Daily Gyaan

Picture of the day #62

2006-01-28T17:15:00.000-08:00

A Good is Rewarded Ten-fold!

2006-01-25T12:39:00.000-08:00

An older father noticed his son's Viagra tablets in the medicine cabinet. "Could I try one?" he asked.

"Sure," his son replied, "but make the most of it. Each of those pills costs ten bucks."

His dad was shocked by the price. "Don't worry," he promised. "I'll pay you back."

The next morning the son found an envelope under his breakfast plate. Inside was $110.

"Dad," he said, "that pill only cost $10."

"I know," his father said, smiling. "The ten is from me. The hundred is from your mother."

Know Thyself!

2006-01-25T12:36:00.000-08:00

Four out of Five Ain't Bad

2006-01-25T12:30:00.000-08:00

Quote of the Day #164

2006-01-25T12:04:00.000-08:00

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.

-- Pablo Picasso

Picture of the Day #61

2006-01-11T10:01:00.000-08:00

Rootbear Falls by Will Cotton

Globalisation

2006-01-11T06:16:00.000-08:00

Peace

2006-01-10T08:14:00.000-08:00

Quote of the Day #163

2006-01-02T10:07:00.000-08:00

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

-- James Baldwin

A Winter Forecast

2006-01-01T10:47:00.000-08:00

It was October. and the Native Americans on a remote reservation asked their new chief if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild. Since he was a chief in a modern society, he had never been taught the old secrets. When he looked at the sky, he couldn't tell what the winter was going to be like.

Nevertheless, to be on the safe side, he told his tribe that the winter was indeed going to be cold and that the members of the village should collect firewood to be prepared. But being a practical leader, after several days he got an idea. He went to the phone booth, called the National Weather Service and asked, "Is the coming winter going to be cold?"

"It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold," the meteorologist at the weather service responded.

So the chief went back to his people and told them to collect even more firewood in order to be prepared. A week later he called the National Weather Service again. "Does it still look like it is going to be a very cold winter?"

"Yes," the man at the National Weather Service again replied, "it's going to be a very cold winter."

The chief again went back to his people and ordered them to collect every scrap of firewood they could find. Two weeks later he called the National Weather Service again. "Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?"

"Absolutely," the man replied. "It's looking more and more like it is going to be one of the coldest winters ever."

"How can you be so sure?" the chief asked. The weatherman replied, "People are collecting firewood like crazy."

How NOT to Kill Your Spouse 101

2005-12-16T09:38:00.000-08:00

Whipped Cream?

2005-12-14T16:28:00.000-08:00

Quote of the Day #162 [or Today's Dose of Syrupy Love]

2005-12-04T06:53:00.000-08:00

The kiss you take is paid by that you give:
The joy is mutual, and I'm still in debt.

-- George Granville, Lord Landsdowne, Heroic Love (act V, sc. 1)~

Scott Adams on Cloning

2005-12-02T11:44:00.000-08:00

I don’t have to tell you that there are plenty of good reasons to want your own clone:

a. Spare parts.

b. Slave labor.

c. Decoy in case of assassination attempts.

d. Source of excellent practical jokes on the spouse.

e. Reasonable doubt when you kill someone.

And that’s not even counting if you’re gay. But on the other side, there’s really just one reason you can’t have your own clone: It’s immoral. Sure, it’s illegal too, but that’s mostly because it’s immoral, so it’s really just one reason.

I always wonder who gets to decide what’s immoral when it comes to brand new things that aren’t anything like old things that we all agree on. It’s exactly this sort of question that makes me unfit to hold any kind of elected office. I always lean toward the practical approach that doesn’t make a good sound bite. For example, my political platform would include “Let’s make a few human clones just to see if any of them become soulless zombies intent on eating our flesh before descending to the bowels of Hell.” See what I mean? It makes a crappy bumper sticker.

