Week 18 Challenge – Futuristic Stuff

It is now week 18 of the Rocket City Bloggers Year Long Blogging Challenge and I conveniently missed last week because the topic was hard. I’ll do my best now to answer them both.

17 Question: What are three things you think will be obsolete in 10 years?

1. Remote controls, because eventually there will be an app for that.
2. Land line phones. Or, probably more accurately, plugging any electronic device into a wall port.
3. Store cash registers and cash wraps. Employees will all have tablets with built-in card swipers. Centrally located bags and some sort of cash box for customers who pay with cash will have to be availalbe, but there won’t be the big cash wraps that we are used to now. The use of checks will be LOL.

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18 Question: When was the last time you did something for the first time? What was it?

Answer part 1: Why, just today I did something for the very first time!

Answer part 2: It was using someone’s touchscreen laptop with Windows 8. I almost put something up above about keyboards and Windows, but I’m not sure how all of that will eventually evolve. I thought the laptop was pretty sweet and obviously I think touchscreens are the way to go.

As for Windows 8, this was my first experience with it and I would need way more time to play around. I did like the ease of use with some of the applications (I was setting some things up for a friend), but other parts just felt awkward. Honestly, if I didn’t have a Kindle Fire already, I wouldn’t have figured things out as fast as I did, since my only other experience with touchscreens and apps has been solely from my iPhone.

Week 15 Challenge – In Which I Throw Myself Into the Mix

Week 15 of the Rocket City Bloggers Year Long Blogging Challenge and I’m on time. Woohooo!!

Question: What is your favorite quote?

Answer: I don’t have really have one particular favorite quote. I have MANY!! <maniacal laugh> <maniacal laugh> <maniacal laugh>  <—————that’s actually one right there from The Muppets 2011 reboot.

I have a favorite movie to quote: Say Anything. I think Lloyd Dobler is one of the most quotable characters ever. See –

• “The rain on my car is a baptism, the new me, Ice Man, Power Lloyd, my assault on the world begins now.”
• “I gave her my heart, she gave me a pen.”
• “I am looking for a dare to be great situation.”
• “Maybe I didn’t really know you. Maybe you were just a mirage. Maybe the world is full of food and sex and spectacle and we’re all just hurling towards an apocalypse, in which case it’s not your fault.”
• “If you start out depressed everything’s kind of a pleasant surprise.”

And of course there’s the famous speech at the table, “I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don’t want to do that.”

Other great quotable movies are Princess Bride, Bladerunner, Office Space and The Big Lebowski.

Kinda on the same subject, but not quite answering the question above, I do also have a thing that I say ALL the time. Maybe my words will be a quotable inspiration for someone else? Probably not, since I usually say this with maximum snark. But it’s my most repeated statement of all time so it warrants it’s small claim to internet fame. Behold:

PS – I had fun with this one. I’ve been reading fun quotes all morning from songs, movies, famous folks and some infamous ones too. It’s a better way to kill an hour online than faux shopping for things online that I’ll never buy and reading articles that make my misanthropy flare up. I highly recommend it.