Come with me on a journey through uncharted territory...
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How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. - Oscar Wilde
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein
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Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge. - Mark Twain
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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. - Mark Twain
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Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. - Albert Einstein
Saturday, May 27, 2006
Normal service will resume shortly
It is with much regret that I must take a leave of absence. The necessities of completing uni work in amongst numerous kiddie like activities mean that I will be away for the next couple of weeks.
I have a number of items queued that I want to blog about - some of which will be out of date by the time I get back but so be it.
take care of you all until I return. (oh and wish me luck with assignments & exams).
"When you hit your thumb with an 8 pound hammer, its nice to be able to blaspheme. It takes a very strong, special minded atheist to jump up and down, With their their hand clasped under their other armpit and shout "Oh random fluctuations in the space time continuum." (Men At Arms)
"The problem with being a god is that you've no one to pray to."
"He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at."
"Its a popular fact that 90% of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary grey goo if its only real purpose was, for example, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys. One of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary, and turn the unusual into the usual. Otherwise, human beings, forced with the daily wondrousness of everything, would go around wearing a stupid grin, saying "WOW" a lot. Part of the brain exists to stop this happening. It is very efficient, and can make people experience boredom in the middle of marvels." (Small Gods)
"Let's just say that if complete and utter chaos was lightning, he'd be the sort to stand on a hilltop in a thunderstorm wearing wet copper armour and shouting 'All gods are bastards'" (The Colour of Magic)
"Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like "What is my purpose in life?" very quickly lacked both."
"According to the philosopher, Ly Tin Wheedle, chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organised."
"The Quantum Weather Butterfly ( Papilio Tempestae ) is an undistinguished yellow colour, its outstanding feature is its ability to create weather. This presumably began as a survival trait, since even an extremely hungry bird would find itself inconvenienced by a nasty localized tornado ( usually about 6 inches across ). From there it possibly became a secondary sexual characteristic, like the plumage of birds. Look at *me*, the male says, flapping his wings lazily in the canopy of the rain forest. I may be an undistinguished yellow colour but in a fortnight's time, a thousand miles away, Freak Gales Cause Road Chaos. This is the butterfly of the storm." (Interesting Times)
"Splatters are a bit like bouncers really, except that they use more force."
"The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one of those that look as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more staircases than storeys and those rows of shelves which end in little doors that are surely too small for a full-sized human to enter. The relevant equation is: Knowledge = power = energy = matter = mass; a good bookshop is just a genteel Black Hole that knows how to read."
"People who are rather more than six feet tall and nearly as broad across the shoulders often have uneventful journeys. People jump out at them from behind rocks then say things like, "Oh. Sorry. I thought you were someone else."
"The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the date last shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality." (Guards Guards)
"The only things known to go faster than ordinary light is monarchy, according to the philosopher Ly Tin Weedle. He reasoned like this: you can't have more than one king, and tradition demands that there is no gap between kings, so when a king dies the succession must therefore pass to the heir *instantaneously*. Presumably, he said, there must be some elementary particles -- kingons, or possibly queons -- that do this job, but of course succession sometimes fails if, in mid-flight, they strike an anti-particle, or republicon. His ambitious plans to use his discovery to send messages, involving the careful torturing of a small king in order to modulate the signal, were never fully expanded because, at that point, the bar closed."
"Sodomy non sapiens" (Mort)
"The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops, have a passing-out test for a novice. He is taken into a room full of all types of clothing and asked: 'Yo, my son, which of these is the most stylish thing to wear? ' And the correct answer is: 'Hey, whatever I select.'"
"The shortest unit of time in the multiverse is the New York Second, defined as the period of time between the traffic lights turning green and the cab behind you honking." (Lords & Ladies)
"It is said that whosoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whosoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long." (Soul Music)
"It used to be so simple, once upon a time. Because the universe was full of ignorance all around and the scientist panned through it like a prospector crouched over a mountain stream, looking for the gold of knowledge among the gravel of unreason, the sand of uncertainty and the little whiskery eight-legged swimming things of superstition."
"Occasionally he would straighten up and say things like "Hurrah, I've discovered Boyle's Third Law." And everyone knew where they stood. But the trouble was that ignorance became more interesting, especially big fascinating ignorance about huge and important things like matter and creation, and people stopped patiently building their little houses of rational sticks in the chaos of the universe and started getting interested in the chaos itself : partly because it was a lot easier to be an expert on chaos, but mostly because it made really good patterns that you could put on a t-shirt."
"Bad spelling can be lethal. For example, the greedy Seriph of Al-Ybi was once cursed by a badly-educated deity and for some days everything he touched turned to Glod, which happened to be the name of a small dwarf from a mountain community hundreds of miles away who found himself magically dragged to the kingdom and relentlessly duplicated."
