Very Random Thoughts - July 2018

• Pro teams now have a special uniform for every holiday or cause. Sell more stuff.
• Not sure if I have defective technology or I don't speak clearly. I told my Google Home to set a reminder to do laundry. At the appointed time it said I'm hungry.
• It is often not so much what we did that we regret but rather what we didn't do. 
• If you only watch one TV news network, be it Fox News or MSNBC, you are not really informed.
• When someone says "this is not who we are" what they really mean is "this is not who we want to be". We already proved who we are. 
• Are any legitimate products or services advertised on TV at 2:00 AM or later?
• Saw an old episode of The Fugitive. Made me wonder, was he the unluckiest guy ever for almost getting caught every week or the luckiest for escaping? 
• If politicians and lawyers wrote software, none of our technology would work reliably. 
• Seems almost every retailer now has a Christmas in July promotion. 
• When it comes to marketing slogans, UNLIMITED rarely actually means unlimited. See unlimited phone plans to prove this point.
• It's amazing to me how many people apparently don't have access to Google and 60 seconds to spare to check on outrageous crap on social media. 
• Don't you hate it when the artistic designers get so cute with graphics and fancy script that you can't actually read it?
• Local TV news continues to shrink the sports segment and expand the weather segment. How long does it take to tell us it is going to be hot or rainy or cold tomorrow?
• We now have 4K HDR 70" TVs with Dolby surround sound speakers yet we watch movies and TV on a 5" phone with a crappy speaker. 
• Seems every news anchor and reporter was in Helsinki for a one day, closed door, one on one meeting between Trump and Putin. For what purpose? 
• Are The Rolling Stones the most dehydrated/drawn looking band ever? 
• When I was growing up no adults had first names except for aunts and uncles. Everyone was Mr., Mrs., or Miss.
• Wouldn't it be nice if all TV stations were approximately the same volume?
• It occurs to me that the Mission: Impossible movies are the exact opposite of the Mission: Impossible original TV show. The TV show had very little violence, they outsmarted their adversaries. The movies are all action and violence and carnage. 
• Where do they find those idiots on infomercials? They can't slice, dice, grate, paint, nail, etc. 
• We have tea bags, how come there aren't coffee bags?
• In many TV commercials for drugs, the announcer or disclaimers say "Do not take super drug if you are allergic to it. First, how would you know you are allergic? Second, if you do know, why would you take it?
• In government, the personnel director's title is "chief component human capital officer". Seems a little too overblown and confusing.

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