Miscellaneous thoughts

My wife and I have recently joined Facebook and it has been an interesting experience. It's amazing how intertwined everyone becomes being friends of friends. It would make a good example of how STD's spread! We have resorted to dragging out the old school yearbooks to put faces to names. What I realized today that we are all old as hell!

The other day, I went outside to take out the trash and have a smoke. I was carrying one of those BBQ/candle lighters in my left hand and a bag of trash with my right hand. Apparently, these lighters are made for right-handed people, because I couldn't light the damn thing without switching hands. Left-handers, my thoughts are with you.

Ol' Bill Gates has really been pushing Windows 7 on us. Last year, I jumped from W2K Pro straight to Vista, bypassing XP altogether. 8 months later, here comes 7. Between the ads from Micro$oft about how great and error-free it is and Apple's ads about how they have always been great and error-free, I wonder why we should pay for an upgrade to 7 anyway. If the previous versions of Windows were so crappy, we should all get free upgrades! At the risk of pissing off my Mac-using friends and relatives, it hasn't always been the answer either. It's expensive owning a Mac. I guess it's like shopping at a mall store instead of Walmart. Mr. Gates has made a shitload of money by selling us a mediocre product and no amount of well-publicized do-gooding will gloss that over.

Tiger in the tank

After nearly a week of listening to the media bullshit about Tiger Woods and his accident, I feel like I might as well put in my 12 cents (2 cents in 1929 dollars). First of all, anyone in the media who apologizes for reporting this story (like Richelle Carey and Christi Paul of HLN), you're full of crap! It looks like the media is out to completely destroy Tiger's reputation. I guess there is nothing else happening in the world this week. Even Nancy Grace (who I can't stand) is bumping her gums about it. In her usual hypocritical way, she has veered from being the "champion of the little people" to her version of Jane Velez Mitchell (who is also a loudmouth).
I know Tiger is and has been the darling of the sports world due to his clean rep and incredible golf skills. To say that he should be held to a higher standard because he is the top guy in his game is silly. He is a human just like the rest of us except for the piles of cash and low golf score. Look at the top performers in any sport. While there are a lot of sports figures with clean values and good intentions, there are also a bunch of arrogant assholes out there. Most of the time, when one excels at their sport for any length of time, they get way too full of themselves. Look at Tebow. I'm surprised his teammates don't beat the crap out of him for grandstanding.
It is reported that many children look up to Tiger Woods and that this is one of the reasons why he shouldn't drag his family problems into the public eye. He's not the one who did it! The media did. Speaking of role models, I know people who still swear OJ didn't do it! There are kids out there who follow all of the wrestling teams. Now, there's a role model! Some guy with shaggy, sweaty hair and a big tat on his face, yelling into the camera.
My point is that some of us put way too much faith in our fellow humans. We are all fallible. That's the way God made us. Tiger's marital problems are between him and his wife and/or lawyer and are none of our business, no matter how famous he is. The media should be following news that really affects us like what Congress is doing or not doing.
BTW, I actually saw an article about "green" living where there are people who refuse to use leather restraints (wink,wink,nudge,nudge) made from slaughtered cattle. What do they use, road kill?