| | Yes, that's what I'm opening with. I realize that I haven't written in a long long while. It's because I have been busy, really busy, stupidly busy and the times when I haven't been busy I've been in the mountains hiding from the interconnected lifestyle that is the modern world.
I have 2 cell phones, 6 email accounts, 3 chatting services and an average of 25 text messages that come in daily. No, you haven't seen me online in a while, that's because I'm no longer logging in to MSN, gtalk, ICQ, facebook chat etc etc. Guess what? None of these things interest me at all. If I wanted to talk to you, or you wanted to talk to me, we'll go for tea. But if you send one !@%^ing text message I'm probably going to snap.
Big business can kiss my ass too. I've had it with the muscle of the huge shops squashing everything in their way. Wal-mart is the obvious target but Apple, Future-shop, Safe-way, Save-On, Sobeys, you're on my radar. There was a time, when we were all cheering for Apple, cheering for them to take down Microsoft as the only "choice" in the PC market. Well, that has happened and now where are we? We've given them too much support, now they are the biggest music distributor on the planet. Future-Shop and Best Buy... A) You're the same store. B) I have no idea where any other electronics retailer is, but I know where 8 future shops are. C) You're selling musical instruments now? You didn't have enough money pushing the smaller electronics stores out of the picture, you need music shops now too? There was a time when Wal-mart's low prices were helping create competition, now they've just wiped out all competition. The places we buy our food are an endless abyss of "made in china". That bag of baby carrots you're eating? It says made in China on the back. That pepper your looking at? Guatemala. Meanwhile we bitch about our local farmers getting hand outs from the government.
And don't even get me started on Facebook.
The time I enjoy most of all in life is when I am out of cell range. The time I enjoy most in life is when email piles up in my inbox un-read and un-answered. The time I enjoy most in my life is a time that my watch barely ever sees, that makes me grumpy, and that's why the modern world can kiss my ass. |
| | Posted 10/13/2009 12:07 PM - 21 Views - 0 eProps - 0 comments
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