The big question with clones is how they get their souls, assuming souls exist. If God gives them brand new souls, then they aren’t actually clones at all. They’d be fundamentally different. But it also makes God more of a soul gumball machine than the omnipotent creator of the universe. The scientist who makes the clone would, in effect, be controlling God by making him pinch out another soul to inhabit the clone. That’s disturbing on many levels, not the least of which is the way I phrased it.

But maybe your clone gets half of your soul, say 10.5 grams worth. That would suck too. I have enough trouble dancing with the little bit of a soul I allegedly have. If you cut that in half, I’m polka dancing.

If each of your clones has a new and different soul, but everything else is the same, we’d probably start assigning letters to keep them straight – A,B,C, etc. And that suggests the one best reason to not clone yourself: Everyone would call you an A-soul.

This guy is hilarious even when he's not drawing Dilbert.

Picture of the Day #60

2005-12-02T10:32:00.000-08:00

Picture of the Day #59

2005-12-01T00:46:00.000-08:00

A Woman Who Reads

2005-11-30T19:46:00.000-08:00

One morning a husband returns after several hours of fishing and decides to take a nap. Although not familiar with the lake, his wife decides to take the boat out. She motors out a short distance, drops anchor and begins to read her book. Along comes a game warden in his boat. He pulls up alongside the woman and says, "Good morning, ma'am. What are you doing?"

"Reading a book," she replies.

"You're in a restricted fishing area," he informs her.

"I'm sorry, Officer, but I'm not fishing, I'm reading."

"Yes, but you have all the equipment. For all I know you could start at any moment. I'll have to take you in and write you up."

"If you do that, I'll have to charge you with sexual assault,"says the woman.

"But I have not even touched you," says the game warden.

"That's true, but you have all the equipment. For all I know you could start at any moment."

"Have a nice day, ma'am," he said, and left.

Moral of this story: Never argue with a woman who reads. It is likely she can also think.

Brain Teasers

2005-11-29T13:00:00.000-08:00

That is so Hannibal Lector!

Picture of the Day #58

2005-11-27T17:13:00.000-08:00

Quote of the Day #161

2005-11-20T03:00:00.000-08:00

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

-- Alfred Hitchcock

Quote of the Day #160

2005-11-20T01:06:00.000-08:00

-- Unknown

Picture of the Day #57

2005-11-12T13:08:00.000-08:00

Random Sentence of the Day

2005-11-09T02:59:00.000-08:00

The mysterious asteroid gets stinking drunk, but a roller coaster for a graduated cylinder feverishly befriends some boiled scythes.

Poem of the Day #3

2005-11-08T08:22:00.000-08:00

Little Miss Muffet

Little Miss Muffet
sat on a tuffet,
Eating her curds and whey.

There came a big spider,
Who sat down beside her.
And frightened Miss Muffet away!

Picture of the Day #56

2005-11-07T08:33:00.000-08:00

Quote of the Day #159

2005-11-06T10:14:00.000-08:00

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

-- Leo Tolstoy

Picture of the Day #55

2005-10-31T02:44:00.000-08:00

Happy Halloween

2005-10-30T19:14:00.000-08:00

How to Survive a Zombie Attack

2005-10-28T09:47:00.000-07:00

1. Don't panic.
2. Get away from the zombies. Most of the time, you can move faster than they can.
3. Gather food, water, an emergency radio, flashlights and weapons, and retreat to a secure location.
4. If possible, retreat to a shopping mall, general retail store or other location where you'll have easy access to food and supplies.
5. Stay away from heavily populated areas, where the infestation is likely to be heaviest.
6. Barricade all entrances and stay put at all costs.
7. Don't get surrounded or backed into a corner or other enclosed space.
8. Remember that anyone bitten or killed by a zombie will become a threat to you and your party.
9. Wait patiently for rescue and make long-term preparations for your survival.

