The virtue of a man ought to be measured, not by his extraordinary exertions, but by his everyday conduct.
~ Blaise Pascal
Leonard Nimoy's last tweet...
A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.
LLAP
~ Leonard Nimoy
Now if I could just find that person...
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.~ Robert A. Heinlein
Isaac had some good ones...
"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' "
~ Isaac Asimov
Open your eyes, man!
It's just a matter of time before a man opens his eyes and gives up his one dream, his one dream of happiness.~ Ronny (played by Nicholas Cage) in Moonstruck
Original Haiku...composed on a gym treadmill
A leaf-covered path.
A moon-lit night, just us two;
walking hand in hand.
A moon-lit night, just us two;
walking hand in hand.
Sometimes easier said than done...
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
~ Oprah Winfrey
~ Oprah Winfrey
At least now you know...
I've been honest with you.
I simply cannot love you the way you want me to.
~ Dr. Miranda Jones, on the Star Trek episode Is There in Truth No Beauty?
I simply cannot love you the way you want me to.
~ Dr. Miranda Jones, on the Star Trek episode Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Pertaining to the Super Bowl...or any event in your life, really.
Act like you've been here before.
~ Vince Lombardi
~ Vince Lombardi
Guess some of us are missing out...
Love is life.
And if you miss love, you miss life.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Zen Stories
A monk said to Joshu, “I have just entered this monastery. Please teach me.”
"Have you eaten your breakfast?" asked Joshu
"Yes, I have," replied the monk.
"Then you had better wash your bowl," said Joshu.
With this the monk gained insight.
"Have you eaten your breakfast?" asked Joshu
"Yes, I have," replied the monk.
"Then you had better wash your bowl," said Joshu.
With this the monk gained insight.
Do you smell something?
Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.
~ Henry David Thoreau
~ Henry David Thoreau
Being with someone you love is high on the list of life's great pleasures. But so is vanishing for days into a cherished pursuit with no one to answer to. So is not having to deal with another person's schedule, stomach or tiresome shtick. And in case you haven't heard, marriage, for all its hype, can be a real bummer sometimes. I've been lonely married and I've been lonely single, and compared to the torture of sleeping beside someone you no longer love, or know has left the building, or maybe are hoping will choke in his sleep, lonely single is a walk in the park.
~ Wendy Dennis, 'Are You Dating Yet?'
~ Wendy Dennis, 'Are You Dating Yet?'
The soul is dyed the color of it’s thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice, Day by day, what you choose, what you think and what you do is WHO you become. Your integrity is your destiny, it is the light that guides your way.~ Author unknown
Songs, or elections, whatever
“I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim or too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling.
I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work.”~ singer-songwriter Woodie Guthrie
I gotta admit, I see his point...
The spectacle of high-income Americans, the world’s luckiest people, wallowing in self-pity and self-righteousness would be funny, except for one thing: they may well get their way. Never mind the $700 billion price tag for extending the high-end tax breaks: virtually all Republicans and some Democrats are rushing to the aid of the oppressed affluent.
You see, the rich are different from you and me: they have more influence. It’s partly a matter of campaign contributions, but it’s also a matter of social pressure, since politicians spend a lot of time hanging out with the wealthy. So when the rich face the prospect of paying an extra 3 or 4 percent of their income in taxes, politicians feel their pain — feel it much more acutely, it’s clear, than they feel the pain of families who are losing their jobs, their houses, and their hopes.
~ Paul Krugman in The Angry Rich Op Ed in the NYT, Sept 19, 2010
Anyone who would use religion as their reason to cause unhappiness to another is guilty of a great sin.
These sins are committed first against their children. They have learned nothing from their faiths. The extremists of both Christianity and Islam, for example, follow lives of violent repudiation of the beliefs of their own religions.
~ Robert Ebert, while commenting on Christopher Hitchens' book on Religion.
These sins are committed first against their children. They have learned nothing from their faiths. The extremists of both Christianity and Islam, for example, follow lives of violent repudiation of the beliefs of their own religions.
~ Robert Ebert, while commenting on Christopher Hitchens' book on Religion.
Wisdom read on Twitter
If your mother drives you to school -- you ain't no gangsta. Pull your damn pants up!
Two moves? He's a player!
He's got two moves:
Squeeze the Charmin, and poke around down there like he's trying to pop a balloon.
~ Earl's mom, talking about Earl's dad's canoodling skills, on My Name is Earl.
I can't think of a reason, either!
All right, I'm out...
Why should I stick around here if there is no chance of us making out?
~ Puck on Glee
Eternal truth...
Every time a couple gets married, two single people die...
~ Leslie Knope on Parks and Recreation
Just kidding...
