Quotes
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Quotes of the moment
- Anything worth shooting is worth shooting twice. Ammo is cheap. Life is expensive.
- Someday someone may kill you with your own gun, but they should have to beat you to death with it because it is empty.
- Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet.
From the quiet insightful Green Lantern theory comments
“Conan, what is best in life?”
“To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the women!”
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Why the long pause….
For anyone reading, I’m still swamped with work. And I’m grinding my teeth again. While I’m awake.
Random Commentary, regarding the song “Fluorescent Light Blues”
Sitting at a computer all day and you’d think I’d get the odd writing done, but those white tubes in the ceiling kill the muse with vibration shooting 20 rounds of white light every second right at your brain. May it’s creator burn one tier above Hitler, right next to the sonofabitch who gave us the child-proof cigarette lighter, while the inventor of the smoke detector gives them the finger from his cloud next to Lincoln.
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Line of the moment
The message you get when one is about to delete something in BlinkSale
This action is wholly irrevocable and utterly non-undoable.
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Quote of the moment
I think my life will run out before my work does.
Townes van Zandt -
The funniest thing I read today – Monday edition
From the Navy Seal recruitment page
The SEAL program consists of more than 12 months — followed by an additional 18 months — of intensive training designed to push you to your physical and mental limits — again and again
More than 12 months, followed by 18 months?
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At long last…
I finally get the wireless router to work with my laptop. I think it was changing the channel that did the trick. I’m typing this from my living room.
The quote of the moment is “Sometimes you have to murder your sweetheart” from a History Channel engineering program. It refers to stopping work on a favored project when it proves unworkable.
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Quote of the moment
From the comments of this post at Coming Anarchy
“generalizations are a willful display of ignorance”
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Quick Sunday rapid fire
- An hourly motel in the sky, more info here.
- The funniest quote I read yesterday is from this blog, to wit
Every adult must at some point have paused during some slapstick piece of debauchery and thought, “Christ, this is ridiculous“. Having testicles is like being chained to the village idiot. Sad, but there it is.
- The famous “What year is it?” essay. What year you compare our modern times to determines your current outlook, pretty interesting. Personally I think it’s 1905, and Radical Islam is best compared to the Bolshevism of that period, but all comparisons are, by definition, imperfect.
- The Seventh Seal was an incredible movie
- This is an incredibly cool time lapse movie, regrettably, in QuickTime, but still good.
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Quote of the yesterday
“You sure do have a lot of interesting scars”
Said by Stephanie yesterday. I realized just now that they’re all on my right side too. She was referring to the faint one of my head, the fading one on my right hand, and the large one on my right leg, which, while healing, still bears an uncanny resemblance to a hamburger.
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Funny police report
A tale of a daring milk robbery in Ohio.
Choice quote from the police report
“he realized this was no joke when the rotund robbers began pelting him with a flurry of chubby fists”