We went to the Wheels and Waves car show down the center of town today. There were about four or five hundred cars to look at. It is a bountiful show in that it attracts a varied group of entrants. It is very casual and the crowds consisting of walkers, bike riders, motorcyclists, dogs, strollers, wagons and more, file past the cars threatening their perfect condition. Even Andy Granatelli was riding past the cars in a covered golf cart. It is a scary show if you are showing your car. On cannot really relax.
A new way to avoid any .08 alcohol issues while driving...
I went out with some friends last night and tied one on.
Knowing that I was wasted, I did something that I have never done before. I took a bus home.
I arrived home safe and warm, which seemed really surprising as I have never driven a bus before.
10 Words That Don't Exist, But Should:
1. AQUADEXTROUS - adj. Possessing the ability to turn the
bathroom faucet on and off with your toes.
2. CARPERPETUATION - n. The act, when vacuuming, of running
over a string or a piece of lint at least a dozen times, reaching
over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down
to give the vacuum one more chance.
3. DISCONFECT - v. To sterilize a piece of candy you dropped
on the floor by blowing on it, assuming this will somehow
"remove" all the germs.
4. ELBONICS - n. The actions of two people maneuvering for
one armrest in a movie theater (airplane).
5. FRUST - n. The small line of debris that refuses to be
swept onto the dust pan and keep backing a person across the room
until he finally decides to give up and sweep it under the rug.
6. LACTOMANGULATION - n. Manhandling the "open here" spout
on a milk container so badly that one has to resort to the
"illegal" side.
7. PEPPIER - n. The waiter at a fancy restaurant whose sole
purpose seems to be walking around asking diners if they want
ground pepper.
8. PHONESIA - n. The affliction of dialing a phone number
and forgetting whom you were calling just as they answer.
9. PUPKUS - n. The moist residue left on a window after a
dog presses its nose to it.
10. TELECRASTINATION - n. The act of always letting the phone
ring at least twice before you pick it up, even when you're only
six inches away.
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Picoftheweek
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
"For the strength of the Wolf is in the Pack, and the strength of the Pack is in the Wolf." - Rudyard Kipling
“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