I had the worst morning ever Friday that put me in a crabby mood that I am just getting over. I am on the night shift now, so all this happened when I was tired after a 12 hour overnight shift at work and ready for bed.
When I cam home right away I noticed that the dog had gotten into the garbage downstairs, and there was garbage all over the downstairs. While I was cleaning it up, one of the cats threw up upstairs. While I was cleaning that up, our other cat threw up. I don’t know what’s with our cats, but they sure puke a lot.
So after I cleaned up after our pets I was ready for bed. The Wife always shuts the lights off at the lamp instead of the switch — which bugs the hell out of me — so I have to walk through the dark room to find the lamp. For some reason last night she put the hamper in the middle of the floor. I tripped over that damn thing, and smashed into the wall. My shoulder and knee still hurt a little from it. Then, as I was laying on the floor, I reached for the lamp, and lo and behold, she had a glass of water right there and I spilt it all over the floor and myself.
I don’t know what else could have gone wrong Friday morning, and really my whole Friday sucked. I’m sure hoping the weekend is better.
Fake Problems teamed up with Brian Fallon of The Gaslight Anthem to cover the Blink 182 track “Dammit” while performing live in Vancouver earlier this month. Both bands were recently in Fargo, and I am a little bummed that I missed it.
Brian Dunning has a great podcast called Skeptoid, and has recently started producing videos at Infact. This one of exceptionally good explaining the ingredients that are included in vaccines without all the fear mongering.
It’s a new Garfunkel and Oats song! You gotta love Garfunkel and Oats. They have an album on iTunes. It’s Great. I bought it. You should too. They have a few free songs on their website. They are great too. I downloaded them. You should too.
Is everybody else as sick of hearing about the Qur’an burning as me?
Why is this news?
So some nut thinks 0.00000000001% of the Muslim population represents them all. With that kind of thinking, you might as well say, “Since all Christians want to blow up federal buildings, lets burn some Bibles on April 20th”. It’s just plain stupid.
Since nowadays we have many 24 hour news channels, and most of the time nothing is really going on, they need some kind of ratings boosting story. So nuts like Terry Jones, the Balloon Boy, and many others make headlines, and have a platform.
Personally I find burning any kind of book offensive. I bet the majority of Christians are against burning Qur-ans too. It’s just another example of extremists making a bad name for the rest of them. I was raised Christian and was taught to love everybody, even people that don’t agree with you. Burning other people’s book of worship doesn’t sound like a Christian thing to do to me.
Some people think burning the Qur’an’s will make more enemies for the US in the Middle East. I don’t really agree with that. It would probably piss off our enemies, but the majority of Muslims over there I am sure would understand that this is just being done by a bunch of wackaloons, and is in no way representative of the majority of Americans.
I really wish the news media would just ignore the crazies, but crazies drive ratings, ratings sells ads, and ads make money. And really, that’s what it’s all about. Who cares about informing the public about what’s really going on, when there is money to be made in making up their own news.
Many people have email overload problems. So many that Google recently came out with a priority inbox feature. I haven’t checked out that option because I don’t really have an email problem. I have great filters setup so I don’t see the 100s of spam message a day, and other then that I maybe get 5 emails a day. No problem managing that.
My main problem is managing my RSS feeds which includes all the podcasts I watch and listen to. The other day I checked out my stats in Google Reader, and I have read so many items they can’t tell me how many. Since last October I have read over 300,000 items in my Google Reader. I love my RSS feeds, they are always there for me to read. I really have no problem keeping up with my nearly 700 feeds either. I hit “RSS Zero” several time throughout the day. My main problem is spending too much time in Google Reader. I have a bad habit of wanting to know what is going on in the world — not that that is a bad thing — I’m just too afraid of missing something. I need to turn off the Google Reader more and realize it’s ok to miss things. I really need to spend more time on my ever increasing reading list. Currently I have 15 unread books on my iPad.
My other RSS problem is my podcasts. I have a huge podcast addiction. I am always adding more shows, but never deleting. I hate unsubscribing from shows that I love, but there just isn’t enough time in the day. Now that football season is about to start, I will actually be spending a little more time in front of the TV, and need to cut back on my podcasts somehow.
The internet is full of good crap. I love it! But I need to learn how to take breaks. I will never understand how people get bored, or like watching mind numbing crappy TV. I always have way more that I want to do then there is time in a day. Now I am off to work on that reading list.
