sayings Archives - Traveling Archive https://travelingboy.com/travel/tag/sayings/ Traveling Adventures Fri, 02 Nov 2018 15:50:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://travelingboy.com/travel/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/cropped-TBoyIcon-32x32.jpg sayings Archives - Traveling Archive https://travelingboy.com/travel/tag/sayings/ 32 32 Phyllis Dillerisms Part 2 https://travelingboy.com/travel/phyllis-dillerisms-part-2/ https://travelingboy.com/travel/phyllis-dillerisms-part-2/#comments Sun, 28 Oct 2018 16:41:26 +0000 https://travelingboy.com/travel/?p=8840 We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve years telling them to sit down and shut up.

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The Creatives

Don Draper (not his real name) has been one of my TGIF subscribers since forever. I’ve wanted to have lunch with him every time I would go to New York but my schedule was usually too tight. Fortunately, a few days ago, I had such an opportunity and Don treated me and my wife to a scrumptious Italian feast. I knew he was in the ad business but I didn’t know he was that good. Being in the ad business myself, it was particularly fun to exchange notes.

When I mentioned the TV series, Mad Men, he scoffed at the shenanigans the writers depicted as far from his reality. What was real though was how competitive the ad business is. No matter how good you are, there is no assurance of faithful clients. Sadly, it is common for even the large companies to steal ideas/concepts from creatives who present their “marketing pitches.” And the field is getting more competitive because new technologies change the landscape dramatically and new “guns” crop up everyday. Don, who is also an art professor, confirmed my beliefs about the politics of some schools who treat their students more as customers and were more interested in providing “fun” rather than an education.

Van Gogh's 'The Starry Night'

With so much uncertainty in a “creative” career, why do so many people pursue it? One Broadway play,  “Chorus Line,” has a banner song entitled “What I did for Love.” The lyrics truly encompass the rationale behind an irrational quest. Artists/creatives pursue their uphill dreams for the love of art and not for money. Of course Steve Jobs was one amazing creative who was also gifted with an uncanny business sense.

If you are a creative, you know exactly what I am talking about. And if you know of one, on behalf of the creatives of the world, please treat your artists well. Feed them right. Don’t take advantage of them. Pay them what they’re worth. Encourage their ideas to flow. In a drab template-driven world of logic and business, creatives are the special sauce that gives the dish that amazing flavor. Artists are the spice of life. Their imagination and talent can help you reach the stars.

TGIF people!

“When I have a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion, then I go out and paint the stars. ” — Vincent Van Gogh

Announcement: If you are in the Temple City, CA area tomorrow, Saturday Oct.27, I volunteered to do caricatures at the pre-Halloween event of the Temple City Baptist Church starting at 4pm. There is no charge.

Some helpful links I googled for creatives: Article in Entrepreneur magazine(mostly for performing arts), Graphics, Negotiate Your Salary, etc.

Joke of the Week

Part 2 of Witty Sayings By Phyllis Diller

Shared by Don of Kelowna, B.C.

Dillerisms Part 2

Videos of the Week

funny video

Crazy Cheap Asian
Sent by Art of Sierra Madre, CA

This is a parody of the famous movie. There are actually people like this. My Dad’s side of the family is famous for this.

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What?!?Crazy Body Stretching
Sent by Don of Kelowna, B.C.

My back started to ache just watching this. I was surprised to find that there are a lot of these contortionists in Youtube. I wonder if they ever get back pains.

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Don’s Puns

From Don’s collection of puns

Don's Puns: Signature Wraps

Parting Shot

Thanks to Don of Kelowna, B.C. who shared this photo

Parting Shot: Yoga Pants

 

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Email Blackmail:

A Public Service Article to Defend Against the Cyber Criminal Minds

I was shocked by an email that was blackmailing me to pay up in Bitcoin; otherwise sensitive information would be released to the world. I receive spam just like everyone else, but what made this especially disconcerting was having my name and an old password in the subject line. Whoever this person was, had the sophistication to access real data.

Here’s my serious email tech advice. If this ever happens to you, immediately change and fortify all of your passwords and report the spam to the authorities. Who to email it to? Do a search for “report spam” and choose the organization that best fits you. This might also help:

Abuse and Spam Reporting
To report unlawful, abusive, unwanted or malicious email that you find originating from an Outlook.com, Hotmail, Live, or MSN account , please forward a complete copy of the abusive message (including the full message header) to

ab***@ou*****.com











. Sending these types of communications is a violation of Microsoft policy and appropriate action will be taken on confirmed reports. 

After some research I discovered that there had been similar complaints from other people who were hit by the same scam. Even if the threat is real (most of them really aren’t), the FBI website advises anyone who has been blackmailed to never pay the ransom … they discourage even a reply to the message because doing so would only confirm that your email address is legit and that could lead to more extortion. Think about it, what will prevent the crooks from asking more? They lack compassion.

Other steps

If you know how to blacklist emails, do so with that specific email. If you know how to blacklist an IP address, block that as well. You want to make sure that the crook(s) have no way of communicating with you. Think about it. How can they threaten you if they can’t get hold of you?

There’s a lot of cyber crime going on. We hear about it often but somehow it really only hits home when it gets personal.

Of course if you do Facebook, have a Gmail account, or search using Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. then you’re already screwed. They already know everything about you.

Please be careful.

TGIF people!

“It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity”
— attributed to Albert Einstein in my email but “Sam” pointed out that it probably came from the movie “Powder” … see comments below

Joke of the Week

Witty Sayings By Phyllis Diller

Shared by Don of Kelowna, B.C.

Joke of the Week: Dillerisms Part 1

Videos of the Week

funny video

Carbonaro Effect: Survival Backpack
Sent by Tom of Pasadena, CA

This is the ultimate backpack. It’s like the Swiss Army Knife of survival backpacks and the customer is totally amazed!

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What?!?Creepy Google
Sent by Art of Sierra Madre, CA

I include this video because I want you to be aware of the present tech power. Just to be clear, this video comes from a conservative media but regardless of your political persuasion, I think it is accurate, complex and interesting. It discusses just how far Google has dominated the tech world and our private data. Kinda sad and bothersome. This is the reason I hardly use Social Media. You should avoid it too.

Don’t be too depressed. Here’s a related discussion that assures us that these tech giants will be overtaken by a new technology in the near future. CLICK HERE.

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Don’s Puns

From Don’s collection of puns

Don's Puns: Ambiguity

Parting Shot

Thanks to Don of Kelowna, B.C. who shared this photo

Parting Shot: Timeout

 

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