Neanderpundit

About every two years. There’s an Apple faction, and an Android faction. Ordinarily the Apple faction is sales and other dumbasses, with a few power users; the Android folks are mostly engineers.

I’m clearly in the Android camp, predominantly because of the apps and the fact that Jobs never touched it. I dislike the whole cloyingly self righteous fanbois bullshit, and frankly, can do more with my phone than I need, so it’s plenty good for me.

And when the damned phone updates it makes me nuts for a month while I try to get it back to the SETTINGS I WANTED AND HAD PERFECT BEFORE YOU UPDATED THEM.

Lollipop my ass.

Mom and I don’t see eye to eye on a number of things, and I decided- on a mothers day, when all this came about- that the best I could do was to stay away, and I have. I miss Mom and love her and pray for her constantly, but we can’t be together. I desperately wish that were not so, but it is. So the Ogwife and Daughter visit with her today, and I stay out of it. Enjoy your moms today.

M Alger gave me grief and subsequently “Ignored” me on facebook because I called him on “unintended consequences”. He maintains, they aren’t. Well, that’s horsecrap of the deepest, just because people aren’t prescient, and nobody pays attention to what they’re doing. It might certainly well be that the criminal- er, ruling classes understand and plot against us, and we can certainly see evidence of that without looking to hard- but for people like that to be in charge in the first place, requires legitimate and demonstrable acts of unintended consequence. I’m in a different factory every day, all over the damned country (Though more local than I used to be) and I am here to tell you, and you can take this as gospel truth: People are dumbasses. Even if you tell them of the consequences of their actions, they will do so anyway, and in the main, you really don’t know. Feel free to pipe up if you’ve never done anything you later thought, well, that was particularly stupid because X happened, and I fully didn’t expect that. I’ll wait.

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