Tech Dreck

I may be the last blogger/essayist/ bullshitter of all things inconsequential on earth to address, but address it I will: There's too much fucking technology in our life.

Way too much.

I'll also admit to being part of the problem, but not the solution. Let me explain this by example. 

As a self-admitted gadget hound, I was one of the first to jump on board the Nest products of home robotics. I purchased several Nest cameras to place inside and outside my home. As a father interested in protecting my family, I believe this was a responsible investment.

Also, I had hoped to snare my malicious neighbor -- he of the loser variety I mentioned yesterday -- vandalizing my property. That never happened but I did catch this little gem of him and his now dead dog, just weeks ago. You have to stick around past 15 seconds.

I never tire of watching this absurd loser in all his white trash glory. Thank you Technology for that. But for little else. You have no idea how hard it was to insert this video clip into this blog posting. I'm not even sure it will appear.

But I digress. 

Weeks ago, I was notified by Nest, now a Google company, that my very expensive Nest Thermostats, which I also purchased a long time ago, will no longer be reachable via the interwebs. I could however purchase the latest generation at a discounted price. It's a heaping helping of planned obsolescence with a dab of honey on top.

If I wasn't making money on my Google stock, I'd be clicking and clacking off a vitriolic letter to the Google Grand Puba.

I could regale you with the story of me installing the new 4th generation replacement unit. How I failed to throw the right circuit breaker. How two wires accidentally touched. How the low voltage spark made the one hair on my head stand at attention. And how I had to shell out $85 bucks to have my handyman, Super Dave from G'Town, come out and replace a fuse on the furnace. But I'll spare you all that.

Suffice to repeat my original premise, "there's too much technology."

To make that point abundantly clear, I give you Steven Colbert, a national treasure who will soon be canceled by our Fuckwadian Fourth Reich -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd9EcuS6GVY

Skip to the 1:30 mark. And, you'll thank me for this later, stay until the bit ends at 3:00. 

Dear gods of AI, make it stop.