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Will it blend? When will it end?

This is getting out of hand.

There is a trend of people blending new electronic devices. New iPhones and apple products seem to get the brunt of the blades, or perhaps they get the most press. I understand exactly why Apple products divide people like they do – I’m a tech geek who spends a lot of her time reading tech blogs and trying to play with other people’s cell phones.

I just saw this video on a mobile-phone blog:

(from www.mobilesyrup.com)

What I do not understand is, why people feel the need to destroy these products. I’m not saying this because I’m in love with Apple and think these things are sacred – they are not. But it is something that took a lot of time, money, effort and materials to create. It is the most wasteful thing anyone can do.  With all the recent press about suicides happening in factories that make such product, suicides that are a result of the horrible working conditions, you’d think people might care a stitch more about what goes into making their precious toys.

Isn’t the answer always yes? Perhaps there are different degrees of which a product can blend, but has anyone successfully made an unblendable gadget? These gadgets can always be destroyed. There will never be one that can’t, so… what’s the point?!

Tags: annoyances, gadgets, tech, will it blend

2 months into wedding planning!

I have this strange guilt when it comes to talking about the wedding. I’m more than ok with talking about it with my friends who are involved – but I am cognizant of becoming a crazy-obsessed bride. Nobody likes those, especially me.

Yet, at the same time planning a wedding takes a lot of time and consideration. For people who are complete n00bs like myself, there’s a whole world of flowers, mysterious etiquette, and tiny ridiculous-yet-expensive details to take in.  Of course I’d want to share (what is to me) new-found knowledge will all that will listen.  It just turns out that a lot of these things are ‘common knowledge’ to most everyone so they don’t care. I don’t blame them.

I didn’t give a care about weddings until it was part of my reality.

Nonetheless, I have learned a whole lot about the wedding-industrial-complex, and have compiled a list of my general thoughts:

1) By and large, it’s pretty stupid.

2) Pale blues and calligraphy/script font apparently instantly = weddings. So many sites and blogs and resources I’ve seen use a combination of these. I have now developed a gag-reflex when I see scripted fonts.

3) I am not quite the ‘typical’ bride, nor are Baron and I the typical betrothed couple.

4) Rich people get married and have really fun weddings in their mansions backyards or gorgeous valleys in California and make it seem so casual.

5) Every single wedding photo-album must include one ‘cute’ and ‘whimiscal’ shot of just the couples feet. OMGZ LOL how ironic! It’s like a portrait but flipped!  I hate it. Maybe due to the over-saturation of subscribing to about half dozen wedding blogs I see more than I normally would. They make me angry.

6) Don’t know why anyone would want to be in a wedding party. I’m SO glad my friends are excited about it, but I feel bad for asking them to do all these things. Determining what they wear? That’s so weird!

7) I don’t understand western traditions and etiquette.

All-in-all, a lot of the excitement has faded as I try to muddle through all the tasks and all the money that needs to save. I wonder how I’ll be feeling in another 2 months :/

Blue Screen of Death on my mac… but not really.

We have a little home network featuring a Media PC. The icon it has is a PC monitor… which appears to have the BSoD! Surely this is not the first time anyone has noticed it, but I find it hilarious… and it’s my freakin’ blog. so there.

BSoD

Hah!

To the seas!

Baron and I recently came back from our 2nd ever all-inclusive vacation to the south. We tagged along last year with some friends to the Riviera Maya of Mexico. I was skeptical – I’m not a huge beach person and I thought I may get bored. I was wrong. There were 7 of us total and all levels of fun and different activities to be had.  I had never been on that type of vacation – a truly relaxing one. One where you never have to stress about anything, other than choosing one of the millions of buffet foods or drinks to have.

This year we went to the Majestic Colonial in Punta Cana, Dominica Republic (reccomend it). In searching out resorts, I turned to www.tripdadvisor.ca for the scoop. It’s definitely a helpful webiste but I’ve found some interesting things in my reasearch.

1) This one resort in the Dominican has a kids club area that features a pirate ship to play on. Doesn’t anyone else find this ironic? Considering the history of actual piracy that took place? That while the pirates we know of today are a wonderful thing of whimsy and fantasy, their historical counterparts were… creepy.

Yay for pirates!

Part of me wonders if these kids realize, or even if at this age if they should realize the real history of piracy. I suppose they can have their childhood innocence. Since I no longer have mine, however, I feel it would be my right to find said play pirate ship, shove the kids off (as was surely common in real piracy), get drunk off of rum (again, based in fact) and tell the kids ‘dems de breaks’.  That ought to teach them about piracy enough.  Ok, so maybe I’m just a bit jealous that I don’t get to play on a giant pirate ship. whatever. I’m taking destiny (and piracy) into my own hands.

2) There is a resort in Puerto Rico called El Conquistador resort. um. So perhaps on the surface being a Spanish explorer who took over a nation isn’t the worst thing – par for the course at the time. Yet again, visions of the extreme acts committed by Hernan Cortes jump to mind, and find it is beyond ironic for a resort name.  Espcecially if you consider the amount of people who can and will go on all-inclusive resorts to ‘exotic’ countries to use their best, most beautiful land and never learn anything of the history, the people, the cultures and current social situations in these places.

I suppose this makes me a bit of a hypocrite because I have gone on my 2nd here. :/ however this does bring me to the 3rd awesome thing I’ve noticed

3) Reviews on tripadvisor. Most of them are great and informative, but it’s really interesting to see what people complain about. Of course everyone has different standards and expectations, especially of a vacation that is designed, pitched and sold for the ultimate in relaxation, fun and luxury.  However, I cannot get past some of the most ridiculous complaints. This includes:

Bugs
Heat
Seaweed on beach off the coast of Mexico
Undertow in ocean
Strong Winds
Rain
Poverty in country (having to drive by it).
Leaving the resort to go to a restaurant and seeing an armed guard.

Ok, as this list goes on I can understand the last item – though people don’t realize that police in different countries carry different types of weapons. some countries are not as safe as ours, and we should realize this.  But the bugs? you’re in a hot country! heat? you’re in  a hot country! seaweed? SEA. WEED.  FROM THE SEA. You don’t deserve to experience nature. Undertow in the ocean? A real resort would build a weather device and control all of this.

Obviously, any sort of peer-review system needs to be taken with a grain (or a thousand) of salt, which is what I’ve done. Reading through the negative reviews becomes kind of an entertainment. A sad one.