'bright and shiny' don't mean much to me

after  completing  funeral arrangements for my most recent wife,  pam(briggs williams), the funeral director,  walked me out into a warm sunny march morning.


after  completing  funeral arrangements for my most recent wife,  pam(briggs williams), the funeral director,  walked me out into a warm sunny march morning.
"as you can see, i am a man of means," i told her, pointing at my $75, if that, vehicle.
'things don't impress me," she said dryly,  "some  folks aren't showy."

facebook is the hot talk of our day.  myspace could have been big.  facebook IS  the current social buzz.   just what is a facebook friend and  what is one worth?.
didn't an iphone APP, instagram, sell for 1 billion dollars about a month ago?
facebook stock is being offered on the stock market, and a few folks will become billionaires, and ten of thousands will become just the newest horde of suckers, before it sinks back to earth and is eclipsed in the fickle restless public  fancy by a 'hipper' trip.
facebook is nothing more than a fairly  well targetted mass advertising vehicle.  
gm finds facebook ineffective for marketing vehicles.(sic)
of course, the advertising deluge will soon make facebook unnavigable to a practical person.
zuckerburg developed it while a sophmore at harvard.
yahoo was once the biggest dog.  yahoo fell on some bad times(most notably google and poor management decisions). there was the all powerful aol. aol not long ago had the biggest market cap in the world, eclipsing, at that time, a still formidable general motors.        amazon, a remarkable story, is still just a very sophisticated middleman for retailers.  have they paid their stockholders a dividend just once?  their stock goes up and up.  lots of money has been made trading amazon stock, to this point.
ebay, another notable middleman that survived doesn't ever make money, except for those who trade EBAY stock.
for my money, LINKED IN  is a far more effective advertising vehicle.
when states, munis, and governments figure how to tax amazon and ebay transactions, they will lose advantage.

 then came worldcom.  google, developed with government research money, is now the biggest bully on the block. cisco WAS once of the biggies.
pretty new things  don't impress me much any more. they cost too much, and usually don't remain popular or hang around long in this day.
we will most likely  be looking back at apple in a few years, and they will be just expensive dusty outdated relics  in drawers and landfills. .
as a former apple certified technician last week told me  "remember what happened when steve jobs was fired by the company he founded."    (apple products and stock plummeted and became the biggest jokes around).

i'm hip