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

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Midweek already...ready for the weekend!

I see that Chinese Olympian that we all knew was underage just lost her medal as it was proved that she was underage.  Isn't amazing that it took ten years.  She must have applied for a driver's license or marriage license or maybe the Chinese government already knew (of course they did) and finally acted (most likely).


Soon there will be Palm no more, as HP decided that they needed to buy into the phone industry again- so why not buy something that doesn't sell.  It certainly wasn't because it was cheap- at $1.2 Billion.  You'd think it would be cheaper to reverse engineer an iPhone or a Blackberry, rather than hitch a ride on a sinking ship.  What were they thinking.  So far HP phones have always run Windows (LOSERS).  This is leadership ???  Why do they want to be in the phone business anyway ?


Don't I remember that the Cable Company (namely Cox) told us that as soon as we were forced to go digital, that they would have the capability to offer us a smorgasbord of channels rather than multiple tiers ?  I hate the fact that we have to pay for channels that we don't watch, never will and just plain dislike.  It may turn out to be more money, or not, but I'd like to pick just those stations that we watch.  After all, it probably would only take a phone call to add a station, so why carry it all the time.




"Taking up a new sport, I have always subscribed to the rule,
Whatever you lack in skill, make up for in silly accessories.
"How's your tennis game?" "Not great. But I have a hat with a
tiny solar powered fan that keeps me cool, and a racket the size
of an outdoor grill."
 - Paul Reiser




A little boy
was in a relative's wedding. As he was coming down the aisle he would take two steps, stop and turn to the crowd (alternating between bride's side and groom's side). While facing the crowd, he would put his hands up like claws and roar. So it went, step, step, “ROAR,” step, step, “ROAR,” all the way down the aisle. As you can imagine, the crowd was near tears from laughing so hard by the time he reached the pulpit. The little boy, however, was getting more and more distressed from all the laughing, and was also near tears by the time he reached the pulpit. When asked what he was doing, the child sniffed and said, "I was being the Ring Bear."



From Larry The Cable Guy
“Even after the recent Super Bowl victory of the New Orleans Saints, I have noticed a large number of people implying with bad jokes that Cajuns aren't smart. I would like to state for the record that I disagree with that assessment. Anybody that would build a city 5 feet below sea level in a hurricane zone and fill it with Democrats is a damn genius”.


Why?Ask yourself this…

Why is an inmate on death row treated if he is dying from a fatal disease?

Why are lethal injections given with sterilized needles?

Why do they put hoardings on a highway when you are supposed to concentrate on the road ahead?

Why do they construct speed breakers to an already bumpy road?

When you search for something, why is it always in the last place you look?

Why can't women close their mouth while putting on mascara?

Why is it when traffic is the slowest, it is called rush hour?

Why do you have to stop at a drive through?

Who does the quality check of the taste of a newly developed dog food?

Which arm rest belongs to you at a movie theater?