Dear Diary,

   Short entry, just wanted to share this amazing post.  Even though I might still knock Sarah Palin in humor for her "historical recollections" of "Paul Revere and his many bells", what she posted here is breath-taking and damn near may deserve a Pulitzer prize!

Dear Diary,

   Well, been a bit since I've made an entry.  A *lot* has been going on.  Even if I tried to sum it all up with "I'm pretty much disgusted and worn out on the government we live under", it wouldn't do it justice, whatsoever.  So therefore, I think I'll break it down into two revelations I've had as of late.

   First and most important, the violence that keeps happening AGAINST police-officers.  Prayers and condolences to the fallen police officers, as well as the injured police officers, and their families and extended family that were injured and/or killed in the Dallas massacre.  For the record, I'm typically not the type to side with and defend police, at least in general.

   Some brief backstory on that would just be to point out that as a child/teen growing up, my mother (who I'm also not the biggest fan of at times) used to have regular run ins with the police for various reasons, even a few times leading to raids of our house, where an officer/constable actually threatened my dog to me, a dog with a loud bark but no bite... saying, "if that dog even looks like it's going to attempt to attack me, I'll shoot it"; I was about 12 or 13 at the time.  Then there's my father's continual run ins with the law/police around the same age, as well as prior, and beyond... where he kept racking up DUI after DUI until he was finally sent to a school that actually taught people how to drive while drunk.  (Seems the idea was that if they're bound to be repeat offenders, they'd rather have them be as safe as possible for everybody else on the road.)  Thankfully my father never had any drunken accidents... well, none fatal at least, not withstanding the time about a half-mile from ours house, he either dozed off or over-shot the turn and landed his car in a huge ditch.  Was out skateboarding that night, and heard his voice call out my name, I turn and look, and see him jogging up the secondary street leading to the street we lived on.  Could hear it in his voice that he was drunk and needed me to help him call a tow-truck, etc, etc.  Think I was about 14 at that point.  Anyways, there'd be times where the entire family would be out and on our way to the beach or something, and get pulled over, because a cop would run the plates and see that my father's license was suspended, and then there'd be the ticket to boot, the license taken away, and when it turned out my mother also had a record and possible license issues, they'd tow the vehicle, and instead of having a fun time at the beach, we instead had to find a way to get home, since we'd be stranded on the side of the road.  And yeah, it was just awesome when other cars were driving by, watching our entire family in swimwear standing on the shoulder while a police officer along with a tow-truck driver are taking our family-vehicle away, then all the expenses of having to pay stuff off, and get it from impound, etc.  I was working multiple jobs at the time for extra spending-money (since my mother had a habit of blowing most of my father's income, so to even afford clothes or shoes or necessities, I had to work to pay for such things)... used to kind of piss me off when I would have to dig into the money I'd earn to help bail out my parents... when at that age, it's typically the other way around.  How's that for having to grow up fast!?

   So, even though that rambled on a bit, that kind of points out, that I haven't exactly had the best track-record growing up with feeling comfortable in trusting that law-enforcement wouldn't have some sort of second-hand, or even direct, adverse effect against my being and surroundings.  BUT, even with that said, what I see transpiring as of late, is absolutely disgusting... and when I say disgusting, I'm referring to groups like Black Lives Matter and others actually purposely targeting and killing police.

#AllLivesMatter

   For starters, there's TONS of logical hypocrisies and issues with it.  First, the idea that black community preaches of, "just because one black person did these horrible things, don't blame all us black folk", yet, because the actions of a cop that may, or may not, have been justified in another state, in another incident, where all the details haven't even surfaced yet (one incident of which the woman recording with her phone even admitted in the video that there were drugs in the car, and it also came out that the man who was shot had a permit to carry a gun which could suggest he may have had a gun involved)... they feel it's okay to massacre other cops in a completely different state, shot on site, without any knowledge or proof or record of their own "excessive force" or "brutality"... so they preach that it's not okay to condemn the entire black community for the exception and the actions of a handful, but due to the outcome of a police officer, that again may, or may not, have been justified, it's perfectly okay to condemn all cops... yeah, because that makes like no sense whatso-friggin-ever!

