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Writer’s Block

It never fails. I come up with the most amazing ideas for blog posts when I’m laying half-awake in bed at 4 am, but I never bother writing anything down at the time and after I fall back asleep and wake up later, with very few exceptions, I can never remember what those awesome ideas were.

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OH. MY. GOD.

I knew there had to be treasure vaults like this scattered across the globe, but never believed in a thousand years I’d actually see one. Too bad the stuff has all been sold. That guy is probably a very wealthy man now.

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Impure Thoughts

Everyone remembers Tom Selleck’s 80s-era pornstache, but how many people know or remember that Jameson Parker also rocked one in Prince of Darkness? (Which in my opinion is one of the most under-appreciated films of the genre.) Unlike Selleck’s ‘stache (who I never really got off on) seeing Mr. Jameson’s even after all these years still makes me weak in the knees.

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Quote of the Day

‘The Obama administration is bypassing Congress by attempting to rewrite the law and set restroom policies for public and private employers across the country, not just North Carolina.’

That was North Carolina Governor, Pat McCrory.

You know, that’s a pretty bold statement coming from a guy with a gender-ambiguous name who himself signed into law regulations setting bathroom policies.

North Carolina was given until today to suspend enforcement of the gender/bathroom portions of HB2 or lose federal funding.

Washington indicated it would extend that deadline if McCrory would publicly agree HB2 is discriminatory.

Instead, McCrory chose to sue the federal government. That’s right, instead of doing the right thing, the inevitable thing, he’s chosen to waste taxpayer money at both the state and federal levels in order to fight for a law that is obviously unnecessary and based entirely on bigoted fear of a situation that is essentially nonexistent.

‘I’m not going to publicly announce that something discriminates, which is agreeing with their letter, because we’re really talking about a letter in which they’re trying to define gender identity,’ McCrory said. ‘And there is no clear identification or definition of gender identity. It’s the federal government being a bully.’

There is no clear indication of gender identity.

I wonder if this idiot can actually hear the words coming out of his mouth? Or if he’s just a puppet with Tony Perkins’ hand up his ass?

No clear indication of gender identity? Well gee, fellas, ISN’T THAT THE ENTIRE BASIS OF THE HB2 PROVISIONS REQUIRING PEOPLE TO ONLY USE SPECIFIC RESTROOMS MATCHING THEIR SEX AT BIRTH?

The fuck? Seriously.

‘This is now a national issue that applies to every state and it needs to be resolved at the federal level.’

You know what, Pat? You’re right. It IS a national issue. And thank you for making it so. It was a NON-issue, but you, you ignorant hateful bigoted jackasses, have now made it a national issue. Just like interracial and same-sex marriage—and how’d that work out for you religious nuts? Remind me.

This is why I laugh when I hear conservatives bleating about ‘state’s rights.’ If 200 plus years of American history have taught us anything at all, it’s that the states cannot be trusted with civil rights.

Ever.” ~ Jim Wright

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Quote of the Day

…the Supreme Court hangs in the balance; the relationship between the states and federal government hangs in the balance; and our relationship with our allies hangs in the balance. All of these things are at stake and the party that fancies itself as the grown up party has handed itself over to a huckster with a cult of ill behaved children.” ~ #NeverTrump leader Erick Erickson, writing for The Resurgent.

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Some Thoughts About Apple

As I have made abundantly clear in this blog I have been having ongoing issues with Apple’s Magic Mouse maintaining connection with my MacBook. Lately my entire system has been simply randomly locking up (even if the mouse isn’t even connected), forcing a hard reboot.

This kind of behavior is new to my experience with Apple. In fact, the lack of having to constantly reboot was one of the perks I enjoyed after the continual rebooting I had to do with Windows; lately all that is changing.

But my problems are nothing compared to what Ben is going through. Between his phone, his watch, and his Mac I’m expecting one of them to be violently thrown against a wall any day now. And multiple trips to the Genius Bar have solved nothing. Their standard response to any of these problems? Wipe and reinstall. Wipe and reinstall. That’s a Microsoft response, Apple; not something we expect from you.

I used to enjoy going to the Apple Store. Now I dread it.

As I wrote earlier, I’ve all but given up any hope of getting my bluetooth issues resolved. But this raises the issue of that legendary Apple quality that prompted so many of us to join the church to begin with. How many iterations of an OS do we have to go through before any of these issues are addressed—if at all—much less resolved?

I’m not about to abandon Apple; returning to Microsoft would be a nightmare in my opinion, but it looks to me like Apple is going through a rough patch. It’s not as profound as in the 90s, but there’s trouble afoot. Whether the folks in Cupertino are aware of it and simply choosing to ignore it is a question that’s up for grabs, but based on the steadily declining quality of the software side of the house over the last several years, it’s obvious that too many lines of business are taking their toll on quality control. I hate to haul out this old trope, but if Steve Jobs were alive today, none of this shit would be happening.

At this point, I’d even be willing to forego the now expected yearly updates and pay for OS upgrades again—as long as these ongoing, lingering problems were finally cleared up.

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