Also, avoid common mistakes like:
* Sheltering in a vehicle to which you do not have the keys
* Leaving blades, cudgels or other basic weapons out for zombies to find
* Teaching zombies how to use firearms
* Giving your only weapon to anyone who is hysterical
* Retreating to a basement or cellar without taking supplies with you
* Getting into an elevator in a building infested with zombies
* Letting personal feelings and arguments get in the way of survival

2005-10-24T18:22:00.000-07:00

Quote of the Day #158

2005-10-23T18:39:00.000-07:00

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

-- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952

Picture of the Day #54

2005-10-23T07:31:00.000-07:00

Why you have to learn English if you're living in America.

When warranties run out

2005-10-22T19:58:00.000-07:00

Quote of the Day #157

2005-10-17T22:32:00.000-07:00

If Dr. [John A. T.] Robinson is right in saying that "God is teaching us that we must live as men who can get on very well without him", then the Church has no need to say anything whatever to secularized man for that is precisely what secularized man already believes.

-- E. L. Mascall

Quote of the Day #156

2005-10-16T00:14:00.000-07:00

Mors certa, hora incerta

Latin for "Death is certain, its hour uncertain"

Picture of the Day #53

2005-10-15T17:50:00.000-07:00

Quote of the Day #155

2005-10-14T05:38:00.000-07:00

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.

-- David Frost

Quote of the Day #154

2005-10-13T00:52:00.000-07:00

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

-- Aldous Huxley, Vendeta for the Western World, 1945

Quote of the Day #153

2005-10-09T03:26:00.000-07:00

Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies.

-- Voltaire's last words (attributed),
when asked by a priest to renounce Satan

2005-10-07T11:55:00.000-07:00

Everyday Inspiration

2005-10-04T09:34:00.000-07:00

Quote of the Day #152

2005-10-04T09:21:00.000-07:00

Humor is just another defense against the universe.

-- Mel Brooks

My Thoughts Exactly....

2005-10-02T08:10:00.000-07:00

Six things you never want to hear at the tattoo parlor

2005-09-29T09:26:00.000-07:00

" 'Eagle?' I thought you said 'beagle.' "

"Boy, I hate it when I get hiccups."

"Hey, buddy, we ran out of red, so I used pink."

"Two O's in 'Bob,' right?"

"I bet you can't tell I've never done this before."

"Anything else you want to say? You've got all kinds of room back here."

Quote of the Day #151

2005-09-28T07:33:00.000-07:00

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

-- Michael Pritchard

Overheard in New York...

2005-09-26T11:51:00.000-07:00

Crackhead lady #1: I need to stop, because now I'm looking down the barrel of a monkey.
Crackhead lady #2: I know what you mean. If I wasn't using all this energy chasing a high, I could use the energy productively, like jumping on a trampoline.

Picture of the Day #52

2005-09-25T05:37:00.000-07:00

Quote of the Day #150

2005-09-25T05:20:00.000-07:00

Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.

-- Gallagher

Quote of the Day #149

2005-09-23T03:30:00.000-07:00

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

-- Dandemis

Crime and Punishment

2005-09-22T07:01:00.000-07:00

Word of the Day #12

2005-09-22T06:14:00.000-07:00

charactonym
(KAR-ik-tuh-nim) noun

A name of a fictional character that suggests the personality traits of that character.

[From English character, from Greek charakter (marking or engraving tool) + -onym (name).]

The examples from one of my favourite book series - The Asterix Books. Almost all the character names in the books are charactonyms:

Asterix - asterisk, the star of the books
Obelix - obelisk, the huge obelisk shaped best friend
Getafix - Get-A-Fix, the druid who has a cure for everything
Vitalstatistix - Vital-Statistics, the chief of the village
Cacofonix - Cacophony, the village bard who cannot actually sing, a precursor to modern rock vocalists ;)
Unhygenix - Unhygenic, the fish-monger whose fish is always rotten
Geriatrix - Geriatric, the oldest inhabitant of the village
Impedimenta - Impediment, the wife of the village chief :p
Panacea - Cure for all diseases, the most beautiful girl in the village, like they say, beauty is the cure for all ills :)

Word of the Day #11

2005-09-21T01:17:00.000-07:00

ananym
(AN-uh-nim) noun

A name formed by reversing letters of another name, often used as a pseudonym.

