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Finally replaced our smashed up cooktop with this new one.

Learned about Sears Outlet stores (awesome) and picked it up refurbished but still in the box for 380 vs MSRP 680.

Some cool stats about the new cooktop -

• it’s stainless steel so that it won’t shatter like the last one
• it has a one huge burner that outputs the gas flame at 14,200 BTUs (the largest burner on the previous stove only output around 9,000 BTUs)
• Kenmore was listed by Consumer Reports as the 2nd best in terms of repairs
• all 4 burner grill covers are even height, so that you can move pots and pans around the cooktop without having to first pick them up and risk spilling

Just found this picture on my phone from last weekend.

I grilled some carne asada and pollo asado and they looked so good I had to take a moment to bust out my camera and take a picture first.

Here’s a series of short video clips on MTV paying tribute to Guru.

I just heard the news that Guru passed away yesterday of cancer.  He’s for sure at the top of my list when it comes to my favorite rappers and is one of the reasons why I even listen to Hip-Hop.

I was thinking about that time when Guru was robbed in front of his studio and decided to read up on that again… in the article, he mentioned that he wasn’t rich and never went platinum.  It’s weird how the world works, isn’t it?  How can an artist be so talented, so unique and so influential to a culture and so many people… but on paper, doesn’t come close to having the financial success of a group like Danity Kane?  That’s ass backwards if you ask me.

Our stove top broke yesterday… bummer.

If you think about it, so much of our everyday life is wired into some kind of network – street lights, phones, credit card authorization, ATMs, electricity, our military defenses.  What DON’T we use on a daily basis that doesn’t involve a network or the internet?  Hmm… I can’t think of a single thing.  Even the water I use to is electronically controlled via a network somewhere down the line.  I can’t even take a dump without computers!

I’ve been hearing a lot about cyber warfare in the news as of late.  That is really scary when you think about all the things that can affect us if somebody launched an attack on our networks.  What makes it scarier is that hackers can do their job and get out without their location being accurately traced.  A group of nerds hanging out in their bedrooms can send the USA back to the stone ages with a few keyboard strokes!  And we won’t even know who did it.

Maybe I should write a script for one of those end of the world movies except use cyber warfare as the culprit instead of nuclear warfare.  Then I can sell it and take all the money and just move to Hawaii.  I’ll live off of coconuts and pineapples!

If you want to read more, there’s a lot of articles recently on this topic at NPR’s website.