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, June 14, 2012

Classic Design

What does it take to make a classic car?  A white-coved Corvette, big tailed Cadillac or original Model-T? Do we have any new classics in the making?  I might be wrong, but I don't think so.  Design is a funny concept.  Why does a classic-design Rolex never go out of style.  It is only those designs that meet the criteria that our eyes and perspective find desirable.  We are our own worst critics.  Designers are always telling us that their latest model is a "classic".  I might believe it when I see it...  Let me know the next time that someone calls a new design "classic" and it turns out to be.


Why is it... that we are so concerned about giving up our privacy to drones, but we are oblivious to the sucking sounds as our privacy drains away from Fleecebook and smart phones ?  Is it that we don't get some whiz-bang high-tech electronics and some apps to perform mindless tasks in trade ???




Updated Chinese Proverb
Original Chinese Proverb - Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.

2012 Revision/update
Give a man a welfare check, a free cell phone with unlimited free minutes, cash for his clunker, food stamps, section 8 housing, free contraceptives, Medicaid, a hundred weeks of unemployment, a forty ounce malt liquor, free drugs, Air Jordan shoes, and he will vote Democrat for life.




Golf game......
Dave had a week off and decided to play golf every day. Monday morning, he found himself paired with an attractive woman, Pat, who turned out to be a very good golfer. They started with a few casual bets, but by the back nine it was a full-blown competition. On the 18th green, Pat sank her long birdie putt
to win. 


Dave congratulated her and paid off his losses. Pat asked for a ride home and, on the way,
told him, "You know, Dave, I haven't enjoyed myself so much on the golf course in a long time.
In fact, pull over so I can express my appreciation." He did, they kissed, and one thing led to another
and soon she gave him the best oral sex he'd ever had. 


The next morning, they met again on the first tee and played together again. They had another magnificent day, enjoying each other's company and playing tight, competitive golf. 


Again Pat beat him, but she also showed her appreciation on the drive home. This went on all week, with Dave narrowly losing every day, his male ego bruised, but not unhappy. 


On Friday's drive home, Dave said, "Pat, you've been great to be with all this week and tonight
I'd like to return the favor. I made reservations at the best restaurant in town for us and reserved the penthouse suite at the best hotel...... What do you say?" Pat burst into tears. "I can't!" 


"What? Why not?" asked Dave. 


"Because," she sobbed, "I'm in the middle of a sex change and the doctor hasn't completed that
part of me yet!" "What?!" Aghast, Dave swerved off the road, screeched to a stop and cursed madly, overcome with emotion. 


"I'm so sorry," says Pat. "You have a right to be angry with me." "You bastard!" Dave screamed, his face bright red. "You cheating bastard! All week long you've been playing off the women's tees!!"