Hitting is not always wrong... I mean, if it hadn't been for the hard smacks to the face, how else would I have learned not to talk when my parents were drinking?~ Comedian Jim Norton, responding on Red Eye to criticism that England still allows spanking.
Say what you want, I think he gets it...
Borrowing may make the lives of Albany politicians easier. It may delay our inevitable day of fiscal reckoning past one more November election. But borrowing to help close our budget deficit, by itself, does not do a single thing to help improve our long-term fiscal condition. In fact, it makes an already bad situation worse. And it violates virtually every principle of responsible budgeting.~ David Paterson, Governor of New York
David Paterson, Governor of New York
Eternal truth...
It's not the lying that screws people up,
It's the finding out.~ Joy on My Name is Earl
As I was saying...
If you propose to speak, always ask yourself, is it true, is it necessary, is it kind?
~ Buddha
As a person who typed in many a program...
I'm glad the Apple ][+ came with schematics for the circuit boards. I'm glad it encouraged a generation of kids to tinker and explore. I'm also glad that I don't live in the effing '70s and have to type in programs from a magazine anymore.
Joel Johnson's response to Cory Doctorow's bashing of the new iPad.
In the late 70's and early 80', I used to regularly visit the Periodical Room at the Iowa State University library, and peruse the computer magazines. If a program struck my fancy (backgammon! or a printer utility...add lower case!), I'd copy the programs (at 10 cents a page), run home, and type the program into my Apple ][+ (48k memory and two floppy disks, with an amber screen monitor).
Joel Johnson's response to Cory Doctorow's bashing of the new iPad.
In the late 70's and early 80', I used to regularly visit the Periodical Room at the Iowa State University library, and peruse the computer magazines. If a program struck my fancy (backgammon! or a printer utility...add lower case!), I'd copy the programs (at 10 cents a page), run home, and type the program into my Apple ][+ (48k memory and two floppy disks, with an amber screen monitor).
Now where are my running shoes?
You’re gonna die. You’re gonna die. And nobody’s gonna care which version of the iPhone you used to make something on Twitter, or to go and post about your latest date on Facebook.
And I’m not even talking about legacy; I’m talking about the fact that I personally feel most alive when I’m making something, and I feel least alive when I’m being led around by some obnoxious use of my attention that I wasn’t aware of.
To me, that’s the thing. You can buy the jogging shoes and you can buy the Runner’s World, but until you put them on and walk out the door every day, you’re just a fat man.
And I’m not even talking about legacy; I’m talking about the fact that I personally feel most alive when I’m making something, and I feel least alive when I’m being led around by some obnoxious use of my attention that I wasn’t aware of.
To me, that’s the thing. You can buy the jogging shoes and you can buy the Runner’s World, but until you put them on and walk out the door every day, you’re just a fat man.
There’s a famous Zen story that goes:
A monk told Joshu, “I have just entered the monastery. Please teach me.”
Joshu asked, “Have you eaten your rice porridge?
The monk replied, “I have eaten.”
Joshu said, “Then you had better wash your bowl.”
At that moment the monk was enlightened.
farsighted...
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect;
it means that you decide to see beyond the imperfections.~ Read on a plaque in a family restaurant, Sullivan, Missouri.
I miss Alan...
We are at a point right now where it doesn’t make a damn whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican if you’ve forgotten you’re an American.~ former Senator Alan K. Simpson, Republican of Wyoming, lamenting Washington’s lack of political will to confront the soaring national debt
We both agree on this...
Although I often grow weary of her incessant Bush-bashing, I do agree with this:
If we can’t catch a Nigerian with a powerful explosive powder in his oddly feminine-looking underpants and a syringe full of acid, a man whose own father had alerted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria, a traveler whose ticket was paid for in cash and who didn’t check bags, whose visa renewal had been denied by the British, who had studied Arabic in Al Qaeda sanctuary Yemen, whose name was on a counterterrorism watch list, who can we catch?~ Maureen Dowd, Dec 29, 2009 op-ed
Read on another blog somewhere...
A farmer was working in his field when a young boy came running.
“Papa, sister is in the hay loft with the hired man. She has her skirt up and he has his pants down. THEY ARE GOING TO PEE IN THE HAY!”
“Son, your observations may be accurate, but your conclusions are not.”
The global warming “scientists” are representative of the son – we are “sister”, and Al Gore is the hired man.
“Papa, sister is in the hay loft with the hired man. She has her skirt up and he has his pants down. THEY ARE GOING TO PEE IN THE HAY!”
“Son, your observations may be accurate, but your conclusions are not.”
The global warming “scientists” are representative of the son – we are “sister”, and Al Gore is the hired man.
food baggage...
“There are some people who eat an orange but don’t really eat it. They eat their sorrow, fear, anger, past, and future.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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