   Now the second logical, or rather illogical, issue with violence against the police.  Point blank, after mobs of enraged black folks burn down cities (Ferguson, etc), target and kill police for months... how are the cops supposed to be psychic to know whether or not the black person they're approaching doesn't want to see them killed!?  It just encourages them to approach all issues in black communities with their finger on the trigger.  It's a bit akin to my argument as to why people on terrorist watch-lists shouldn't be issued guns... because when they use them for heinous or terrorist acts, it just again brings a dark cloud over ALL gun owners and makes them all have to keep doing the same song and dance of "don't change anything, it was just the exception".  It's the same sort of logic for the black communities... "even though thousands of us gathered together to burn down cities, and then there was the one that was mowing down officers in Dallas, or the multitude of hunted and targeted cops for the past many months... oh really, everything's cool, you can trust me".  The actions of these extremist black folks are doing ZERO favors to the black community and instead are actually being more problematic to the issue!  The media and the hype and the narratives being pushed are damaging too!  So much kool-aid making so many black people believe that every cop wants to target them and kill them, so that when they're pulled over by a cop, they might truly believe that it's their last stand and they have to fight to their last breath to survive... I mean hell, I'm not even black, but if I felt there was any truth to that in any situation, I'd go out with a bang too fighting with everything I have.  BUT, the reality is, that's NOT the reality... that's NOT the truth.  When we look up the numbers, the amount of black people overall that have been shot, injured, or even killed by cops, PALES in comparison to the amount of blacks shot and/or killed by other non-law-enforcement blacks.

   Which brings us to the third illogical hypocrisy... black people are led to believe that every encounter with law-enforcement means they're a dead-person-walking and they need to fight with everything they have to survive (which again is totally bogus)... BUT, how does that same logic not translate to police when month after month, police are actually hunted down and killed, or are shot down in droves like in Dallas, or when the Black Lives Matter community want to torch whole cities, displacing families, businesses, heck there was even a senior-center that burned to the ground... but by their logic, it's perfectly logical for blacks to feel like in every encounter they need to fight for their very lives, but police-officers somehow aren't supposed to fear for their own lives when coming into contact with such toxicity!?  WHAT!? *facepalm*

"For God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believeth in Him should not parish, but have everlasting life." - John 3:16 (KJV)

   Now, the other thing that's been on my mind... been coming to a realization that's making me kind of review some outlooks on life throughout my life.  Nothing serious, just kind of feeling like how one wonders if perhaps they're lifting some wool from their eyes for the first time.

   By that I guess I mean that... most my life, I always felt I leaned a bit to the left when it came to politics, even though I've never been able to truly say I'm any party, since I can logically agree with different viewpoints in all parties on different topics.  But looking around in the modern-day at the mind-blowing and simply outlandish SJW/politically-correct/kool-aid propaganda narratives coming out of the left, it really makes me stop and ponder.

   When I was young, some decades ago, the left believed that there was room for change, for "liberating" the typical mindsets.  Heck, if I recall, and I might be in error, I had though that it was the left that were strictly against the idea of political-correctness.  Back when I was young, as all these chants kept blaming music, and games, and movies, and books for all the bad stuff that was happening, and there were pushes to censor it, remove it, destroy it, etc... the left were the ones that said free expression, like with paintings in a museum, the retort was, "if it makes you so uncomfortable... DON'T STARE AT IT, look in any one of the other 4 or 8 (depending on how you think of it) cardinal directions!".

   The left also believed in equal-rights for ALL; for all races, for all genders, for all beliefs, for all religions (at least on paper), for all lifestyles, etc.  I still believe in those things.

   But now and days, where certain REGULAR words are being "branded" as "politically incorrect" or to "have certain racial undertones", it's mind-blowing.  Like how they claim the word "thug" is racist.  Oh really now?  So if I were to say that I truly believe that George Zimmerman was a thug, is that the same racism they're referring to?  When the word justifiably fits the person?  Or how about if I were to refer to Kevin Fedderline, the whitest trailer-trash in America, as a thug... is it still racist?  Oh, it's not!?  So not only does it prove the word has ZERO racial undertones, it also proves that it's yet another modern-day leftist double-standard.

