Primary Season Is Far too Long

I am sitting here looking at the New Hampshire returns. Now more than ever I am regretting the 24 hour news cycle. Since 6:00 pm MSNBC has had moment by moment coverage of the returns, even though they were not allowed to talk about any real returns until the polls closed at 8:00 pm.

Who are these people who demand such coverage. I would be more than happy to see returns once they were all in. I don't need to know the returns with only 10% of the precincts reporting. I think CNN even has a real time counter. How are they doing that, more important, why are they doing that?!?

We as a nation are over informed, over stimulated and I am thinking about unplugging from the news cycle. The problem is that Sweetie is a news junkie, he watches CNN, C-SPAN, and the weather channel. If there is a good, well written TV show he will watch that, but as you can imagine they are few and far in between. The Office, Scurubs, David Letterman and Curb Your Enthusiasm are favorites. I also like the Daily Show, all Law and Order shows are also my favorites. Sweetie watches TV in the same way that some people only read non fiction. Oh yes, I totally forgot, he is a huge Yankee's fan, and loves football (The Giants). When I am at home I like to spend time with Sweetie, so he does watch some things that I am sure are not his preference, like the shows I like on HGTV (I like the designer shows, and the house transformation shows, he prefers DIY with This Old House and any wood working shows). All in all it works well, as I do like being informed, though not as informed as Sweetie likes to be.

You Tube is also a phenomena that I don't understand. Sure some of the videos are funny, but to me they are similar to chain letters and the jokes that people forward. Again, I am not part of that wave. I am far from a troglodyte, actually I am very nearly an early adopter (I would be one if I were not so cheep) but there are levels of information I choose not to participate in. Over stimulation, over informed and subject to people's personal lives on video are too much for me.

Dear reader, you can call me to task as I do have a blog, and it is filled with my personal musings, but it isn't that easy to find and I hardly ever tell people where to find it. I think that counts.

By the way, I did not go to work today due to a stomach ache, so I did not get dressed, so I have not repeated an outfit yet.

Mental Masturbation

Even though I am potentially running late for work I felt the compulsion to write this blog now so that I wouldn't have 13 posts on my blog. I am working on a few ideas for my next posts, theme songs, and arranged marriages, but right now I don't have the time to do justice to either post. So I am slapping this together, while I know I should be doing something else, because I have 13 prior posts, and I wanted 14.

I will sit on the 13th row of an airplane, I will stay on the 13th floor of a hotel, and I will even totally forget that it is Friday the 13th. But for some reason seeing that I had 13 posts bothered me.

This post is what bothers me about blogging, I cant honestly think that anyone cares about me and my desire to get past my 13th post. But if you do, let me know.

The Digital Ghetto

I love my Apple computer products. My I-mac, MacBook and I-pod.

I started out with Mac in grade school, my father is an early adopter and he was one of the first home users of the Mac. I took one to college (my roommate had an electric typewriter). Its only recently that Apple products have gained close to their rightful place in technology users hands and homes. Thank goodness for the I-pod. I have a 1st generation i-pod, and based on my desire to have one I came back to the Mac.

Unfortunately, other than in the creative fields, corporate America runs on the PC. As a long time Apple fan, I cant understand why. Macs are so much easier, more elegant and more intuitive to use. But the PC and Microsoft dominance remains. I am fine with people having to deal with viruses, and programing issues, but what I am not fine with is the fact that doing things on the world wide web are either not available to me as an Appleite (I just made this word up) or are much harder for me to do.

Take blogging for example. I am having problems uploading photos, widgets, and the java applications are murder. Why? Because I use a Mac. I also can not take advantage of Netfliks view now option, unless I steal Sweetie's computer. Fortunately for you dear reader, blog spot has recently improved its Mac friendliness and I can now check my spelling using the built in spell checkers instead of copying pasting and doing all sorts of other gymnastics.

Maybe one day. Until then I am going to continue with my love affair with Mr. Jobs and his products.