Some problems don’t need fixing — they need distance. "You Can’t Fix Stupid" from Delta Blues Brother is a dry, ironic Delta blues reflection about learning when to stop explaining, stop arguing, and stop wasting breath on things that refuse to change.

This is the blues of experience — not anger. The kind that comes from knowing some lessons can’t be taught, only lived.


Read more... for the lyrics!

The image 'Pic Viewer' (and editor) freeware program has been updated to version 1.0.5.4.

A lot more filters have been added - and many more to come in the future too, together with a corresponding help file update too. A few visual changes too, like the arrows on the "filter settings" dialog that are now up=increase value and down=decrease value instead of the default, not user friendly, programmer's language ones

As always, you can download this latest version - and all my other FREEware programs - directly from the freeware page. Enjoy, it's free!

Carlo M. Cipolla (15 August 1922 – 5 September 2000) was an Italian economic historian. He was a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.

Cipolla produced two non-technical, popular essays that circulated in English among friends in 1973 and 1976. The second essay, "The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity" ("Le leggi fondamentali della stupidità umana", 1976),[3][4] explores the controversial subject of stupidity.


These are Cipolla's five fundamental laws of stupidity:

1. Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
   
2. The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
   
3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
   
4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
   
5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
   

Corollary: a stupid person is more dangerous than a pillager.


As is evident from the third law, Cipolla identifies two factors to consider when exploring human behavior:

• Benefits and losses that individuals cause to themselves.
  
• Benefits and losses that individuals cause to others.
  

Cipolla further refines his definition of "bandits" and "naïve people" by noting that members of these groups can either add to or detract from the general welfare, depending on the relative gains (or losses) that they cause themselves and society.

A bandit may enrich himself more or less than he impoverishes society, and a naïve person may enrich society more or less than he impoverishes himself and/or allows himself to be impoverished.

(...)

source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/.../Carlo_M._Cipolla

The image 'Pic Viewer' (and editor) freeware program has been updated to version 1.0.5.2.

With this update a few bugs that were found have been dully solved, a new improved and up to date help file has been redone with all info about modifiers and filters, and some improvements to the internal code itself, for more speed and efficiency, and better compatibility with the latest Windows 11.

This looks like a simple image viewer but, like all our freeware, if you delve on it you'll find so much more in terms of options, modifying filters, and some more..

As always, you can download this latest version - and all other FREEware - from our freeware page. Have fun!

And 'ToDo Reminder' freeware has been updated again, now up to version 1.2.2.4.

This update introduced 'Shortcut Keys' in menus, making it more legible and user friendly, since now you can immediately see which combination of keys call which menus.

Also, 'Birthday List' window has it's own set of menus too and it's toolbar was moved to the top, making this more consistent visually with the main window.

As always, this and all other freeware can be downloaded from the freeware page. Keep sending your suggestions, ideas, opinions and I'll add everything I see fit to be added, ok?

'ToDo Reminder' freeware has had a few more updates and is now up to version 1.2.2.2.

This is a major update, as lots of new things, list types. and specific reminders have been introduced, further elevating this software usefulness that will, nevertheless, always remain FREE for everyone to use.

If anyone remembers or uses the older DateReminder freeware that would only remind you of birthdays and other event dates, it won't be needed anymore since all it's capabilities and processes have been incorporated into 'ToDo Reminder' now! ToDo Reminder has an extra new window listing and database, as a sub-window from it's main window, to display and list only the birthdays and any other event dates you need to be reminded of, all in one small, powerful, easy to use and... FREE package.

This new window, created specifically for anniversaries and dates, also supports an alarm and alert option to show you 'today's anniversaries' as a pop-up dialog whenever the program is started, if you want it to. You can even configure a wav sound file and a custom text phrase to play together with it.

The main HELP file has also been updated to reflect this improvement, and a few more how-to and explanations have been added to help you use this FREEware to it's full extent. A full context help was added too, to show you the related help whenever you press F1 key from inside any application window.

A few old(er) bugs have been corrected and, hopefully, no new ones have been added! *knocks on wood*

And... hey! Download and try it, it's free after all and doesn't install anything on your computer that you don't want to. Who knows, you might even enjoy and keep using it afterwards! I know I do... have been using it for the past 20+ years, after all.

And as always, this and all other freeware can be downloaded from the freeware page. Keep sending your suggestions, ideas, opinions and I'll add everything I see fit to be added, ok?

'Biorhythm' graphics and personal analyzer has been updated again, up to version 1.0.4.2.

Apart from some more obvious cosmetic changes, There were a few minor bugs corrected too. Also, the HELP file was not working correctly due to some compression issue - now solved - and a "context help" has also been added, for when you press the F1 key to call for the help assistance.

The 2 extra rhythm curves, Spiritual and Aesthetics, where not 'sticking' either when you selected it on options. It now does, when you re-open the program it'll show the chosen one(s) too.


As with all my FREEware, I keep using everything myself so I try to update and add more features I feel worthy or that I would like to use too. And if you like this 'Biorhythm' program too, then don't hesitate in emailing me with your ideas, suggestions, requests, at any time.

As always, you can download it for FREE, as well as all our other FREEware, from my freeware webpage here.

Mr. Sandman is a popular song written by Pat Ballard and published in 1954. It was first recorded in May of that year by Vaughn Monroe and his orchestra and later that year by The Chordettes and the Four Aces.


The Chordettes' single reached nº 1 on all three of Billboard's popular music charts and was ranked nº 9 in Cash Box's ranking of "1955's Top Pop Records". In 2002, the 1954 recording of the song by The Chordettes was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

The song's lyrics convey a request to "Mr. Sandman" to "bring me a dream", the traditional association of the folkloric figure originating in Germanic and Scandinavian folklore. Sandman visits children in the evening, sprinkles sleep-inducing sand into their eyes and brings dreams. In the morning, the sleep sand is rubbed from the corner of the eyes...

Emmylou Harris's recording of the song was a hit in multiple countries in 1981. Other versions of the song have been produced by Chet Atkins (1954) and Bert Kaempfert (1968).

More recently, SYML - which is the solo venture of Brian Fennell, an American musician - recorded it's own interpretation cover of that same song which is consider to be an amazing rendition of "Mr. Sandman", full of feeling, beautiful sadness and loneliness vibe.

This last one really is a beautiful edition of the song, really hits inside hard... Someone made an one hour long video of it even, if you want to listen to it non-stop! I know I did...