I could use some help on what my family thinks I do. I honestly just got lazy.

Do you think you’ll ever retire?
I don’t know what that is. There’s always some way to serve. And I never felt like I had a job. – Prince

Some people are born with talent and other’s work for it. On an interview with Howard Stern, Steve Martin explained how he isn’t naturally funny and it was hard work that vaulted him to stardom. Tweaking each piece of his act until it was perfect was his motive. I read similar thoughts from Prince in an article for Rolling Stone.

“The Kid” in Purple Rain

Prince had to be reminded to eat. He’d rather not interrupt his work than eat. This is the devotion you have to have to your craft in order to rise to the highest levels. It’s the same story over and over again. Grow up with some struggle with your family, fall in love with whatever it is you were born to do, don’t stop doing it until you are the best. Literally spend every second of every day performing your craft. How hard can it be?

Unfortunately not many people are given the opportunity to do this. Life gets in the way. The large majority of us may be moderately talented but not ungodly gifted. So it is possible for us moderately talented people to achieve next level status we just have to stop eating.

Put those advertising dollars to work.

There’s this other little problem that’s called work. I love when people say, “I love my job. It hardly feels like work because it’s what I love to do.” Most of us don’t feel that way. I like that my job gives me the flexibility of a non-corporate environment but I’d rather spend my time Photoshopping ridiculous pictures onto celebrities and writing about news stories. All I’d have to do is take a few writing classes and blog incessantly. I bet I could get more readers than I have currently.

Is there any point to this post. Not really except that it’s the same idea for success. Work hard. Give your entire being to your work. It’ll take months, years, or decades, but eventually you’ll see the fruits of your labor as long as you aren’t a pussy and understand what work is. Most don’t.

2 examples from this weekend that show that activities are better when it’s just your group, and no one else around.

• On Friday, the forecast called for rain and I was looking to play golf with Bud and Chris. We arrived at the course and the employee said he was expecting heavy showers shortly and didn’t think it was a great idea to play. We decided to give it a try considering we drove an hour to get there. The rain was on and off for the first 6 holes and then stopped completely. We had the entire course to ourselves for the final 12 holes and it was a golf dream come true. No waiting. Perfect pace of play. No distractions. We walked the course in 3 hours. You can’t ask for a better round of golf.
• On Saturday, I bowled with Sam and Jordan. Any experienced person working the register staggers the lanes when it’s not that crowded. We were one of the first people there and they put us on 11. In the next 15 minutes, the cashier put groups on 16, 15, 14, 13, and 12 leaving the middle lanes completely open. Instead of bowling next to Liu Kang and his 2 little ninja’s, we asked to move lanes and bowled with no one else around until we were just about finished. Bowling can be fine when you are surrounded by people who enjoy improving but can suck when you have little tykes using the Stegosaurus and bumpers.

Both examples point out how it’s better to be doing activities when it isn’t crowded. Aside from a bar, and even this has to have an ideal number, more people equals less fun. More waiting. More time wasted. More chance of idiots.

This leads me to the next topic which is going to be driver-less cars using the GPS to take you from A to B. No more Uber where you have an insane driver who is blasting music and going 100 mph. Based off of previous experiences, I won’t be against not having to deal with a person taking me places. As I mentioned, dealing with people you don’t want to is not one of the joys of life. This will be my future mantra, the less people = the more fun.

Self Driving Car Article

Google Maps is Better Than Waze

Clear as day.

Apple users just muttered, “you’re an idiot” but hear me out. First of all, know that Waze is owned by Google. Most IPhones don’t have Google Maps installed on them and Waze is significantly better than Apple Maps, so IPhone users are going to be biased towards Waze because they haven’t even tried Google Maps (what else is new).

I’ve seen both in action and prefer Google Maps because I don’t care much about the social interaction that Waze users revel about. Contemplating that people in their cars are reaching for their phones and tapping in that they just passed a police officer so that hundreds of other users can also be distracted by their phones to agree with this sighting is beyond me. From my understanding, Waze does provide a more sophisticated means of wrapping around traffic which I’m sure is great if you want to save 2 minutes off your 30 minute commute.

The real reason I’m dropping the hammer on Waze is that it’s strictly for driving. I want an app that does it all and I can’t begin to tell you how important Google Maps was when I was abroad. Seeing a map, entering a destination, and then having walking directions was incredibly useful. I’ve also driven hundreds of miles on road trips and have never, ever found Google Maps to provide false information. It’s reliable and rarely misses its time estimates.

User comment:

They try too hard to turn themselves to a social app while all I want to do is get from point A to B…

First things first, this video doesn’t get 5.7 million views if she’s not hot.