  Then other crazy nonsense like the horrors of "manspreading".  My mind was beyond blown away when people tried making a public outcry somewhat-emergency because supposedly the beloved actor TOM HANKS was "caught manspreading".  *facedesk*  (Picture below...)

First appearing on BuzzFeed, quickly turned into people screaming at Tom Hanks for daring to "manspread", to find out that the train he was on was half-empty and there were empty seats everywhere; not to mention the lady's purse on the seat was COMPLETELY ignored! -_-

   Or even modern-feminism, how they preach that all these women in the FIRST-WORLD countries are *still* oppressed in every facet of their daily lives.  Hey, I'm all for equal rights for all, but women OPPRESSED in this country!?  Yeah, okay... oh, but then the irony, when you tell them they're crazy, they THEN show you pictures of women in the middle-east and THEIR oppression, and then assert that you're saying that oppression in THIRD-WORLD countries doesn't exist... even though for quite awhile those of sound mind have been saying, constantly, that these modern-day third-reich feminazis should take the SAME ENERGY they're WASTING on "oppression in the first-world" and actually focus on "oppression in the third-world".  So for them to throw oppression in the third-world in the face of the sound mind in their defense on milking it like thieves in the US is so facepalm worthy, one could probably take my fingerprints at this point from my forehead. xD

   So anyways, just all this modern crazy nonsense coming from the left.  Gets me to thinking that perhaps the narrative spinners these days just aren't that good at it and it's so easy to see the craziness through it... but leaves me to wonder if perhaps there hasn't always been a touch of crazy and outlandishness to the left.  Like, while I was growing up, was I led like a sheep to believe in and fight for things that were just over-dramatized and not actually the issues they were turned into!?

   The older I get, I realize there's two distinct images for each side of the aisle.  The right and/or Conservative, tend to represent having success, at times by working hard, and being proud of that success and wanting to defend it, being about old-fashioned ideals, wanting to be about strong family-values, etc.  Yeah, there's flaws in each of those on the opposite side of the coin (just as there are flaws to each ideal of the other side of the aisle as well), sure, but that's the face-value take of it.  While the left and/or Liberal, tend to represent more the rebels that want to oppose the system for what they believe are the right and righteous reasons, they tend to want to be modern-day Robin Hoods -- taking from the rich and giving to the poor, they want to fight more for the lower and bottom-class, want to strongly push for freedoms for all, typically.

   But what's so mind-blowing odd is, as I explained above, the left USED to be about pushing for freedoms for all, but now they're heavily into wanting to censor everything that makes them uncomfortable, or control the world, and ONLY allow their message typically.  (Just look at the violence that's been wages towards Trump-supporters by anti-Trump supporters... even if you're against Trump, you can't deny that it's hypocritical... the anti-Trump would have everybody hear their message, hear their voice, while trying to silence everybody else through force and violence.)

Time to make it a first-world country again, before it teeters over the brink into a third-world!

Dear Diary,

  Well, today, came across solid, literal, and legitimate proof that the state of California is dirty and corrupt and crooked.

   Here's a quote from the post I that made about it on social-media:

"Well, the missus and I now have solid proof that the state of California is honestly, literally, and legitimately corrupt/crooked. We've been in contact with the missus' lawyer, and depending on how things go, we might be able to sue the state and easily win.

(On various grounds, including violating actual collection civil-codes/laws such as the following - "Bad check laws and civil penalties: Dishonored checks, 4 years Civil Code §1719: 3 times the amount of the check, with a minimum of $100 and a maximum of $1,500.", no prior notification/notice of any actions to be taken against us which they're supposed to notify the person/people/party of, actually laughing at the people they're screwing over, and at the very least the stress and hardship this is causing. [all explained below])

So here's the skinny; seems our bank-account recently got dinged/fee'ed because the California DMV did some sort of collection legal-action against the account. Which had us both baffled, because we've never had any issue ever registering our current car, or prior cars. The missus decided to call the number on it, which then gave her a contact-number for the DMV office which it originated from. 

