but of this much I'm sure.... this whole computer, blogging, web site creating, face booking, texting ^$#(*^$%$%^ crap is for the birds. Dead birds at that or garbage dump seagulls - squawking and flashing in the sun light like shark fins at a shipwreck. OK the simile is probably way off but the point should be clear - how much frickin' time does the western world waste with this stuff??? It takes me 5 minutes to create a single sentence text message (and yes I still use proper grammar and spelling) - and forget about this "predictive" text stuff - predictive for whom? Not I ....
Perhaps I'm a bit more frustrated than usual as I'm trying to create a web site with something called "web site tonight" - sounds like a fuckin one night stand or a blue plate special that is sure to give you some serious "plumbing issues" NOT an easy way to create a web site, now that I think about it after the fact. But, like everything else these days I get sucked in because everyone else is doing it. I guess folks can look for my body downriver tomorrow because I jumped with everyone else (remember that age old "if everyone else jumped off, would you? that you heard from the "elders" - before everyone starts sending me messages about concerns for my self preservation).
None of this is easy, intuitive, time saving, user friendly blah blah blah - dating myself, I remember 2001 (Space Odyssey) and HAL - computers taking over .... laughable right>? But here we are, 20-25+ years after the first PC and we're using crap that's WORSE than the first WIN UI and we LOVE IT (I use the term "we" loosely). Nothing is fast enough, you can only send x#'s of characters in a tweet(wtf?), phone calls drop routinely..... calls never dropped with the princess phone attached to the wall in the kitchen and we sure as HELL never had to spend 2-4K a year on phone and TV service. Phones that drop calls 20% of the time, provide telemarketers the ability to get us 24x7(great, right!!), probably give us tumors the size of grapefruits AND tv's with 260channels of what???
I haven't even started on the crap that's on the radio - at least I get to leave this table (quick stop/corner of anywhere USA) and head out under the stars with none of this shit to drive me nuts. Maybe tomorrow will be better as (if I'm lucky) the sun will rise in the east and all will be right with the world. But tonight, this whole concept of a better world through Technology, brought to you by the Google and Facebook crowd - sucks
