Done.
More doing.
Less blogging.* Less TV. Less whining. Less talking about doing.*
Luckily, doing automatically reduces the time spent doing everything else. It’s good that way.
*This post excluded.
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it’s safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
— Dave Barry (via siddman)
The Great Office War
Some addicts say they reach “rock bottom” when they lose their health or their family — but Robert Downey Jr hit his lowest ebb when he ordered a Burger King! The Iron Man star has publicly thanked the fast food chain for helping him get on the road to recovery by serving him a cheeseburger so disgusting that it forced him to reassess his entire life, according to Britain’s film magazine Empire.
Screamin' Beans
Very funny Flash animation - like the intro says, keep on clicking once it starts running.
I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.
— Wernher von Braun (via enquotations)
When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
— Helen Keller (via enquotations)
MARY TYLER MOORE - CHUCKLES THE CLOWN EPISODE
The funniest episode ever from one of the best television shows ever made. This clip is from the funeral for Chuckles the Clown, who while dressed as a big peanut, was shelled by a rogue elephant. Cause of death…a busted goober. After chiding her friends for making crass jokes about Chuckles death, Mary finally loses her composure at the funeral.
“Cleopatra Stratan, the daughter of Moldovan-Romanian singer, Pavel Stratan, is one of the youngest people ever to score commercial success as a singer, with her 2006 album La vârsta de trei ani (“At the age of 3”).” -wikipedia
This makes me sad, because for this adorable little girl, the likelihood of a “normal” life is about zero. What do parents think this kind of exposure (exploitation) will lead to if not an implosion or meltdown about eight to ten years down the road! Very sad.
The older I get, the dumber the newscasters get...
When I was a kid, in my naive little kid mind, certain types of people commanded an unearned, automatic degree of respect, or perhaps awe is a better word. People like politicians, actors, athletes, and even newscasters (Walter Cronkite was big time when I was a youngster) were, to me, pretty impressive. They were famous, I figured, so they must really have it all together.
Fast forward forty years, and here I am working at my home office with CNN turned on, and CNN’s modern-day counterparts of Walter Cronkite are covering this story of a fellow who managed to get a big nail inserted into his skull (and brain) as a result of a freak accident. The gist of the story is that the doctors at the hospital called down to the hospital maintenance department for a claw hammer, and they actually pried the nail from his brain the same way you or I would remove a wayward nail from a wooden board. Right tool for the right job, you know.
Anyway, as the story wraps up, Cronkite girl 1 says to Cronkite girl 2 something to the effect: “Now Cindy, for our viewers watching at home, if they were to somehow get a big nail driven through their own skull and into their brain, having heard that these doctors removed this particular nail with a standard claw hammer, would it be a bad idea for them to try to remove the nail from their own brain, by themselves, with a claw hammer?”
To which Cronkite girl 2 replies: “Yes, Jill, that would be a very bad idea. If you do manage to nail yourself in the skull and brain, avoid the temptation to try to pry the nail out yourself with your own claw hammer. You should seek medical attention immediately anytime you have a nail in your brain.”
Cronkite girl 1: “Thanks Cindy for that good advice”.
…Dumb, dumb as a sack of hammers.
In 2000 I was cruelly denied the Pulitzer despite being the only columnist in America to ask the pressing question: Is Al Gore an alien? The evidence was there for all to see. He was born nine months after the mysterious alien sighting at Roswell, N.M. His weird syntax and verbal rhythms are otherworldly. He often refers to “earth” or “this planet” as if he’s just passing through, and he once angrily complained to the Washington Post that it had printed a picture of the earth from outer space “upside down.” There is no “upside down” in space — unless Gore had his childhood view in mind.
The new iPhone will contain a golden ticket in 5 boxes world wide, which will invite the finders of the golden ticket to visit Apple, and be taken on a tour by Steve Jobs himself. The ticket holders will get to meet the secret tribe of little people who invent and build Apple’s products, and it is also rumoured that the successor to Jobs will be chosen from the ticket holders.
— The Enormous Waste of Webspace » New iPhone Arrives Today - 5 contain Golden Tickets (via fred-wilson)
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