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

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Licking our wounds...back to work tomorrow...

Well I've had enough yard work today.  We bagged another ten trash bags. It's actually quite amazing considering we couldn't see any of the stuff we bagged before I trimmed the vines on the fence.

Last night we watched Young Victoria and It's Complicated.  They were both entertaining, but I think Young Victoria lost something plot-wise.  It's Complicated was dry at times and other times, hilarious!

For the rest of the day, we both tried very hard not to do anything!






A young blond female stock broker was bored with driving her BMW.  
It lacked individuality and besides that, every other girl in the 
office had one.  She fancied something a bit more individual, perhaps 
an MG convertible.
  That week she visited her local car dealer and spied a beautiful
Jaguar XK140 convertible.  It was wonderfully restored and she fell 
in love with it's gorgeous red paint work.  An empty check stub later
and off she was tearing down the leafy country lanes enjoying her 
beautiful new car.  Her long blond hair was flowing in the wind, 
music blaring from the radio, what could possibly go wrong?
  Then at that thought there was a splutter from the engine and the 
car slowly coasted to a stop.  She got out and lifted the bonnet and 
concluded after a few minutes that she didn't have a bloody clue what
was wrong.  Luckily she had her mobile phone with her and a quick 
phone call to the AutoClub and a short wait saw a bright shiny yellow 
van pull up behind her.
  "That's a lovely car," says the mechanic.  "What seems to be the
matter?"
  Well, it just conked out I'm afraid."
  "Let me have look."  He set to work and ten minutes later the engine
was purring like a cat again.
  "Thank goodness," she said. "What was the matter ?"
  "Simple really, just crap in the carburetor," he replied.
  Looking shocked she asked, "Oh, OK. How many times a week do I have 
to do that?"



A pastor was visiting an elderly lady who was a "shut in." Since 
she didn't get very many visitors, she went on incessantly about 
her problems while the pastor nibbled on some peanuts on the coffee 
table in front of him.  After about a half hour, and with his 
endurance almost expended, he politely interrupted, explaining that 
he had other appointments that afternoon and said, "I'm afraid 
I've eaten most of your peanuts while I was listening and I would 
like to leave you a couple of dollars so that you can get some more."
  "No," replied the woman, "With my dentures I can't chew them. It's 
all I can do just to suck the chocolate off them."



Two elderly ladies are sitting on the porch in their rockers just 
talking 'girl' talk.
  Emma:  My word Matilda!  You and Johnny were married for quite some 
time.  How many years was that anyway?
  Matilda:  Oh, we were married for 65 wondrous years.
  Emma:  My-oh-my-oh-my!  But can you tell me in all that time did 
you two ever have mutual orgasm?
  Matilda:  I don't think so.  I believe we had State Farm.


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