Saturday, July 14, 2012

Is #JudgeKoh prejudging #Samsung vs #Apple? #smartphonewars




"Although Samsung has a right to compete, it does not have a right to compete unfairly, by flooding the market with infringing products," Koh wrote on Tuesday.
Has Judge Koh has already decided? Was Samsung allowed to make a counter statement during this decision? Was Judge Koh selected because she has technical expertise or because she lacks technical expertise? (I've since learned she was selected because of her technical expertise.)
Has anybody noticed the #boycottapple trending on GooglePlus? If you have noticed, did you notice it wasn't trending on Twitter or Facebook?
Does any one note that Judge Koh, Apple, Twitter, and Facebook are all from or based in San Francisco? Does this make San Fransisco look a little provincial?
This bodes well for Apple as long as they can keep events in San Francisco, and as long as they have judged the young local Judge Koh correctly, as long as she doesn't morph into an expert on patent law, and as long as the #boycottapple movement doesn't pick up steam.
That's a lot of ifs
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True saying about #men #humor #rmdc


True saying heard on a hot dog commercial: MEN- EASIER FED THAN UNDERSTOOD.

Saw this #funnypic in #boycottapple timeline- #humor #rmdc

Saw this picture in #boycottapple timeline-


#apple uses teams of 3 #boycottapple #smartphonewars

From Hashim Warren on Google Plus

Apple uses small teams of 3 to produce iPhone features.

A designer- make it pretty
developer..  functional
a lawyer.. sue Android

The Duck Song #funnyvid #humor #rmdc

This song will drive you crazyYou can thank me later.


Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Mike and mini-mike #funnypic #humor


My daughter took this picture of my grandson and myself and noted the similarities. She called us Mike and mini-mike.




Las Palmas Authentic #Mexican #Restaurant in #PlymouthIN



Mary and I really enjoyed our outing to Las Palmas Authentic Mexican Restuarant on Lincoln Highway, East Jefferson in Plymouth Indiana. It's owned by a family friend.
Mary was delighted by the huge stack of pancakes, light, fluffy, tasty with a dollop of fruit on top, in Mary's case, STRAWBERRIES!!
I love their authentic tamales, and I tried for the first time their legendary minuto soup, which is only prepared on certain days, so call first. It was delicious and filling.
It's a small cafe with a small kitchen, so don't be in a hurry. Another weakness is actually a strength. There's no fountain, but don't order a can of Pepsi or Coke. Enjoy one of their authentic Mexican sodas instead.
Mary and I will be back as often as we can think of excuses to go.

HELLO! #revmaddog1948 @revmaddog1948






Hello! My name is Mike Dittmer aka revmaddog1948 (use Google search!) or William Michael Dittmer, if you're from Homeland Security. I'm currently the author of 3 blogs, including an e book, The Gift Parables, stories of how God orchestrated my life into a living parable through miracles and grace. 
I collect humor and wisdom, and I share my own meditations, observations, and portraits of family and friends. I have a special grace of attracting the very best people to me, including my late wife Lynne, who told me she loved me on our very first date, and Mary, whom I married March 4th, 2010. Attracting the best is why you're reading this right now. May God bless you in the name of Jesus with infinitely increasing GRACE!


http://revmaddog1948.blogspot.com/ A little bit of everything. My original blog. Sermons, essays, observations, adventures, humor, and insanity.
http://myamazingamazonestores.blogspot.com/ I post new material here and also explain about my eStores and what you can purchase there. The side bar has links to my estores. If you want to support my ministry and my efforts to spoil Mary silly, always go to Amazon through these links.
http://thegiftparables.blogspot.com/ THE REASON I am on the internet, the stories I MUST TELL THE WORLD. How God orchestrated my life with a "rain" of miracles and grace into a LIVING PARABLE


 Why THE PARABLES?

You may have asked the question, "Why do you call some of your stories and /or sermons parables?"
It's obvious after observing me that I have some stories to tell. God has taken great delight in leading me along a path where I could be a witness to some miraculous incidents.
He has His reasons.
My dilemma arose when it came time to tell these stories.
First, there was the outright disbelief in many listeners in any thing spiritual. Sometimes God would respond to a listener's disrespect by revealing to me something the listener was desperately trying to conceal. But just as often, God would not intervene.
Then there were also the denominational protocols. If the miracle seemed to endorse a different denominational stripe, there were problems.
It didn't help that I was so easily offended when someone didn't endorse me whole heartedly and immediately. Yet I was also uncomfortable with those who bought in quickly, without any double checking of the facts.
I first responded to these problems with silence, not mentioning these incidents for months and sometimes years. But the stories kept bubbling behind the locked doors of my heart.
It helped that Lynne, my late wife, could collaborate most, if not all, of these stories. With her help, we developed a strategy of one on one sharing, and only when the subject of the miraculous was brought up by others first.
But when Lynne began her final battle with cancer, it became apparent that I would have to tell these stories without her enthusiastic support.
Silence was no longer an option. The spring of what I know see was a divine compulsion was bubbling ever stronger.
When I finally put one of these stories on paper as a sermon, I realized that the story was very much like a parable. A parable is a story that may or may not be true, and teaches a lesson.
I realized that God had been orchestrating my life into a living parable.
In a parable, the facts that verify the story as a document are not important, nor is it vital to grasp the meaning immediately.
The important thing about a parable is the story itself. The story has power built in to bring truth to the surface.
The best example of built in grace within the story is the story of the Cross and the Crucifixion of Jesus. Many listeners have had hardened hearts won by that story, without any debate on the facts.
When the facts are verified, it brings even more power to the story, but the story can stand alone and win the most skeptical heart.
I know this to be true, for the story of the Cross won my heart when I was 8 years old.
I want to thank you, my friends, for allowing me to tell my story, and how my story and the story of Jesus became one story.
And now you know how these stories began to be called parables.