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When I awake in the morning I listen to those I love, especially to things they don’t say.    -Zen saying

There is never enough time to do all the nothing you want to do.

Exploring the edges of the known universe by popular demand.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
  – Paul Valery

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering…

Don’t give concrete answers for incomplete questions.

Hey y’all, watch this.

When it comes to managing a site with hundreds or thousands of machines, command-line scriptable tools always beat a fancy GUI.
    – Microsoft

INSTRUCTIONS FOR LIFE
1. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.2. Memorize your favorite poem.3. Don’t believe all you hear.4. Don’t spend all you have.5. Don’t sleep all you want.6. When you say, “I love you”, mean it.7. When you say, “I’m sorry”, look the person in the eye.8. Be engaged [...]

This officer should go far….. and the sooner he starts, the better.
  – excerpt from employee performance reports of Royal Navy

One test is worth a thousand opinions.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
  – Einstein

This news item just in from Texas…~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~A scientist from Texas A&M University has invented a bra that keeps a woman’s breasts from jiggling and bouncing when she walks.
At a news conference announcing the invention, the scientist was taken outside where a large group of cowboys beat the shit out of him.

Do not go quietly into the night…Rage, rage, rage against the dying of the light…- Dylan Thomas

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.But, in practice, there is…

Handy blog article for troubleshooting services provided by SVCHOST.
http://blogs.technet.com/ganand/archive/2007/12/23/how-to-isolate-a-service-in-its-own-scvhost-exe.aspx
It also links to
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314056
 
Basically the idea is that some service executables have multiple services in them and they share a process when they start. There could be times you don’t want that to happen with SVCHOST because there is such a large number of arbitrary services [...]

Now this… …this is forbidden love…
http://www.bockscar.de/blog/index.php?/archives/625-This………does-not-happen-often.html

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.
  – Heinlein

It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
  – [...]

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from [...]

All men are created unequal.
  – Heinlein

Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.
  -Heinlein

Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often confuses one for the other, or assumes the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. In fact they are almost incompatible; both at once produce unbearable turmoil.
  – Heinlein

There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face [...]

When in danger or in doubt… Run in Circles, Scream, and Shout!
   – Heinlein

Dude what’s with all the quotes?
I am going through old email and I used to put quotes as signatures on the bottom of the notes so as I hit a new sig I post the quote as I had them on my emails as signatures because I liked them so much. This way I don’t [...]

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
  – Norman Cousins

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
  – Norman Cousins

Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams.
   -Yeats

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.     -Goya