Saturday, March 26, 2005
Modern Proverbs #4
There's no such thing as nonexistence.
Cooperation can only be reached if we work together.
My identity lies in not knowing who I am.
Free advice is worth what you paid for it.
Life is full of uncertainties...or is it?
Cooperation can only be reached if we work together.
My identity lies in not knowing who I am.
Free advice is worth what you paid for it.
Life is full of uncertainties...or is it?
Quote of the Day #54
The Cosmetics Department
Humor is almost always anger with its makeup on, I think, but in little towns the makeup tends to be thin.
-- Taken from "Bag of Bones" by Stephen King
Quote of the Day #53
The Culture Shock Department
Other people's lives always seem a little peculiar.
-- Taken from the TV Series, "The Last Detective"
Friday, March 25, 2005
Quote of the Day #52
Interviewer Hugh Downs asks Segovia: “You do a lot of work, you practice, you perform, you travel. You’re 94. You still teach. Do you ever feel like saying, ‘This is enough, I want to rest’?”
Segovia, whose career enured more than 70 years and who still had been giving 25 concerts a year, replied:
“You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don’t mind, because I have eternity to rest.”
Segovia, whose career enured more than 70 years and who still had been giving 25 concerts a year, replied:
“You know what I think? If I am tired now, I don’t mind, because I have eternity to rest.”
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Picture of the Day #46
"OSAMA BRAND" -- Taken from the March 13th Lahore Edition of the "Dawn"
Tuesday, March 22, 2005
Modern Proverbs #3
No one is listening until you make a mistake.
Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Prejudiced people are all alike.
Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Prejudiced people are all alike.
Saturday, March 19, 2005
Modern Proverbs #2
Death to all fanatics!
The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.
Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life.
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the reach.
Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life.
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
Thursday, March 17, 2005
Modern Proverbs #1
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
One should never generalize.
Avoid cliches like the plague.
Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
One should never generalize.
Avoid cliches like the plague.
Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
The Scot's Toast
May the best you've ever seen
Be the worst you'll ever see.
May the mouse ne'er leave your girnal
Wi' a tear drap in its e'e,
May your lum keep blithely reekin'
Till ye're auld enough to dee;
May you aye be just as happy
As I wish you now to be!
Be the worst you'll ever see.
May the mouse ne'er leave your girnal
Wi' a tear drap in its e'e,
May your lum keep blithely reekin'
Till ye're auld enough to dee;
May you aye be just as happy
As I wish you now to be!
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
Random Sentence of the Day
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Sunday, March 06, 2005
Quote of the Day #51
Saturday, March 05, 2005
Quote of the Day #50
The Polyamory Department
I believe that sex is a beautiful thing between two people. Between five, it's fantastic.
-- Woody Allen
Friday, March 04, 2005
Picture of the Day #44
Word of the Day #4
postprandial (post-PRAN-dee-uhl) adjective
After a meal, especially dinner.
Example: "I really enjoy my postprandial bliss" -- Duke Leto
After a meal, especially dinner.
Example: "I really enjoy my postprandial bliss" -- Duke Leto
Wednesday, March 02, 2005
Pictures of the Day #43
Atavistic Traces after the Rain
Metamorphosis of Narcissus
The Rider of Death
The Weaning of Furniture Nutrition
Work by Surrealist Master Salvador Dali
Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Quote of the Day #49
Sometimes, however, it takes a lot of didactic tricks to detach people from their superstitions. An American woman once confronted me with the reproach, "How can you still write some of your books in German, Adolf Hitler's language?"
In response, I asked her if she had knives in her kitchen, and when she answered that she did, I acted dimayed and shocked, exclaiming, "How can you still use knives after so many killers have used them to stab and murder their victims?"
She stopped objecting to my writing books in German.
-- Viktor E. Frankl [survivor of the Holocaust, psychiatrist, creator of logotherapy]
Man's Search for Meaning
In response, I asked her if she had knives in her kitchen, and when she answered that she did, I acted dimayed and shocked, exclaiming, "How can you still use knives after so many killers have used them to stab and murder their victims?"
She stopped objecting to my writing books in German.
-- Viktor E. Frankl [survivor of the Holocaust, psychiatrist, creator of logotherapy]
Man's Search for Meaning
