Ponderings

I’ve been noticing lately, what with reading various bits and links whenever I get a chance to surf that something is very wrong with America.

Now before you think I’m being facetious or guileless, let me re-phrase.  I’m seeing a general undercurrent of toeing the party line, with no room for alterate views/opinions, be it Windows/Mac or the war in Iraq or anything else that is controversial.

Forget the ‘drama’ of Britney shaving her head or Anna Nicole Smith’s body being fought over by the relatives/lovers/friends (very tacky I think), which is pablum for the masses (my SIL, bless her heart, watches the circus) perhaps distracting Americans from the real mess our elected officials dragged us into.

Speaking of elected officials causing a mess, let’s speak of the Knox County Commissioners of Knoxville, TN.  Back room deals, cronyism, nepotism, and blocking a special election all to keep some high paying jobs (the sheriff gets over 100K a year).  My thoughts are that they should have had the election invalidated and a new one called right quick, instead of allowing the outgoing commission to select their replacements.  The start of this mess?  A 1994 law voted on by the voters of the county and city to have term limits.  The charter was approved last year by the State Supreme Court, but after the elections were already held, with the majority of the people who were now term-limited being elected.

N ow onto another subject: Windows versus Macs.  I will admit I’m considering saving up for a Mac laptop, but only because I’m curious to see what the fuss is about.  If I do get one, I’ll get Boot Camp to dual boot OS X and Vista.  Either one works so long as I don’t spend more time trying to get things working (I’m meaning a basic setup where I can browse the net, do documents and play music and videos) that y’know actually working.  I shan’t go into tweaking things, making things prettier, faster, what have you.

Same thing goes for a PS3/360/Wii.  As long as it has games I want to play, I’m not picky about the console.  I plan on buying all three plus a second PSP and a DS-Lite (pink just to drive the hubby crazy), since all the consoles have games I want to play.  The second PSP is so I can play since the first PSP is the hubby’s.  Ow the pocketbook!