A Word or 2 About Respect

"Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets." -Matthew 7:12 (Golden Rule)

With that in mind, I feel a lot of disrespect and resentment in my life, even when I haven't done anything to them that subjectively warrants that kind of behavior. I know I got trust issues, but here's the bottom line...

Why don't I trust people?

Everybody I trusted let me down. Family members, people I thought were my best friends, you name it... See, people lose sight of the Golden Rule. It's in The Bible, I even put it as the first lines of what I just wrote. I had a bustling business going with someone I thought was my best friend, but he moved out of state and didn't even give me the time of day after. My mom butted in while I was on the honeymoon phase of dating this girl... But my mom threw me under the bus on what was supposed to be our 2nd date and even drew a knife just to show how serious she is about not wanting us to date. Her only motive? She just wanted more time with ME. If that was the problem, she should've just said so instead of threatening grave injury!

Fast forward to today: I quit my job a few days ago. Yeah you heard me... I had the rug tugged from underneath me and had to rebuild, and not having a reliable mode of transportation is REALLY putting a hurt in my business, so I had to get a day job. See... Long story short, I had a problem with my landlord and a major project I was doing didn't pay me, so I had to move in with a friend who also happened to be hiring. I had MUCH better offers lined up... One friend offered me his son's room since he's out to college, another even offered to put me up in a hotel for 1-2 nights to let me sort it out... But no job. Another offered me a job, but he said I'll have to figure out room and board, not to mention he was all the way near San Diego.

The original arrangement was either the couch or a cot, but neither happened and I'll spare my dignity and not even mention it. I got the job, but they cut my hours when I was finally in a position to buy a car, and every day I seem to get treated progressively worse, despite my alleged importance there. See, If you treat me well, I'll gladly return the favor, even if it takes me YEARS. However, I will draw that line VERY quick if you even THINK of disrespecting me and avenge what you've done TENFOLD.

One day, a friend offered me an opportunity to do commission-based work at home. It was very tempting since the payout is in the THOUSANDS per DEAL, but at this point I was so burnt out and tired with that job I couldn't even FORCE myself to muster the enthusiasm needed to do this project; it took me a MONTH to finally get one customer when it should've been 10 by this time frame. Therefore, me and him decided to formulate an exit strategy.

Plan A: Have coworkers sign an affidavit in case I get fired or have to quit to back my case if I need assistance. It would be strictly for the eyes of whoever is handing my case.
Plan B: Resign immediately and report everything that's going wrong to the state, then appeal my case if I need to.

However, something went terribly wrong trying to execute Plan A: I plotted everything Wednesday, but didn't perfect it until Saturday afternoon, which also happened to be the weekend of the so-called boss' daughter's birthday party that she invited me to (which also included helping decorate and all that). I stressed and emphasized confidentiality in this matter to the employees, but one went and squealed to the owner anyway. The owner calls the so-called boss, then she comes yapping at me while I'm right there, a little bit buzzed and put my plans about work behind me.

So, I got pissed and decided to drop Plan B.

On the morning of April 29, I walked in, perfected my resignation letter and resume, as well as a complaint to OSHA. Think of the irony: How ironic is it to have a complaint filed against your company... Made from inside the doors of your company? I also made an obvious hint that they're not going to be references by leaving a copy of my resume, botched with my own company name and the name of a company my friend's cousin owned on the table since the so-called boss threatened to sabotage me if I quit. Since the owner came in and all she did was give me a dirty look, I slammed my resignation letter on the table and walked out without saying a word, giving a dirty look back...

Then proceeded to continue my waves of attack. All of it signed, printed and even attached with evidence and mailed that afternoon.

Worked out pretty good; I already got 4 deals pending. If everything goes well, I'll have $15,000 in commission, making more in 3 days than I did in a year.

iDevice Mumbo-Jumbo

Wow. Haven't posted anything in a while. Almost a year to be exact, or even longer . Well, even though I love my G2 and it works great (95% of the time since , but I think it's time for a new phone, and I have been researching my options.

As someone who loves smartphones and CANNOT picture myself going back to a traditional phone, starting my love affair with the BlackBerry Charm in '06, HP iPAQ, G1 since the days of RC29 and loving it ever since, and now the G2 that I love and works great... 95% of the time since I have a VERY unofficial/beta version of CyanogenMod 10 running Android OS 4.1 Jelly Bean that developers are still working on. Before you ask, NO... There's too many things that impress me on 4.1 that would make me want to switch it back to OEM 2.3 :-) .

While there are LOTS of things that are very enticing on the Samsung Galaxy S3 and it sure looks like it can kill the iPhone 5 times before it hits the ground, I'm not a big fan of Samsung... My 2nd ever phone caught fire within a week of owning it, I spent many sleepless nights trying to fix a friend's Galaxy's camera (which I found that many "Samdung" rigs had camera issues), not to mention their long history of having quirky user interfaces... Starting from the not-so-intuitive TouchWiz down to the the "girly" feel to their dumbphones (almost too lightweight, pink/purple default theme, dainty ringtones, and many other factors where you'd have to tweak the f**k out of it to get it at least guy-friendly).

