I have to say it – what is up with the freaking snow? Okay, I know everyone else here in Kentucky was at this point about four weeks ago to be sure. I mean after all, the first snow at my house was back before Thanksgiving and we had two that were indeed measurable before the weather forecasters in the Lexington area ever forecast or acknowledged a measurable snow. And yes, I was the one that complained and felt cheated by the snowpocolypse passing us by last week leaving us relatively untouched. On the other hand, I did note I wanted one big snow and let it be the end of things at that point – that I was getting a little tired of the constant one to four-inch snows that are just enough disrupt everything, but yet not enough to really cause anything I am involved with (outside of the fun stuff) to be canceled.
Something that really gets in my crawl in a major way is all the specialized browser tools. It is a big frustration to me and I am sure it is to the world in general as well. The whole point of the original format of the HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) was to be universal. It was to be interpreted by the browser of course and displayed on the screen in a free flow format. Of course each browser could interpret each set of commands slightly different and show up on the screen in a different format. That was fine though, so long as the content within the framework was the same all was good. Times have changed however, and with each turn of the crank, where in theory we should be moving closer to not only universal implementation but the same view we instead specialize and go farther away from hardly anything on the web being universal.
I have not done a group of my short observations in a while and decided it was time to do so. I have a list that is from around Christmas, but I will come back to that one. This one was a list that I had already started and especially came back to when I was writing another blog entry. It was during that writing (see common sense below) that I realized it was only a few words and completely contained. Anyway, without further ado here is some of the things I have been observing and perhaps am continuing to observe here in the early part of the new year, 2011…
How many of those various wallet sized cards are enough? You know what I am talking about – credit cards, debit cards, loyalty cards, discount cards, and with the most recent season gift cards. Just how big is my wallet? Of course me personally, I hate carrying a wallet. It always makes my behind seem uneven when sitting (whose idea was that anyway?). But I have taken to small money and card holder that I do put in a jacket or shirt pocket – but it is overflowing. Overflowing and half the cards are in a folder that I is usually in my computer pack. But just as the folks the coffee shop earlier today felt, enough is enough.
There is a constant dribble of understated obvious things by the press and announcers. As if that is not enough of a complaint, way to often they completely miss the big elephant in the room. It has caused me to eerily creep toward frustration and often verbally telling them how much they miss or how wrong they are, which I think may at times disturb my wife. Then they go the other direction with things on occasion as well, overstating things as fact that are clearly not something that they can really do – at least from a factual point. While I started this post sometime ago and have now forgotten the original issues, the constant occurrence of such incidents has caused me to revisit it and here are but two examples that really just bug.
