Archive for September 23rd, 2008

Researching And Discovering

Here’s why I hate the internet: there’s too much information available.

My TV melted (don’t ask), so I need a new one. I’m trying to find a 46-47″ flat screen and am trying to figure out which one would be the best value (as a jew I’m required to get a good value for the items I buy).

The problem is that every single fuckin television out there is either great, ok, or shit depending on where you look. Every single one. If you listen to the “unbiased reviews” you get one opinion. If you listen to the “-philes” you get another opinion. If you listen to the average schmuck who bought one and used it for a while you get yet another opinion. And never do the opinions from the different sources match.

So do you listen to the unbiased, the dork who is way too into the minute details of video reproduction on liquid crystal/plasma displays, or Joe Average? It’s all bullshit if you ask me, and the internet makes it impossible to do anything more than make an educated guess as to which anything is the right one for you.

(BTW, this appears to be the winner of the “hang on a wall in my house” sweepstakes. Fuck what anyone thinks about it.)

In other news, I was driving out to where I ran 20 miles at 4:30am the other day (like a moron) and was mindlessly flipping through the channels on the radio to get my mind off the pain I was about to inflict on myself. Something I came across was the Kim Komando radio show. I’ve never listened to her for more than a minute or two, but it’s obvious that she serves a purpose: to guide old people and retards through using basic technology because they’re too feeble or stupid to figure it out for themselves.

Then it struck me that Oprah does the exact same thing, only she does it to guide the feeble and stupid through life.

Considering the great livings they make, which is an understatement when talking about Oprah, there sure are a lot of feeble and stupid out there. Sad, really.