Google? What Have You Done To My YouTube?!

Do you use YouTube? Have you looked lately at what Google has done to the YouTube homepage?! I can't believe that they think they've, "IMPROVED" something that had nothing wrong with it! I thought at first that something had gone seriously, horribly wrong with my computer. No, that wasn't it, maybe, I thought to myself, YouTube has been hacked by some nefarious Chinese hackers. No, it turns out that the people at YouTube thought in their infinite wisdom that everyone would like to look at a YouTube homepage that looks like it had been pulled out of the mid-90's from a Geo-cities website!

I can't believe that they seriously think I'm going to go to YouTube on a daily basis and look at that horrible, white hideous mess that they call a homepage! It hurts my eyes just to look at it for more than a few seconds. The thing is, I've been a member of YouTube since 2006, and have put up nearly 80 videos myself. I couldn't tell you how much I use YouTube on a daily basis. If they insist on keeping that horrible mockery of a homepage, I'm going to have to convert myself to a Vimeo person.

I'm sending out a plea right now to those in charge at YouTube. Please, please put the homepage back the way it was. There is no way in HELL that you could possibly believe that monstrosity looks like a website that anyone would want to look at. I'm serious YouTube. I will pull all my videos and go to Vimeo if that is what it takes. What you now call a homepage is nothing but a hot mess of fecal matter that doesn't have anyplace on internet of this century!

I may just have to give up...

I just got back home from driving my son and his girlfriend to her house to drop her off. On the way back home, I was heading East on Main street and saw a bike-rider to my right. He was standing up on the pedals right at the edge of the road, whipping his front wheel back and forth trying to stay upright while not moving forward. I kept thinking to myself, "what's this idiot up to?" "Is he going to suddenly lunge in front of me, or go off in some other direction. As I came up on the intersection, he finally headed towards me right on the edge of the sidewalk. I was finally satisfied he wasn't going to throw himself in front of my car and turned my head back to where I was going...the traffic light had turned RED! I was just entering the intersection at about twenty-five miles per hour. There was no way to stop in time, although I did hit my brakes as I went through the light.

Thank GOD there wasn't anyone traveling the other direction, and there weren't any cops around. When I got home I told my wife what happened, and of course she gave me that look that said, "Why do I let him out of the house?" I don't think I did anything wrong by watching a bike-rider who was capering around suspiciously on the edge of the road, but then again, maybe I really don't need to drive anymore either.

I used to enjoy getting in the car and going somewhere, not anymore. It seems like nothing but an exercise in stress and futility...I can't remember the last time I enjoyed driving somewhere. I wrecked our car while on vacation back in 2005, I had two wrecks on the scooter this year, maybe I'd be better off if I just let my license expire in 2009 and just stop driving altogether!

Riding the bus...not the short one!

Seeing as my wife has told me I can't film myself with our cluttered closet in the background, and she's objected to me blogging without a shirt on, I've filmed my thoughts about riding the public bus outside on the sidewalk...of course now she'll just yell at me for wearing my hat that she hates! I keep telling her it'll help keep me alive by keeping the sun off my bald noggin'. That doesn't make her like it any more though, maybe that should tell me something!?