Turns out they're *claiming* that a check written for registration on an old 1998 Dodge Neon, in 1999, that belonged to the missus, supposedly bounced, which was complete news to the missus, and they're attempting to collect on it... *now*. Let that sink in... a check from SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO. Another huge glaring issue is that the missus filed for bankruptcy in 2000, so that should also have wiped it out. 

Further, every resource I've looked up states that the statute of limitations for a bad check, if there ever even was a bad check, in the state of California is roughly 3-4 years. (Some sources said 3, others stated 4.) Which has well passed by in the seventeen year period we're currently looking at that they're trying to collect upon. The only way this could be even seen/viewed as legal in a court of law, is if they took collection actions and/or took it to small-claims court prior to 2004, which if it's just coming up now, more than likely, that never occurred; and further should have been dissolved in the bankruptcy. 

LINK: California Debt Collection Codes/Laws
While on the phone with the DMV office in which the order originated from, the missus was demanding proof of this supposed check, and asked to have it mailed to her. It was one excuse after another as to why they couldn't mail it to her, etc.
    
While obviously frustrated and letting the person on the phone know that this was stressing her out, driving her crazy, and shady as hell, along with asking to speak to a supervisor, the DMV operator actually started laughing at her (we both heard it over the phone); when the missus demanded that he stop laughing at her, he responded in saying, "you can't even see my face right now, how can you claim that I'm laughing!?". *facepalm* 

So yeah, let this be a public service announcement... should you ever find yourself having some strange "collections" issue arise out of nowhere, make sure to do your due diligence, research, and especially look up the statute of limitations for the issue that you're facing. 

For the current time being, I'll keep on assuming that this state's government is run and operated by Mickey Mouse and company, because between this and some other past issues sure makes me believe that those in power here may as well be a sideshow circus."

Dear Diary,

   Even though I'm pro-GamerGate; I'm seriously wondering if there's still a "battle" to be fought within the gaming-community for several reasons.

   First and foremost, the entire SJW-insanity has spread so far outside of the gaming-industry at this point, it's everywhere, and by these GGers thinking that some sort of victory within *just* the gaming-community will make it ALL go away, they're just fooling themselves.

   Secondly, I'm a member of a few GamerGate groups, and it's almost getting painful even trying to be involved anymore.  Between members bickering back and forth over all the many semantics of "what is" and "what isn't" GamerGate.  Which is stupid as hell, considering GamerGate is many things to many different people.  To some it's about combating corruption in gaming-media, to others it's about combating corruption in all media, to some it's about combating corruption in the games-industry, to some it's full on anti-SJW, to some it's pure anti-feminism (which boggles me, since I'm perfectly fine with traditional-feminism), to some it's all about preserving the video-game industry and resetting it to what it once was, etc.  (The narrative pushed by the liberal-media that it's just a hate-group about hating women and minorities and that they're worse than ISIS, is all a load of BS!)

   Anywho; the biggest irony is, I used to dodge politics like the plague.  Up until a year or so ago, I used to always have to look up the meaning of liberal, conservative, democrat, republican, authoritarian, libertarian, etc... just to remind myself what each one represents.  It was GamerGate that sucked me into politics, the more people posted in GamerGate groups about the elections, etc, etc.  The more they kept going on about the left and the right and what GamerGate was supposed to be in comparison, and all this other craziness.  Well, irony went full-circle, when I was finally sucked into the politics, and then upon sharing a bunch of mind-blowing dirt on Hillary Clinton, the hopeful queen-SJW that looks to run the entire country, as well as be power of the free-world herself, had a decent amount of backlash from people again trying to do the same old horse-crap about "what is" and "what isn't" GamerGate... and SUDDENLY it mattered that it wasn't a) about games-journalism and b) wasn't about video games.  Ummm, okay, when saying what a goalpost shifting it was, the same old tired, "oh we point this out on all non-GG related posts" BS came up.

