Scribbles on a MacBook

Things have been rather quiet around here since the celebratory 50th post. It's been... ten days? Feels like longer.

This doesn't really have anything to do with social media, marketing, consumerism or any of the usual topics. It's more, well, just plain old strange.

I came across this message, written on a MacBook box, while walking home from work this past Saturday.



Can't read it? I wouldn't imagine you could. I did take it with camera phone after all. But I will dictate for you:

To all who have been cruel...

Did it occur to the residents and merchants of "OUR" community of the
drive, that there is a small brave and patriotic group who have volunteered
their time by living on the streets as a way to motivate all to come together and
clean up and make commercial drive a more secure place to be. If it wasn't for
us "BAD" people, whose children are all honour-roll grade children, commercial
would still be unprepared, unsecured and still apart from each other. Think about
it. Maybe you us an apology, and a thank you would be nice.

We are ready for 2010
<3 Tray-c

I wish I could understand the idea behind this message, but for the life of me, I just can't.

Is it about homelessness? Is it about drugs? They mention 2010, so maybe it's about the Olympics? Perhaps all of the above. But if so, how does volunteering time to live on the street do anyone any good? I just don't get it.

So what's the point?

The point is, if you are passionate about something, someone will care. Someone will get involved, and someone will help. But only, if you know how to ask for it.

It's not that it was written on a MacBook box, to be honest, that's what got my attention in the first place. It's that the message was garbled and unfocused. They could have some good ideas here, but who knows?

I hate it when good ideas, from passionate people, are stepped on because they simply did not know how to get the message across.

I don't know, what do you think? Does this kind of thing ever bother you?

I asked around twitter, and word on the street is I should switch platforms from blogger to wordpress. I think I'm going to do that. Additional pro/con comments would be greatly appreciated.