Lately my blog posts have become very boring. Too much self censorship and talking about life’s mundane details. I’m constantly engaged in an internal battle where I worry about being perceived as only writing negatively about things. But, as i go back and read my own writings, it is the rants that are the most interesting (and truthfully, more in character with who I really am).

So, i am going to go back to my hypercritical writing style.

Where to start?

There are tons of issues in the news lately to write about so this should be easy:

Arizona – basically, the state sucks. I am glad I don’t live there any longer. The only two things that have stuck with me since leaving are 1) the fact I developed allergies that persist even to this day after moving there and 2) the fact I still have a house there that is being rented out.

Nowadays, I am actually embarrassed to tell people I lived in Arizona due to their stand on immigrants. Notice I didn’t say “immigration” or “illegal immigration.” People can say what they want, but there are a lot of racists in Arizona. I always heard people talking about mexicans and/or hispanics in derogatory tones. These are a people that have come to our country to work – whatever their motivations for doing that may be. It is wrong to stop people in the street and ask to see proof of their citizenship just because they are hispanic. We aren’t doing that for arabs, why do it for hispanics?

Adobe – You guys make second rate stuff. Seriously. If Apple doesn’t want to run your crappy software on top of their phone operating system thats their prerogative. Flash is garbage, there I said it. Make something good and then I am sure Apple will let you play in their sand box.

Gizmodo – hack bloggers – notice I didn’t say “journalists.” You guys paid for a stolen phone and risked legal action all so you could juice your traffic for a few days and sell more banner ad impressions. Hope that was worth it! Its an insult to real journalists that you are trying to hide behind a law designed to shield actual professionals. The public doesn’t have a right to know what secret R&D Apple is doing. Go to hell Jason Chen – or, rather, go to prison.

My lack of an iPad - It is patently absurd that I don’t have one yet.