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Sometimes I think I should stop posting rants about idiots.
Then I come across something like this and I’m reassured I’m not the only one annoyed with the current level of retardation in the online ‘community’.

Being a dad is, in a nutshell, the coolest thing in the world. Maybe I’m privileged by having 2 daughters who think that I’m the coolest thing in the world, but still. It’s awesome watching them develop and learning new things on a daily basis. Even if the new thing is them parading around the house wearing your shoes, or unlocking your phone so they can browse through the pictures of themselves. Amy’s a year and a half now and Eve’s had her third birthday in December, but not a day goes by that I look at them in amazement and how much of an impact they make on our lives. And it’s mutual of course, you realize all too well how much of an impact you make on how these little beings experience the world and everything in it. I guess it’s the ultimate sense of responsibility one might have. Call me old fashioned, but good parenting makes all the difference in a kid’s life and how they’ll be growing up to tackle the world and find their own place in it. It’s fulfilling to be a part of that, and to be able to say, “I’m a dad”.

It’s weekend, well really my ‘big’ vacation of the year seeing as our little adventure in the US cost me the rest of my vacation days. This weekend will be spent relaxing, being a translator during my wife’s language exam, going to the beach if the weather permits, working on my big idea for my second site and relaunching that, and rehashing the company’s website as they didn’t like the design and are thinking more along the lines of blinking lights. Yay. Yahtzee reviews Soul Calibur IV and yet I still want to play it, looking for a good feed aggregator I discovered Gregarius finally got an update after 2 years and I remembered I still had it installed on the site somewhere and someone else has apparently been using it all this time. I miss my music so I might have to hook me old server up this weekend seeing as that holds a backup of everything. I’m still liking this theme but I might make a new header, I want a new logo, a new t-shirt design, and a haircut. Where did all the funky new ajax webscripts go? Seems they all disappeared in the 2.0 bubble, they’re all startups instead of something we can run ourselves. Speaking of which, must not forget that I wanted to test Woopra for the new site. Should I wait to see if Google picks up on the proper gallery titles or should I implement this now? Must remember to log on to work before Zzz to reboot the Small Business Server. It’s quirky in that it fails to reboot on schedule. I need coffee.

I remember people mocking me for reading superhero comics, now we have Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk and a new Punisher movie all on the big screen in one year.
I remember people thinking that playing computer games was just for kids and silly, now everyone and their granny either has an X-Box, DS or is hopping on the Wii bandwagon.
I remember people saying I was a computer nerd for getting on the internet, now everyone has internet even on their freakin’ cellphone.

The trouble with all those things going mainstream is that the quality goes down because it ‘has’ to be adapted for the idiot masses, which usually makes it lose its appeal that drew us to it in the first place.

Try wading through hundreds of spam blogs and ad ridden sites to find an old school gem of knowledge.
Try finding a game that makes you raise an eyebrow instead of being same old same old rehashed and dumbed down to infinity.

I miss the old days.

I’m still trying to figure out how I want to organize the gallery on my blog here for the huge flood of pictures I’m taking.
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It would seem my other half is responsible for staying in touch with other people these days.
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