Flotsam & Jetsam

A Wish For My American Cousins

On this day, as you elect a new President, I wish you peace.

Peace in your democratic exercise.

Peace between your people.

Peace with other nations.

Whatever the outcome of today’s election, no matter which party wins, no matter if you celebrate with joy or weep in despair, may peace be your guide.

I leave you with wise words and a hopeful heart.

“If our modern world should be able to recapture the power, the earth’s natural resources and web of life would not be irrevocably wasted within the Twentieth century…..True democracy founded in neighborhoods and reaching over the world become the realized heaven on earth. And living peace, not just an interlude between wars, would be born and would last through the ages.”
— John Collier

Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.
— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Let us continue to strive together for a more inclusive, democratic, and peaceful future for us all.
— Fernando Cardoso

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
— Albert Einstein

Friends, Comrades and fellow South Africans. I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all. I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands.
— Nelson Mandela

WANTED: ZappApp Developer & Investment

Concept:

• Remotely send a shock through someone’s keyboard while capturing the moment on video. Video collected and auto-posted to ZappApp site. Takes the Facebook poke to the next level.

Needed:

• Developer mad scientist
• Investor

The birth of the idea:

adelemcalear: I am officially grumbly

StarrGazr: @adelemcalear Well, Ms Adele, that is just not acceptable! Please reach into your depths, pull out your smile and slap it on — NOW! :D

adelemcalear: @StarrGazr I would much rather slap someone else. That would make me smile. Good morning Tracy.

StarrGazr: @adelemcalear Hee…hee… I suspected that. Go for it! You’ll feel better. ;)

adelemcalear: @StarrGazr Oh, if only the Interwebz had that. Can you build me a virtual slap machine? Make sure it has video to capture the moment, ‘k?

StarrGazr: @adelemcalear LOL!! That would be awesome! We should build one!! We’d be quadrillionaires!

HeatherShorter: @adelemcalear Oh, we need to work on one of those. Definitely. That would make me very happy.

adelemcalear: @StarrGazr Maybe there’s a way to send a shock through the keyboard? That would be almost as good. Just as long as it was on video.

adelemcalear: @HeatherShorter Yes. I would make me happy too.

HeatherShorter: @adelemcalear @StarrGazr Zzzzzzzzzzzzzap! That might be even more entertaining than the slap machine.

StarrGazr: @adelemcalear Haa!! That would be so wonderful!! Imagine how rich we would be if we developed that??

adelemcalear: @StarrGazr @heathershorter Right, so now we just need a developer and some investment to get us started. A quick call out to Twitter? ;)

HeatherShorter: @adelemcalear Yes, let’s.

StarrGazr: @adelemcalear Yes, we need investors! Perhaps a Chip-In and a call to those technically inclined. We definitely have something here.