I need to spew some random thoughts. Some hopefully insightful, others mere fluffy passing opinions. I don't have fancy schmancy categories like some warbling kittens of the web I know.
Thanks:
First of all, a big thanks to our webdesigner, Kalilyn, for fixing the hacker damage! She fixed it so well, the original Dark Forums work now too!
Horror of the Week:
The final photos washed ashore of the impending tsunami victims, John and Jackie Knill. I've have an intense fear of tidal waves since childhood. To see these foolish people stand and snap pictures as a wall of water rushed up to them... makes you wonder why they didn't flee for safety. Or did they know it was their time to die?
Laughable Irony:
My L.I. Award would go to Apple for creating the iPod craze. Unwitting blind fools run out to buy the latest hot thing since the Sony FM Walkman!
Yet I see no one told them the drawbacks...
1)They're a high theft item.
2) The white headphones are a dead giveaway screaming "ROB ME PLEASE!" to any thief.
3) You can't DO anything ELSE with it. Unlike Pocket PCs or even Palm Pilots,
your only option for that price is music. No video games, photos, movie clips, internet access, organization, word program, music production, book readers, gps.... NOTHING! Just music. I'm sorry, but for the same money, a PDA is much more sound investment. At least for music files there are Winamp clones and WMP.
4) $1 a song to fill it up could run into the thousands. Other players, if you must have one, use mp3 WMA files which are easier and cheaper to obtain.
5) if you fill it with tunes and the batteries die, you ship it to Apple for $99 and they return you an empty refurb without your songs.... Oh , but you got a new battery. Talk about betraying the public trust.
Bleh.
Disgust:
I'm going to gripe here. The world is disgusting me more and more, that if I were a god, I'd flood this anthill called Earth.
Y'know why the news is such a popular entertainment venue? It's because no matter what medium, be it print or televised, it's all the same. The sensationalism and exploitation of the worst in the world. I think this may be a reason why America is overly depressed. I think we do it to ourselves the same way we must gawk at car accidents and play love songs after a break up that cause more sorrow in memory than the joy from when coupled. Not only can you not whole heartedly believe or trust what is said on the news, the by-product, American depression, feeds fatcat pharmaceutical companies who develop drugs for our imagined or self inflicted ails. If you own a pharmaceutical company or broadcast news, we the foolish cattle line your wallets with green. I applaude these industries... These secretly evil empires, for exposing and exploiting human gullability. It is our own fault we allow ourselves to be manipulated in this way.
I'm disgusted in American Idols Simon Cowell. Not for the regular reasons, but for certain flip flop/ catch 22 statements he made about the music industry. If he claims to believe that the age of the music video has died, that's one thing... The fault lies on the shoulders of MTV and worse yet, the producers of lousy videos. If he also believes that there's a huge growing market for "older music" as in older genres for an older demographic ... with that in mind, why must Idol have an age cap at all? He has the media power behind him to change the face of the industry, but being the coward he is, he remains safely tucked away in the comfort zone. Bah!
I'm disgusted in...
men who beat children to death over peanut butter sandwiches...
...rock icons blow their lives over self gratified actions and now either get sued, succumb to criminal investigations or blow their wad on drugs or gambling...
sports figures kids can no longer look up too because they are artificially enhanced steroid robots...
Hopes, Dreams and Goals:
I guess these are more desires than anything. I need to repair all that is disarray. I need to make these obtainable dreams reality. I need to make amends to those most dear... They, who will be the foundation for my inner sanctum, my trusted council within whom I may place my trust. I need to extend my hand of help and sorrow to those who I've wronged and/or vowed to help. I cannot take those under my wing until I have prepared my own for flight.
I truly hope that those who've suffered from my present and past shortcomings, will understand that a greater reward lay in store for them for their help in tolerance of my time of struggle. The D'Sari leave no one behind.