While I do have a smattering of new likes and dislikes to add, I am going to devote this post exclusively to the newest, hottest dislike I have experienced in the last year.  It’s a twofer:

1.  Sony’s PS3 45 minute system updates every other time I want to watch a Netflick

OK I'm not sure that my PS3's bevvy of updates is, technically, proof that it is possessed by demons. But, like demons, these updates are super annoying to have in your home.

2.  iPhone’s obnoxious Terms and Service agreements I have to consent to every other time I want to download an app

PS3 Update.  I think that these have merited their place as profoundly heinous because of the frequency of the updates, combined with my strong suspicion that management at Sony has a backdoor around these updates, otherwise they couldn’t possibly tolerate them…could they?  Seriously, you sit down, you are all ready to watch a movie, except…oh wait…you now have to wait 45 minutes to watch the movie so your system can download & install random BS version 1.2.4b.  To re-purpose a recent oatmeal comic, I need a new Sony update like a need a new asshole on my forehead.  Please, Sony, before you foist your updates on an installed user base of millions, put yourself in our shoes.  Go through the update yourself.  Ask if there is anything you would rather be doing with your life than waiting for a 45 minute download+install process.  Do the math and realize how you are going to single-handedly drag down our country’s GDP.  Our lead over China is becoming more tenuous every day, and occupying several million of our young able-minded population with the accumulation of your wretched system updates might just be straw that breaks our country’s back, leading us into a new age of famine and darkness.  I can’t prove those exact events will happen.  But every time my PS3 tells me it wants to update, I feel a little more certain that Sony is bent on destroying puppies, cinnamon rolls, and freedom.

iPhone ToS.  Apple is a lesser evil, because their T&S only take a minute or two to complete, as opposed to Sony’s 30-45 minute updates.  But they are just about as frequent, and they are worse than Sony in that they are utterly pointless (in my professional legal opinion).  Can’t they just write up an contract like the one I signed before I went skydiving?  I’m thinking something along the lines of  “this phone may or may not, intentionally or unintentionally, kill you, take all of the money from your bank account, and screw your wife.”  Sure.  Fine.  Whatever.  Let’s just stop this charade where you pretend like anybody has ever read the 11,000 page legal doc you force us to agree to every couple weeks, m’kay?