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Remember the original old Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie?

It was good back in the day, but watching it now it seems a little cheesy I guess. Considering the budget and when it was made (1974 ish) it could almost be considered a classic.

Lots of rumors swirled around the movie. Whether it was true or if parts of it were at least based on real events.

Anyway there was a strange new story in the news about a Texas man who took a chainsaw to his friend of 20 years. They apparently lived in the same house and the guy was trying to do away with his friend by cutting him up with a chainsaw.

The first thing that came to mind is The Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie. Not that it had anything to do with the movie after all these years, but it is not something you hear about very often. And, being it happened in Texas just reminds me of the movie.

Technology is advancing and changing at an increasing rate. Things that used to take years to achieve is often accomplished in a matter of months. Which is kind of scary.

Every time I open pick up a newspaper there is an ad for something faster, more powerful, bigger and better. It almost seems as if you buy something today a few months later it will be out of date. You can't really keep up with it. If you need or want something you just have to buy it with the assumption and realization that it will be out of date in the very near future.

You just get used to and figure out your new technology device and get comfortable with it. Then, it breaks or you get a new one and spend countless hours trying to figure the new one out. Which we didn't have to do in the good old days. Seriously though the good old days were not that long ago.

We have so many little gizmo's, gadgets, and techie devices now I can't image what we will see in 10 to 20 years from now. But, when I think back 10 to 20 years ago I would have never guessed we would have or be using some of what we do now.

By now you have probably heard about Osama Bin Laden being killed. It would be hard to have missed a story about it in the news, and it is all over the internet right now.

Besides being a little sudden and somewhat unexpected after all these years the thing I find rather strange is where he was actually found.

It is hard to believe Osama Bin Laden was found right in the middle of a city of decent size. And, on top of that within a few hundred yards of a Pakastani military facility. Strange that nobody noticed or suspected anything out of the ordinary surrounding the place where he apparently called home.

I didn't catch how long he had been living at that location. Whether it was for years, or just more recently. If he had been living there for an extended amount of time it is very strange, and almost unreal that someone didn't suspect something sooner.

I guess I just assumed that Osama Bin Laden would likely never be found not to mention killed. If he were found, captured, or killed I was expecting it to be more like a remote location. Maybe a bunker, underground, or in one of these caves we often heard about in media reports.

At any rate it is nice to see the Osama Bin Laden chapter finally come to a close. Not that there will not be others to worry about and deal with, but at least this one is finally over.

President Obama released his long form birth certificate the other day and once again the internet is buzzing about it.

The White House previously released the official Certification Of Live Birth that showed he was born in Hawaii. Which apparently wasn't good enough for a lot of people out there.

On top of that Hawaiian officials have said they personally examined Obama's Birth Cirtificate. And guess what? That wasn't good enough either.

So President Obama released his long form birth certificate all the Birther Movement and conspiracy theory folks have been demanding.

It seemed to finally satisfy a larger group of individuals, but there is already tons of conspiracy websites screaming fake. Which is hard to take anything some of those conspiracy websites claim serious. One site I visited had a thread some 50 pages long with comments and growing by the hour. So as long as I was at this website that was pushing Obama's Birth Cirtificate is a fake I thought I would see what else the site had to offer.

It didn't take long to figure out most of the pictures and video posted on the site to a variety of conspiracy theories were themselves likely fake. I swear some of these sites and people commenting will believe almost anything.

At any rate I don't know what more Obama can do to finally prove he was indeed born in Hawaii. Believe what you want, but it looks like the mystery, conspiracy, or whatever you want to call it is finally over. Thank goodness too. It was starting to get annoying and old.

Netflix recently raised the price of their most popular plan from $8.99 to $9.99 per month. They also added a streaming only plan for $7.99 per month, at least in the U.S. anyway.

Shortly after news of this increase in price people were immediately complaining. Sure a price increase is a bummer, but we are talking about $1 per month for most people. And, with the streaming only plan they could actually save $1 per month. That is just barely over 3 cents per day more.

I guess people don't realize that it does cost Netflix money to license and distribute all those movies or something. They need a vast network of computers and an impressive system to distribute them which isn't cheap either. Not to mention they do have to pay employees. All so the end user can sit on netflix and watch a movie 24-7 from many electronic gizmo's. They have to pay for it somehow right!

Now I could see if they were doubling or tripling the price or something, but a whole $1 per month! If you ask me the price is still extremely cheap for what you get.

Oh well, it's impossible to please everyone!