Why People Over the Age of 40 Say Our Generation Sucks

• We are just existing and not contributing anything to society.  – Let’s not forget we are revolutionizing the way people listen to music (Spotify), pay for goods (Venmo), connect (Facebook) and transportation (Uber ((technically the founders are 37 & 39 but who’s counting)).
• Our generation doesn’t have the basic manners that include, “No Ma’am, and Yes Ma’am.” – This isn’t generational. It’s universal.
• We don’t hold the door open for ladies, much less our elders anymore. – Ladies want to be treated like everyone else and old people are living longer and longer that they are becoming more independent at their old ages.
• We listen to obscene music that degrades women and pretty much glorifies drugs and crime. – Business 101, give the people what they want.
• We start to cuss now to prove a point. –  This is how people can tell your serious.
• We use words like Bae to describe someone we love. – Not sure how this is much different than Honeybunch or Stud Muffin.
• We idolize people like Kim Kardashian and shame people like Tim Tebow. – Dat ass tho. We only shame Tebow because he’s a shitty QB.
• We’re lazy. We’re really entitled. – This blog has been quite a bit of work for absolutely nothing.
• We want to make a lot of money and have free education but we’re not willing to put in the work. – Most of my friends have jobs.
• We spend more time online making friends and less time building relationships. Our relationship appearance on Facebook is more valuable than the foundation it’s actually built on. –  It’s called living in 2016.
• Our idea of standing up for something we believe in means going on Facebook and posting a status as your opinion. – I could write it in my diary and feel really good about my thoughts or I could share them with people to get a collective view and advance my opinions based off of further interaction.
• We believe the number of followers we have reflects who we are as a person. – It’s called influence.
• We don’t respect our elders. We don’t even respect our country. – I have no idea what this means unless you consider Donald Trump becoming our President a reference to the second part.
• We’re stepping on our flag instead of stepping up to volunteer – Wat?
• We mock the men and women who are are fighting for us but we praise the people that are fighting each other. – Wat?
• We are more divided as a country than ever before and I think our generation has a lot to do with that. – Wat?
• Everything that used to be frowned upon, is now being celebrated. – Wat?
• Nothing has value because we take advantage of everything. – Wat?
• We have more opportunity to succeed than any generation before us yet we don’t appreciate the opportunity that we have now. – This doesn’t even make sense.
• Now I guess I see why we are called Generation Y, like, why are we so entitled because we don’t deserve to be and we were raised better. – This girl should climb back into her rock in Southern Mississippi and let the real people of the world figure these issues out.

Funniest comment:

This chick is hilarious. Please remove your head from your ass and actually look back at history before saying anything on behalf of a generation. First of all, the platform that I see your content on is Facebook, which was invented by one of those damned lazy millennials and that you also deem as universal bad in your rant. So already 0/2. I could sit here and disprove all of your assertions, but you probably don’t even know what an assertion is and frankly it appears as if you are just a brainwashed little lap dog that is looking for a pat on the head. Go be uneducated, complacent and refuse to make an actual fact based critical argument.

The dirty secret of millennials is that we know too much. We know that the game is currently rigged so hard against normal people that real actual change is needed. You are the equivalent of an naive British loyalist during the American Revolution. Me and the rest of the millennial generation will go ahead and prevent climate change, fix the federal government, develop interplanetary travel and invent great things without you.

I’m not sure if everyone understands how to use Snapchat but I most certainly don’t. There’s some weird way of adding friends by making your tips touch. Very personal if you ask me. Also it took me a few weeks before Evan showed me that you have to hold down the video button on the filter for it to take footage. I also just learned yesterday that after you take a picture you can swipe left or right to add location based text or images. With the learning curve behind me for the most part (I think), I’ll give you my thoughts on the usefulness of the app.

This was definitely not sent to me.

I know I’m late to the party and “the kids” have been snapping since 2011 but I get a kick out  of utilizing video that isn’t as formal as YouTube. Each video to your story lasts 6 seconds and this gives it an impersonal feel. I posted one video of myself hammered and didn’t have to worry much about the idiot I looked like because it would be erased in 24 hours anyway. I also am aware you can send private messages to friends by video which is a funny way to deliver a message. I’m sure pics like the ones to the right are also popular.

I pretty much have no idea what people post to their stories so for me it’s completely new. Jordan was saying people use it to post a snippet of a cool location they are at. I’m generally using it for any time I’m wasted and feel like wasting 6 seconds of someone’s time. With about 15 friends on my friend list I’m not exactly getting huge exposure but I’m enjoying the short time I’ve had it.

One question I had was I took a with the filter but then is the only way to get it to myself by taking a screen shot?