Monday, November 7, 2011
Corollary to the previously posted Rules of Thumb
If you’re not paying for something, you have no reason to expect it to be there tomorrow. -- Steven Poole
Glory Road
Glory Road is an excellent movie to watch at the beginning of March Madness. However, it's not so good to watch on TNT starting at midnight, because the geometric increase in the number of commercials per hour catches up to me when I'm most tired. Josh Lucas looks like Kevin Costner, except I think he's a better actor.
Rule of Thumb for Many Situations
"If you have been in a poker game for a while, and you still don’t know who the patsy is, you’re the patsy." -- Warren Buffett
"If you're not paying for the product, you are the product." -- Jeff Reifman
"If you're not paying for the product, you are the product." -- Jeff Reifman
Friday, November 4, 2011
People who make me feel like I haven't really accomplished much
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5217.George_Bernard_Shaw
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5217.George_Bernard_Shaw
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Quote of the day -- John Gruber
I like to think that in the run-up to his final keynote, Steve [Jobs] made time for a long, peaceful walk. Somewhere beautiful, where there are no footpaths and the grass grows thick. Hand-in-hand with his wife and family, the sun warm on their backs, smiles on their faces, love in their hearts, at peace with their fate.
--Daring Fireball
--Daring Fireball
Friday, October 21, 2011
Cooking with Machiavelli
1. Arrange to have garlic and onions cast into hot oil.
2. The carrot and celery you must divide against themselves. Ground beef, too, shall turn upon the burner; crush any coherent resistance with a spoon of wood. Sautee until no hint of blood remains to stain your hands.
3. Perhaps, in a dark place without witnesses, the tomato shall meet with the knife.
from BoingBoing
2. The carrot and celery you must divide against themselves. Ground beef, too, shall turn upon the burner; crush any coherent resistance with a spoon of wood. Sautee until no hint of blood remains to stain your hands.
3. Perhaps, in a dark place without witnesses, the tomato shall meet with the knife.
from BoingBoing
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Quote of the day -- Joe Walsh
Don't need the ladies crying 'cause the story's sad.
The Rocky Mountain way-- better than the way we had.
The Rocky Mountain way-- better than the way we had.
Quote of the day -- Steve Jobs
Steve and I were talking about children one time, and he said the problem with children is that they carry your heart with them. The exact phrase was, “It’s your heart running around outside your body.”
-- Eric Schmidt on Steve Jobs from Business Week
-- Eric Schmidt on Steve Jobs from Business Week
Monday, October 10, 2011
Quote of the day -- John Kennedy
"For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
1962 Yale Commencement Address
Excerpts from this speech on YouTube
1962 Yale Commencement Address
Excerpts from this speech on YouTube
Old School bedtime stories
"For Children Three Years Old,” from Lessons for Children by Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Philadelphia, 1818:
There was a naughty boy; I do not know what his name was, but it was not Charles, nor George, nor Arthur, for those are all very pretty names: but there was a robin came in at his window one very cold morning — shiver — shiver; and its poor little heart was almost frozen to death. And he would not give it the least crumb of bread in the world, but pulled it about by the tail and hurt it sadly, and it died. Now a little while after, the naughty boy’s papa and mamma went away and left him, and then he could get no victuals at all, for you know he could not take care of himself. So he went about to every body — Pray give me something to eat, I am very hungry. And every body said, No, we shall give you none, for we do not love cruel, naughty boys. So he went about from one place to another, till at last he got into a thick wood of trees; for he did not know how to find his way any where; and then it grew dark night. So he sat down and cried sadly; and he could not get out of the wood; and I believe the bears came and ate him up in the wood, for I never heard any thing about him afterwards.
There was a naughty boy; I do not know what his name was, but it was not Charles, nor George, nor Arthur, for those are all very pretty names: but there was a robin came in at his window one very cold morning — shiver — shiver; and its poor little heart was almost frozen to death. And he would not give it the least crumb of bread in the world, but pulled it about by the tail and hurt it sadly, and it died. Now a little while after, the naughty boy’s papa and mamma went away and left him, and then he could get no victuals at all, for you know he could not take care of himself. So he went about to every body — Pray give me something to eat, I am very hungry. And every body said, No, we shall give you none, for we do not love cruel, naughty boys. So he went about from one place to another, till at last he got into a thick wood of trees; for he did not know how to find his way any where; and then it grew dark night. So he sat down and cried sadly; and he could not get out of the wood; and I believe the bears came and ate him up in the wood, for I never heard any thing about him afterwards.
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