Hi, NSA!! ::waves::

[delphipsmith]

So I'm sure everyone is aware of the kerfuffle over the NSA logging phone numbers, call durations, email, chat, etc., yes?  Today I went to view a document I needed to review that was posted on Google Docs, and I see this:

Has anyone else ever seen this message?  I've been looking at/working with files on Google Docs for the last 18 months or so due to a couple of international committees I'm on, and I don't recall ever seeing this before. Coincidence?  I THINK NOT... (cue ominous music)

In other news, our kitchen remodel is done -- new countertops! new cabinets!! freshly polished/finished floors!!! -- so I can start cooking again, and we can have proper popcorn instead of Boom Chicka Pop out of a bag (it's very tasty, but it doesn't beat the hot fresh popped item).  So yay for all that.  Also we get to go behind-the-scenes with wolves on Thursday at the zoo (v. cool).  Ooh, and the first trailer for the next installation of The Hobbit is out, complete with Mirkwood, a red-haired elf, and SMAUG'S HEAD! Yesssss...  I'm selfishly pleased that it's coming out in December, as that will distract me from my annual Christmas "Why are there no more Harry Potter movies?" mopage/whinage.  We likes it, precious, yes we do :)

Comments

[pitry.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen any messages either, but it could be that they're simply covering their asses... There is a whole kerfuffle #2 now on who knew what, after all.

[delphipsmith]

And it's looking like everybody knew, including all of Congress. Although some of them are claiming that the briefings were too brief and left them uninformed. Well, whose fault is that, you dopes?? Did you ask any questions????

I am amused, however, at how the far left and the far-right are meeting round the back to denounce this. Just goes to show that the world isn't the only thing that's round -- if you go far enough in one extreme you'll meet up with the crazies on the other end!

[pitry.livejournal.com]

Oh, extreme left and extreme right always had more in common than apart... in the end it's not the ideology, is it? It's what people try to do with it.

But yes, why do you expect people whose job it is to protect citizens and supervise that laws are being upheld to do their job....? (sigh).