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Thanksgiving: A Memory of Tomorrows

Mother bakes a pie.
Father preps the bird.
Relatives look on,
with reverence and reserve.

Bill and Jill sneak away
making to the shed out back.
The dog noses near,
and awaits the time to attack.

Cousins pound upon each other
blackening an eye.
People come running
when little Timmy cries.

Grandpa finishes the whiskey
hiding the bottle away.
Grandma pops another pill
to make it through the day.

Father turns his back,
The dog steals the bird.
Mother goes off to “Steve’s”,
saying not a word.

The dog hunches the bird
it stole off to the corner.
Bill hunches Jill.
He’s diseased, but decided not to warn her.

Steve and mother sniff up powder
to make their sex feel better.
Cocaine is the pain
that always makes my mother wetter.

The family convenes
fulfilled and drugged and hungry.
Somehow people overlook dog hair
that made my father so angry.

I get my gun while they feed their faces,
forgetting I’m still away.
This, my friends, is my final note to all
on this joyous Thanksgiving day.

I want my piece of the pie. Before 2012 and the end of the world and the Mayans and all that, I would really like to spend a couple of days not having to worry about waking up on time to get to work, working for other people and all that. Mind you, I hold nothing against the company I work for. I like the people and the environment is comfortable, but I think I would be a liar to say that I didn’t want a little bit of extra coin in my pocket. A couple million would do just fine.

Okay, Microsoft, I know you have the cash. Out with it. You’re paying Old Man Murdoch, so what about the little guy? Am I not good enough for you? I guess I should be louder and more obnoxious to match Rupert’s troupe of fear and hate-mongering stooges like Glenn Beck. Okay, umm… here goes: Read more »

It was stated on The Art of Talk, “neutrality in this day and age is death,” regarding CNN eliminating advocacy journalists from their ranks, such as Lou Dobbs. Ultimately, it seems, we live in a time when everyone wants to tell you what you think and this is most apparent in the sheer number of advocacy journalists in mass media today.

The claim is, people have a position and you are only neutral if you are dead. In other words, I can’t simply want to know what’s going on around the world, I must listen to someone voice their opinion about it to simply get the news? I hardly think this is reasonable.

I have stopped watching TV, as stated in another blog, and this is the main reason why. I choose to think for myself and mass media has made it increasingly difficult to do so. Not only do they want to tell you what is going on, but they want to tell you how to feel about it. Read more »

I lay on my bed and visions run through my head. Data trees burn under hacker napalm. Worms till the cyber soil and corpses of long lost friends are strewn across the wasteland that was once a lush, tropic of cyber bliss. Don’t touch them, the virus will infect you too. This is the war being waged on this giant network called the Internet.

A mere 10 years ago, the whole playing field was different. People were excited about the new possibilities the web had to offer. Words like modem and baud still floated around and the Pentium II was considered decent technology. We we all so much younger then. Naive might be a better word. Read more »

Yep, nothing says I love you like a heroin overdose. Now you can tell the world with a shirt. I even pulled together a little cafepress Spreadshirt site.

Go buy one already. They make great Christmas gifts for that up and coming rock star you know. Little Jimmy can rock the stage so much better with one.

http://boygenerica.spreadshirt.com/

Note: I originally set this up with CafePress not knowing that they would suck at every turn. I got fed up and went to Spreadshirt. It was a much better idea.

Small and not in charge of very much. So, people are starting to talk about Apple’s “everything killer” but, to be honest, I am not impressed. Just what I want is a device where everything I do is even more consolidated. Let’s make it into a car too, shall we? When it fails, and it will fail, I won’t have any of my documents, music, e-books and so on and I won’t have a car to get me around either. That sounds like a great idea!

Let’s get really real for a moment, shall we? First off, the more functions you build into something, the more complicated it becomes. It’s just the nature of things. That complication ends up confusing the user. It’s gotten to the point where users expect something to be complicated to learn, so when it is simple, they get lost. This is no joke, folks!

Second*, I really don’t want everything I do to be tied to a single device. Imagine if your books and your music and all of you photos and your documents and, say, your whole world were tied to a single device. Think of the convenience! Think of the catastrophe! Gadgets fail. It’s inevitable. Think about the problem people had with the Microsoft Sidekick data “whoops” moment. Needless to say, people weren’t pleased when their contacts, data, e-mails and what-have-you just disappeared into the ether. Read more »

My computer belongs to me. You don’t own it. This is something of a mantra to me. For some strange reason, every company, which creates software you either purchase or download as a supplement to other hardware you own, seems to think that once you install their software, they own your computer. From DRM to Windows Genuine Advantage and back around to Apple crippling hacked iPhones, everyone wants to tell consumers what they can and cannot do with the equipment they purchase.

This drives me insane. Is the future really set for people to purchase specialty hardware just so their lives can be ruled by software manufacturers? Is it really okay to add secret back-doors into your hardware so it can be deactivated if a software distributor decides you’ve broken their code of honor? I’m not sure I want to live in a world like that. Read more »

If you live in the United states, you have probably heard about the shooting at Fort Hood. This tragedy was perpetrated by a military man whom, also, was an islamic extremist. Nidal Hassan opened fire on armed and unarmed military personnel. Even if this was an act of war, it is a direct violation of Rules of Engagement. Needless to say, I think hanging from the neck until dead is a punishment that does no justice to the crime, but he has yet to be tried, convicted and sentenced, so we shall see what comes of this waste of human flesh.

Now, it appears, we have a group that wants to spread hate just that much further. Revolution Muslim is a domestic Islamic extremist group. I can’t go so far as to say they are a terror organization, but it wouldn’t surprise me if some of them had a hand in something either past or future. Read more »