Random tweeters

So now random tweeters are supposed to have some credibility?  Today's iPhone 5 launch as reported on Yahoo had a couple tweets reported as if they were actual reviewers.  So I am supposed to believe these people?  Anonymous texts from who?

These are just a bunch of losers that can make up stuff and get it quoted by another loser company, Yahoo.  I hate to see the internet go down the tubes like this, helped by ad driven companies like Yahoo etc. but I guess that's the way it is.  There's very little left on the internet that is actually free and open anymore.  Too sad.  Everything is out there to make some money for somebody.  Very sad.

Categorize: USA going third world

Going down 680 yesterday about noon, I observed a pickup off the side of the road with a guy standing off to the side and urinating (with great ambition) off to the west.  Since the sun was reflecting through there and the man had stepped away from his truck, it was very obvious what was going on.  In fact, like a small boy, he seemed to be enjoying the arc that he was able to make.

I honked a couple times and he held up his arm with a fist and pumped it a couple times.

Huh?  He couldn't have been in a more obvious location despite there being a few trees around but I guess that held no interest for this man.

Is peeing along the road now acceptable?  In my previous African home it was completely normal, but here in Contra Costa county?  Huh?  I guess it's part of the slide towards the third world that I'm not really ready for. 

It kind of boils down to the fact that I had run out of Clipper cards.  They had changed the rules so that my current system of getting them free, loading $10.10 and using it for a day was not viable anymore.  Now they would cost $3 for an empty card so throwing them away was just not going to work.  It might seem kind of silly, but this situation caused me to focus my thinking on why was I going to work anyway?

So I quit.  I told the boss that I quit, took my last card and used it to get home.

I know that my employer pays Google to get an immediate update if I post anything.  It's a little known service that Google ("Don't be evil") offers.  I'm not using this post to communicate with them but it's a side effect that I can't avoid.

The situation that I found myself in was that I was required to train some offshore (India) staff to take over my job.  And when that was complete I would be fired.  This was the way I saw it anyway, it was never actually stated that way but I think it was pretty obvious.  Too bad American corporate managers can't be honest with their employees.  (but that's maybe another topic for later)

So I quit. 

New life ahead, no looking back, good luck to all of us.