January 2012
1 post
hooray! the clouds are here! :-)
December 2011
2 posts
happy counting day… 11/12/13 (if you use YY/MM/DD)
“Is it safe?” “Oh, yes, it’s perfectly safe. It’s just us who are in trouble!”
November 2011
1 post
“He was right, though; these things did sometimes happen and the best you could hope for was that they don’t kill you when they did.”
October 2011
1 post
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein
September 2011
2 posts
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don’t know anything and can’t read. - Mark Twain
i love dilbert!
*http://dilbert.com/dyn/str_strip/000000000/00000000/0000000/100000/30000/4000/900/134928/134928.strip.zoom.gif
August 2011
7 posts
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. - Milton Friedman
We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic. - David Russell
GPS for kids… *http://www.arcamax.com/newspics/23/2318/231888.gif
If all the world’s a stage, I want to operate the trap door. Paul Beatty
I have a new philosophy. I’m only going to dread one day at a time. - Charlie Brown - by Charles M. Schulz
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. - Richard Feynman
A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men.
July 2011
5 posts
We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us. - George Eliot
freedom!
*http://www.arcamax.com/newspics/22/2208/220842.gif
at about 07:13:11 (PDT) on 07/13/11 - good morning…
Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion. - Ambrose Bierce
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. Victor Hugo
June 2011
7 posts
“Well, if we’re lucky, it’s just the Vogons come to throw us into space.”
it’s gonna be a scorcher… it already is, really…
isn’t this the truth….
*http://www.arcamax.com/newspics/20/2042/204252.gif
overheard at work: “it’s more complicated than it is”
if you wanted to know why the internet has problems sometimes…
*http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/the_cloud.png
book quote:
“I fear I have overslept.”
“For a million years?”
“The alarm didn’t go off.”
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. - Laurence J. Peter
May 2011
12 posts
oh, to be young and stupid again…. or not….
*http://www.arcamax.com/newspics/20/2012/201251.gif
“On the absolute scale of small talk, this comment must rate minus quite a lot…”
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin
awesome video
*http://vimeo.com/elcielodecanarias/tenerife
via
*http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110516.html
there are some kids with some pretty amazing talent
*http://www.google.com/doodle4google/vote.html
it is almost towel day if i remember correctly
more feared than the paparazzi, the mamarazzi:
*http://www.arcamax.com/newspics/19/1958/195875.gif
it’s important to have goals….
*http://synd.imgsrv.uclick.com/comics/nq/2011/nq110516.gif
what the government doesn’t know, and doesn’t want you to know either:
*http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/chain_of_command.png
it does explain a lot…
*http://synd.imgsrv.uclick.com/comics/nq/2011/nq110505.gif
pawns with guns…
*http://www.arcamax.com/newspics/19/1909/190978.gif
book quote:
“Do you know he’s my son?!”
“Yes, and you both have my sympathy!”
April 2011
11 posts
a rather interesting development #bose #audiophiles
*http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/bose-gift.html
‘embarrassing’ is right…
*http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/04/29/inmate-separates-guards-fighting-food/print
choices…. *http://www.arcamax.com/newspics/18/1891/189102.gif
redundancy - hilarious!
when sheep sleep… *http://www.arcamax.com/newspics/18/1870/187057.jpg
We took pity on him because he’d lost both parents at an early age. I think that on reflection, we should’ve wondered a bit more about that.
found a slightly problematic website….
*http://www.createmychocolate.com
how to end twitter :-) *http://synd.imgsrv.uclick.com/comics/nq/2011/nq110414.gif
4/12 = free ice cream @ ben & jerry’s; (~1.5hr drive for me)*http://www.slashfood.com/2011/04/11/free-ice-cream-cone-day-at-ben-and-jerrys/
50 years ago today saw the first man in space…
so… do you think we’ll see the first man on mars in the next 50?
sign language to text glove
http://www.diginfo.tv/2011/03/16/11-0065-r-en.php
March 2011
3 posts
how’s this for a library:-)
*http://www.360cities.net/gigapixel/strahov-library.html