many of us who would rather sit down in a comfortable chair to read a newspaper, magazine, or book, than sit in front of a computer screen. We are losing out though, newspapers are cutting pages and features, magazines are getting thinner. Many older people do not have computers, and are being left out of the loop in countless ways. We are being told more and more to go to this or that web site and often there is no telephone number for those who don't have a computer. If there were a phone number, navigating through the maze, only to almost never talk to a real person, makes many people give up in frustration. It really is "no country for old men" (or women).
If you take good care of your body it will last a lifetime.
Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb at.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Monday, March 1, 2010
March
has come in like a lamb, sunny, 32 degrees. The girls basketball tournament starts today, so the end of the week could change it all.
We have had a good amount of snow and are running out of places to put it. Des Moines is looking to break a record of about six feet. The parking lots in Fort Dodge have snow mountains in the corners and around the perimeter. If this all melts fast, big floods are possible again. All this and it sounds as though the east is worse off than us. The weather and other disasters around the globe has been for the birds.
Sometimes the money you save by doing it yourself will come in handy for getting it done over.
Nothing can be sliced so thin that it doesn' t have two sides.
We have had a good amount of snow and are running out of places to put it. Des Moines is looking to break a record of about six feet. The parking lots in Fort Dodge have snow mountains in the corners and around the perimeter. If this all melts fast, big floods are possible again. All this and it sounds as though the east is worse off than us. The weather and other disasters around the globe has been for the birds.
Sometimes the money you save by doing it yourself will come in handy for getting it done over.
Nothing can be sliced so thin that it doesn' t have two sides.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Is this overkill or what???
85,000 Iphone Apps
Spending one minute on each one deciding if it would fit your needs would take 177 eight hour days. After that many days there would more than likely be more Apps.
50,000 Radio stations for your Blackberry
One minute on each to make sure you don't get any of your parents music and there goes another 104 eight hour days.
Look for riding lawn mowers on Google and get 1,980,000 results. Looking at those will take something over 11 years at the usual one minute per.
Google comes up with two billion results for Google. No one could live long enough for this one.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Say what ?
I'm not a really big Obama fan, but I have trouble understanding all the fuss over him speaking to School kids.
I wonder how getting rid of car dealers as GM and Chrysler have done, will increase sales at the manufacturing level. If it is such a good idea, why haven't Ford, Honda and Toyota done the same.
Some years back (65 or so) saying that someone was living a dog's life, meant that he or she was living a life of misery. Today, judging from what I see and hear on TV, and in real life, it appears that it means just the opposite.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
The person who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
I wonder how getting rid of car dealers as GM and Chrysler have done, will increase sales at the manufacturing level. If it is such a good idea, why haven't Ford, Honda and Toyota done the same.
Some years back (65 or so) saying that someone was living a dog's life, meant that he or she was living a life of misery. Today, judging from what I see and hear on TV, and in real life, it appears that it means just the opposite.
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
The person who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Sometimes I Wonder
I wonder just when the last person in the US, who has never who has never used a personal computer, will die.
I wonder if the young voters, who had so much influence in putting Obama in the oval office, are noticing how few of his campaign promises are being kept.
Golf is one of the few things in life you don't have to be good at to enjoy.
An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less.
I wonder if the young voters, who had so much influence in putting Obama in the oval office, are noticing how few of his campaign promises are being kept.
Golf is one of the few things in life you don't have to be good at to enjoy.
An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less.
Monday, July 6, 2009
More idle thoughts
So much fuss and todo over Michael Jackson's death and memorial service. I don't remember anything like this when Lawrence Welk died.
Ask your doctor ads. So many commercials on TV for medicine that can't be bought without getting a doctor to prescribe something because you want it, whether he or she thinks you need it or not.
But "wait" ads. So many ads on TV for stuff that most of the time looks useless or nearly so. Then, near the end of the pitch comes the "But wait", order now and we will double the offer, you just pay shipping and handling for the second item. Sometimes that can be fifteen or sixteen dollars for something that they are selling for $9.95, and can more than likely be shipped for a lot less than they are charging.
Bubble gum contains rubber.
The ancient Egyptians had bowling alleys similar to ours.
Mosquitoes flap their wings 10.000 times every second.
Ask your doctor ads. So many commercials on TV for medicine that can't be bought without getting a doctor to prescribe something because you want it, whether he or she thinks you need it or not.
But "wait" ads. So many ads on TV for stuff that most of the time looks useless or nearly so. Then, near the end of the pitch comes the "But wait", order now and we will double the offer, you just pay shipping and handling for the second item. Sometimes that can be fifteen or sixteen dollars for something that they are selling for $9.95, and can more than likely be shipped for a lot less than they are charging.
Bubble gum contains rubber.
The ancient Egyptians had bowling alleys similar to ours.
Mosquitoes flap their wings 10.000 times every second.
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