Picoftheweek

Picoftheweek
Waaaaaaaay too many to count...

My Statement

"Let me emphatically say that I am not anti-Facebook (Fleecebook), anti-smart phone, anti-Microsoft, anti-Apple, anti-Google or anti-Internet. I do believe, though, that the consumer is being ripped off of his privacy, identity and purchase history. We are being herded into a Facebook corner where what we "Like" and where we go physically and on the net will be scrutinized and sold numerous times to actually corrode and erode our culture while tempting us only with convenience, high tech and flashing video screens. The unsuspecting consumers need to be aware..." - Gary Lapman

Quote of Note

“If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.”-W.C. Fields

"For the strength of the Wolf is in the Pack, and the strength of the Pack is in the Wolf." - Rudyard Kipling
"Common sense is not so common. " -Voltaire

“Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, but only character endures.” - Matthew McConaughey
"In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him"

"Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason" - Jerry Seinfeld

"Fleecebook is free, you (and your identity) is the product!" - Gary Lapman

"Christmas is a necessity. There has to be at least one day of the year to remind us that we're here for something else besides ourselves." - Eric Sevareid

"'Smart' phones are only smart for the cell phone providers!" - Gary Lapman

"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." -- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

“Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.” -Albert Einstein

"Technology creates the illusion of companionship without the intimacy of friendship." - unknown

"No worry, there's an app for that..." - Gary Lapman

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Thanksgiving Morning

I got up very early, too early. My problem is that I wasn't as organized as I wanted. I looked again at the recipe that I was going to follow in Bon Appetite magazine. Everyone wanked on me: "You are not putting clementines in the turkey. You can put giblets in the turkey. You can't put celery in the stuffing. ..." I was frustrated and decided to make the same-o same-o plain traditional turkey again. Where is their sense of adventure ? I don't see them getting up at o-dark-thirty to cook it. I guess I feel constrained and unappreciated this morning. I can't forget though, to be thankful. Thankful for the meal we are going to eat. Thankful that Tori is with us today. Thankful that we have jobs. Thankful that we all have our health. [Knock on wood a few times]. At least my blog doesn't talk back to me [yet]. Well, this could [is] going to be a great day. The bird is in the oven. I only have mashed potatoes and gravy left to do. ...And carve the roast beast.... We are going to a movie this afternoon, as a family. It should be fun.
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