Today went fine except the point where I was almost hit by an ambulance. I was just about to go through an intersection when he cut right in front of me (he was turning left to go in the direction that I was coming from). No lights, no siren, no nothing, just driving like he was in an car race. On top of it all he was talking on a cellular phone. Why do I have the feeling that hitting him would have been MY fault?
I was listening to this band on the radio. Nothing special, just more of the same formula rock you hear everywhere now. Originality may be dead, stay tuned. Listening to this guys lyrics didn’t yield anything special either. All he does is bitch and complain about his childhood. I want to listen to this because….? Of course, reading about me bitching and complaining about someone else bitching and complaining might give the same response in you was well. Next thing you know, I’ll be complaining about the internet, ON the internet. Wouldn’t that be interesting?
The part where I complain about the internet
I see all kinds of things these days where people and interest groups are championing the development of the internet in places where it currently is absent. The most recent example I saw of this came out of the G-8 summit. Something about getting 3rd world countries access. Why? Many people have pointed out that perhaps a better way to help these countries is not through access to AltaVisto or Yeeha, but perhaps through financial aid, food, or forgiveness of debt. Well, duh!. Of course, our Prime Minister Cretin pointed out that since they didn’t have telephone lines – well they can just use cell phones. Lunacy! There seems to be a lot of this going around. Why is the internet considered essential or necessary? Sure its nice, and I wouldn’t want to give it up, but I don’t NEED it. I once saw a website that had words to this effect on it (and nothing else): “This is the last page in the internet. Now go outside and play.”
Exactly!
Read a book dammit!
Isn’t there this big push in the US to have every school equipped with internet access? I have heard similar things here in BC as well. Why? When I went to high school there was seldom enough in the way of text books for everybody, so some had to go without. Would the internet have solved this? Should we be spending what little education dollars we have in order to supply the internet when things like textbooks are severely lacking? People are starting to get the impression that the internet is the only way to learn, to gather information. Its occasionally good for that, but I also find mostly misinformation there too. Rarely do I ever find any information on the internet that would be usable in any academic setting. This is where I search for the frivolous, not for the important. So why the big push towards getting this into schools? Because its trendy? I don’t know, but I just don’t think that it is necessary.
This is the end of this update. Now go outside and play.