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, July 26, 2011

Brain Shrinkage ?

The Postal Service is aiming to close many of their offices.  One of our post offices has an automated system that allows for a user to weigh and affix postage to a parcel, or buy stamps, etc. and all by debit or credit card.  I usually go to that office to use this machine because there is not usually a line.  If this machine deals with more than 90% of why you go to a post office, then I really don't understand what the other 10% is or why so many people would rather wait in line to be waited on.  I hope they strategically place these machines around town, because I would rarely, if ever, seek a "personal" touch.  BTW, does this mean that they won't ask for higher prices on postage ????
Apparently scientists now say that brain shrinkage is uniquely human.  This fact, of course, is extremely believable.  What they didn't have anything to say about, was the disparity between the starting sizes of human brains.  This certainly is an evolving trait based on how much utilization we get out of our brains.  Theoretically then, it must also be an acceptable fact that politicians have many relatives, and they are affecting the gene pool.
Is there anywhere that we can escape from advertising now?  At the movies there are more commercials that previews.  On your smart phone, there are ads wherever you look.  At the gas stations there are flatscreen digital ads continuously.  Almost every website you access on the web has ads.  The TV is crowded with ads.  My blog even has ads.  How can we escape?  Please continue NOT to click on any of them.  Eventually, each advertiser will realize the futility of the ads and cease and desist.



A blonde was weed-whacking her yard and accidentally cut off the tail of her cat, who was hiding in the grass.

She rushed her cat, along with the tail, over to WAL-MART!

Why WAL-MART??   HELLOOOOOOOOO!

WALMART is the largest re-tailer in the world!!! 


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