In addition to what I’ve already posted, here’s a few more…

Bicyclists in Traffic - Traffic is for cars, trucks and motorcycles. Bicycles should stay the f**k off the road! I put in a lot of biking miles, and I NEVER ride on the street. I don’t care what the laws say, I want to live and I have four kids to provide for. I’m not going to put myself in between a car and a bus to prove a stupid, meaningless point. That’s a job for idiots.

The New Old Spice commercial - It’s just plain stupid. Fire the marketing firm.

No, not spiritually or intellectually empty. Just empty of any ideas that would qualify as meaningful.

Spent the day kayaking down in North Carolina today. Got sunburnt. Zzzzzz.

Tail-gaters
No need for explanation here.

Cell phones
Yes, it’s probably the provider/carrier at fault, but who cares.
When you’re desperately trying to make a call, and it takes forever
to connect (or dumps your attempt like you never tried), it’s the
phone we all take our anger out on anyway.

Those f-ing stupid IBM ads in every tech magazine
Their TV ads were funny, but their print ads are sucko. Does anyone really read those?

MySpace
Hands-down the f-ing stupidest g-damn pc of sh*t on the net. Oooh…
“be my friend?” “look at my pictures posing in my underwear!” “ooh…
look at my ugly-as-shit artwork and background puke stain!”
It looks like ADHD in the form of a bad stomach flu.

The Lifetime Channel
They’ve softened up on man-hating content since they first aired,
but they still suck. Every show is depressing and portrays people
(mostly men) as dimented psycho-hacks killing or raping everyone.

Cable TV
Remember when the ads paid for content? Now they charge both
the advertisers AND us pathetic customers. Revenue coming in
from both ends. We need more competition to bring prices down.

Rednecks
I was born in the South. I live in the South. I f-ing hate rednecks.
I also hate ghetto gangbanger wannabees with…

Pitbulls
And the people that walk them around parks and beaches. I don’t f-ing
care who moans about their bad reputation being the fault of their
human owners: they don’t qualify as household “pets” in my book.
You don’t hear of poodles or greyhounds killing children (or adults).
Ban them!

Franchised Terrestrial Radio
I don’t own a Sirius or XM box, but I sure wish I did. Traditional radio
has taken a dump…. on us! Heavy rotation crap is just crap in heavy
rotation. Tired of it. If you believe the playlists, Led Zeppelin only
recorded four songs in their entire career.

Lists of things that piss people off
Like… who really cares anyway?

I started my web development life with ColdFusion and CFML, then moved to ASP. I tried ASP.NET but one thing after another seemed to prevent me from jumping with both feet. Timing mostly. I had all the tools and a decent amount of training to make the jump, but the timing was always horrible. I still work with ASP daily, in between scripting and kissing massive amounts of ass to stay employed. However, a new project on my (personal) plate is giving me a great opportunity to revisit something I only briefly touched on back in college: PHP. Boy, has it progressed since then. This project is also combining mySQL into the mix. I’ve not only been totally immersed in ASP, but MS-SQL as well. So this is really making my brain sweat. PHP is nice. Sort of like a mix of CFML and ASP. The syntax (to me) looks like javascript, still, but the libraries and function collections have grown immensely. After learning the translation of < % %> to < ? ?> and how form posts work, then I figured out session and server variables, and then all the issues with using preg_quote() to wrap sql content calls. I’m still poking around, but it’s really cool to be learning something new again. Especially at age 43, when IT considers me a dinosaur.

What’s up with the goddamn stupid product names lately? I mean, come on. Nobody is immune to it. Not Microsoft. No Linux. Not even web sites. And certainly not automotive makers, pharmaceutical firms nor food makers.

Which is dumber?

1. Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate Extras Edition 32-bit
2. Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Linux 7.04

???
Someone seriously needs to lock up the marketing pukes and throw away the key. It would work way better to let a classroom of first graders pick a name for most products these days.