Category: Stupid Things

Welcome to the 80’s!

We live in an age of incredible modern technology.  Communications are instantaneous.  The internet is everywhere.  Our world is wireless.  Any device, any content, any time, any place.  Right?

I like to consider myself ahead of the times, as well.  I don’t mind spending money on technology that I feel can radically enhance my life.  I felt that way about the internet in 1995, about digital cell phones in 2000, and about the Mac in 2005.

Well, yesterday I took a major step backward in time when I had the privilege of purchasing my…

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Inauguration Stupidity

Here are some of the stupid things I have heard people say since the inauguration:

“I will put my hope and faith in [Obama]” – a friend’s blog

Uhh… not to be a jerk or get all preachy on you, but there’s only one place I put all my faith and hope.  Men (and women) will always fail.  God is the only one who is perfect.  As dorky as it sounds, “God is Faithful” & humans suck.

“…[Obama] will rule this country…” -doofy reporter on NPR

Ok… no one RULES this country.. got it!  The minute someone starts ruling this country is the minute I pack my bags and naturalize myself somewhere warmer.

Oh, and P.S…

You want to know who was shouting for joy the most when Obama signed the executive proclmations ending the CIA’s interrogation programs, closing Guantanamo Bay, and pledging a new transparency and freedom of information?  Not the human rights advocates.  Nope, it was the terrorists.  Yes!  They don’t even have to spy on us now to figure out what we know about them… we’re just going to tell them out loud.  And then we’re going to treat them like gold and offer them every luxurious inefficiency of the American judicial system as well –  the country which they hate, pledge to destroy and are not even citizens of.

This president obviously has no concept of the value of information in the war against terror we are fighting.

Personal Pity Party

Yes… I know. There was no American Idol post this week… I’m sorry. So sorry.

But I have a good excuse… see… I was sick!  Cough, cough… hack, cough, sputter.

Let’s have a pity party for me.

  • I woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. And for the past 4 mornings too…
  • Work is very, very busy.  Too much work and not enough “vontade” to do it.
  • I was sick for 4 days this week and had to work through my sickness (albeit from the comforts of home).

So the blog suffered this week.  In fact, the posts that got posted got posted because I had written them in days previous and scheduled them to go up… So maybe the blog should suffer less next week.  Here’s hoping!

But, the good news is, I got a lot of work done this week, and my fiance and I got a lot done on the wedding, too.  (We’re T-minus 2 months now… just in case you were wondering)

I also went to a fabric store today, which was a severe threat to my manhood, and I survived with my man card intact.  We did check out after a couple of queens that were buying a LOT of sequined fabric.  Scary.

Charge me twice, shame on…

There’s an old saying:

Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me twice, shame on me!

I suggest a corollary:

Charge me once, shame on you.  Charge me twice, shame on me!

Well, Apple and iTunes have done it!

Apple recently announced at MacWorld that the iTunes store is going to start selling only DRM free music.  And – of course – for those who had already bought music – there is an upgrade option!

So I logged into my iTunes account today and this is what I found:

itunesplus

Yes.  This looks like a great deal – for only $15.30 I can upgrade 87 of my songs to DRM free!  No more entering usernames and passwords, and no more Apple big brother tracking my music. (well, except for the signatures they embed in the file still…)

But hey… wait a second… I ALREADY bought this content!  Why do I have to buy it again?  I’m not getting hardly anything different – but somehow they’ve found a way to justify charging me again for the same stuff.

I have written about this before – I think the world and internet should move toward a pay for content approach: any content, any device, any network.  Who’s with me?  Why should I buy the same content over and over again?  (This is for you Disney film lovers who keep buying the xxth Anniversary Edition of each film when it comes out, and who’ll do it again when they release them on BluRay.)

The Auto Bailout

I’ve been meaning to write a post for over a week now about the prospective automobile industry bail out, but just haven’t been able to bring myself to do so.  See, I don’t want to get into trouble for all the hate-speech that I would surely engage in against the huge doofaces who have run these companies into the ground for YEARS!

This should be their new mantra: consistently poor performance will yield consistently poor results.

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