NO ONE HAS ANY IDEA WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT. ME TOO.

Happy New Year to everyone. My friends over at HotHardware.com have my latest humorous screed posted for your viewing pleasure. It's under my alias: Old School. Don't tell anybody.

It's the cure for everyone else's Year End Predictions and New Year's resolutions lists:

NO ONE HAS ANY IDEA WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT. ME TOO.

Well, it's that time of year again. Unsatisfied with being wrong in a desultory and small way a little bit all year, people generally decide this time of year to go the whole megillah and publish lists of predictions for the future that are spectacularly, titanically, and mindnumbingly stupid and wrong. And dumb and so forth.

Now, in general, I find media people's predictions for the future iffy on a good day, never mind during eggnog season -- they seem to have no idea what's already happened, never mind the future. And in general, let's face it, the spectacularly wrong stuff is more fun and sells more papers than the timid stuff the meek folks predict. If you're at the dog track, the people who don't want to go out on a limb say: "I bet the rabbit comes in first." That's true, I guess -- but trite, dumb, and useless is no way to go through life, son.

You can read the rest of it here.