Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Internet/Web programmers, listen up!!!

If you program for an Internet page, be it on the World Wide Web or not, hear this! QUIT trying to steal the focus!!! People actually multi-task. (I know, the horror!!) and when we are reading one page while waiting for the second one to load, we do not want to be interrupted by the second page immediately stealing the focus. Worse yet, when we are on an username/password protected website (such as for online banking), do not automatically transfer the focus to the password box when we are still typing in the username box! (No, I'm not hitting the 'Tab' button, either. It happens all the time, though.)

Got that?!

Be glad I'm not an elected politican as I'd move to have it be criminalized.

So, if you don't want me to get any angrier and start to look up who is responsible for each page that is guilty and sending you a profane letter in the mail, stop it now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

YOU GOT THAT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

Thank you.

Thursday, June 19, 2008

Golf courses

Why would a golf course in the Upper Midwest charge MORE to golf in June through August than in the so-called "shoulder seasons"? Normally, June through August is TOO hot to golf so it should be cheaper not more expensive. Today was the first time in 3 years that I actually golfed during the summer months because it was barely in the upper 50s and talk about sticker shock! Do people actually LIKE to sweat and to dehydrate?

I don't know about you all, but I like to LIVE.

The more things change, the more they stay the same...

Tell me, why is it so goddamn difficult for people to turn ON their headlights when visibility is poor, even though the law REQUIRES it? I drove over 50 miles home today from the golf course and I lost track of how many people I had to flash my high beams at to try to turn their headlights on after I had hit 90 and I was barely 2/3rds of the way home!

Honestly, it's completely overcast, the clouds are 90% atramental in coloration, do you TRULY feel that EVERYONE on the road, YOURSELF included, have PERFECT visibility?

If you are honest and admit that people don't, then why is it so goddamn hard for you to turn them on?

If you honestly think everyone has perfect visibility, are you delusional and/or on drugs?

Sheesh!!!