Snow Leopard

Technology is supposed to ease our minds from all of our day-to-day struggles. After the grind that is our lives, its only natural that when we get home and go off to our online lives, we want it to be as simple and easy as possible, right? The last thing we want is more work.

But often, that’s what we end up doing when it comes to our beloved technology.

Today, I received Snow Leopard in the post. Excited, I went back home during my lunch hour to install it (and eat of course). Everything was smooth and wonderful; Snow Leopard installed in less then 40 minutes and kept all of my setting unchanged. So I went back to work to finish my day, but with the promise of a new-ish OS waiting for me when I got home.

My ritual upon getting home is pretty boring, so I’ll keep it short: I get home, turn on my Macbook Pro, and let it start up and download podcasts while I changed and make some dinner. Today was no different and everything still went smoothly.

It wasn’t until later on in the evening that I started to experience some Upgrade Woes. My Airport (WiFi) kept disconnecting…more specifically, it says I am connected but have no internet service. This was a bit peculiar to me as I was watching Hulu on my media center PC, without hiccup. I shrugged and proceeded the usual troubleshooting: cycling Airport, power cycling the router, power cycling the Macbook Pro, changing/resetting Airport settings, changing/resetting Router settings, etc. Nothing worked. Frustrated, I did a Google search and, of course, found others who had the same problems. I tried everything I read and, 50 steps later, have internet back on my Macbook Pro.

But why did I have to do this?

It seems the tech community is so focused on making our OSes and gadgets more advanced, but they leave all the back-end stuff for later. I mean, its been 3 years now and we still don’t have a final draft of 802.11n. We have iPhones and other smart-phones that are capable of speed of 7.2mbps, but our networks really only get about 1 (on a very very good day, don’t even get me started on AT&T’s abysmal service). Everything that is purported to be so fantastic is hindered by services that are getting extremely aged.

I feel that by focusing only on innovation instead of evolution, we’re going to end up with fantastic devices and UIs that are severely crippled by dying services. And that’s what causes our technology woes. I spent close to 2 hours troubleshooting my Mac and router because of a problem that didn’t exist yesterday. I understand that with a new OS comes a few growing pains, but I feel that if only my router was more advanced I wouldn’t have had this problem. My iPhone and Macbook constantly update each other to changes in my calendar, apps, and phonebook…so why can’t my router communicate with my Macbook on changes to my wireless profiles? Why is it that I have to go into my router via an IP address in my browser to manually input changes? If I have an application on my Macbook that can send files to my iPhone, why not have an application on the router as well as my Macbook that communicates the same way?

I don’t think that’s asking for much. In an age where my phone has (almost) full internet access, music, flickr, comics, kindle support, Auto-Tune, e-mail, videos, podcasts, and all other types of fun shit….I think there’s no excuse that my router (which is constantly connected to the internet) cannot update itself to be compatible with my computer.

Yay, Complacency

A great deal of things has transpired since I’ve left college. There’s been a few constants to be sure (tina, car, obsessions with tech), but I’ve been hitting some bumps on my road of familiarity. The job has changed, the apartment’s new, the pets are new, the phones are non-verizon…new new new. 

Something feels wrong, though. I’ve got an idea of what it is, but I don’t want to admit it to myself. I don’t even like saying it out loud. But here goes: I’m not doing any of things I’ve wanted to do. I had my chances and I’ve blown them away. Now, I’m stuck in this rut. This hell. This prison. My college-laziness has fucked up my life. Now I have bills, debt, and a career (one gone, one starting).

This isn’t for me, but I don’t want to lose it either. Without my job, I’m fucked. Without my job, I can’t get out of debt.

Realization has dawned on me. This is the life that you stumble upon when you’re lazy. Interesting fact: the average person is lazy and that’s why many of us end up in a career we have no love for.

So what about those famous and un-famous people? The rich and the super poor both doing what they love?

Answer: those are the minority. The people who had to struggle their whole lives and really worked hard for everything they’ve accomplished…or they were born into it…better yet, maybe they just got lucky.

Yay. I get to be a cog.

Newest Rhyme Since the Last TIme

All my friends wonder aloud,

“why do you keep so many?

You have an iPhone and an LG

it seems you have phones aplenty.”

“That I do,” I say in reply

“I enjoy my gadgets, phones, and tech.

Why do you care?” I ask on the fly

“How does it effect your fucking neck?”

 

“No need to transform

into beastly transgression,

perhaps you should seek

to learn your own lesson.

You buy and you buy,

you never think twice.

So we ask ‘why oh why’,

to reveal your avarice.”

 

“Oh my,” I respond

“how may I give thanks?

I know!” I exclaim

“let’s all go to Frank’s!

We can drink and converse

about my iPods and toys

then we can uncover

why it is you like boys.”

Hello world!

Following deep’s advice

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