Fri 4 Dec
Thu 3 Dec
“…these aren’t dinosaurs. They are rhinoceros. The dinosaurs are on the other side of the park.”
“But that’s just not true! These are rhino-SAURUSES! I think I know a dinosaur when I see them!”
Not Always Right | Funny & Stupid Customer Quotes » Dodo Brained.
Wed 2 Dec
When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (via mudandgears).
Wed 2 Dec
Truth withheld explodes into violence. If it doesn’t explode into overt violence, it lingers as covert violence, often taking the form of resentment, gossip or neglect. In other words, suppressed truth leads to rage; rage withheld is typically expressed in a covert manner by subtly shooting down our neighbors and feeding on their fallen flesh.
We cannot lie in one aspect of self and be totally truthful in other aspects. There is just one self. We may speak of the self as having many aspects, but every aspect affects every other aspect. The total self may be likened to a hologram in which every ‘part’ contains every other part. If we lie in one aspect, the entire system is affected.
The Alchemy of Opposites (via quantumpossibility).
Tue 1 Dec
I’ve been using phones all my life. I’m 54 years old. The first phone I used had a rotary dial and rang with a bell, you know a clapper hitting a piece of metal, controlled by an electro-magnet. The funny thing about those phones — they worked.
Today’s phones are marvels of technology. I love them. But they all suck. iPhones suck. Blackberries suck. The disposable phone you buy at the convenience store sucks and yes my dear friends, the Droid sucks too.
Dave Winer: Zealotry sucks, and so does the Droid (via Gruber).
There’s a bit of rose tinted glasses going on here, of course. Try entering a modern-day telephone number on a rotary dial and youll go mad before you get to the third number.
But he’s right about modern phones too. They all suck. Every last one of them.
