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

Monday, June 6, 2011

More Bat Chain Pullers and the Bank of Idiots...

Stealing a line from Randy Jackson of American Idol, yet another (relatively unknown publicly) Bat Chain Puller enters the fray as Santorum claims "He is in it to win it!".  This guy is popular among extreme social conservatives who prefer his strong anti-abortion stance and opposition to gay marriage and embryonic stem cell research.  The Bible Belters will have their candidate, but does he REALLY have a chance where the electoral votes live?

Here is a letter to Alec Baldwin that I feel should be repeated....
Here is a solution to the mtg/ foreclosur­e problem. Take the houses that Freddie Mac /Fannie Mae own and gradually raffle them off. Put one house per county up for raffle at a time. If a Mtg. is $250,000, sell $500,000 worth of raffle tickets. The first $250,000 goes to making the loan whole. The remaining monies would be split by the 30% to each local, state, and federal govts and the last 10% for the overhead of the raffle. This would aid in the deficits reductions at each level of government­. Speed up the liquidatio­n of excess homes on the market. Add Liquidity into the retail market because the winner now owns a home that has no mortgage, freeing up monies for retail purchases and renovation­s.  [rfmaneater]
THIS IS GREAT!  A couple pays cash for a house, and Bank of America (Idiots) tries to foreclose on it!  Later they drop the proceedings, but do not cough up the legal fees.  This couple seized the assets of the local branch!  GOOD FOR THEM!!!
Apple announced its iCloud system today so that users can store/retrieve their files from the Apple server.  Let us hope that THIS cloud has a silver lining rather than black.  How safe do we think their server is?  Will they data-mine the files or are they encrypted and private?  The DEVIL is in the DETAILS.  By the way, are expecting to be connected ALL THE TIME to the internet so that we can access these files?  Would I EVER want a local copy?  Are we REALLY moving towards the Google Chrome paradigm, where we DON'T HAVE ANY LOCAL STORAGE?




Men Are Just Happier People

NICKNAMES
· If Laura, Kate and Sarah go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura, Kate and Sarah.
· If Mike, Dave and John go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Dickhead and Shit for Brains.

ARGUMENTS
· A woman has the last word in any argument.
· Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

FUTURE
· A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
· A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.

SUCCESS
· A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
· A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

MARRIAGE
· A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
· A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, but she does.

DRESSING UP
· A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the trash, answer the phone, read a book, and get the mail.
· A man will dress up for weddings and funerals.
OLD SUCKS
"Sixty is the worst age to be," said the 60-year old man. "You always feel like you have to pee and most of the time you stand there and nothing comes out."

"Ah, that's nothin," said the 70-year old. "When you're
seventy, you don't have a bowel movement any more. You take laxatives, eat bran, sit on the toilet all day and nothin' comes out!"

"Actually," said the 80-year old, "Eighty is the worst age of all."

"Do you have trouble peeing, too?" asked the 60-year old.

"No, I pee every morning at 6:00. I pee like a racehorse; no problem at all."

"So, do you have a problem with your bowel movement?"

"No, I have one every morning at 6:30."

Exasperated, the 60-year old said, "You pee every morning at 6:00 and crap every morning at 6:30. So what's so bad about being 80?"


"I don't wake up until 7:00."
 

 

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