Anyway, back on point... So as a gadget guy, I'm very picky about what I choose, and I lose sleep getting excited over new features. I can (in order of preference):

1. Forgive Samsung, give them a chance and get the Galaxy S3.
2. Check out the new iPhone 5.
3. Wait until the next AOSP Android phone to come out (AOSP = unmodified Android) or find the newest root-friendly phone... I loathe Samsung's TouchWiz's "reversed" look-and-feel and HTC Sense... Doesn't make sense sometimes.
4. Drive my G2 into the ground.

So... While pondering option 2, the main reason I made this blog post is that I am almost certain I found a theory of why Apple decided to sue Samsung... Although I am a 9GAG fan and know that I shouldn't take things too seriously (such as this hoax that had me roaring in laughter until it was debunked), I found another 9GAG post that, with my own research, has made sense; lots of the latest and greatest features have been around even before iOS, and when comparing the iPhone 5/iOS 6 to Android AOSP Jelly Bean or even the the Samsung Galaxy S3, there's nothing that's really new and impressive, and I'm even beginning to wonder if it's Apple COPYING Android, and if Google appealed or filed a counter-suit, Steve Jobs would be spinning in his grave (and just to think I even put iPhone stock ringtones on my phone as a tribute to his death... Yes, I did draw some confusion when an HTC was playing Marimba*).

Back to my theory... Why did Apple sue Samsung? I'm sure they'd anticipate iOS sales tanking and decided for another stream of income... Filing what is quintessentially frivolous lawsuits. Think about it:

1. Hardware-wise, except for a bigger and slightly different screen, longer battery life, and a few newfangled communication/media features that are becoming standard issue (new Bluetooth radio, enhanced Wi-Fi) or even mandatory anyway (4G LTE, IPv6), there's nothing significantly different. Now if it somehow was able to incorporate a high-end camera and lens (like slapping a Leica heart and soul into it. NOTE: Panorama is more or less of a software feature on camera phones) and the ability  have a taser built in or something, I'd buy it in a heartbeat. However, even if I had an iPhone 4S, have enough money right now to ditch my T-Mo contract and get the iPhone 5, there is nothing new enough to wow me enough to go and get it, whether it's waiting outside stores in the middle of a Californian heat wave (even right now it's 104°F so zero frickin' way) or even when the crowd dies down and the prices drop, or even if there's an iPhone 5S/iPhone 6 and this is quintessentially a clearance item. Unless of course, my phone fell in the toilet and I don't have a backup *knock on wood*.
2. Firmware/software: Not only is it a catch-up to Android, and the only thing that I can somewhat give props to is coming out with Siri first (which we answered with Jelly Bean's enhanced voice recognition that is actually more intuitive in some regards)... But guess what? Almost all of the iOS 6 enhancements are going to be available as a free download for iPhone 4S users! There's nothing left to motivate people to switch the hardware! 3GS to 4G? Siri and a few other things. 4S to 5? As far as what I can tell, hardly anything!

So, with that in mind, does Apple have any other brilliant ideas? I doubt it. If The People's Government had stricter copyright laws, I think it'll be safe to say our economy will recover overnight and China will be the ones begging us for help since there are TONS of counterfeit products.

*If the Apple execs are reading this and calling for their lawyer, don't worry, I changed it many months ago... Sandro Silva's Epic sounds MUCH cooler anyway.

Revamp

OK, since I am revamping this blog for the purpose of business, I have removed most of the negative rants (which believe me, was 76% of the posts... 39 out of 51 posts to be exact). More to follow later.

Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy Ramadan, what have you :-)

Happy Birthday To Me!

Yup... December 15, 1985, 7:05PM, yours truly came into this world! Looking back at my Facebook, I NEVER got so many birthday shout outs! 63 Facebook birthday wishes ON TOP of 3 calls, 7 texts, 1GTalk and lobster dinner with friends! I feel so loved!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Even though we ran out of side dishes pretty fast, I still had a pretty good Thanksgiving at Kris' house. We had candied yams, green bean casserole, and a whole list of other items... Funny thing is I didn't feel the least bit tempted to over-indulge, and I wound up losing weight instead of gaining weight! Anyway, I gotta recover a bit. Talk to ya later.

Screenwriting Idea

Wow. Woke up yesterday with the weirdest dream ever. Instead of dreading it and hoping to erase it from my memory, instead of getting spooked by it, I'm actually inspired! I have a kick-ass idea for a horror movie! In fact, it's nothing like any movie I've seen... But then again I haven't watched much movies in the past few years, but so far I haven't seen or heard anything about this type of movie being exploited!

I'd like to tell you details, but I do have to keep it under wraps... I don't want some random reader to find this blog post, my Facebook post or otherwise and copy my idea; then I'd be out potentially millions... I want to copyright and register the script before I spurt out details first; but all I can say is that it's about a man who finds an ancient artifact and transforms from Mr. Nice Guy to a serial killer.