Risking It All On Facebook...

-----We watched the 60 Minutes segment on Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg.  I was not impressed.  First, it really is apparent that this guy or company (same ?) is moving in the direction of taking over the internet.  A few years ago, I thought is was going to be AOL, and now Facebook.  This is an enormous responsibility which can very easily fail with only minor mishaps.  Facebook is designed to encourage all of its members to disclose as much personal information as possible, while creating spider-web like links to your friend, their friends, your relatives, their friends, to people that use the same shampoo or go to the same dry cleaners.  Why to I want to expose myself to possible ridicule, or fraud by creating these connections ?  For what purposes would Facebook want to gather all of this information ?  Why would I want to give up all of my privacy ?  Have you noticed lately that more and more commercial websites have made a place on Facebook and encourage you to visit ?  While there you will undoubtedly be encouraged to express your opinion by clicking the "Like" button.  This information will "adjust" the market to appeal to the Facebook crowd and the rest of us will be stuck with it.  People won't get on the internet, they'll get on Facebook.  They'll do their shopping and banking from Facebook.  All of their preferences will be transparent and available.  Yet when Zuckerberg is interviewed, he has non-impressive responses to very important questions.  What would we expect from a 26 year old geek that would rather spend time socializing via his computer than in actuality. 


Someday, mark my words, Facebook will fall.  It may be because the wrong people will get hold of the data that Facebook has squirreled away or because they will make a mistake that will cause the "institution" to crumble.  We have put a gargantuan amount of trust in this company- in this very young entrepreneur.  Is the sociability of the current generation so flawed that we cannot articulate except via a keyboard ?

Consequently, you probably can tell, I am not a fan of Facebook or the nasty predicament that it will put the socialized world in.



-----Last night, we watched the movie "Going the Distance", with Justin Long and Drew Barrymore.  It amazes me that anyone would invest enough money in this movies to get it made.  Although there may be a few comical scenes, the plot lacks cohesion and deliverance.  The opportunity presented itself many times to "clean it up" and "make it happen", but it didn't.  A waste of my time to view it.


-----Word has it that Al Queda is not going to surgically implant bombs into "expendable" operatives, called "Frankenbombers".  I am blown away....

How to start a fight

My wife and I were sitting at a table at her high school reunion, and she kept staring at a drunken man swigging his drink as he sat alone at a nearby table.

I asked her, "Do you know him?"
"Yes", she sighed, "He's my old boyfriend.... I understand he took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear he hasn't been sober since."

"My God!" I said, "Who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?"

And then the fight started...

The Dr. Seuss Version of the 4 Questions 

Why is it only
on Passover night
we never know how
to do anything right?
We don't eat our meals
in the regular ways,
the ways that we do
on all other days.

`Cause on all other nights
we may eat
all kinds of wonderful
good bready treats,
like big purple pizza
that tastes like a pickle,
crumbly crackers
and pink pumpernickel,
sassafras sandwich
and tiger on rye,
fifty felafels in pita,
fresh-fried,
with peanut-butter
and tangerine sauce
spread onto each side
up-and-down, then across,
and toasted whole-wheat bread
with liver and ducks,
and crumpets and dumplings,
and bagels and lox,
and doughnuts with one hole
and doughnuts with four,
and cake with six layers
and windows and doors.
Yes--
on all other nights
we eat all kinds of bread,
but tonight of all nights
we munch matzoh instead.

And on all other nights
we devour
vegetables, green things,
and bushes and flowers,
lettuce that's leafy
and candy-striped spinach,
fresh silly celery
(Have more when you're finished!)
cabbage that's flown
from the jungles of Glome
by a polka-dot bird
who can't find his way home,
daisies and roses
and inside-out grass
and artichoke hearts
that are simply first class!
Sixty asparagus tips
served in glasses
with anchovy sauce
and some sticky molasses--
But on Passover night
you would never consider
eating an herb
that wasn't all bitter.

And on all other nights
you would probably flip
if anyone asked you
how often you dip.
On some days I only dip
one Bup-Bup egg
in a teaspoon of vinegar
mixed with nutmeg,
but sometimes we take
more than ten thousand tails
of the Yakkity-birds
that are hunted in Wales,
and dip them in vats
full of Mumbegum juice.
Then we feed them to Harold,
our six-legged moose.
Or we don't dip at all!
We don't ask your advice.
So why on this night
do we have to dip twice?

And on all other nights
we can sit as we please,
on our heads, on our elbows,
our backs or our knees,
or hang by our toes
from the tail of a Glump,
or on top of a camel
with one or two humps,
with our foot on the table,
our nose on the floor,
with one ear in the window
and one out the door,
doing somersaults
over the greasy knishes
or dancing a jig
without breaking the dishes.
Yes--
on all other nights
you sit nicely when dining--
So why on this night
must it all be reclining?

Years ago it was suggested ...

Years ago it was suggested that an apple a day kept the doctor away.
But since all the doctors are now Muslim, I've found that a bacon sandwich works best! 

Let's......make like a tree and leave.
...make like a shepherd and get the flock outta here.
...make like a bird and flock off
...make like horse sh!t and hit the trail.
...make like a banana and split.
...make like a missile and cruise.
...make like a fetus and head out.
...make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here.
...make like a drummer and beat it.
...make like a bee and buzz off.
...make like diarrhea and run
...make like a tire and hit the road
...make like Linda Lovelace and blow.
...make like a terrorist and blow this place.
...make like a busboy and get the fork out of here.
...make like a strawberry and jam.
...make like traffic and jam.
...make like stockings and run.
...make like a loaf of French bread and baguette.
...make like a bakery truck and haul buns outta here.
...make like a bread truck and haul buns.
...make like a Bakery truck and Move your buns.
...make like a prom dress and take off.
...make like a banana and split.
...make like the Red Sea and split.
...make like the Red Sea and part.
...make like an amoeba and split...!
...make like the wind and blow.
...make like a tomato and Ketch-up.
...make like lightning and bolt.
...make like a Nut and Bolt.
...make like Michael Jackson and "Beat it!"
...make like Santa Claus and leave your presents (presence)!
...make like Tom and Cruise.
...make like a Hewlett Packard Laser Printer and jet.
...make like a jacket and zip.
...make like a magnet and flux off.
...make like Levi's and fade away.
...make like a bowel, and move.
...make like a tie and hang around some more.
...make like a botanist and leaf.
...make like a dog and flea.
...make like a register and shift.
...make like an unstructured program, and go (to).
...make like Houdini and disappear
...make like a mongrel and get lost
...make like a teeny-bopper singer and fade away
...make like data and move
...make like a football and kickoff
...make like a baseball player and home-run
...make like a pound and quid (quit).
...make like a jet and zoom.
...make like an airplane and take off.
...make like a hat and go on ahead.
...make like an atom and split.
...make like The Exorcist and get the hell outta here.
...make like rain and get the hail out of here.