   Since then, I've gone quiet within GG, just watching from the sidelines... for the past week or so.  In that time have seen AT LEAST 10-20 posts/mentions that had ZERO to do with GamerGate, a lot of stuff even farther off the mark than anything I was posting!  Posts about why guns are awesome, and why we all need to hang on to our guns, etc, etc... which hey, to each their own... but gun topics are much farther from GamerGate than who's going to be running this damn country.

   Further, got the tired nonsense about, "not everybody lives in the US", well no kidding... but when the hell does that stop any of these people in other countries, lecturing me about this, from flooding my newsfeed and the group with BREXIT posts... I would have had ZERO clue what Brexit even was if not for the GG groups I was in.  Sure it's all over the news now, but I was hearing about it and reading about it when it was fresh and brand spanking new!!!

   Another thing I've noticed about these groups, is it seems to be a bunch of people sitting around sharing articles back and forth, yapping a lot, and doing the same old tired routine that's seen in the whole "trending" and "hash-tag" craze.  It's supposedly "raising awareness".  Translation for "raising awareness"... putting a flag on a mess, and waiting for everybody else to clean up the damn mess that WHOEVER stumbled upon.

(People can preach all they want to of the benefits of hash-tags... and I will admit, that tags in general for sorting, for easy finding, etc, is great... but the "raise awareness" fails on two fronts.  The genuine ones that truly raise positive awareness are the EXCEPTION... the two fronts it fails on is a) it's either raising awareness to a mess somebody sees and does NOTHING about THEMSELVES, and/or it's raising awareness of made-up gossip, hoax, BS, urban-legend information that only makes people dumber to spread the kool-aid!  b) Hash-tags, as much as so many want to deny it, are typically used to do the anonymous two-face talk... people see someone with a wardrobe that is "just so no", they snap a stealth-pic, post it online and hash-tag it #"WardrobeSoNo" or see somebody that has an issue with Rosacea, again, sneak a stealth-pic and tend to hash-tag #"AttackOfKillerZits" or #"ClearisilWorksBrah" or even #"TrySomeSoapForOnce", etc.)

   Anywho, reason I'm ranting now, is again the whole, "what's this have to do with GG"... one thing I've been seeing in a good number of these groups, is people sharing tweets that are WAY old, as in, no longer even relevant, to stir and stoke the flames of the fire, and keep nonsense relevant and act like it's brand new.  And I'm thinking, "okay, so, posting about the elections is a no... but Brexit and year or more old tweets and acting like they're recent is a-okay!?  WTF!?!?!?"  Which boggles my brain, because I know I'm a bit nuts, but the more I see of the internet, the more I feel like I'm the sanest person in the freaking nuthouse!

   Today's date is June 26th, 2016 right?  I kid you not, somebody just posted in a GG group I'm in, "3hrs" ago, screen-caps of a fairly known/famous SJW/feminazi, that only says on it "Oct 11".  Okay, so, even if that's of 2015, that's AT LEAST *eight months* old... yet they're highlighting it, and people are posting on it, and analyzing it like it's current-event talking-point stuff!  Like wait... have we TRULY run out of issues/topics so badly that we're actually REHASHING old stuff, and trying to make it currently relevant!?  WTH!?!?  I mean, I'm seriously reading the comments this is getting, and people are commenting on it, like it's BRAND SPANKING NEW and actually GETTING FIRED UP over this!  WHAT!? *facepalm*

   For ages I wanted to believe that the SJW/aGG/kool-aid/feminazi crowd were the slightly not-so-bright and fairly ignorant group... but the more I see of the groups I'm in... I dunno, it's like I don't want to be part of THOSE groups, but I still want to represent and stand for pro-GG.  Part of me wishes there could be some break-off or some other fork/branch of pro-GG so I don't have to feel like I'm standing among a bunch of drooling morons.  One thing this day and age has PROVEN TO BE DEAD ON THE MONEY... is any group becomes measured and weighed by their lowest common denominators... and let me tell you, in the groups I've been in, there's quite a few lowest common denominators... and I so want to merge my head with a brick-wall at the thought of people hearing the term "GamerGate" or seeing/hearing that I'm pro-GamerGate, and having to assume that I'm at the same mental level (or lack thereof) in comparison to a good number of these people.  Like WTF!?

