Why not?

This is more of a question than an enlightening editorial on the relationship between big data and the NSA.  I am simply curious about the implications to tech and the venture frenzy surrounding big data projects.  With the NSA taking a rather intrusive interest in big data, does anyone think that funding interest or even product interest may be effected by this controversy?

The American public certainly didn't stop buying phones when it was revealed that the Nixon administration was participating in wiretapping, but maybe that wasn't enough for citizens to feel that their privacy was necessarily in danger.  Do Americans feel that their privacy is at all important?  We have body scanners at the airport that know what brand of underoos I wear, Facebook knows when I write drunken messages to my friends, and my mobile phone service knows where I am at all times (because I never do), yet my behavior is fairly steady.

The last slice of pizza has been served.  Due to a number of different environmental and genetic disturbances, the last few ingredients to produce a true pizza with wheat, tomatoes, and basil have become extinct.  

I'm helping a friend plan his proposal, and while I can't divulge in the details here, I just want to say that I am doing an awesome job.  I'm actually feeling like I have a small knack for this type of thing, and I'm hoping someone else on tumblr may need similar help, so I'm putting it out there: I will help you plan your proposal.

I get a little frustrated seeing people propose in lackluster ways that don't pay the proper respect to the relationships they are meant to solidify.  Taking a girl to a nice restaurant and hiding the ring in the champaign glass seems so cliche.  Pretending like you dropped something to get into the one-knee position, a la Sex and the City Season 3 just seems derivative.  Proposing on a mountain.  Proposing at the beach.  Blah, blah, blah.

Here's what most women want, and it's nothing too complicated:  they want a great story to tell their friends, family, kids, and grandkids.  It doesn't have to be public, expensive, or even particularly clever.  It just has to mean something.  That's it.  

On November 6, 2346, the great lobster invasion began.  In an attempt to address the vast amounts of population in the Earth's oceans, scientists genetically manipulated lobsters to digest plastics.  The genetically modified lobsters were introduced to the Pacific Garbage Patch, and successfully reduced the giant plastic mass to an inconsequential size.  The world celebrated, and resumed consuming plastic at a rate that had not been seen since the early 21st century.  

Inevitably, the genetically modified lobsters intermingled with the wild lobster population, growing the lobster population exponentially.  Seeking new plastic food sources, lobsters began invading the shores of Asia and the Americas.  The invasion began slowly, with just a few hundred lobsters climbing on to land, going through whatever trash receptacles that were convenient to them.  Eventually every dock and beach was covered in a dark mass of lobsters.  Similar to ants, the lobsters worked as a super organism, continuing their invasion in every direction, destroying homes and businesses along the shore.