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, May 30, 2012

Feeling Zucked

When a close friend that has beat cancer once, calls you and says that his doctor is concerned about a new hot spot, many thought fleet through your mind.  First there is concern, then sympathy, then your own vulnerability becomes visible.  How does he cope with that kind of news?  How do I?  I don't want to lose my friend, nor do I want him to suffer physically, emotionally or mentally.  Sickness is a nasty thing to deal with.  When someone that is a heavy smoker gets cancer, it is still bad, but is a logical result of a bad practice.  When someone gets cancer that is not the result of a bad habit or even accident, that is most difficult to accept.  When it is an innocent child, that is even worse.  I don't wish this ordeal on anyone.  I pray that my friend continues to beat this down...

Days later, the doctor's office calls to apologize for the scare but the reading was falsely based.  What can you do at this point, since the doctor's office is manned by humans that are not always 100% sure of what they are doing...


So, as we look inside of ourselves (reflecting on our vulnerabilities) and also at what our society has become, I wonder what the shift to a digital world has affected.  Certainly, the interaction between friends, relatives and even mates is different now that we have embraced smart phones and non-confrontational electronic social networking.  The world is becoming addicted to the always data-hungry digital media.  What effects will this have on society.  Facebook is stealing the innocence of our inner lives.  Is the use of Facebook "Zucking us up"?

It is bad enough that we have become dependent, but kids have never known different and have adjusted far to fast.  What have they lost having never known different ?

Perhaps there is still hope... 




Why Exercise
It is well documented that for every minute that you exercise, you add one minute to your life. This enables you at 85 years old to spend an additional 5 months in a nursing home at $50,000 per month. 






Krikey
Senators William Spong of Virginia and Hiram Fong of Hawaii sponsored a bill recommending the mass ringing of church bells to welcome the arrival in Hong Kong of the U.S. Table Tennis Team after its tour of China. The bill failed to pass, cheating the Senate out of passing the Spong-Fong Hong Kong Ping Pong Ding Dong Bell Bill.

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