In Case You Were Wondering What I Was Thinking
• It seems that Facebook is a pretty closed series of tribes, with people who think and act alike being friends. The average age of the place is also getting up there among all users. Yet the stock isn’t doing so badly. Maybe it will be Codgerbook.
• I remember Fred “the hammer” Williams making Sherman-like claims as a defensive back before the Green Bay championship game. They carried him off the field on a stretcher before the half, I think.
• Wes Welker says he “doesn’t think about” the ball he dropped which would have meant a Super Bowl for the Patriots over the Giants. Don’t worry, Wes, enough people do think about it.
• We’re in a relationship business, which means personal meetings trump the phone, and email is almost useless.
• I’d like an electric shock app for people who hit “reply all” to respond to an email that went to 50 people to say “thanks” or “I’ll be there” or “Did I mention how much I enjoyed watching The View yesterday?”
• New Year’s Eve and Super Bowl evening have always struck me as the nights the amateurs go drinking.
• I have to agree that cell phone use on planes would be obnoxious. It’s bad enough on the taxi at landing when it is allowed. Hell, some passengers should have gags in any case. The rest of the cabin isn’t interested in your opinion, your golf game, your boat, or your ability to upgrade (which, unfortunately, has been successful).
• The best luxury and value for your money in Palm Beach is the exquisite Four Seasons. The Breakers, badly in need of an overhaul, is vastly overrated, and the beach is all but a memory, mostly eroded away.
• I love the Don Imus show, and the guy can make a best-seller for an author in an instant. But I have to change the channel when his wife comes on with her latest crackpot ideas about health (she’s convinced that vaccinations cause autism, for example), and her habit of screaming over others to make her dubious points.
• As you know, I’m a dog person. But when they are dressed in little outfits with booties or strolled around in conveyances, or brought into places not meant for them, I want to call the SPCA.
• Why are we still fooling around with pennies and nickels?
• Anyone who believes that gas prices are related to supply and demand should get in line for the Bernie Madoff memorial investment seminar.
© Alan Weiss 2014
