i just saw these in an e-mail

two quotes:

“A man will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body -- the wishbone.” –Robert Frost

“I never vote for anyone. I always vote against.” –W. C. Fields

don't be hasty

beware of e-mailed coupons. read this article -- http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22119051/ -- and it will make you very nervous.

you have to be so careful of your web site surfing, so careful of your e-mail, so careful careful careful. gees, i hate those bad guys.

what to do, what to do

i have a dilemma -- i am going to drop verizon as my cell provider because they pissed me off. twice. that's too many times.

so i'm looking at at&t, even though we had them back in the mid-90's and they pissed me off. but not as much as verizon.

at any rate, i am trying to decide if i should get the i-phone, which has features which i might never use, or if i should just get a regular phone and then get an i-pod for music.

to get the i-phone, it would cost $399 plus $59.99 a month for service which includes 450 minutes talk-time, 200 minutes of texting, unlimited e-mail, and web surfing. a regular phone would be whatever it would be for the phone, then $39.99 a month for 450 minutes plus between $5-$20 more a month for texting. which i have actually done a little bit of.

to buy an i-pod nano with 8 gb of memory, it would be $200. 8 gb = 2,000 songs. don't laugh. i could easily get there. the i-pod classic (80 gb) is $50 more.

would i use the i-phone if i had it??? well, it'd use it for the music. and when i was in the car and needed a phone, i'd use it for that. if i got lost, i could go online and call up google maps. i could check my voice mail, decide if i wanted to listen to one before another. stuff like that.

am i technologically interested enough? the older i get, the less i'm interested. i don't like that, but there it is. if you have any thoughts, feel free to leave them.

where is this?

i received an e-mail this am which said, "When you call Customer Service and speak to someone in India who speaks English, albeit with an Indian accent, but who cannot resolve your problem, perhaps its a fault in the wiring?" and then the following pictures were displayed.





oh. my. god.
i suppose someone could have photoshopped these, someone with a wicked sense of humor. but if they truly show the state of things over there ..... god, that is just depressing. i would definitely not apply for an 'india power and light' position.

on another note -- count the number of women in these pictures. that's depressing, too ..... backward place.