My Head Hurts

Between the Iphone, Google’s “Android”, Tera byte drives, ultra mobile computers, smart phones, web 2.0, open source, ipod,vista,facebook, and whatever else is flying up on my Cnet newsfeed all i want to do is explode.

Isnt technology supposed to make our lives easier? Right now it seems to be doing the opposite. I have to be proficient on Windows,Mac, and Linux. I have to be able to text messages like a mofo, and have like 5 different social networking profiles because all my real world friends are on different networks…and let not even talk about those e-friends.

If i want good music quality i have to buy the player that has no support or accessories, but if i buy the one everyone else uses it has all this great stuff…but it sound like crap when i plug it in my stereo. It makes me miss my records.

None of my time saving applications work on all the computers i use, so whats the point? I cant keep a cell phone because the companies keep buy each other out and telling me i need a new one to stay compatible. I have all this networking and communicating software, yet i feel lonely because the interaction doesnt seem real.

I have decided to move in a few months and i think when that happens i will “unplug” other than this blog which is my only source of online enjoyment.

I will leave you with a quote from the great George Carlin that is really ringing true to me right now: “We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.”

Al Gore Saves the World and Brings World Peace Wherever He Goes.

Al Gore is the greatest man that ever lived. He has single handily solved hunger, disease, crime, social strife,stomped out hate, inspired a generation or two, and of course saved the environment from certain death by our sad excuse for a government. Yep hes a great guy and im so happy he was finally recognized by winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Now he has legitimacy that no one unless they are totally delusional can dispute. Now he can take his message of goodness to an even higher level to inspire others to write, speak out, or produce movies. Yep, thanks to Al Gore Gene Roddenberry’s vision of the future in Star Trek is just around the corner. Who knew a little small screen movie, a concert, and a global campaign on one issue would bring about peaceful co-existence! Im so glad im around to see it.

and….the bubble pops!

This may be my logical mind at work but isnt “the Nobel Peace Prize” supposed to go to someone that promotes…well…PEACE?

I mean if they gave him the “Nobel Envirmentalist Prize” or “The Nobel Small Screen movie of the Year Prize” i probably wouldnt be so synical but i just cant see how Al Gore deserves an award with the designation of Peace Prize.

When i think of Nobel i think of Mother Teresa, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela, and FDR…does Al Gore come even close to figures like that? I dont think so. Is working for peace so unpopular that they had to give the award out to individuals that have had nothing to do with peace? If so its a really sad day and im moving to Iceland, a nice peaceful stable country that i have great respect for.

or maybe Nobel is getting back to its roots of ludicrous irony? You know they fact that its named after the guy that invented dynamite and with it a whole new age of warfare….Ya, im like and elephant and dont forget little tid bits like that.

Bottom line: the Nobel Peace Prize holds about as much water as Al Gore (not to be confused with hot air…though that analogy works too). Its sad though, the Nobel Prize had a good amount of legtimacy for some time..like when it recognized people that deserved recognition…and for the reason the award was designated for.