Bullet points tonight.
• I have over 2000 words already typed and saved…but it’s all on politics, and I’m burnt out. There’s really nothing more to say until the psychodrama of the nomination process plays out. So that stuff will have to wait.
• Interesting speculation tonight that most of the Congressional superdelegates have already made up their minds, and that Obama has most of them – but is slowly dribbling them out in order to maintain the steady uptick in delegate count even in the face of adversity (and incidentally to avoid having them antagonizing potential donors who they need for their own races). If true, then the showrunners for Team Obama are bloody brilliant, more so than even the Begala-Carville tag team in 1992.
• My little Motorola MOTOFONE F3 from back at Christmas has a problem: the battery life is shit. Seriously, the thing will go dead in three days from a full charge…if left alone on a table TURNED OFF. Apparently this is not an uncommon problem. By contrast, my Sony Ericsson Z520a (which is my international-use phone) will last four days with normal use, turned on 24/7 with Bluetooth active. That is absolutely insane. I’ll hang onto the F3 as a backup, certainly, but the days when I was tempted to try carrying it instead of the iPhone are long gone.
• Maybe there’s going to be a new iPhone, maybe there’s not. I don’t know nothin’ about nothin’. However, I feel safe in saying that if there is a new iPhone, and if it does have stuff like 3G or GPS or etc, then there must have been some kind of improvement in battery technology superior to what the original has, or else they have done something extraordinary in terms of power management. Because 3G will suck your battery dry in jig time, which is the sort of thing that would have killed a first-generation product in the marketplace.
• PAUSE FOR FART!
• seriously, if you didn’t see that episode of Graham Norton, well, it was outstanding. Especially when they hauled that guy off on a forklift.
• I sent my grad school ring out for repair and it was received a week ago, and I haven’t heard a peep. I’m starting to get antsy.
• I’m actively seeking a new job. Mainly because the current one, in almost every way that matters, is like two part-time jobs crammed together, with all of the accompanying inconsistencies, conflicts, and utter lack of benefits. I still think I did the right thing to leave my previous job when I did, given that there was no hint that things would get any better (to all accounts, they haven’t) – but I miss things like, oh, feeling like you can afford to call in sick when you’re too weak to get out of bed. Or being able to drink from the water fountain without worrying about how many chemicals and heavy metals you’re ingesting. Or, hell, having an email system with more than two-nines reliability.
• Problem is, I’m not sure what I’m qualified to do at this point. I have about the most useless degree you can have in modern society – in fact, I have two of them – and what I do is constrained by the fact that I’ve spent ten years backing the wrong horse if you’re interested in pursuing an IT career. Not that I regret it for a second – it’s MUCH easier to get into the field the way I did, especially when I did – but it sort of limits my options when I go job hunting. Unless somebody’s willing to pay me to drink and blog all day?
• Not looking forward to the trip south, except for possibly getting to see my cousin and his wife, who are the only people in my side of the family who are remotely like me. But what blows my mind is that once you start north from downtown, you don’t hit another Starbucks for a hundred miles. NOT CISED.