Dear World,

This letter will not apply to everyone in the world, however to those of you to whom it does apply, please take note.

Contention #1:
Can we ease up on the social media already.  Guess what?  I barely use Facebook.  I only do it because society has pressured me into doing so.  I don't want to share my favorite songs with all my friends... yes I'm looking at your Apple.  I don't want to share my recent purchase/like/random internet thing with every person that's ever had a minutes worth of contact with me.  What happened to the good ol' days of the interweb when everyone hated anything anyone ever said on the internets?  Oh wait, that's still true.

Contention #2:
DVR's have to be the best invention given to man since fire or indoor plumbing.  Despite its awesomeness, your friendly local cable provider have to provide you with the most horrendous error prone piece of crap DVR available on the market today.  But Nick, what is so horrible about it?  I'm glad you asked, let me enumerate:

  1) Hard disk size.  For a device tasked with recording the highest data-density media formats, why oh why, does my DVR feature a whopping 40 GB hard drive.  I can literally go to town tonight, buy a 500 GB hard drive for 50 bucks.  My iPod features 32GB of storage.  My flash drive features 16GB of storage.  Yet, only 40GB's for my DVR. 
  2) The Interface.  Can anyone tell me what blind moronic retarded monkey they let design the user interface for my DVR.  The colors are tooooo awful, however you would think a DVR could handle a simply task like changing channels correctly.  Wrong.  If I'm watching my HD channels, and I hit the channel button in the up position the channels go from 910 to 908 to 906.  If I'm watching some crappy standard-def television, hitting the channel button in the up position takes me from 821 to 823 to 826.  What possible reason in the universe would you decide half way through the manufacture of your DVR to enable this behavior?  People should be locked up for such atrocities.
  3) Random Bugs.  Let's say you are happily channel surfing and out of nowhere your DVR stops responding altogether.  Being a computer guy I'm assuming some moron has some sort of deadlock contention with the code bits that put operations to execute to the hardware with the code bits that read the operations to execute.  Or it could be that they are morons who can't even design something that will change channels appropriately.  Although my favorite bug has to be the "I'm going to fast-forward to my favorite part but oh dear Lord, it won't stop fast-forwarding, let me panic and hit random buttons until it responds and then I accidentally delete my show".  Epic fail.

If the above applies to you in any way, please attempt to fix in a timely manner.  I await your response.  Thank you.