new kid on the block and people were saying that Netscape was too big to be taken down? But step by step they slowly became the big dog and overtook Netscape and everyone else. So if Viewzi keeps hangin’ tough you never know what could happen.
Weird. All of a sudden, I’m having nightmarish flashbacks of my sister plastering her wall with NKOTB posters. By the way, if you’re wondering, I pretty much blame NKOTB for this, this, this and this as well as almost every other cultural ill of the last 20 years. An overstatement? Yes. But also a convenient pre-coffee, 5:30am scapegoat. Sorry guys, sometimes that’s just how the chips fall. Best of luck with your reunion tour. At least this time around your swooners will (hopefully) be middle aged women and not teary eyed twelve year olds, which, strangely enough, is a very bizarre element of the whole boy band phenomenon that everyone quietly and politely ignores.
Seriously, you’re okay with your pre-teen daughter crying because she’s “in love” with a man in his twenties? In no other circle of our society would this be deemed acceptable. So, sorry, Alivia, not in my house. Your brothers already know that the appropriate time for a “serious” relationship and the accompanying emotions is when they are ready to be married. And they are only ready to be married when 1) they are 18 or older 2) they have a job that can pay all the bills and 3) they find someone who has (hopefully) similar desires to magnify the Lord and not revel in the disappointingly vain puffing up of humans. By the way, that last “hopefully” is directed at my boys.
How did I get from a new search engine to my kids future relationships? I don’t really know. All I can say is don’t give up on me. I promise I’ll try to keep my future posts a little more on point.
Murf
June 17th, 2008 at 4:52 am
Okay…some philosophy I have developed over the years. What your daughter (or son for that matter) will feel about stuff like this depends upon her God-given character. Some girls have time for nothing but sports; some have time for nothing but academics; most get wrapped up in cultural stuff like NKOTB. A girl who likes boys (for example) is never going to turn into a girl who loves sports no matter how hard you try to make her. What I’ve found is that one accepts the God-given character (whether or not one wants it to be that way) and then you “manage” it so that the girl learns to glorify God with her God-given character. So that to say, “well you shouldn’t have a “serious” relationship until you are 18 years or older…ha, ha, ha, good luck with that one, pal, if you happen to have a girl who likes boys.
What I recommend is that you lay out when they are young a standard for all of them. For my kids it was “you are not going to date (one guy, one girl) until you are 16 and you and I have read through “I kissed dating goodbye” together so that I can expose you to what I consider a wise approach to relationships. This has really helped with my daughter who would have dated when she was 12 had I allowed her to. Since none of the boys were allowed to date until they were 16, she knows it’s futile to ask if she can. I have no problem with your own standard of 18, but my thinking is that by 18 (if the kid has wanted to date since they were 12!) they are no longer around so that you can help them “date wisely” if you know what I mean, if for instance, they are off to college or the military, etc.
At any rate, hopefully you’ll have a daughter who loves sports and will be too busy for dating. Not great odds for that I have to say.
Murf
June 17th, 2008 at 5:08 am
Oh…and viewzi, whoa…too many choices. The brilliance of Google is that it’s so simple that even someone who doesn’t understand searching can figure it out. Viewzi is too complex for that, who understands what all those sites are? Some, not many.
Oh…and just to clarify, my daughter is a sweetheart and there is a reason that God makes girls who love boys…they make great wives and mothers (now if I could only get her through the teen years…)
Brandon
June 17th, 2008 at 5:27 am
See, this is why I blog. So my overly ambitious ideas can be tempered by people who have been down many of these roads. Thanks for the input! Hannah is laughing her head off in the background.
rick bennet
June 17th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
you cannot blame NKOTB for Hanson. Remember… hanson wrote (and still does) all of their own songs, played all of their instruments and eventually became a good pop/rock band that played music unlike the kids wanted. They became a respected indie band that has been praised in many quarters, despite their reputation. In fact, 1 big cool radio station played a great song off their last album and told people it was someone else. Interestingly, the audience made it the #1 song on the station before the jig was up.
Also, don’t forget they were barely past puberty when writing and playing MMMMBop. That is more impressive than it sounds.
Yes, Rick Bennett- closet hanson fan (yes, I think the other bands SUCK).
Brandon
June 18th, 2008 at 5:56 am
I didn’t know that about Hanson. I’ll have to preview their latest album on iTunes. BUT they are still not excused for MMMBob just because they play their own instruments.