  The pro-GG groups laugh when insanely stupid nonsense is spouted by the SJW/feminazi/kool-aid/aGG types, and drone on about, "you sure you want this kind of stupidity representing you"... and sometimes I want to scream at them to look in the mirror... like, "do we really want a good number of you morons representing the rest of us!?!?!?".

   I'm still searching and scouring around for decent "mature"/"adult"/"decent-IQed"/"relevant" pro-GG groups to have discussions where I don't feel my brain actually hurting as my IQ deflate at every other thing I see, especially since I don't really do Twitter nor Reddit... coming up fairly dry, but holding out hope that one day I might find other kindred-spirits like myself that got tired of hanging with the drooling dorks that can't tell last October from the upcoming Tuesday. *facedesk* >_<

   EDIT: Oh look at that, as of a posting from "22hrs" ago, another reposted tweet, this time with an actual year on it, "31 Oct 2014", and everybody's sitting around, talking about it, commenting, making "clever" statements and one-liners while patting themselves on the back for being Masters of the Universe, and losing their collective brains over it (even though the tweet was a bit extreme and mind-blowing to be fair), as though it's current and in someway believe that by circle-jerking the same stuff from almost two years ago, over and over and over again, they're some how making decent change in some odd fashion or way. *rubs head*  Can the world please go back to sanity for just one week, pretty !@#!ing please with sugar on top!?  (And this is coming from somebody that wouldn't hesitate to point out their own insane lack of sanity.)

Dear Diary,

   Well, I was checking out InfoWars this morning, and there was this new video on there, a video, or rather a message, that if spoken a decade or two ago, would have seemed like complete craziness, or like somebody experiencing an acid-trip, but today, it's dead on the money!

   For at least the past decade or two, many of the things in the video are things I've been saying and noticing.  Things like the average person being desensitized and sapped of the energy/passion to keep strong in the face of overwhelming outrageous claims.  I often compare the modern-day to when I was growing up many moons ago, and back then, if a horrible massacre happened, or somebody was murdered, or something just horrific happened, EVERYBODY, and I mean *everybody* stopped what they were doing, were dazed, were sidelined briefly, in shock and awe, and they actually took a moment of compassionate/sympathetic silence to mourn for the victims... whereas now and days, the typical view seems to be, "oh, it's just another shooting... flip the page of change the channel", "oh, it's just another crashed plane with several hundred dead... flip the page or change the channel".

(Ever since 9/11, seems that when truly horrific and disgusting things happen now, most people will spend a few minutes in remorse, then endless amounts of time afterwards pointing fingers in every which direction finding people to blame, even people that had nothing to do with it and no connections.  Like the recent Pulse night-club shooting... the shooter pledged allegiance to ISIS to 911, yet before the bodies were even cold, there were already accusations that the Religious Right were to blame, and even others in denial trying to claim the entire thing was a hoax... rather than accept that it's awful, mourn for those that were slain, and look at the facts of the matter!)

9/11 Memorial and Remembrance.

   There was even a part where it mention that the average person suffers something like Stockholm syndrome, where they feel trapped, where they looking around and thinking, "how is everybody falling for all of this" and feeling like they're all alone.  I'm often scouring through the internet trying to find at least some semblance of an open-platform with open-minded people that are like minded that are capable of pointing out and recognizing the nonsense, pointing out and speaking about the craziness... but there's hardly anything resembling that.  It's either blend in and try to play nice with the conformed sheep, or dive in with the extremists on the other side that tend to believe that free-access to porn at any age falls under "freedom of speech".  *facepalm*

   Further how it talked about locking up technology and keeping the elite on top, that I've also noticed for at least a decade or two.  I grew up around technology, working in technology, helping to develop and repair technology, configure and setup technology... I've done a lot with technology along with system securities, Q/A, troubleshooting, etc.  Yet, it's been blowing my mind how we can become so advanced with home-computing that we can have VR in the home (finally after it was another tech that was squashed and locked away in the early to mid 90s) some 20 years later after it was originally introduced, on a private level, to dive into and explore limitless virtual-worlds, which sure, mainstream is expensive, but with searching around one can jury-rig an affordable VR headset and controls.

