Day: August 5, 2015

Who will be his Secretary of Hair Control?

Since ceasing my PC consulting and changing to a Mac, I have been estranged from the Windows world. But yesterday, helping a friend with a new computer and Windows 8, I could not get over the abomination they have created. The screen was totally incomprehensible. They did steal some stuff from Apple and saw to it that even that was poorly done. I would liken it to putting a steering wheel in a car on the right side in the back seat. He asked me whether he should take advantage of the free upgrade to Windows 10. I shudder to think what that would be like if history is any indication. I told him to go back to the store for the free tutorial on Windows and to wait until the public has had a chance to debug Windows 10 before he upgrades. True to their corporate culture, Microsoft still turns out crap as they have done since the beginning of their monopolistic reign. I would suggest that the PC manufacturers get together and impose on, or even beg Apple to provide an operating system for them and put Microsoft out of its misery.

My new book, Solomon’s Dozen – Confessions of a Dirty Old Man should be off the press in paperback in a couple of days. I plan to release it on August 15. You can order your pre-release copy now. Solomon Nassau is an old guy who is inspired by a performance of Don Giovanni and goes on a ten year womanizing spree. His young chronocler, interviews him, curious to find out what is in store for him when he gets into his senior years. Solomon is only to happy to oblige and go over the episodes in his notebook from which the young writer selects a dozen. All the raunchy details are left in so that the reader can share in the fun.

Back in 1999, when my book “The Year 2000 Hoax” came out, I was debating all the naysayers on radio, TV, in the news, all the dopes – and they were dopes – who said the world would come to an end because of the Y2K bug. When on January 1, 2000, the world didn’t explode, the naysayers were king. The networks and newspeople only wanted to interview those who got it wrong.

I mention this because you can’t tell from who’s there and who’s not there, who will get the press and the notoriety from the media. There is no way to predict the result of the republican farce they call a debate. How can a bunch of indistinguishable candidates distinguish themselves? They can’t. The media will have to do it for them and pick one or more of the republican jokes to pump up. They will for sure but only The Shadow knows.