Showing posts with label The Graveyard Shift. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Graveyard Shift. Show all posts

Sunday, March 6, 2011

"I Love This Blog" Award


By Mark Young
Aw, shucks … someone out there likes this blog.

My friend, Jordyn Redwood—creator and editor of the  Redwood Medical Edge blog— surprised me the other day by announcing on her blog that Hook’em and Book’em is one of her favorites. By the way, Jordyn’s blog is the place to visit for any writer needing emergency medical treatment information. She is a registered nurse with over eighteen years experience working emergency room and intensive-care wards. If  you write or read about crime, mystery and murder, sooner or later you’ll need advice from someone like Jordyn. Why not start learning right now.


Here's how the award works: 

1. Thank and link back to the person who gave you the award.

2. Share seven things about yourself.

3. Award up to 15 blogs that are deserving. (I’m awarding nine.)

4. Contact those bloggers and let them know about the award.



Here's seven things about myself:

1. I’d rather kick in the door of a house—teaming with armed and dangerous gangsters—than to be dragged out on the dance floor.

2. I’d rather walk across broken glass in bare feet than be called upon to give a speech.

3. I’d rather jump naked into an ice-cold lake each morning than have to wear a suit everyday … wait a minute, let me think about that one for awhile.

4. I’d rather have root canal surgery than explain to my daughter about the birds and bees … thank God for moms.

5. I’d rather learn how to publish my own novel than to keep getting rejections letters year after year.

6.  I’d rather be tarred and feathered than ever lose my wife’s love and respect.

7. And, ... I’d rather never to have been born than to betray my God and Country.


Here's who I'm giving the "I Love This Blog!" award to:









Wednesday, August 25, 2010

Predicting Future Crimes

(I am a guest blogger on The Graveyard Shift today. Here is the beginning of the article Predicting Future Crimes. Click on the link below to join us for a walk into the future. The CIA believes it is possible. Do you?)
Predicting Future Crimes
An unnerving movie, Minority Report, came out a few years ago where crime is virtually eliminated in the year 2054. Cops acted on data from precogs, three mutated humans who can peer into the future. Using this futuristic prediction, an elite law enforcement unit tracked down these criminals. The crooks were identified, apprehended, tried and convicted before the crime was ever committed. Everything changes when these precogs turned their attention toward Tom Cruise’s character, John Anderton, leader of the Precrimes police unit. The police unit commander must flee for his life.

Unbelievable?


Take another look. Public attention went spiral a few weeks ago when they learned Google Ventures-the internet giant’s investment arm-teamed up with a CIA-backed investment company to pump money into a little-heard-of company called Recorded Future (RF). What caught everyone’s attention is this new company’s stated goal: monitor the web in real time and use this information to predict the future.


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