A retraction and more
A month ago I ripped into Logitech because of a few reasons, one being that I thought my mousewheel was broken. Turns out I hit the button on the bottom that takes away the resistance so you can do ‘infinite’ scrolling. This was useful once for one blog I read, where the comments section has 25 comments at a time and only “Next” and “Previous” on the bottom of the pages to navigate. Luckily, once I hit the second page, if I just type ’99′ in the URL where it has the page number, it jumps to the last page with comments, and thus I reverted my mouse back. This however does not change the cord still being frayed after I had to cut the fabric loose when it was kinking up the cord, and also the clear plastic grip that is over the mouse is still peeling away like someone who has had sunburn for a few days. It doesn’t change my opinion of this crappy mouse, but I’m at least not fully done with Logitech devices now I guess.
So lately I have been doing a whole lot of nothing. I purchased Guitar Hero World Tour last weekend with the full band kit and have been going through that on drums now. During the week I had to leave it here as my wife’s nieces are visiting from New Jersey for a month and they wanted to play, though I may bring that to play a night or two this week. I also brought Fable II which did not impress me for the first hour or so that I played, though I haven’t had much time to play since again I didn’t have the 360 with me during the week.
I have reached obsession level listening to “MUSE” lately. I don’t think I’ve played anything besides their songs for over a month, and heavy rotation for at least 3 now. I’m like a giddy 14-year-old Jonas Brothers fan waiting in anticipation of their new CD coming out in September. They are opening for U2 in October here in Houston, I’m considering going just to watch them play an hour and leave.
I have been trying to read more lately. Currently in the middle of The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing. After getting through only about 5 chapters, it already has made me think about commercials in a new way.
A few quick comments about current events:
- Obama’s remarks about Officer Crowley “acting stupidly” were completely out line, especially when he “didn’t have all the facts.” Officer Crowley was completely in the right. Gates was trying to act tough to “the man” and got burned. He is lucky he wasn’t charged with a few more crimes for not giving his ID over at first as well as resisting arrest, according to the police report.
- Obama’s health care reform is a joke. We need a single payment system completely run by the government and nothing less. Health care should not be profitable for rich investors in insurance companies. These are peoples’ lives, not to mention that our system is inefficient, wasteful, costs people more money, they are not diagnosed as fast, and people wind up paying more in the end compared to other countries with real state-run health care systems like Canada and England. This is a no-brainer, Americans are too greedy if they are rich and stupid if they are poor to keep more of our necessary industries out of government control. Quite honestly, we let the idea of capitalism run too far, and at this point I support Obama’s “socialist” ideas simply because America has proven it is too stupid to run itself without the government having a great amount of control.
- Get upset that I’m OK with a lot of the socialist reforms? Then read this. Yeah, a man told a senator to keep the government’s hands off his Medicare. The problem is, this isn’t an isolated incident: Simply put, most Americans are too stupid. It isn’t necessarily their fault either. Our society encourages this kind of idiocy. We make Paris Hilton a star just because she is rich and dumb, and little girls look up to her and emulate her by saying the same things and wanting to spend hundreds on clothes and purses.
- None of this really matters anyway, because the Republicans and Democrats are at ends so much that nothing is getting done anyway, just so one side can prove they are right rather than actually let a law pass that might help Americans.
psych starts again on Friday! I’ll finally have something to look forward to watching again. Hell’s Kitchen already started, and is really the only prime time TV I watch. I’m still addicted to HGTV. David Bromstad from Color Splash has some awesome ideas.
Sadly, this is the best I could do to talk about things going on in my life right now.