The Middle Finger to @Jack and Twitter
I deleted my twitter account today. It’s probably not a big deal, a couple of hundred people will be following one less account, some tag games will have one less person taking part, and...
Category: Things I hate
Why Conservative Radio and TV Thrives and Others Don’t
It’s taken me a few swings to get this article written. It’s sort of a weird topic, one that was started by an online discussion I was following for a bit. The simple question...
Fortnite: How I Got Away From The Craze
I love Fortnite. Epic games has produced what amounts to a masterwork when it comes to gaming, something that is both visually stimulating and mentally challenging. It’s a Battle Royale, 100 players at a...
How Facebook is Losing Its True Value
Facebook has found itself in some serious trouble. The social media giant has gotten itself into a real issue with a company called Cambridge Analytica, which apparently got pretty easy access to the personal...
Makings of a Political Sh-tStorm
It’s been another tough week for President Trump, and he has a lot of those. In fact, probably 50 out of the last 52 has been tough, with 2 good ones when he was...
2017 We Hardly Knew Ya
Where has time gone? It seems likely only yesterday that I was writing about the first season of the Grand Tour (Season Two is here, sort of like the Dacia Sandero), and Bernie getting...
NASCAR Hits The Wall With a Dull Thud
NASCAR was it. Stock car racing in America hit it’s peak sometime in the 90s, with stars, money, big new tracks, and even it’s own Tom Cruise movie in Days Of Thunder. It was...
Fire Colbert and The Strangeness of the Trump Era
This will be a bit of a short story, but I have to say something because I find it pretty offensive. On Stephen Colbert’s late night show monologue on May 2nd, the comedian and...
Burning Note 7s Leave Samsung Smoldering
As loyal readers will know, I use to be a big fan of Samsung. In fact, we are effectively a Samsung Family, with my wife, myself, and my son all using Samsung phones, tablets,...
Samsung Update: Love affair undone by an Edge S7
It’s sort of funny how things work out. I recently posted up that we are a Samsung Family. From Tablets to TVs, phones, and so on, our house is a virtual history of Samsung...
Will Political Correctness Finally Crash Land and Die?
I am old enough to remember a time when there was no such thing as political correctness, where you could call a fat person fat, a black person black, and people who now mentally...
Anonymous Internet and The Rule of The Minority
I often read the site Techdirt, in part because I find it endlessly fascinating how a small group of people can twist and convoluted everything in the universe to fit their small, limited agenda....
Diversity Is The Ultimate Tech Red Herring
One of the more noble goals of our society is to give everyone an equal chance. The western world’s history has been one of inequality, from slavery and Apartheid to women not being able...
The Shame in Shaming The Shamers
I think shaming is perhaps the 2015 buzzword / trend / excuse that most annoys me. Well, not actually the shaming, but rather people who insist on taking every negative opinion and trying to...
