I have to show this to the kids later today.
Science Fiction authors
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.”
— Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
The lesser known laws of Murphy
1. Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
2. He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
3. Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.
4. Those who live by the sword, get shot by those who don’t.
5. Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
6. 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.
7. If you lined up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try to pass them, five or six at a time, on a hill, in the fog.
8. If the shoe fits, get another one just like it.
9. The things that come to those who wait will be the things left by those who got there first.
10. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will sit in a boat all day, drinking beer.
11. Flashlight: A metal tube used to store dead batteries.
12. The shin bone is a device for finding furniture in a dark room.
13. A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.
14. When you go to Court, you are putting yourself in the hands of 12 people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.
New phone
My new phone, the MyTouch 3G Slide, was delivered last week. I have to say it’s awesome! It has some weight to it. Probably the same as the G1. But it’s a smaller device so when you pick out up the first time it’s surprising. One of the neatest things is the swype keyboard. It sounds goofy, sliding your finger from one letter to the next, but it works amazingly well.
Orlando bound
Well, it’s official. I submitted my resignation to Georgia Tech this morning. My last day will be the 26th, we’ll drive down on the 29th, and I start working the new job on the 1st.
I’m very thankful to Valerie for being ok with moving to Florida. I didn’t realize how much I missed being down there until … well, yesterday, really. I left the state in 1989 and, except for a week every other month in 1992/93, I haven’t been back.
— Started this post yesterday. Such is life.
Avacado history
http://www.unclepaulsproduce.com/articles/walkabout/avocado/WA_mayJune05.html
Interesting bit about what most people today call the avocado.
The Beast Below
Last week’s Doctor Who included this poem.
The men above were deep asleep,
While greater love lies further deep,
This dream must end,
This world must know,
That we all depend on the beast below.
It’s beautiful and creepy at the same time.
Flock Test
This post is being made using the built in blog editor in Flock. Flock is a social media enhanced browser based on mozilla.
Blogged with the Flock Browser
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OK, this post WAS made using Flock but it dorked up the link. I’ll see if I can figure out why.
- Figured it out. I put ” instead of ‘ in the link code. Though there should be a way to insert links automatically.
More from Eyjafjallajokull
Check out these pictures of Eyjafjallajokull. They are absolutely amazing.
