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Progressives, Smash Your Cellphones!

Okay, show of hands. Raise them if you believe that all references to a RACIST past should be erased from this country’s collective memory. Progressives, let me see those hands raised high!

If you are holding your hand up, use your other hand, pull out your cellphone, and smash it into the ground. This will show that you don’t want anything to do with such a symbol of a RACIST past.

Why is a cellphone a symbol of racism, you might be asking?  Let me explain.

A key component in the cellphone is the TRANSISTOR. It is what makes modern electronics possible.  Who invented the transistor? William Shockley.

William who?

Dr. William Shockley was an MIT PhD who headed up the research group at Bell Labs and his team invented the TRANSISTOR. Shockley was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work. The good doctor founded his own company Shockley Semiconductors in Palo Alto, CA and he later became a professor at Stanford University. During the 1950s and 1960s he aggressively commercialized the semiconductor business which in turn created the billionaire’s center known as SILICON VALLEY.

How is your cellphone a symbol of racism?

Later in life Dr. Shockley believed that his greatest contribution to the world was NOT the TRANSISTOR, but his work on EUGENICS.

Quoting Dr. Shockley,

My research leads me inescapably to the opinion that the major cause of the American Negro’s intellectual and social deficits is hereditary and racially genetic in origin and, thus, not remediable to a major degree by practical improvements in the environment.

Shockley advocated that anyone with an IQ of less than 100 should be STERILIZED to prevent their genes from swimming in the future gene pool.

Nice guy.  This checkered past of electronics is something those of us from the old school engineering world knew about.  I suspect the younger folks may not have been exposed to this dirty little secret.

So Progresissies, step up and smash those cellphones and get rid of that reminder of overt RACISM!

You’re willing to smash stuff other people paid for but you’re NOT going to smash your own toys?

I didn’t think you would… #I’M A PUSSY

Technology Solves World’s Toughest Problem

I just heard about this new technology that is going to REVOLUTIONIZE the world and SOLVE one of mankind’s most daunting problems.

The manufacturer of this technological wonder describes on their website that “… they (the press covering CES 2017) are all unanimous that (the product) represents a serious and fresh idea, and aims to cover a clear market need.”  CES is the Consumer Electronics Show which is the world’s largest industry gathering for the commercial technology sector. Obviously if all of the press unanimously declares how groundbreaking this product is, folks you need to take this very seriously.

What is this new technology?

Wait for it…

Hushme

You can watch their promotional video to see this innovative technological wonder in action!

Forget about that blinking Bluetooth widget stuck in your ear, this will undoubtedly become the new status symbol for the cell phone power user.

This WILL SOLVE the world’s most pressing problem as I had mentioned earlier.  That problem?  How to have a private conversation when you’re pinching off a loaf in an airport restroom stall.

Unfortunately, I have been subjected to, too many important (legends in their own minds) “businessmen” jibber-jabbering away on their cell phones in public restrooms.

What Did He Say? Another Peeve

I just watched the opening moments of “The Round Table Discussion On Women In Business”, hosted by President Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau in the White House Cabinet Room.

Here’s my beef. I could barely hear what anyone was saying because of all those annoying press photographers!

The noise from all the cameras drowned out the voices.  A never ending cacophony of camera clacking sounds.

Here’s my peeve of the day. This is RIDICULOUS because the press could use silent cameras. In this day and age everyone is using digital cameras, which allows them to almost instantaneously transfer the images to their agencies. No one covers news stories with film cameras. There is no need to use a camera that has a shutter and a slapping mirror inside. They make digital cameras without mirrors that are completely silent.  They are called (obviously) “mirrorless cameras”.  Heck I owned a Canon camera called a Pellix that had no moving mirror which made it quieter.  That camera was made in the 1960’s for goodness sake!

Point of fact here folks, manufacturers of cameras have audio generators in the cameras to make them sound like a film camera of old.  They create the shutter sound because people are used to hearing it, I suppose. If you own a smart phone it makes a “camera like” sound when you press the button and take a picture.

I noticed that they must have mandated that no flashes were to be used as I didn’t see a single burst of light. Therefore they could make a rule that only silent cameras must be used to cover White House events.

Here’s another reason this is INSANE. At a professional golf game the photographers cannot make noise when the player is up. They can only use silent cameras.

Do we have our priorities straight?  Why is it that hitting a little white ball around with a stick has more stringent press coverage requirements than a meeting between international heads of states?