[From Greek ana- (back) + -onym (name).]

Examples:

Talk show host Oprah's production company is named Harpo.
Doctor Seuss (Theodore Geisel) wrote many books under the name Theo LeSeig.
Samuel Butler wrote a satirical novel Erewhon (near reverse of Nowhere).

Quote of the Day #148

2005-09-19T22:27:00.000-07:00

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

-- Charles Caleb Colton

What Yahoo Maps doesnt tell you...

2005-09-15T23:01:00.000-07:00

Hymn of the Big Wheel

2005-09-15T07:35:00.000-07:00

by Massive Attack

The big wheel keeps on turning
On a simple line day by day
The earth spins on its axis
One man struggle while another relaxes

There's a hole in my soul like a cavity
Seems like the world is out to gather just by gravity
The wheel keeps turning the sky's rearranging
Look my son the weather is changing

I'd like to feel that you could be free
Look up at the blue skies beneath a new tree
Sometime again
You'll turn green and the sea turns red
My son I said the power of axis over my head

The big wheel keeps on turning
On a simple line day by day
The earth spins on its axis
One man struggle while another relaxes

We sang about the sun and danced among the trees
And we listened to the whisper of the city on the breeze
Will you cry in the most in a lead-free zone
Down within the shadows where the factories drone
On the surface of the wheel they build another town
And so the green come tumbling down
Yes close your eyes and hold me tight
And i'll show you sunset sometime again

The big wheel keeps on turning
On a simple line day by day
The earth spins on its axis
One man struggle while another relaxes

As a child's silent prayer my hope hides in disguise
While satellites and cameras watch from the skies
An acid drop of rain recycled from the sea
It washed away my shadow burnt a hole in me
And all the king's men cannot put it back again
But the ghetto sun will nurture life
And mend my soul sometime again

The big wheel keeps on turning
On a simple line day by day
The earth spins on its axis
One man struggle while another relaxes

Hit me with another quote...

2005-09-15T07:14:00.000-07:00

To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.

-- C E Montague

Quote of the Day #147

2005-09-14T12:04:00.000-07:00

Information can tell us everything. It has all the answers. But they are answers to questions we have not asked, and which doubtless don't even arise.

Jean Baudrillard
--Cool Memories

Random Sentence of the Day

2005-09-14T11:29:00.000-07:00

A wedge eats the greedily orbiting cargo bay, but a buzzard heading towards a traffic light plans an escape from the paternal burglar reactor.

Online Overload

2005-09-14T01:43:00.000-07:00

Quote of the Day #146

2005-09-13T23:31:00.000-07:00

We were brought up watching opening batsmen score nine before lunch. If Geoffrey Boycott flashed at a ball outside off stump in the first over of a Test match, questions were asked in Parliament. If he flashed at two, the ravens abandoned the Tower of London.

-- Brian Viner writes about the frenetic pace of the current Ashes series and wonders what happened to Test cricket as he knew it

Quote of the Day #145

2005-09-13T07:07:00.000-07:00

I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying.

-- Michael Jordan

How Men and Women Think Differently

2005-09-08T22:24:00.000-07:00

Jim's doctor tells him he has only one day to live. When Jim goes home to share the bad news with his wife, she asks what he wants to do with the little bit of time he has left.

"All I want," Jim tells his beloved wife, "is to spend my last few hours reliving our honeymoon." Which is exactly what they did.

But after four hours of blissful romance, she announces that she's tired and wants to go to sleep.

"Oh, come on," Jim whispers in her ear.

"Look," his wife snaps, "I've got to get up in the morning. You don't."

Quote of the Day #144

2005-09-08T22:21:00.000-07:00

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history -- with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

-- Mitch Ratcliffe

Mixing handguns and tequila will let you make mistakes even faster.

Quote of the Day #143

2005-09-04T04:13:00.000-07:00

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.

