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RANT
I've set aside this page for announcements, airing my grievances or alarming the "public".
Opinions are my own, and I hold them out as just that.
If my logic is flawed (probably) or you don't agree (likely), then let me know. I'm flexible.
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Let me warn you against using PayPal, an online auction electronic payment company. Once I became a verified user, they allowed some clever hacker bastard with too much free time to misdirect my funds. And their support is nonexistant. No 800 number. Stay away from these guys, they've got serious security problems. Details.
As an addenda to the above, I understand that AOL has since purchased PayPal. In all fairness, it is possible that they have corrected the problems. But AOL seemed to be able to know that someone had indeed "forged my signature" so to speak, and took no action besides suspending one of the sellers. They didn't induce PayPal to come clean. Once I transferred funds into an account someone could hack, I lost the protection of a credit card. Go there with caution.
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Do you, too, get irked when someone with a double-digit IQ tosses their cigarette butt out of the car window? I sit at traffic lights in the left-turn lane, and if I happen to glance at the curb, I am nauseated and embarrassed by the pile of filters left there by driving smokers. And in parks and neighborhoods, it is so disappointing to see the crap that rude and thoughtless people leave, many times with a trash recepticle within sight. I'm afraid the term "litterbug" just doesn't have enough teeth any more. Help me pick out a better one -- Trashhole, Litterbitch, Scumbucket, Looooooser. It is inexcusable.
I don't know.
It must come with the experience of age, but I have learned to expect the worse of people, then when they end up being decent, I'm pleasantly surprised.
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Don't Millenium Bug Me -
I know this is several years hence now, but what about those pseudo-intellectuals who argue that the first year was "1", not "0", so January 1st, 2001 is the "true millenium"? Duh. So let's just say that the first decade had only 9 years. Because after that, anyone who was celebrating landmarks (and they didn't do much celebrating for hundreds of years) did so on a "landmark" date, not the following year.
For example, if you weren't celebrating the start of the '90s on January 1, 1991, then get over it, pythagorus.
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Thanks for letting me vent. I feel much better now.
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Mark Scott, All Lights Deserved.