Here today, gone tomorrow

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 I am actually referring to my hair, but I also have a strange sense of humor.  It is funny how a beard and scraggly red hair with some white thrown in can make you look so much different.

With the holidays quickly fading in the rear view, I am reluctant to let them go.  I am always happy how I am able to continue some tradition, let go of some, and add new.  Isn't that just the way all of life goes.  Some old, some forgotten, some new...

Every holiday though I am struck with how little we have changed or how we ignored the warnings of the past.  I think about all the old Christmas specials and movies that deride commercialism, but not only did we not listen, we doubled down on commercialism.  Hell, we worship it.

Today's cool thing and a bitch is all about the same item.  The NBA has provided this really cool location in Meta Horizon's called NBA Arena.  You can watch a game courtside and it is pretty darn cool (I know I said cool twice so you know I'm not editing this with AI, in fact, I am writing this while I wait for an update to finish on my homegrown AI lab).  So, while this is really cool, what is the bitch?  MSG, and no, not the food additive, the broadcast arm of the MSG conglomerate.  These archaic broadcasting agreements that lock you out of things blocks my ability to watch the Knicks on the NBA Arena and I am forced to have to watch the game on normal cable.  

I find the whole thing to be a really good example of what happens when you don't allow progress.  You know, because money...

Well, update is done.

For now, I'm good (MMGA)

- JJ

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