-- Elias Schwartz

I thought about it, and there seems to be a lot of wisdom in this world about doing nothing at all.

Anyone Feel Evil Today?

2005-09-02T05:05:00.000-07:00

It is better to be feared than loved, more prudent to be cruel than compassionate.

-- Niccolo Machiavelli

Pretentious Nursery Rhyme of the Day #2

2005-09-01T03:48:00.000-07:00

I'm a little teapot
Short and stout
Here is my handle
Here is my spout.
When I get all steamed up
Hear me shout:
Tip me up and pour me out!
.
.
.
I am a vessel specifically designed
For the calefaction of tea leaves and water combined.
I am of diminutive dimension:
A corpulent invention.
Observe the place where your hand is supposed to go.
Observe the outlet where the drink is supposed to flow.
When my temperature is high,
Ebullition will make me cry:
You must use my leverage
To release the beverage.

Poem of the Day

2005-08-25T11:59:00.000-07:00

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that 's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impair'd the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!

-- Lord Byron

Quote of the Day #141

2005-08-23T08:04:00.000-07:00

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

-- Robert Benchley

Quote of the Day #140

2005-08-21T14:41:00.000-07:00

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

Quote of the Day #139

2005-08-21T01:30:00.000-07:00

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

-- Abraham Lincoln

Quote of the Day #138

2005-08-12T08:03:00.000-07:00

The nice thing about meditation is that it makes doing nothing quite respectable.

-- Paul Dean

Pretentious Nursery Rhyme of the Day

2005-08-11T23:37:00.000-07:00

Jack and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water,
Jack fell down and broke his crown
And Jill came tumbling after.

Jack and Jill ascended the hill
To fetch some mineral water;
Jack's titubation caused
pericranial vitiation;
Jill emulated him shortly after.

Quote of the Day #137

2005-08-08T06:41:00.000-07:00

My motto in life .....

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

-- Evan Davis

Quote of the Day #136

2005-08-03T04:39:00.000-07:00

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Max Planck

Quote of the Day #135

2005-07-28T10:10:00.000-07:00

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

-- Richard Bach
Illusions

Quote of the Day #134

2005-07-26T08:53:00.000-07:00

Everyone has to have some experience to assure himself life is worth living.

-- Johannes Brahms (1833-97), Composer

Quote of the Day #133

2005-07-24T05:37:00.000-07:00

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

-- Aristotle

Where there is a will ...

2005-07-21T03:35:00.000-07:00

"My parents really sacrificed to get me to college."

"They worked hard?"

"When I was a baby, they abandoned me on the Dean's front porch."

-- From the comic strip "Wizard of Id"

Even Nobel Winners Get the Blues

2005-07-21T03:12:00.000-07:00

Emilio,
I am getting rusty and old, I cannot follow the highbrow theory developed by Oppenheimer's pupils any more. I went to their seminar and was depressed by my inability to understand them. Only the last sentence cheered me up. It was: "And this is Fermi's theory of beta decay."

-- Enrico Fermi

Enrico Fermi (September 29, 1901 – November 28, 1954) was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on beta decay, the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for the development of quantum theory. Fermi won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on nuclear fission.

J. Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American physicist of German-Jewish origin, and the scientific director of the Manhattan Project, the World War II effort to develop the first nuclear weapons, at the secret Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico. Known colloquially as "the father of the atomic bomb", Oppenheimer lamented the weapon's killing power after it was used to destroy the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Quote of the Day #132

2005-07-21T03:11:00.000-07:00

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

-- Isaac Asimov

Quote of the Day #131

2005-07-21T03:10:00.000-07:00

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

-- Mark Twain

Quote of the Day #130

2005-07-21T03:08:00.000-07:00

Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago

-- Bernard Berenson

Quote of the Day #129

2005-07-20T10:08:00.000-07:00

The Pumpkin and the Glass Slippers Department

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.

