Facebook is like the new planet of the apes movie. Tons of people will still like it, even though its nothing but pointless tripe. It is the same problem, trying to convert millions of people to watch Hanna (which is a much better movie IMHO ) by saying that Hanna is better than a movie full of CGI monkeys is not going to work. Real change only happens at the most basic level down to the very core of the soul of the individual. Aside from that nothing will ever change and you have no no other choice but to watch and laugh and try not to get accidentally killed by the ignorance that you must endure. Hell is other people.
Some particular songs you often find yourself singing in the in bathroom, make absolutely no sense. It is often just a sequence of notes and sounds organised in way that you brain seems to enjoy repeating over and over. I am not sure why, the dog days are over. It is not often obvious why some people like one thing and others like something else, or why a large amount of people have no opinion on anything at all. It is almost like they are sheep being lead to pasture, eating the same grass every day with no hope of chicken.
I find it annoying if you have no opinion or perspective on anything, just going along with the flow of what everybody else is doing, living off borrowed opinions and projected memories seen through the window of a glass house that is moving ever so slowly in front you. One day someone will kick you in the nuts.
A people with a LOT of money have invested in some pretty mediocre things that often get replaced in a year or two. The amount if money invested and the amount of lines of code and time invested in a over engineered stack of cluster fuck features has never been a measure of what I would consider "quality". Some times you have be willing to jump from the wagon, or go against the grade. There is a common misconception that the tool you use is somehow will guarantee you success but such is not the case. A competent man can kill just as well with a knife as with a gun. In fact even a incompetent has the potential to be all he can be given the right or wrong hammer depending on how far your are from the epicentre of the catastrophe.
All tools suck in their own way. Some in more ways than one. It is a given reality is software today, yesterday and for the foreseeable future. It is always a guessing game when it comes to testing and evaluation. The question usually relates to either trying to solve a problem, as opposed to following the crowd. Or to rephrase; Its a question of whether to solve a particular problem with custom code or do I throw a tool at it and hope it sticks long enough for me pay my bills.
In any and everything (including software and monkeys) people will divide into groups. We are all fanbois of something or the other. Anybody who says they are not a fanboi is lieing or will most likely turn out to be a spy for the other-side. Money talks and you either run out or you stay gassed up. There is no magic solution. There will always be the Windows versus Apple versus Linux crowd, The SAP verus Oracle versus IBM versus Microsoft crowd. The key is sticking to your path, and reaching your milestones as quickly as possible. Commitment and a clear vision is absolutely necessary. Humans by nature are fickle creatures, sometimes far sited, sometimes focusing on the current ignorant to future gains that will be made by short term suffering. Hold your head and soldier on, eventually they'll get it.
Every now and again something goes wrong in the universe and you have to work on the weekend. Even after careful preparation and taping all the wires theres bound to be something that goes horribly wrong, the planets will align against you causing the inevitable collapse of everything into a spiralling black hole of wasted effort. At times like these you have no choice but to experiment with your chicken sandwich and put plantains in it - I love plantains. I took a picture. I will post it later.
In other news : hard times are getting harder. Gas prices are through the roof. People are losing thier heads. I passed a woman parked pecuriously on the inside of a fast turn on the highway. Usually I would proceed to blow my horn as I passed but that only came as a after thought. I zoomed by her at the speed limit and I could barely see inside the car. I am not sure if she was dead or her Mitsubishi Lancer had just ran out of gas. I thought about it for about 10 minutes on my ride home. My mind trying to calculate the possibility of me turning back around and checking if she was ok. I forgot about it eventually.
Its another independence day and I've yet to make it to ATI and its not getting any cheaper to produce hurricanes early enough in the season to kill them all but still there is always the possibility of a out break of dengae fever. It must have been a long weekend because my beard sprung up like a wild bush. I hate to go to work like this and have them find out that I am not the man they think I am at home. But I'm a rocketman burning out his fuse, they would find out sometime.
The funny thing about getting older is your ability to look at things outside of yourself with a sort of cock-eyed pessimism. I'm not sure if it is the same for everyone. But I have this new found sense of scoope when it comes to certain things that used to puzzle me when I was younger. Now these things are measured on in there ability to cause me never-ending pain. As opposed to when I was younger there was always a potentional to be exponenially happier than I was at the moment. I feel as if I'm heading towards a higher level of singularity. Or maybe I'm losing some marbles. Eitherway I have clearly passed one tipping point or tripped over another.
I still like video games however, and chicken - cannot get tired of the chicken. I hope to one day achieve my wings and fly to heaven or better yet get drunk off cafiene and fly to Barbados. Blew up from the ground like NASA. Like a buttery. The view outside the glass house is very different from the inside, even though you are seeing the same thing; everything is less cloudy from be refracted by the glass. Duke Nuken Forever is coming out finally.
I usually avoid taking money for projects before I complete them but this was a special case. I wonder if I should buy a new television or an expensive cellphone. There are so many facinating things that are waiting for better batteries. My electricity bill is through the roof. I probably should invest in some solar panels but it has been raining none stop for the past 10 days.
I thought I would write one last blog entry out to the press before the world comes to an end. Nothing worst than leaving my readers and fan club on the limb without a last will and testament. I love you all, except the ugly people, no body is perfect. I always wondered why disabled people look disabled or more so awestruck. It is bad enough that you as disabled in some way but you have to look disabled too? Why can't disabled people look like fashion models? Life is not fair. Be thankful for who you are, count your blessings and not your problems.
I spent most of last night ranking up in COD:WAW online. Yes, I know it is a dam old game from 2008 but I sworn off buying any more games until I finish the ones I have. Anyway, nothing really happens in the game besides me playing the same 4 or 5 stages over and over again while getting shot in different places on the map, by different people I cannot see or hear. There is some mild enjoyment there, similar to that of a crack addict getting his latest hit - no offence to the female crack addicts out there. I would not say that on-line multi player is a TOTAL WASTE OF TIME but do I really have to waste a whole day of my life just to get the scope attachment for my machine gun? Even porn is more productive.
Stephanie does not like plantain tarts, I'm not sharing any of my guilty pleasures with her again. Some people are so ungrateful. I don't know, why does the whole world have to come to a end? Its been around a long TIME! I'm always been fascinated with the human race's ability to NOT COLLECTIVE CARE ABOUT ANYTHING AT ALL. I think it is one of our strongest attributes. I mean if the trees disappear all the birds will be like "WTF HAPPEN TO THE TREES???!!!". But half the human race will be wondering why they can't get any paper anywhere, 30% will be busy trying to grow trees in space and the other 20% will be saying; "hey, what's for lunch?".