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

Saturday, July 16, 2011

College or Not?

I was gung-ho.  I graduated high school when I was sixteen and couldn't wait to leave my peers treatment of an immature brainiac to enter community college.  I was going to become a math teacher and show all what I could do.  Exposure to a room-sized, slow but intriguing computer left me but no choice as to conquer it and the field.  I left community college with an Associate's degree and moved on to transfer to a four year school as a transfer.  Continuing to slay the challenges that lay before me; next was the master's program.  Accused by my father as over educated and non-employable, I still marched forward.  After orals and the PhD screening exam, I could no-longer continue the poor lifestyle and decided to get a job from one of my many management-type students in the classes I was teaching.  I left with a master's, a PhD opportunity and a teaching credential.
This background did not cover the maturation and focus that I learned in college.  To have avoided it (as they now say, it may not be necessary), would have been devastating to my career (?) and life in general.  I say, HOGWASH.  College is more than going to school.  It is a necessary evolution in thinking and in direction, as well as values.  One certainly can learn what one wants out of their life and aim for it.  I am disappointed in our culture for even suggesting that it may not be worthwhile ($) to get a college education.  Expenses have certainly gone up, but the real worth is not what I can make (dollars) in my career lifetime, but what that career will be.

Sensitive Husband


A man is sitting at home alone when he hears a knock on the front door.

He opens it to find two sheriff's deputies there. He asks if there is a problem.

One of the deputies asks if he is married. He says, "Yes, I am."

The deputy then asks if he could see a picture of the man's wife.

The guy says, "Sure," and gets a photo to show them.

The deputy says, "I'm sorry, sir. But it looks like your wife's been hit by a truck."

The guy replies, "I know, but she has a great personality and is an excellent cook."

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