"The Yen Buddhists are the richest religious sect in the universe. They hold that the accumulation of money is a great evil and a burden to the soul. They therefore, regardless of personal hazard, see it as their unpleasant duty to acquire as much as possible in order to reduce the risk to innocent people."
Asking someone to repeat a phrase you'd not only heard very clearly but were also exceedingly angry about was around Defcon II in the lexicon of squabble." (Witches Abroad)
I dreamt that i had bought my dream house, but after moving in I couldn't get the garden to grow. Then I noticed that no-one else around me had a garden. So I did some research & discovered that 175yrs ago, there had been a toxic waste dump where my house was (apparently it hadn't bothered anyone else or they hadn't noticed). I somehow 'knew' that there was a titanium sheet between the ground and the house so no toxins could affect me & the kids (wtf?)
Anyhow I wanted to take all the dirt from my yard and dump it - but I wasn't allowed because the soil was toxic. So I ended up having to get it taken into space - it went in those barge things that you see on TV taking rubbish over the ocean in America - there were 2 of those being towed behind a rocket that looked a bit like this.
Then I put new dirt in the backyard and planted a beautiful garden, and then plants started to grow all over the neighbourhood gradually moving outwards from my place.
So....
I'm not sure if I have a hero complex or if I just need to lay off chocolate before bed. Amateur psychoanalyst's apply within....
It appears that Dolphins get more intelligent the more money is spent on researching them - or the more research is done, the more we find out about how intelligent they have always been but we didn't know about it before. - I don't think i can make that anymore convoluted.
Anyway.....
Scientists have discovered that Dolphins have names and recognise each other by these labels (like humans) rather than by 'voice' or the pitch of the sound.
I think this is kinda kewl, but still think there are a lot of things that research dollars could be better spent on; but then that may just be because I don't know what they are hoping to achieve from the study.
Director Ron Howard (who will always be Richie to me) has declined the Vatican's offer to place a disclaimer at the beginning of The DaVinci Code movie. The Vatican wants to make sure that everyone (other than catholics) knows that the movie is 'fiction'.
I wish Mel could have seen his way clear to putting a disclaimer on The Passion of Christ.....
While doing some research on link spamming (using spam to raise a page's ranking in a search engine) I came across information on google bombing (in essence the same thing, but without the involvement of spam) .
So being a curious bunny, I decided to google my blog name.
And found this rather bizarre site which I had no idea about. The site compiles fantasy blog shares eg - if my blog were a company what would the trading price be.
Supposedly attributable to George Carlin - but I haven't confirmed this.
Do you realize that the only time in our lives when we like to get old is when we're kids? If you're less than 10 years old, you're so excited about aging that you think in fractions.
"How old are you?" "I'm four and a half!" You're never thirty-six and a half. You're four and a half, going on five! That's the key.
You get into your teens, now they can't hold you back. You jump to the next number, or even a few ahead.
"How old are you?" "I'm gonna be 16!" You could be 13, but hey, you're gonna be 16! And then the greatest day of your life . . . You become 21. Even the words sound like a ceremony . . YOU BECOME 21. YESSSS!!!
But then you turn 30. Oooohh, what happened there? Makes you sound like bad milk! He TURNED; we had to throw him out. There's no fun now, you're Just a sour-dumpling. What's wrong? What's changed?
You BECOME 21, you TURN 30, then you're PUSHING 40. Whoa! Put on the brakes, it's all slipping away. Before you know it, you REACH 50
And your dreams are gone.
But wait!!! You MAKE it to 60. You didn't think you would!
So you BECOME 21, TURN 30, PUSH 40, REACH 50 and MAKE it to 60.
You've built up so much speed that you HIT 70! After that it's a day-by-day thing; you HIT Wednesday!
You get into your 80's and every day is a complete cycle; you HIT lunch; you TURN 4:30; you REACH bedtime. And it doesn't end there. Into the 90's, you start going backwards; "I Was JUST 92."
Then a strange thing happens. If you make it over 100, you become a little kid again. "I'm 100 and a half!"
May you all make it to a healthy 100 and a half!!
HOW TO STAY YOUNG
1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctors worry about them. That is why you pay "them!"
2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. "An idle mind is the devil's workshop." And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.
4. Enjoy the simple things.
5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.
7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.
8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
9 Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.
10. Show the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
When will the church realise that everytime they bitch about the DaVinci code more people will go to see it or read it or pay attention to it?
The anglican church has decided that they will show a movie at the cinemas which will show the 'real' story of jesus. How do they know? They weren't there. Their bible consists of translated excerpts of some bits that were copied from the Catholic church (when Henry wanted to divorce Catherine) which are only the bits that the Catholics wanted people to be subjugated to anyway.
The anglican church claims the movie will 'mislead people about the truth' - well i guess they are the experts.
At this rate cynics will start believing that the church is either getting kickbacks, or are major shareholders in the studio. Sheesh.
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