A Buildup of Orneryness

I think I need to post my rants to the blog a little bit faster than I am right now. I’ve got a backlog of griping and opinionated shouting to do, and I think I might be losing my ardor for the earliest ideas. In a nutshell, until I have time to fully expand each idea:

1.Cory Doctrow is wrong:the locked-down approach to hardware and software that Apple has taken with the iPad is very,very good for the device and wonderful for user experience. And they are under no business or moral compulsion to allow every snot-nosed jerk with a few lines of code under their belt to have free rein to express their poorly thought out ideas.

2. Ontario pharmacists are being greedy and deceptive when they whine about the impending changes. They are a for profit business that is taking kickbacks from the drug makers, which results in higher drug costs for no benefit to the consumer. And since the province is one of the biggest consumers, my tax money is being used to line the pharmacists pockets. No thanks. I’ll take my medicinal needs to a pharmacy who isn’t trying to mislead people with fear tactics.

Perfunctory Update

The interviews and subsequent profiles have finally been progressing. I have 3 more to do, one of which is in a tight timeline. Ironically, I don’t have  phone number for the hurried one, so there’s not much I cn do other than politely pester via email. I submitted an old one-act play to the cabaret, so we’ll see if they accept it or send it away for being far longer than the requested 30 minutes.

I’ve worked out the beginning of the space story: It will be a monologue from a female survivor of earth’s last days. I might do it for next year’s cabaret.

Various other story details, ideas and notes have percolated up while I’ve been slightly dormant due to cold. Hopefully I can kick into gear in the next few days, both creatively and athletically.

Something About Something related to Nothing

Who loves lists? I know I do, albeit unorganized and hazy lists that are unrecorded and change depending on my whims. The specific list I’m building up now is a list of topics that I will never care about, no matter how earnest or excited the speaker is. These topics are, in no particular order:

1. Figs/miniatures (ridiculously expensive tiny metal or plastic figurines to be used in overly complicated and tedious strategy games. Warhammer 40K as an example). I understand that your tiny men are super special and powerful in your mind, but please stop telling me about them.

2. MMOs, specifically World Of Warcraft. I know the game is a monument to repetition and is the most complex chat room you could ever enter, but there is no place on earth that slang from the game will sound cool, you giant sad nerd.

3. Sex Fetishes. It brings me a small amount of sadness to be made aware of the insanely detailed and time-consuming preparatory work you need to achieve the level of arousal that I can get by doing nothing at all. But needing pre-work and instruction manuals in the bedroom isn’t something to brag about, so hush up. And stop saying ‘Vanilla’ as if I should be embarrassed that I don’t need wax/fire/3 ring circus to get my rocks off.