I’m in the house, y’all
Grandpa Joe came to visit for David’s birthday and we went to visit Roaring Camp up in the Santa Cruz mountains. They have a really cool fully working steam locomotive, and the ride is really fun. Of course, I tried to take a bunch of pictures, but a good portion of them didn’t come out.
So, found this on boing boing. Cory talks about an entry on the Disney Blog about how the new fingerprint scanners could be used for Evil(tm) by Walt Disney World and that they could possibly share their data with the government. Now, I’m a huge privacy advocate, but fingerprint scanners have been at WDW since at least 1997, (the first time I was there) so I’m wondering why a big fuss is being made over it. It’s good that they mention you can still get in the park if you refuse to use them (which is what I did) but always presenting the worst case scenario (Disney and the NSA are in cahoots!) gets a little old after awhile. It’s not like people *have* to go to Walt Disney World for fun. But if you do go, make a statement and refuse to use the reader. If enough people do it, then they’ll stop utilizing it. That’s the only realistic way to stop them from doing it.
Rebecca’s mom is visiting us for a few weeks (David withdrawal was getting to her, I guess) so we’ve been showing her around the area. She’s not up for walking a lot, so mostly we do driving tours. Today we drove up to San Francisco. We crossed the Golden Gate bridge, but there were so many people there it wasn’t worth trying to find a place to park to look around. On the way back we drove up Geary and I saw the remains of the Coronet theater, where I saw Mars Attacks! on opening night. I don’t know when it closed, but it’s a shame. That theater was huge (single screen) and well taken care of when I was there. We made a small attempt at driving up Lombard to go down the windy hill, but there was just too much traffic. (to be expected) After a slow jaunt through the Wharf area (mmmm.. Ghirardelli) we took Mission to 4th and got the hell out of dodge. Dinner was at the Palo Alto Creamery in the Stanford shopping center. I highly recommend their milkshakes.