Christmas 2008

January 10, 2009 Dan No Comments

 

Thanks to Liz for the photos.

Are People Finally Going To Figure Out Texting Is a Scam?

January 6, 2009 Dan No Comments

I don’t text. Why should I pay for something that should be free, or at least is so overpriced it can only be labeled a scam? The fact is that text can be compressed to about 5% of its original size or even smaller, so text messages — which are already small enough — can be made very tiny.

And for this the mobile carriers want to charge 10 to 20 cents a pop?

Scam scam scam.

The good news is that people are finally asking questions. Yahoo! Tech reports on how one person questioned the system.

I guess it only took 5 years to figure out something that should have been common sense to any computer person.

In other news, I collected 40 links to gaming sites today. No real reason this is news other than the fact that it took about twice as long as I’d intended to spend and was rather boring.

Singing about Singing

January 4, 2009 Ann 2 Comments

I don’t know what it is, but songs about singing just bug me. We used to sing a bunch of cheesy songs in the chorus I was in for a few years, all about the power of music. Just let the music be powerful, and stop singing about it. You’re just watering down the message and treating people like they’re stupid.

Then there’s the songs that refer to themselves, like the endless loop of a mirror reflecting another mirror. At the top of this list is ”Your Song” by Elton John. “You can tell everybody that this is your song.” I mean, I wish he’d just written me a real song. And let’s not get started on how Princess Di’s ghost must’ve felt when he sang that song to her about Marilyn Monroe, pretending like no one would notice.

Another one that bugs me is Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain.” When she tells me, “You probably think this song is about you,” I get trapped in that crazy loop again. After all, she’s talking to me and then insinuating that the song is not really about me, or maybe she is, I don’t know. I’m so confused.

So maybe it’s the song writers who are vain, thinking we care to listen to them musically masturbating. Just get over yourselves already.