As most everyone who "knows" me is aware - I've been involved in the computer industry for nigh on 30 years. As most "old timers" in the industry ALSO know - Microsoft is the favorite target of anyone in the industry. We laugh, we poke fun, we berate - It's a love/hate relationship - Microsoft is the company that most "old timers" LOVE to HATE.

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I know many of you have heard me go on longwinded rants about "what DO they teach our kids in school these days?!?!" Tuesday night's "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" TV show, however, made me call into question what they taught the very NEXT generation after MINE in school...

{While this e-mail was a hoax - I have seen the properties of it in operation on more than one occasion.}

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Ok, so I was listening to the radio while taking my son to school this morning and I heard one of the dumbest excuses/warnings ever stated by someone that had broken the law.

After breaking into a home - a Wisconsin man warned the police officers that were arresting him that he was a WEREWOLF and that he could change shape at will...

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PLEASE! Make them STOP!!!

TOP 8 MORONS OF 2006

1. WILL THE REAL DUMMY PLEASE STAND UP? AT&T fired President John Walter after nine months, saying he lacked intellectual leadership. He received a $26 million severance package. Perhaps it's not Walter who's lacking intelligence.
2. WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM OUR FRIENDS: Police in Oakland , CA spent two hours attempting to subdue a gunman who had barricaded himself inside his home. After firing ten tear gas canisters, officers discovered that the man was standing beside them in the police line, shouting, "Please come out and give yourself up."
3. WHAT WAS PLAN B??? An Illinois man, pretending to have a gun, kidnapped a motorist and forced him to drive to two different automated teller machines, wherein the kidnapper proceeded to withdraw money from his own bank accounts.
4. THE GETAWAY! A man walked into a Topeka , Kansas Kwik Stop and asked for all the money in the cash drawer. Apparently, the take was too small, so he tied up the store clerk and worked the counter himself for three hours until police showed up and grabbed him.
5. DID I SAY THAT??? Police in Los Angeles had good luck with a robbery suspect who just couldn't control himself during a lineup. When detectives asked each man in the lineup to repeat the words: "Give me all your money or I'll shoot", the man shouted, "that's not what I said!" .

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So... while watching television last night, I saw a commercial that I chalked up to some kind of bad joke. However, today I read on TechDirt that it was NOT!

TechDirt points back to the original BBC News article Entitled: Viral e-mails taught in college. SO NOW WE ARE TEACHING COLLEGE STUDENTS HOW TO DESIGN BETTER SPAM!!!???!!!

We used to laugh and poke fun at college classes - things like Underwater Basketweaving 101, etc. But NOW??? I would be sorely tempted to lodge the biggest campus protest known to mankind on ANY college campus that thinks about launching a course of this nature. How can any college run a course that would, in turn, aid in legitimizing SPAM as some kind of ART FORM???!!! GAH!!!

Chatting with a friend earlier, and listened to their semi-hysterical laughter as they described the following situation to me:

They were reading along on AOL when they happened across THIS headline: "Another Way to Vibrate Yourself Skinny"...Well, of course, being a member of the male gender, my mind went to a very "wrong" place with that headline... The funny part was, the person telling me about it was a member of the "fairer" gender, and HER mind had gone to a very "wrong" place with that headline as well.

Of course the ARTICLE had NOTHING to do with that very "wrong" mental space that I had traveled to, but still... WHO thinks up some of these things???!!!

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