A Voice of Hope

Overheard at the Office

"'PC' is like 'Band-aid.'"

Actually, what I initially heard was "a PC's like a band-aid" --- as in a PC is something that you put on a boo-boo to stop the bleeding until you can get a Mac and solve the problem.  :)

That, however, was not the speaker's actual meaning. He meant the term PC is like "Band-aid"; a brand name that's now commonly used in a generic way to encompass all personal computers regardless of maker.

I like my meaning way better.

Watch out for lesbians in Atlanta

Sista Smiff's mom cracks me up! Go check out the advice and warnings she regularly dispenses to her kids.

Be Careful What You Say...

...history may prove you wrong.

"Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." (Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895)

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." (Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943)

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home." (Ken Olsen, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977)

"The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." (Western Union internal memo, 1876)

"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." (Marshal Ferdinand Foch, French commander of Allied forces during the closing months of World War I, 1918)

"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" (David Sarnoff's associates, in response to his urgings for investment in radio in the 1920's)

"Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." (New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work, 1921)

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" (Harry M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927)

"Everything that can be invented has been invented." (Charles H. Duell, commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1899)

Overheard

Adria: (on the phone to her friend from college) "You can never get enough 'Friends'. It's okay, though.... it's our 'Cheers'."

I feel old.

Overheard

"World peace and a boyfriend! Is that too much to ask???"

So it was on an ad for "Queer Eye For the Straight Guy," I still liked it. :)