Apple Gets Greedy And Sells Out

I wait for events to happen rather than to go looking for something to do. After all these years of practice I can do nothing at all quite well. Presently I appear to be reducing the number of events I rely on to keep myself entertained. I'm not all that sure why.

Nothing still ain't nothing, but it's free. ~ Kristofferson

I'm getting an attitude about learning AppleScript. It didn't help when I read in the MacRumors web site that Apple had applied for a patent to insert advertisements into it's operating system. For all I know they're doing it now. I'm already thinking about Linux again. I read some of the shocked comments on some the Mac sites and some people say Apple applied for the patent so that Microsoft and/or Google couldn't have it. Why would Apple want to stop them from doing something that would help Apple if they did? ☂

http://www.macrumors.com/2009/10/22/apple-exploring-ad-supported-operating-systems/

I may go offline altogether. The internet has been a useful source of information. All the libraries in the world rolled up into one, but where was it when I needed it to save me from my failed marriages. A failed marriage is like a failed state. That's how my life has been. I've lived my whole life as a failed state.

It's a little like people who get paroled from jail or prison and then find out that living in confinement is the only way they know how to live, so they do what they gotta do to get put back in prison where they at least know how to act on a day to day basis. I liked being married okay, I just didn't like being held to it. I don't know what moral careactor is really about, but I do know it's acting, and that's what I'm formerly educated in.

I asked the star football player from our high school days what he majored in during his glorified college days as a BMOC. That's how little I knew about his personal life although we were in the same grade level and played some sports together in high school. I didn't know what he studied and got a degree in.

Biology. That's what he told me. No wonder we were never very friendly in high school or since. He's another Bill Nye, the science guy. Every topic that interested or intrigued me just pissed him off. I sought to expand, he sought to contract. I like to open things up, he likes to shut them down. We should have found a way to work together.

Going to the reunion lunches and meeting with my old classmates again is usually a struggle for me. It seems like my relationship with this one guy epitomizes my reticence about gathering with this clan. We were all kids then. I agree with the folks who say that people don't really mature into their own personalities until they're around thirty years old.

Maybe we all get nervous because we don't really know who the other has realized through their own experience who they are. The guy who was the class president during our senior year married one of the prettiest girls in the class, and ended up killing himself twenty odd years ago down in Atlanta. Who would have thunk it?

Me. That's who would have and DID think it. I knew he was being forced to become something he couldn't live up to. He didn't know who he was, He needed to if he wanted to survive. What we have to give up to survive is always somebody else's rules of conscience.

I have strange feelings about discovering more about the Leo/Aquarius polarity. They share good points and bad points, but good for one us bad for the other. When they are conflicted they take on the negative attributes of the other. The good Samaritan is also the person to put the troubled man in the ditch by the side of the road in order to save him. Beware the ides and August and February.