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Tech stocks continue their heady run. Thank you Square and Amazon.

Amazon is over $2,000. Square is nearly $90.  Apple (or somebody) is going to buy them for $200?

I’m in pinch mode.

I continue to like Netflix, Nvidia, Microsoft, Adobe,and Apple.

I’m looking  for another Square. I’m reading a lot and rejecting a lot.

Any ideas?

By the way, it’s amazing the improvements Amazon is bringing to its Kindle software. Get your  Kindle software upgraded (for free).

The economy must be booming

Our local country store is advertising for help.

I can’t get painters nor contractors to call me back.

Our landscaper is bemoaning her lack of help.

I motivated a DirecTV installer to come this afternoon by offering to pay twice what he normally charges. In cash, no less. I’m still waiting.

When you buy a new car . Consider:

+ You won’t get a CD player. You’ll be forced to subscribe to Amazon’s Audible. Don’t try ripping your CDs to MP3. You’ll get an MP3 for every track which you car will then play randomly. It really messes up a great plot. Trust me on this one. Our new Mercedes play track 1, then track 10, then track 8.I can’t make this nonsense up.

+ You may get Apple Car Play, but not Waze or Google Maps, yet.

+ As cars are being made safer, your visibility will be severely limited by the thicker posts in the front and on the side. Because you can’t see sidewards, this is a major safety problem. Be wary.

+ Your new electronic “safety” features will  be obtrusive and annoying. The steering wheel jerking and random beeping will drive you nuts.

+ A car two-to-three years old is cheaper, less annoying — and better value.

CHECK. CHECK. CHECK.

+ When you take your hearing aids to the theater, make sure the batteries are not dead. Mine were last night.

+ When you arrange a service appointment with DirecTV, make sure they and you agree on the date. Like today. Not next Thursday.

+ Before you pay your credit card bill, go online and check each charge. My MasterCard got hacked subtly — over time. Eventually I had to change it. Serious pain.

+ Check that you have signed online for Alerts on your credit card and bank accounts. They arrive every time something changes — a deposit, a debit, daily balance, etc. Useful.

+ Never give a contractor more than 20% as a down-payment — and definitely NOT the 50% they often ask for. Never, ever.

+ Check with your Internet provider that he can’t up your Internet speed. Most can — and for the same price you’re paying today or less.

Sexism and racism

Yesterday I ran a “joke” that many people considered racist. I sincerely apologize. I thought the joke funny. My daughter, Claire, told me, in no uncertain terms it wasn’t. I’ve reproduced the “joke” below in case you missed it.

As with being careful with racism, you have to be ultra-careful with sexism — how you speak to women. Flattery is out.

Friends in business tell me that managing teams of women, minorities, and men — of whatever hues has become fraught with career-limiting danger. Some friends tell me that perceived harassment has become a weapon, a tool for advancement.

My mouth and weird sense of humor has already gotten me big trouble in recent years. How I survived 30 years of managing a business without any complaints and lawsuits is one of those amazing miracles. Maybe the world was different then?

Some readers’ thoughts.

These are funny. I promise.

Glutenfree

Garbage

Tourists actually buy this stuff. In Estonia, I spied this:

PutinDoll

Sadly, the shop was closed. And I couldn’t find a Putin doll in Saint Petersburg, Russia. I wonder why?

From Austria on sale at a tourist shop:

kitch

What children wish for

wedding

puppy

HarryNewton
Harry Newton, who has found that three weeks on the Baltic Sea cruise away from the tennis has done terrible things to my forehand.

Here’s yesterday’s miserable racist joke. Should I have changed his name to John and the city to Newport Beach? Would it then be funny? See what you think.

At the graduation

Darqueeze played high school football in Detroit. He was a great running back, but a really poor student.

At graduation, he didn’t have enough credits. But he was a great football star and the students held a rally and demanded the principal give him a diploma anyway.

They were so insistent that the principal agreed that if Darqueeze could answer one question correctly he would give him a diploma.

The one question test was held in the auditorium and all the students packed the place. It was standing room only.

The principal was on the stage and told him to come up. Diploma in hand, the principal said: “Darqueeze, if you can answer this one question correctly I’ll give you your diploma.”

“Darqueeze, how much is three times seven?”

Darqueeze looked up at the ceiling and then down at his shoes, pondering the question.

The students began chanting, “Graduate him anyway! Graduate him anyway!”

Then Darqueeze held up his hand and the auditorium became silent. He said, “I think I know the answer. Three times seven is twenty-one.”

A hush fell over the auditorium and then all the students began to chant:

“Give him another chance. Give him another chance!”

4 Comments

  1. TomFromVa says:

    Harry – that happened at the Blonde’s convention

  2. Lucky says:

    The joke is only racist to the narrow mind with no sense of humor.
    My 2017 Subaru Outback may be racist…it actually slows down for butterflies…I kid you not. We were driving West on I-8 headed toward Yuma this morning and just past Gila Bend we encountered a kaleidoscope of butterflies at 80 mph…suddenly the Subaru began slowing down and an alert came on the dash “Visibility” with a slash mark across it and the car slowed down to below 60 mph before I stepped it up to keep from getting hit from behind. Unbelievable! Had to use the windshield washers to clear the window.
    Then on our way home to summer touristy Payson…we encountered a 19 mile back-up of bumper to bumper traffic going 3-10 mph. For 2 and one half hours I never touched the brake once…my car while on cruise control simply does all the stop and go on its own! Only when it reaches 0 mph that I must touch the gas pedal to get it going again…never touch the brake even for a complete stop. I will also, never come home again on the Friday night before the last 3 day weekend of summer to an area riddled with campers!

  3. Jerry says:

    The joke is only racist because it makes the argument that black people are stupid. IT sounds like a joke that Trump would tell at a staff meeting when the press isn’t there.

  4. Scooter says:

    Harry, you racist pig. How could you be so insensitive. You should lose your position and your daughters lose theirs as well, and their children and so on and so on and so on until proper reparations are made.

    P.S. I don’t get the joke?
    ___________

    Does that qualify as a PC response?