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, April 5, 2011

Day of Reckoning

The day of reckoning has come for app makers and what information they take from smart phones without the user's knowledge.  These companies are making bookoo-bucks on our statistics without us knowing or getting our fair remuneration.

So the paint company has reacted to my "coverage" complaint by giving me coupons for two free gallons of paint.  Interesting, I probably wouldn't have bought that brand had they not advertized a feature that didn't play out.  The spent $$$ for the advertisement and then paid me back for the product I bought, because the advertizement was false.  Something is wrong here....

What really happens if the gubmint doesn't put together a budget before the "deadline"? What I expect is that gubmint workers will be sent home or forced to take vacation time.  Gubmint contracts will probably get stop-orders, which means that defense workers will be sent home to use up their vacation.  Does the military take a break from assigned actions?  I don't believe so; they just don't get paid.  Military hospitals and bases don't close.  What should happen?  Not only should Congress NOT be paid for the period, but they should also be FINED.  Every last one of them should lose their job at the next election, because they are NOT doing their jobs!!!  I'll probably be sent on furlough, which won't be any fun.



Georgia Peach
The owner of a golf course in Georgia was confused about paying an invoice, so he decided to ask his secretary for some mathematical help


He called her into his office and said, "Y'all graduated from the University of Georgia and I need some help. If I wuz to give yew $20,000, minus 14%, how much would you take off?"


The secretary thought a moment, and then replied, "Everthang but my earrings."



A knock on the door...
There was a knock on the door this morning.  I opened it to find a young man standing there who said: "I'm a Jehovah's Witness."

I said "Come in and sit down, what do you want to talk about?"

He said, "Beats the shit out of me, I've never gotten this far before."