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

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Zuck -> G8,

Categorize this as one of the most unnecessary and undesirable products:  They now have sandwiches in a can (called Candwiches).  This must be the chosen food for Bat Chain Pullers worldwide (or at least when there no roadkill available)!
If ya'll are lookin' for the simpler life, here is a purty good retirement home....
Ever wonder about the statistics that they capture in Fleecebook?  Here they tell you EXACTLY what kind of people use it and what for...  "And yet if Facebook is our guide, I'd say our cultural norms have remained intact. We continue to value professionalism. We find great rewards in human relationships -- and most of us try to exit them honorably."  The one that REALLY sticks in my craw is #6.  Except for the fact that Fleecebook is out to fleece us, the defaults for #6 should be the opposite.
This is REALLY unfortunate for the country.  I guess Trump ended his foray into politics just a little too soon.  The vortex of his possible political career going down the drain has now sucked Palin back into the fray.  Unfortunate, as well, as Bat Chain Pullers go, she is right behind Romney in popularity.  We probably haven't seen the end of her Bat Chain Pulling days yet- even though most of wish that we had. One question which I cannot answer is whether she is being egged on by Tea Partiers or mud stirrers from the formerly "G"OP....
 Apparently nobody of reasonable intelligence was available to go to the G8 conference in Europe to discuss the Internet, so they asked Zuck.  There was more discussion about the "Social Network" movie and Zuck says he didn't "Like" it.  I'll bet he didn't "Like" it because it may have been a bit too real and painted him like an obsessed and immature jerk (perhaps because he may be obsessed and immature). 

I guess some people are REALLY not ready-for-prime-time on Fleecebook.   It's true that it takes all kinds, but unfortunately there is no training class to acquire a little CLASS at posting on Fleecebook.  If you are REALLY curious at how many ways you can FAIL, read this....



Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. 


A cigarette shortens your life by 2 min, a beer shortens your life by 4 minutes, a working day shortens your life by 8 hours! 




Two Scandinavian young men
from up in Minnesota were looking at a Sears catalog and admiring the models. Ole says to the Sven "Have you seen the beautiful girls in this catalog?" Sven replies, "Yes, they are very beautiful. And look at the price!" Ole says, with wide eyes, "Wow, they aren't very expensive. At this price, I'm buying one." Sven smiles and pats him on the back. "Good idea! Order one and if she's as beautiful as she is in the catalog, I will get one too." Three weeks later, Sven asks his friend Ole, "Did you ever receive the girl you ordered from the Sears catalog?" Ole replies, "No, but it shouldn't be long now. I got her clothes yesterday!"