An Open Letter

 To Electrify America, Changepoint, and others getting into the EV space. 

I live in Florida, a perfect location for EVs. My complaint is about shade. It is nearly impossible to read the charging machine screen or even my cell phone screen in sunlight. I don't even want to think about what it would be like charging in the rain. 

Putting aside the fact that I drove around a Walmart parking lot for several minutes just trying to find the chargers, they are not in pull through spaces where a tractor trailer rig could fill up. It would have been nice to just head for the "green sunshade" to top off.

I know these networks are a work in progress, but to get a real market going remember your users.

 When did "woke" become a dirty word? According to Webster, the definition is 

Definition of woke

 (Entry 1 of 2)

chiefly US slang

: aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)

When and how did caring about your fellow man become "bad"? 

Dissecting the Trump years

 Taxes

Everybody thinks problem 1 is taxes. Nobody likes throwing money down a black hole. But here is what really happened with the Trump Tax Cuts:

People who are genuinely poor got nothing but more pain. The next few quintiles got a little more take home pay, but what happened to that nice Tax Refund check that came in time for Spring Break? And the top payers got the BIGGEST break which is pre-programmed to grow to 2025!

which leads me to Dow 30,000.

On election day, the Dow Jones industrial average was down on the year. It wasn't until the results came in that it worked its way back up to a new high. Yet who chose to pat himself on the back?

The Wall

We were promised that Mexico would pay for the ludicrous wall.

Funds were diverted from FEMA as a hurricane bore down on the Florida panhandle. Literal billions have been diverted from the military. And the wall has holes.

Florida

In many ways my new home state, Florida, is amazing. The weather is consistent. Sunny every day with an afternoon thunderstorm to cool things off. The eye  of Hurricane Irma passed right over my house and a few tiles got knocked off my roof and a few bushes got windburn. The power was out for a few days and some trees got knocked down. Sounds like Connecticut, no?

And Florida politics is very interesting. We have a Republican candidate for governor who ran on the platform "I am endorsed by the President". No other substance at all. The  Democratic candidate was a low budget Mayor who came out of nowhere. We are in for an interesting couple of months until November. 

I am outraged by the attack on a Mosque in Egypt. It essentially left an entire village of widows and children.

I am even more outraged by the "News" coverage. I just read a lengthy article about "was it Militants or Terrorists". https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/isis-raises-stakes-egypt-mosque-attack-n823986

Baloney. If families were terrified, it is terrorism. That includes the maniac driving down the sidewalk in New York City and the shooter in Las Vegas. They are all Terrorists and should be treated as sociopaths.

An Open Letter to Microsoft

You have the most interesting marketing it has been my experience to deal with. You get a stable OS (XP) and you stop supporting in favor of a highly buggy and unreliable Windows 8.1. Meanwhile, you are working on Windows 10 (what happened to 9?) it works OK until your computer refuses to boot and you have to go back to factory settings losing all your downloads and apps.

The most interesting part of this is you introduce OneDrive. So at least I didn't lose all of my documents. Now your marketing department has decided to cut the OneDrive in half while Google Drive, Dropbox, Box are all adding space.

And you sit there and scratch your heads ..
"Gee Whillikers why are people totally angry at Microsoft?"
"Why aren't people replacing their stable Windows 7?"

I think the real question is: Why does anybody at Microsoft still have a job?

Oh yeah .. I wrote this blog using the new featureless Microsoft Edge .. and Blogger gave me the message: The browser we detected is unsupported and may result in unexpected behavior.
Please choose from our list of supported browsers for the best experience.

Thanks again Microsoft for another lousy computer experience.

Surveys

As if we aren't inundated with enough spurious nonsense, what is it with the surveys. Almost everything I do requests a survey after I have had a successful transaction of some kind.

• Yes i bought Doggie Poop Bags
• Yes I am happy with my purchase
• My hand remains clean
• The poop gets tossed
• The salesperson rang out my puchase with the same stupor he has for every customer

Seriously. I am in the store for 2 minutes, and spend twenty minutes telling some machine how great the experience was.  What a PIMA (Pain In My A**). If the bags leaked, or there weren't 25 bags in a roll, or if the salesperson was actively an idiot, believe me, you would hear from me. I really don't want to or care to share about every purchase I make.

Are you listening Amazon.com?