While perusing the Internet, I have come to a conclusion: the vast majority of cars that are sold in America are very ugly. This aesthetic ineptitude, in my opinion, is caused by two factors. First, color choice. Why are some of these paint and interior colors even available? Everyone can see, just by looking at the cars on the road, that no one buys cars that are painted bright green and yellow. But, despite the fact that nobody buys cars in these hideous colors, auto makers still produce them. I know this because it is impossible to shop for cars on the Internet without seeing the piles of these ugly blobs posted on eBay. Nobody buys vomit inducing color cars except people who you hate.

Whenever you see someone driving a bright yellow car it is never a mother taking her children to school. It is always that same dumb white 17-25 high school drop-out male playing his bad rap or techno music loud enough to loosen your lug nuts. Personally, I think that the only way that even these people can tolerate that music is because they have already been deafened by their own stereos.

Auto makers and auto sellers heed my words: these people must be stopped. They give your company a bad image. Not one person ever looks at those jackasses and thinks to themselves, "yes, I want the car that that person drives."

Now, I would understand if it were only one or two car makers that built cars with these paint jobs. Then, you would just assume that they were trying to dominate the potentially lucrative douche-driver market. But, many car companies manufacture cars with these colors; until recently, even the very conservative and boring Audi made cars in bright yellow.

I will write about the second reason that so many ugly cars exist, auto manufacturer's management, in my next post.

Ironic Job Search

I had an unusually ironic experience today. Early this afternoon, I was speaking with a woman about a job I applied for. The interview was going well until it got near the end and hit a snag. Normally, there is nothing unusual about this; the whole purpose of job interviews is to separate good candidates from exceptional ones. But in this case, the nature of the problem stemmed from something I never expected. I was eliminated from consideration because I am in graduate school.

I had the skills, experience, and, if I can be so bold, personality that they were looking for. But, they needed someone in the next two weeks. Thus, because I will not graduate until May, I am still unemployed. I know that these kinds of things happen, but the whole purpose of getting an education to make it easier to get a job. I never thought that I would be more employable if I dropped out of school.