Back in the 1900s, long before Al Gore invented the internet and Napster tore down the music industry, Tipper Gore was a total bitch. The vast majority of the music I consume is on a streaming service. Since the FCC has no jurisdiction over these platforms, the songs can be played the way they were recorded and intended to be listened to, with all…

Why, in the world, dont things just work!? I feel like we have come to a point in time when computers should just be doing what we want them to do. We put people on the moon over 50 years ago! How can it be that default settings are so far from what we actually need. Im not exactly sure how it works but…

The grocery store where we live has a fuel rewards program where you get a point for every dollar spent in the grocery store. For every 100 points, you get 10 cents off each gallon of gas you buy at the grocery chain's gas stations. I started using this program as it seemed fair at the time. The rules being any remaining unused points…

This is going to get long. If you feel youve already read too much, Ill tell you now how reading this would have made you feel: "Man, I agreed with some of what he wrote but other parts really pissed me off. But, it sounds like if we just compromise and help meet others needs, everything might just work out." So, straws are a…

Now that it's December, the Christmas season is upon us. Gifts and movies and eating and decorating and putting kid presents together and white elephants and Christmas lights and freezing nuts off and cookies and egg nog and gingerbread houses and hot chocolate. Having worked in retail for a few years, I hated Christmas music that seemed to start earlier and earlier each year…