now its time for some change...finally.
Here are a few of my favorites for the week.
Cool joke:
A little girl goes into a toy store and asks the clerk, "Does Barbie come with Ken?" The clerk replies, "No, dear, Barbie comes with G.I. Joe - she fakes it with Ken." ;-)
Cool observation:
The Engineer’s rule: Never take more than three data points. There will always be some kind of graph paper on which they fall in a straight line.
The Engineer’s rule, first corollary: if you have only one kind of graph paper, never take more than two data points.
Cool fundas:
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them; this skill is most needed in times of stress and darkness. - Ursula LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. - Karl Marx
The road to no where’s paved with plans that never quite got done. - Mark T. Shirey
Great thing to follow:
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. - Dr. Martin Luther King, jr.
Icings on the cake:
It from bit. Every IT - every particle, every field of force, even the space-time continuum itself - derives its function, its meaning, its very existence entirely... from the apparatus-elicited answers to yes or no questions, binary choices, BITS. - John Archibald Wheeler
I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty. - Revelations 1:8, The Bible
Here are a few of my favorites for the week.
Cool joke:
A little girl goes into a toy store and asks the clerk, "Does Barbie come with Ken?" The clerk replies, "No, dear, Barbie comes with G.I. Joe - she fakes it with Ken." ;-)
Cool observation:
The Engineer’s rule: Never take more than three data points. There will always be some kind of graph paper on which they fall in a straight line.
The Engineer’s rule, first corollary: if you have only one kind of graph paper, never take more than two data points.
Cool fundas:
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them; this skill is most needed in times of stress and darkness. - Ursula LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. - Karl Marx
The road to no where’s paved with plans that never quite got done. - Mark T. Shirey
Great thing to follow:
Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. - Dr. Martin Luther King, jr.
Icings on the cake:
It from bit. Every IT - every particle, every field of force, even the space-time continuum itself - derives its function, its meaning, its very existence entirely... from the apparatus-elicited answers to yes or no questions, binary choices, BITS. - John Archibald Wheeler
I am the Alpha and the Omega, says the Lord God, who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty. - Revelations 1:8, The Bible
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