I scored a pair of KSO Five Fingers Saturday. I pretty much wore them the rest of the weekend. Monday rolls around and I have to go “normal” with the footwear and let me say it feels as if I have concrete shoes and I am drowning. I want my #VFF, my feet need to go commando.

Many posts on the web tell tales of public outcry and ridicule and curiosity. I experienced none of these. If I did it was kept silent. Being from the south I get exposed to several fashion fails daily. Uggs and Crocs, nothing left say on that, you died as fast as TLC killed Jon and Kate’s family. Don’t forget those damn rainboots with Ed Hardy type designs, which you can’t wear in the rain for some reason but can wear at the gas pump in an adult diaper. At least with the Five Fingers they are pretty ninja until you are too close.

Good advice and I’m glad I’m not the only one fed up with FB.

FML. Not only do I get charged with developing a security matrix (which interests deeply as it serves my paranoia) for our department I have the pleasure of doing it with the biggest bunch of buck passers I have seen in my life. Their default response to damn near any thing that involves thinking outside their fucking desk is “That’s not in my job description.” This is the same group who preach unity and positivity in our team but please don’t actually mean it.

Their last argument was we were spaced out too far from each other to be effective. Granted we are all in different offices(100 freaking yards apart). The solution on top of having, email, video conferencing, phone (cellular and desk), and a corporate chat client complete with status updates and busy/free indicator, was to use Yammer. What a bunch of lazy asshats. I mean for real, you won’t email or call around with an issue or request, or God forbid you actually talk face to face, but you will load another resource hog 3rd party app with yet another damn userid and pass? No thanks. Pass.

A friend of mine was getting beat up for choosing an Android phone over the iPhone. Seriously? Five minutes with each shows that they are very much equal regarding capabilities. It really sucks we can’t think for ourselves anymore. We can’t have an opinion outside the norm anymore. It feels like those body snatcher movies where once the (i)Pod people see you have a Zune they all point and squeal calling the mother alien down on you. Get a freaking grip you tools. I find it funny and sad, mostly sad, that the fans are so gung ho about a company who charges you to “Think Different” and yet all get right in line like cattle.

All the things I love about technology are slowly becoming the things I hate. We have all these tools to come together and really make that Star Trek future happen but seem hell bent on Animal Farm.