Great Truths

Posted on December 15, 2017 by loiswhitmanhess

1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

— John Adams

2. If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

— Mark Twain

3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself…

— Mark Twain

4. I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

—Winston Churchill

5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

— GeorgeBernard Shaw

6. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

— G. GordonLiddy

7. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

— P.J. O’Rourke, Civil Libertarian

8. Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

—Ronald Reagan (1986)

9. I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

— Will Rogers

10. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free!

— P. J. O’Rourke

11. No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.

— Mark Twain (1866)

12. Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it.

— Anonymous

13. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

— Winston Churchill

14. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

— Mark Twain

15. There is no distinctly Native American Criminal Class, save Congress.

— Mark Twain

16. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians

—Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)

17. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.

— Thomas Jefferson

Thank you Barbara O’Connell for these quotes. They make a great blog post. We were out late and I want to go to sleep. Good night.

I’m In Good Company, Age-Wise

Posted on December 13, 2017 by loiswhitmanhess

When I saw these slides on Facebook, I knew I had to share them with you. Thank you, the Today Show, for recognizing these great, senior women.

A good friend, Gary Arlen, a Washington DC tech writer, took the time to add information about Net Neutrality. Thank you Gary. you are always the educator.

Your Access To The Internet Is Being Threatened

Posted on December 12, 2017 by loiswhitmanhess

Thank you Alabama, thank you, thank you, thank you !!!!!

Now for the next issue…….

I’m not sure if you totally understand, but this Thursday the FCC may decide to repeal the Obama net neutrality protection.

What does that mean?

It means that the Internet could get very difficult for you to use.

I am rather shocked that many of us have not spoken about this before. The Trump Administration doesn’t want the Internet to be equal for all of us. Net neutrality means that all content on the Internet is the same for everyone. The current administration may want to play favorites.

Obama made sure that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) couldn’t block or slow down content for any of us. Now all kinds of manipulations may take place.

Please google net neutrality to get more information about this situation. Give us your opinion.

Thank you

You can write to your Senator or State Rep.

Nine Important Facts To Remember As We Grow Older

Posted on December 11, 2017 by loiswhitmanhess

Happy Chanukah, Love, Lois and Eliot

Nine Important Facts To Remember As We Grow Older

#9 Death is the number 1 killer in the world.

#8 Life is sexually transmitted.

#7 Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

#6 Men have 2 motivations: hunger and hanky panky, and they can’t tell them apart. If you see a gleam in his eyes, make him a sandwich.

#5 Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. Teach a person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks, months, maybe years unless you give them your email address.

#4 Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in the hospital, dying of nothing.

#3 All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

#2 In the 60s, people took LSD to make the world weird. Now the world is weird, and people take Prozac to make it normal.

#1 Life is like a jar of jalapeno peppers. What you do here, today, may be a burning issue somewhere else, tomorrow.

Thank you Walter Salm.

3-D Printed Musical Instruments

Posted on December 10, 2017 by loiswhitmanhess

We received an invite to the Jewish Museum Of South Florida for a Sunday brunch. It was so cute. The invite said, “Basel, Lox and Cream Cheese.” That’s pretty clever considering it was Art Basel week in Miami, the largest art fair in the United States.

The museum was exhibiting 3-D printed musical instruments that were first of a kind. 3-D printing is a process provided by specialized computers to create three-dimensional objects.

MONAD Studio, an award-winning architecture firm in Miami, came up with the concept of 3-D instruments because they were interested in producing new kinds of sounds. You can hear them in the above video.

The sounds are pretty primitive. The music sounds much better in an ensemble. I’m sure you will be seeing and hearing more of these types of instruments in the future.

Most of the folks at the brunch never heard of 3-D printing before. This was s great way to introduce them to a state-of the art manufacturing concept. MONAD has a road show of this exhibit around the country. If it arrives in your city, be sure to go. You will be witnessing the future of music in many different forms.

Body Marbling.

Posted on December 9, 2017 by loiswhitmanhess

For those of you who always wanted a tattoo, but never liked the permanency, I have a solution for you, body-marbling.

Watch the videos. You bathe in psychedelic paint and then turn your body into a work of art. The good news is that it all washes off.

Invented by Brad Lawrence, body marbling is a water painting technique that uses hydrodynamics to transform your body into a psychedelic canvas..

Friends of mine experimented with body marbling, and they loved it. It’s a fun thing to do, especially if you are older than 50. It’s silly and you get to have fun with your arms and legs. Suddenly, you are young again and could be the talk of the party.

Nothing wrong with that.

Art Is What You Make It

Posted on December 9, 2017 by loiswhitmanhess

Human art is in the above video. Be sure to click and watch very closely.

This video art piece drew quite a crowd at Art Basel. I was surrounded by lots of other folks taking videos of the talking head. You can think this installation is ridiculous. All I can say is that it brought smiles to thousands of people who passed by.

If you threw out your child’s playpen, you are now going to regret it. This installation was priced at a few thousand dollars. The stuffed animal was extra.

Many abstract designs are now becoming wallpaper. I’m not sure I could live with this.

If you have an extra pair of gloves, you too can become an artist.

This must be a magic trick

Imagine these creatures in your living room

This is a garden.

You figure it out

Fashion Follows Art

Posted on December 8, 2017 by loiswhitmanhess

Amar'e Stoudemire

Amar’e Stoudemire chatted with Ruth Greenberg and me at Scope during Miami Art Fair. Eliot bought him a Vodka and Tonic.

Amar’e Stoudemire

Howard Greenberg compares his height to Stoudemire.

Peace and harmony to all

Facebook For Kids

Posted on December 7, 2017 by loiswhitmanhess

I know that many DigiDame readers have grandchildren under 10 years of age. That’s why I want to be sure you heard about Messenger Kids, a Facebook app, that was created to let children send friends or family a message, photos, videos, GIFs and stickers.

I’m sure many of you are cringing right now. The last thing you want is to have your precious ones on Facebook. I can’t say I blame you. The truth is that most of you have no control over it. A non-profit media group for children, called Common Sense, claims children eight years old and under, already spend at least 2 ¹/₂ hours on some sort of a screen.

Many of the young children I know are all texting. In my opinion, you can’t compare these youngsters to us when we were that age. They are growing up in the digital age. We did not. It’s a whole different world.

Facebook said that parents have to sign their children up for the app and they have to approve who they talk to. If it’s any consolation, children cannot delete messages. Parents will always be able to check entire conversations.

I guess that’s better than only being able to listen to one half of a telephone conversation.