   We've reached the level where we can do all that.  Yet, for over a hundred years (140+ to be precise), the mainstream automobile has had a couple tiny upgrades, but still seems like it's purposely held to a dumbed-down standard to be a gasoline burner to keep people dependent on high gasoline-prices.  Sure, there's the hybrid and the electric-car, but they didn't come about until almost a century after the first automobile prototype, and they're in essence actually a different prototype basis at the base-level.

   On a side-note another thing about technology that bugs the snot out of me, is how dependent people are made to be on "throw away technology"; it's what's led to so many different connector-types, architectures, interfaces, etc to come along.  Similar to the automobile, rather than tweak up and overhaul the design, just deprecate and toss it, and replace it with a completely new standard.  (Aren't you tired of turning around after getting the "latest" *standard* like gold-plated Monster S-Video cables, to find out there's already something better?  VGA? DVI?  HDMI? Micro-HDMI?)


   Along the way several redesigns of not just the automobile, but other common goods came along, to just have the government either shut them down outright, or buy them out just to lock the patent away forever... like the light-bulb that never burns out.

   I mean, in a very short window of time (in comparison to how long this country has been established, or even the history of human growth over the centuries before that), depending on how one looks at it -- roughly 40 years give or take for the home PC, or perhaps even 80 years if a person wants to go back to the original announcement of the ENIAC "computer" (or perhaps more "calculator") -- but in that span of time, we as a species managed to go from vacuum-tubes, punch-cards, data cassettes, floppy disks, monochrome displays, text-based gaming, all the way up to realistic-looking graphical virtual-reality 3D immersive worlds -- the ability to go anywhere on the planet or in space from the comfort of your own living room -- yet, there was still no mind-blowing revelations or reconstructions of the automobile?  A prototype that was originally designed by Karl Benz in 1885, even though the form-factor and body-style has obviously changed over the years and by the manufacturer, the original concept from 140 years ago, aside from a tweak here or there (like the removal of the carburetor to replace with fuel-injection), was so dead on the money, that nothing over the past 140 years could possibly compete with the intial core-design!?


   Anywho, I've rambled quite a bit here; linking the awesome video below.  Not saying anybody necessarily has to agree, but if they do, more power to them... if they don't, well, no problem and that's cool, to each their own, I still respect everybody's freedom to come to their own unique decisions and perceptions.. :)

Dear Diary,

   Well, added a bit more flavor to the background.  Was just going to stick to a tropical theme, but then my passions for certain things got the better of me.  Oh well, allowed me to link more "popular destinations", heh.  Now just have to script to detect resolution dimensions and resize and re-position images accordingly... erm, meh.  Okay, so for the time being this blog is formatted for 1080p... sure, that works, lol. :P

   Haven't had a chance to peruse the news much today, surprised though that Hillary hasn't been nabbed by the FBI yet and tossed into a hole, but in due time.  (Still several months to the elections, and Hillary to date has to have the most skeletons in her closet, more so than other candidates in the past few decades.  There were already plenty before, and it seems every week or two another one crops up, suffering succotash!)

   Father's Day recently happened... so yeah, can't say I'm exactly feeling "Father's Day" on either end of that spectrum, but whatevs. ^_^

   Anywho, off I go into the wild internet-yonder, hehe. >_<

Dear Diary,

   Just finished getting this all setup; had some strange issues with a gadget seemingly becoming deactivated but managed to fix it.  Been a long day; going to bed, will post more tomorrow.

   Things rattling through my head right now: Trump for President 2016, how horrible of a human being Hillary Clinton is, my newly found disdain of Obama after the proof surfaced that his administration has been supporting ISIS, etc.

   Also have E3 gaming stuff rolling around through my head, really excited for Days Gone, and several other titles shown at the convention.

   Then there's also the Superman Rebirth comic... looks awesome.  Haven't picked it up yet, but went ahead and looked at the spoilers for it anyways... loving the story arc!

   Anywho, g'night diary, be back at it tomorrow. ;)