-- Margaret Bonnano

Quote of the Day #128

2005-07-20T00:45:00.000-07:00

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

-- St. Augustine

2005-07-16T11:59:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday Dude!

Quote of the Day #127

2005-07-15T18:46:00.000-07:00

A diplomat... is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

-- Caskie Stinnett

Quote of the Day #126

2005-07-14T05:53:00.000-07:00

If hanging a man in effigy would produce the same salutary impression of terror upon the minds of the people, it would be folly or cruelty ever to hang a man in person.

-- Jeremy Bentham,
Principles of Penal Law

let's get subliminal!

2005-07-12T14:40:00.000-07:00

eat popcorn!
Imagine the power of an advertiser who could put persuasive thoughts into your mind without your conscious awareness! This is the idea behind so-called "subliminal" advertising. According to some popular accounts, movie theaters can sneak frames into the move that flash, "eat popcorn," and the audience, supposedly unaware of having read this message, will comply and buy more popcorn. The idea is that the message is displayed for such a short period of time that the viewer does not have time to consciously process it, and so is therefore not consciously aware of having ever seen the message. According to proponents of this idea, the viewer will nonetheless process the message at some level below consciousness and thereby act upon it.
[ http://www.sykronix.com/researching/tscope.htm ]

tachistoscope
[Etymology: Greek Tachistos, very rapid, fr. Tachys, rapid, + skopeo, to view]

- An apparatus that projects a series of images onto a screen at rapid speed to test visual perception, memory, and learning.
[The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition]

- A tachistoscope is a device that displays (usually by projecting) an image for a specific amount of time. It can be used to increase recognition speed or to show something too fast to be consciously recognized. The actual tachistoscopes use a slide or transparency projector equipped with the mechanical shutter system typical of a camera. The slide is loaded, the shutter locked open, and focusing and alignment are adjusted, then the shutter is closed. When ready for the test, a shutter speed is selected, and the shutter is tripped normally.
[ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachistoscope ]

Episode 3 in 4 Panels

2005-07-12T09:51:00.000-07:00

Strangers in a Strange Land?

2005-07-12T03:12:00.000-07:00

Two American tourists are driving through Wales. At Llanfairpwllgwyn-gyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogoch, they stop for lunch and one of them says to the waitress, "Before we order, could you please settle an argument for us? Would you please pronounce where we are very slowly."

The girl leans forward and drawls, "Burrrrrgurr Kiiiing."

Quote of the Day #125

2005-07-12T03:09:00.000-07:00

A shattered illusion is a sorrowful experience; but a life without illusion is a sorrowful life.

-- Jose Narosky

Quote of the Day #124

2005-07-11T22:06:00.000-07:00

The 20-20 Hindsight Principle

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

-- Soren Kierkegaard

Quote of the Day #123

2005-07-09T20:32:00.000-07:00

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.

-- Nicholas Chamfort

Quote of the Day #122

2005-07-08T11:16:00.000-07:00

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

-- Abraham Lincoln

Quote of the Day #121

2005-07-05T08:14:00.000-07:00

Doubt everything at least once, even the proposition that two times two
equals four.

-- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg,
scientist and philosopher

Quote of the Day #120

2005-07-05T05:04:00.000-07:00

The This-is-how-we-do-it Department

Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.

-- Barbara Tober

Quote of the Day #119

2005-07-05T04:59:00.000-07:00

The Time-Flies-When-You're-Having-Fun Department

So little time and so little to do.

-- Oscar Levant

A Hooray for Cynicism

2005-07-02T04:19:00.000-07:00

Quote of the Day #118

2005-07-02T00:45:00.000-07:00

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

-- Harry S. Truman, 33rd US president (1884-1972)

Essential Accessories

2005-06-29T06:11:00.000-07:00

One day at the office, a man noticed that his very conservative co-worker was wearing an earring. "I didn't know you were into that kind of stuff," he said to his friend.

"It's not a big deal," the guy said. "It's just an earring."

"How long have you been wearing it?"

"Since my wife found it in my car last week."