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

Tuesday, February 1, 2011

A Lurking Miasma

"It quickly transformed into a miasma [Don't you just love that word?] of lurking dangers, threats to our personal security and safety, and a great way to get fired -- or worse, prosecuted for goodness-knows-what".  Has Facebook lost its allure? Has Zuckerberg made it too complicated to social network without regard to dangers?  Let's hope so...

I hadn't thought about it until now, but I bet the snowy weather in the Midwest and East will probably give a great big boost to online movies.  Who can go to a rental store to get them?

It will be very interesting to see how long Mubarak lasts, given that he "claims" that he will not run again and should be out of office in September.  Someone is going to make sure...just as soon as he exposes himself. For what possible reason would he not step down immediately, unless he hasn't finishes raping the monetary stores of Egypt yet.... I label him a fool that will get his just desserts.


Shame, shame, shame.  Microsoft has been caught copying Google's search results.  Hard to believe, but I wouldn't put it past them.  They've been stung!  
From the movie "City Slickers":
Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is? [holds up one finger]
Curly
: This.
Mitch
: Your finger?
Curly
: One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and the rest don't mean shit.
Mitch
: But, what is the "one thing?"
Curly
: [smiles] That's what *you* have to find out.


Microsoft should concentrate more on what they do best, and let Google do what they do best.  Nobody can do everything well! It make you look like a fool for trying...




A Michigan Senior citizen drove his brand new Corvette convertible out of a Dealership in Rochester Hills.  Taking off Down the road, he pushed it to 80 mph, enjoying the wind blowing through what little hair he had left.
"Amazing," he thought as he flew across M-59, pushing the pedal even more.
Looking in his rear view Mirror, he saw a Michigan State Trooper, blue lights flashing and siren blaring. He floored it to 100 mph, then 110, then 120. Suddenly he thought, "What am I doing, I'm too old for this" and pulled over to await the trooper's arrival.
Pulling in behind him, the trooper got out of his vehicle and walked up to the Corvette. He looked at his watch, then said, "Sir, my shift ends in 30 minutes. Today is Friday.  If you can give me a new reason for speeding--a reason I've never before heard -- I'll let you go."
 The old gentleman paused then said: "Three years ago, my wife ran off with a Michigan State trooper.  I thought you were bringing her back."
"Have a good day, sir," replied the trooper.



Two good ol' boys up in the Kentucky hills were sitting on the front porch talking one afternoon over a cold beer, and after getting off of work at the local coal mine.

After a while the 1st guy says to the 2nd, "If I was to sneak over to your trailer Saturday & make love to your wife while you was off huntin', and she got pregnant and had a baby, would that make us kin?"

The 2nd guy crooked his head sideways for a minute, scratched his head, and squinted his eyes thinking real hard about the question.

Finally, he says, "Well, I don't know 'bout kin, but it'd make us even."




One morning, a husband returns their boat to their lakeside cottage after several hours of fishing and decides to take a nap.
Although not familiar with the lake, the wife decides to take the boat out. She motors out a short distance, anchors, puts her feet up, & begins to read her book.
The peace & solitude are magnificent.
Along comes a Fish & Game Warden in his boat. He pulls up alongside the woman & says, "Good morning, Ma'am. What are you doing?"
"Reading a book," she replies and also thinking, 'Isn't that obvious?'
"You're in a Restricted Fishing Area," ...he informs her.
"I'm sorry, officer, but I'm not fishing. I'm reading."
"Yes, but I see you have all the equipment. For all I know you could start at any moment. I'll have to take you in and write you up."
"If you do that, I'll have to charge you with sexual assault," says the woman.
"But I haven't even touched you," says the Game Warden.
"That's true, but you have all the equipment. For all I know you could start at any moment."
"Have a nice day ma'am," and he left.
 




Copper Wire
After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.

Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, a California archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet and shortly after, a story in an LA newspaper read: "California archaeologists' discovery of 200 year old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers."

One week later. A local newspaper in Kentucky reported the following: "After digging as deep as 30 feet in his pasture near Hazard, KY Bubba, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Bubba has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, Kentucky had already gone wireless."




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