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

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Holiday Anxiety!

We rented "Midnight in Paris" last evening.  It is an unusual movie. It takes a lot of patience to deal with the self-centered buttheads that mistreat the main character.  I wanted to slap them around. The scenery of Paris and the chicanery performed to make it look like the 1920s was very well done.  Unfortunately for me, the movie lays out some sort of a goal for a plot but it REALLY never gets there.  I was left wanting for more that wasn't provided. I would give it a C grade. Rotten Tomatoes gave it a 93%, but I believe that it should be closer to 75%.  This probably means that I no longer have patience for Woody Allen movies- certainly not as much as I've had in the past.

Buy, buy, buy.  This season sure generates a lot of anxiety.  It is truly too bad that Christmas has become such materialistic holiday. I guess it is true that people don't grow out of toys, they just get more expensive. 






Why was Santa's little helper depressed?
Because he had low elf esteem.




Closing down Denny's
Denny's restaurants are open 24 hours a day. When they decided to close last Christmas (first time ever), they realized that a lot of doors did not have locks, most of those that did have locks, no one knew where to find the keys!


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