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

Sunday, March 27, 2011

What is it about Santa Barbara County and the price of gas?  The problems in Libya have caused the prices at the pump to skyrocket.  Considering that Libya accounts for about one percent of the oil using in this country, why should prices soar?  I would bet that speculators are making a mint.  While Europe depends much more heavily on Libya's oil, I still cannot fathom the effect here.  Worse than that, it appears that Santa Barbara County will never live down the 1969 oil spill and how much it cost Union Oil.  We live in a very small pocket of the most expensive gas in the state with the most expensive gas.  Refineries must make a special variety of gasoline for California [highly oxygenated...], but Santa Barbara appears destined for higher prices here to continue ad infinitum. This with numerous [actually twenty] oil platforms in our immediate vicinity that pay dearly to produce gobs of oil in our county.
Anyone interested in Quantum Jumping? Sometimes I'd just like to jump into a place where I won the Lottery or there is no more greed in the world causing people's suffering or a place where cancer or the common cold doesn't exist...  What in the world are these people talking about?  Are there REALLY more than three or four [if you consider time as the fourth] dimensions?  Is the TV show Fringe more real than we give it credit for ?

More on the Social Bubble...When will the next dot com bubble burst around these overvalued companies that REALLY don't have a product?  Won't smartie-pants Zuckerberg be sorry that he didn't go public and pull out as much money as he can before the dam breaks....?

It is one thing to FIND alien planets that might support LAWKI [life as we know it], but yet another ***THING*** to get there.  With today's space program as bad and under-financed as possible, what we REALLY need is a new kind of propulsion and some sentient robots to take care of us while in suspended animation on board.  These planets we are discovering are not close, but they are relatively close.  We can [at least] get there in our lifetime...

If AT&T-Mobile becomes reality, you'll know that there are some politicians that are bought and paid for.  There is NO-WY that this is a good move for consumers.  AT&T doesn't do anything UNLESS it is to make more money!


Just watched the Black Swan and now I know why Natalie Portman won Best Actress.  The movie was extremely well made and well cast as well. Parts will give you chills.



"According to a new survey, 76 percent of men said what they look
for most in a woman is a sense of humor and a good personality.
This was a survey published in 'Full Of Crap Magazine.'"
- Conan O'Brien





An old cowboy dressed to kill with ... cowboy shirt, hat, jeans, spurs and chaps went to a bar and ordered a drink.

As he sat there sipping his whiskey, a young lady sat down next to him.

After she ordered her drink she turned to the cowboy and asked him, "Are you a real cowboy?"

"Well, I have spent my whole life on the ranch herding cows, breaking horses, mending fences... I guess I am," replied the cowboy.

After a short while he asked her what she was.

"I've never been on a ranch so I'm not a cowboy, but I am a lesbian. I spend my whole day thinking about women. As soon as I get up in the morning I think of women, when I eat, shower, watch TV, everything seems to make me think of women," told the young woman.

A short while later she left and the cowboy ordered another drink.

A couple sat down next to him and asked, "Are you a real cowboy?"

"I always thought I was, but I just found out that I'm a lesbian."