In brief. (Not Boxers)
05 Feb 2007 Leave a Comment
in QOTD
He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.
-John Ray, naturalist (1627-1705)
Office Humor
16 Jan 2007 Leave a Comment
in Office Games, QOTD
“Put the key of despair into the lock of apathy. Turn the knob of mediocrity slowly and open the gates of despondency – welcome to a day in the average office.”
A close second:
“If your boss is getting you down, look at him through the prongs of a fork and imagine him in jail.”
An Inconvenient Giggle
30 Nov 2006 Leave a Comment
in Let's All Go to the Movies, QOTD
Gore on Leno, talking about An Inconvenient Truth:
If you play this in slow motion, global warming is not nearly as scary.
We’re planning another version, sort of a Global Warming Gone Wild. We’re thinking about calling it Global Warming Uncensored: “Hot Glacier on Glacier Action”.
I kid you not. Who knew he was so funny?
TV really is educational!
29 Nov 2006 1 Comment
in QOTD, Religious Persecution, The Boob Tube
Also known as “Biblical References I Don’t Understand.”
From House tonight:
“I’m going to need thirty pieces of silver.”
A big resounding huh?
From Bartleby’s New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy:
The money Judas Iscariot received for betraying Jesus to the authorities. He later threw the money into the Temple of Jerusalem, and the chief priests bought the “potter’s field” with it, to be used as a cemetery for foreigners.
‡ This money is referred to as “blood money”—money received for the life of another human being.
‡ “Thirty pieces of silver” is also used proverbially to refer to anything paid or given for a treacherous act.
Am I the only one who didn’t recognize this one?
A word of caution to us multitaskers.
27 Nov 2006 Leave a Comment
in QOTD
To do two things at once is to do neither.
-Publix, circa 42 BC
Clearly he couldn’t make his stones Alt-Tab.
Happy Holidays!
22 Nov 2006 Leave a Comment
As I’m preparing to go off and enjoy time with my fiance and my family, and eat myself silly with Thanksgiving favorites, I thought I’d leave you with a bit of humor.
To the right, Bush is “pardoning” the turkey.
And a quote:
“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.”
-Erma Bombeck
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Awakenings
17 Nov 2006 Leave a Comment
in QOTD
“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book…or you take a trip…and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure.
That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children.
And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song and it awakens them and saves them from death.
Some will never awaken.”
-Anais Nin
If you don’t have anything nice to say,
11 Nov 2006 Leave a Comment
in QOTD
Don’t say anything at all.
I’ll be back when I’m feeling nicer.
Remembering Rummy
08 Nov 2006 Leave a Comment
Since Rumsfeld is on his way out, and given my love of ridiculous quotes, I figured it was high time to pay tribute to Rummy and his words of wisdom.
Memorable Quotes by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
“I would not say that the future is necessarily less predictable than the past. I think the past was not predictable when it started.”
“We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.”
“I believe what I said yesterday. I don’t know what I said, but I know what I think, and, well, I assume it’s what I said.”
“Needless to say, the President is correct. Whatever it was he said.”
“Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don’t know we don’t know.”
“Well, um, you know, something’s neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so, I suppose, as Shakespeare said.”
“I’m not into this detail stuff. I’m more concepty.”
“I don’t do quagmires.”
“I don’t do diplomacy.”
“I don’t do foreign policy.”
“I don’t do numbers.”
“If I know the answer I’ll tell you the answer, and if I don’t, I’ll just respond, cleverly.”
More delectable morsels here.
This entry brought to you by the Los Angeles Liberals for Liberating Rummy (i.e. Me, a.k.a. one pissed off Democrat)
Geek Quote
06 Nov 2006 Leave a Comment
in Channeling my Inner Geek, QOTD
“I shave with Occam’s Razor”
T-shirt available here.
Occam’s Razor definition here.
