That’s all I got

I am beginning to see a trend in the folks that I read everyday.

Now that I have seen it, I am thinking how silly the whole thing is.

As a group, us bloggers seem to sneer at “short-term solutions” and posit our words of genius as the only possible long term solution.

The trouble is, no one is interested in our solutions, as they really don’t address the problem, they just seem to make us certain of our omniscience.

I am coming to the conclusion that all “solutions” are expedient and consist of holding things together that really don’t want to stay that way.  Finance, politics, military, personal, it is all the same.  Solutions change day to day and the problems themselves morph and adapt to the changes and become something else entirely.

Now, would someone please pass me the duct tape.

Operating System Snobs

I have a tendency toward this little bit of bad taste.

Part of it is part and parcel of my paranoia and generalized distrust of the human condition and its followers.

I am getting over it though.

The vehicle for my recovery is an odd one.  The NSA and Windows 8.

Now, I am absolutely certain that the NSA can, should they wish, extract everything from my writings and even go into my “private files” to discover what the hell it s about the aging, fat, and cynical being that writes as “Degringolade”.  Well, they will find out that I have a libertarian bent, don’t think that the American empire will stand, and have an unhealthy obsession with big boobs.

So what?

The Windows 8 system probably has backdoors written all over the place so that the NSA can peek.  Hell, my guess is that the NSA can figure out a way to get into an air-gapped computer should they choose. The recent revelations about the possibility of a low level jump into a air gapped computer using microphones and speakers makes me certain of this.

So, what is an operating system?

A convenient service is all.  The operating system should be judged on its convenience and the way you relate to it.  If you like Mac’s splurge and make yourself happy. If you are a control freak, download Linux and go to town.  If you are lazy, fire up Windows and go for it.  Now, these aren’t the only reasons to use these systems.  Artists seem to flow better with Macs.  Windows is business.  Nerd-dom loves its Linux.

But truth be told, they all work just dandy.  If you claim otherwise, you are as silly as the “Buick Men” of the ‘50s and the morons with stupid sayings, disparaging other makes of trucks, plastered across the back of their pickup.

Thinking about it

So:

I am again getting close to being content and relaxed with my station in life and how things are proceeding in the small sphere of my day to day existence.

I am considering starting up the screed.  It seems to flow better if I am content and things are working reasonably well.

Things in the big world haven't changed much.  The targets for my venom are still standing.  The oddity that is our culture and civilization still loom above us in all their madness.

Keep an eye out, posts may start dropping here occasionally.