HTML Cleanup

I am not a programmer and I don’t claim to be. However I noticed I had some crappy HTML code on my blog that was making things look weird and have extra stuff attached. I cleaned up some of it.

 

As a geek it looks bad.

 

Later all

Monetization of Blogs

http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/eai/integration/archives/the-real-purpose-of-a-blog-4214 and it kind of sickened me. As a blogger I say that my motivation has nothing to do with money and I would stop blogging before I would dare try to capitalize on my readers. Blogs like most of the Internet are being hijacked by the marketing crowd who seem to see $$$ attached to everything. Cant we have one little corner of what was once a free for all (Internet) that isn’t monetized. I don’t know how amyone else feels but I am just getting fed up with the capitalism and consumerism particularly online. I think I will start a gopher site just to be in the free zone

This also made me ask why do I blog? Well I do because I like to get my thoughts out. I like to think I am adding something to world by sharing my thoughts and experiences. Also I like to meet cool people and read their stuff. No I am not seeing it as social networking market. I really do hope someone can benefit from my rambling nonsense. I know I do from the blogs of fellow bloggers and friends.

Salem Drivers Suck

I drive all over this state at different times. My work takes me to the Portland area about once or twice a month. Other than traffic jams, I find Portland to have decent drivers and to be easy to drive in compared to many big cities (ie. Minneapolis, DC, Denver, Chicago, Kansas City, etc).

 

Salem on the other hand is a different story. Being small, it doesn’t have the traffic but I am always having a near miss with some freaking SUV or monster truck. I-5 is like a speedway. The speed limit is 60 (except in construction zone that is all of S Salem) but I can do 65-70 and still have some moron come up behind me like I am a speedbump.

 

Its not just me. Insurance companies say that Salem has more accidents than the rest of Oregon. I wonder why this is. Could it be that its full of right wingers with monster trucks and Tahoes? I don’t know but I would rather drive in Portland any day than on I-5 thru Salem. The only thing similar but worse is Salt Lake City and places in Idaho. Hmmm those are red states.

 

Perhaps insurance companies who are corrupt and use unfair practices like credit scoring should start charging higher rates for those who are registered Republicans. Not sure about the connection but something is wrong

Beligerant Asshole

OK so I have started working out and I was in the locker room of the health club and there was this guy who was VERY LOUD. I think he was drunk because he was rambling to anyone who would listen. He said that Hillary is a bitch, Obama is an idiot and he was in the Marines so he knows how things are. He thinks McCain is the answer to all our problems. He also said that he would like to see an America where criminals have no Miranda rights and we just shoot them on the spot. Next he said this is Oregon and everyone in Oregon is a stupid pothead. OK. I almost asked him then why are you here then?

 

I didn’t approach this narrow minded moron but I would have if I thought I could have had an intelligent conversation with him. One person did talk to him and it almost turned physically violent.

 

I guess what gets me is that I had to listen to this crap and that he could be such a narrow minded bigot. I guess we should be thankful that we live in a country where idiots can spew there madness. Though he did get obsene and crude when talking about Clinton and Lewinsky.

 

Another thing I have noticed is outside of small pockets in the valley, Oregon is not nearly as liberal (in fact downright redneck conservative) then most would think.

 

If I was a republican I would be less likely to support McCain knowing this dipwad likes him.

 

 

My First Computer

Back in the 80s when I got my first computer, I thought it was Awesome. With its 1K of RAM and casette storage. It was the Sinclair.

This pic is not my actual computer as its long gone but it looks just like it.

Oh for the good old days. BASIC was fun.

Annoyance

Ok so I went to oil can henrys in salem to get an oil change. The guy with his plastered smile who couldn't complete a sentence without using the word sir(which seems so fake and makes me feel old) anyway he tries to sell me over 100 dollars worth of other services. I declined and was irritated. He still smiles like the plastic people in the black hole sun video

Next I go to carls jr ( I know I am on a diet but I still gotta eat) this guy is sickenly smiley and kept saying sir as well. He tried to sell me fries and a big drink.

I hate suggestive selling and I won't be a victim anymore. No I don't want fries with that. I don't want to spend 20 bucks on an air filter I can get for 5 and install myself

I am not a walking market segment. I am more than one who consumes so the rich get richer

I am a freaking person. I do not exist to pad the pockets of the rich elite