Brain Splatter

I don't remember if I had mentioned that I got a new computer. I got it at Xmas-time and it seems to be going good so far.

Knock on wood.

Knock on wood. I wonder where that comes from? I guess I could Google it.

There isn't much that can't be found with a Google search and a little bit of time. It is the preferred search engine for me. I like Yahoo, but it doesn't always come up with what I am looking for. MSN Live Search or whatever the hell it is called mostly sucks. The display is usually unusable. Google is nice and simple to navigate.At least the search part is. All that other Google shit sometimes becomes a bit tedious.

Then there are the other search engines out there that most people haven't even heard of. I can think of Alta Vista, does that still exist? Lemme check. Yeah, it does. And still looks like it sucks. Then there is Metacrawler and Lycos and Ask dot com. Those are just the ones that I can remember off the top of my head. I bet there are more, probably a whole bunch more. Not that it really matters. I am sure eventually they will go away, or just be echos of their former selves if they are not already.

It's funny. I guess you could say that I have been online for a while. Maybe a decade? Maybe less, I don't know. I know that there are things that have changed. Things are definitely more visual. With broadband speeds, video and audio are taking center stage.Photos and the written word just are not as important to convey the message. Let's face it, for most sites its a lot easier just to post a stupid video than having to come up with witty things to say. Just look at this one. I very rarely come up with anything witty to say.

Not that I care one way or the other. OK. I care. A little. Not much. Don't tell anyone. Or tell every one. I don't care.Don't you love circular arguments?

Pause

Took a little bit of a pause there. I had to go and do laundry, take out some garbage, eat, and play with myself. Well, I didn't play with myself but I could have! And I wouldn't even have had to pay for any porn. It is amazing how much free porn is online. It is almost impossible to avoid. Not that I do avoid it.

But honestly, porn is like tool. Unless I am going to use it for something I don't see the point in keeping it around. Don't get me wrong, boobies are great, but after awhile, I gets a little bored. Maybe bored isn't the right word. It's like when a famous person is in playboy. You take a look and check it out. Then its like, OK, now what? They nekkid, been there, seen that, let's see some boobies that I ain't seen before. Sad but true.

I guess Obama won South Carolina in the primary. Indiana has yet to be made offical. Some poeple are saying that Hillary ought to get out of the race. I don't know. I guess if you put in that much effort you are going to stay in it ot the end and if you can't win a chance to go for the big job you want to make sure that you at least come out better than you went in. Would Hillary take a job in Obama's White House? Or would she stay in the Senate and consolidate power there? I think she would stay in the Senate. I can't see Hillary being Vice President. It just doesn't fit. I think that Edwards might be Obama's Vice President. It might help balance the ticket. Let's see what happens. I don't think Hillery is getting the nomination though. I just don't see it right now. I can't see Obama giving up and with his mojo working I think he has the populace enthralled. But hey, McCain could still whip his ass when all those people get into the voting booth and think that they just ain't ready for President of the United States of America Barak Obama and all that that entails.

Check out the movie Iron Man. Good flick. I watched it online. Yeah, I know that it is still in the theater but the 'net is a whole big world and if someone sneaks a camera into a movie theater and takes a pretty good video of the movie and then it is posted on the internet... Is is wrong of me to watch it? I mean, can you consider it piracy if I don't pay anything for it? It's not like I bought a DVD on the street. I think that links directly into piracy because you are paying for a product. I just clicked a link. I wouldn't pay for something like that not because I am scared of the law, I just don't pay if it isn't quality. If I am going to pay for a movie I want to see it on the big screen or have a DVD with all the bells and whistles.

But not Blu-ray. I am not upgrading my DVD player until I have to. The same goes with my TV. Fuck HDTV. If I want to see a fucking image of a blade of grass that looks like a real blade of grass I will go outside and look at a fucking blade of grass. I don't think it matters how good the picture looks if what is on the screen is still the same old boring shit that was there before. Besides, I don't feel like buying Star Wars yet again.

That's it for now. Laterzzz...

Labels: Google, hdtv, internet, Obama, Star Wars

// posted by Biff Manly @ 10:37 PM 0 comments

I watch the news.

Were you aware that prices were going up? I was not aware of this. I was not aware that the money I was making a year ago is just not buying as much shit now as it was then. I was not aware that a fucking 4% raise barely covers the cost of living. And let me be totally clear here, I know that 4% is more than some people get.

The question I have when they are talking about this one news is "why are you surprised?"

I have been saying that this is coming. We have been living in this country like the party will never end. Especially when it comes to the price of gas and with people buying SUV's. Then you have people buying houses that they can't afford. What the hell did they think was going to happen?

You want a fucking example of the fucked up thinking? Vehicle navigation systems. Why the fuck are people buying these things? Buy a damn map asshole. I seriously doubt that most of these thing are ever used. I bet you have a certain group of people who can't use them. They just can't get the hang of them. Then you have the people who use them once, maybe twice. Most people only drive to the same places every damn day. What do they need a five hundred dollar navigation system for? This should be a niche item but they are everywhere. It is just a waste.

That is what we do here in this country. It is like we are kids and can't wait to play with the next new toy. Flat screens, Ipods, Tempurpedics; crap that no one needs.

While we waste our resources on this shit the price of food goes through the roof. People are evicted from their houses. And we piss away our limited money fighting wars in countries around the world. It's fucking insane.

God, what is the answer?

Why is it so hard for the people in this country to see that we have start building up America again? We have to make our country stronger. We need to build roads and transportation systems. We need to make sure that no person ever has to be homeless. We need to make it so that if you lose your job you don't have to worry that you are going to end up on the street, that you will be retrained and as long as you want to work you will get a job. We need to make sure that water and power arrive in each home and that waste is taken away.

This is going to cost. It is going to cost money. It is going to cost time. It is going to cost someone having the balls to step up and say to America, "it isn't going to be easy but the next few years we are all going to have to sacrifice to make sure that this is the best country in the world. Nothing worth while is ever easy and nothing is free."

Ah fuck it. I shouldn't watch the news. It just makes me think. And that is mostly never a good thing.

Laterzzz...