joeware - never stop exploring...

All of us wear masks. They can be worn out of love and the desire to remain close to those around us. To spare them from the complicated reality of afraid psyches. We trade honesty for companionship. And in that process never truly know the hearts closest to us.
    - Sarah Connor (Terminator: The Sarah [...]

Driving a car at 100MPH is a supported function by the auto manufacturer. Driving a car at 100MPH into a wall likely isn’t though you may not find specific guidance saying it isn’t. The fact that you can is a byproduct to the supported functionality combined with free will.
   - me (in response to [...]

One of the worst practices in older firms is managing to metrics with the end result being a practice where you award people who are doing really bad things to the company.
    - Rob Enderle (TechNewsWorld - http://www.technewsworld.com/story/hardware/63604.html?welcome=1214841647)

“PowerShell is the COBOL of the scripting world. In that I mean as you type out what you need to do your fingers actually get tired. Powerful no doubt, but it will require most PowerShell scripters to buy a gripmaster to build up finger strength for those marathon scripting sessions or more likely, there will [...]

It’s hard to be emotional with a spitter.
    - Anonymous friend

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.”
  - Mark Twain

“Listen,” he said, “it’s important. We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.“
   - Richard Bach “Illusions”

Nothing good is a miracle, nothing lovely is a dream.
    - Richard Bach “Illusions”

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
   - Richard Bach “Illusions”

The other day Plato and a Platypus walked into a bar. The bartender gave the philosopher a quizzical look, and then Plato said, “What can I say? She looked better in the cave.”
     - From Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar

Don’t turn away from possible futures before you’re certain you don’t have anything to learn from them.
   - Richard Bach “Illusions”

“And what would you do,” the Master said unto the multitude, “if God spoke directly to your face and said, ‘ I command that you be happy in the world, as long as you live.’ What would you do then?”
   - Richard Bach “Illusions”

“Like attracts like. Just be who you are, calm and clear and bright. Automatically, as we shine who we are, asking ourselves every minute is this what I really want to do, doing it only when we answer yes, automatically that turns away those who have nothing to learn from who we are and attracts [...]

There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands.
You seek problems because you need their gifts.
    - Richard Bach “Illusions”

Anybody who’s ever mattered, anybody who’s ever been happy, anybody who’s ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.
    - Richard Bach “Illusions”

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours.
   - Richard Bach “Illusions”

There’s only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is…
…ourselves.
    - Richard Bach “Illusions”

The Golden Rule doesn’t work. How would you like to meet a masochist who did unto others as he would have them do unto him? Or a worshiper of the Crocodile God, who craves the honor of being thrown alive into the pit? Even the Samaritan, who started the whole thing… what made him think [...]

In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
    - Richard Bach “Illusions”

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
    - Richard Bach “Illusions”

Do you think that maybe if you say impossible over and over again a thousand times that suddenly hard things will come easy for you?
    - Richard Bach “Illusions”

Intuition comes very close to clairvoyance; it appears to be the extrasensory perception of reality.    - Alexis Carrel

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.     - William Shakespeare

Those who can…. do.
Those who can’t… beg.
 
    - Me (in post to ActiveDir.Org)

You are a child of the universeno less than the trees and stars;you have a right to be here.
Go placidly amid the noise and haste,and remember what peacethere may be in silence.
As far as possible, without surrender,be on good terms with all persons.Speak your truth quietly, and clearly;and listen to others,even [...]

A DNS server that is dynamically handed its address is NOT the most useful device you could have on a network…
   - Me (in a post to activedir.org)

Tracers work both ways.
   - U.S. Army Ordnance Manual

It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed.
     - U.S. Air Force Survival Manual

If the enemy is in range…. so are you.
   - Infantry Journal

“If at first you don’t succeed keep on sucking ’till you do succeed”
     - Curley

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.
     -Thomas Paine

Misc quotes from Dwight in The Office…
 

Oh it is serious. Five citations and you’re looking at a violation. Four of those and you’ll receive a verbal warning. Keep it up, and you’re looking at a written warning. Two of those, that’ll land you in world of hurt. In the form of a disciplinary review, [...]

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.”
                  –T.S. Eliot

“As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.”
   - Albert Einstein

I’m gonna bitchslap every one of you so hard, that your unborn children will come out well behaved.
- Ed DeLine (Las Vegas TV Show)

This is brilliant….
     joe
 
‘It is what it is. Sit back and enjoy what life provides for your entertainment for as long or as short as it is available. Practically nothing is intended to be forever. — alternately, smile and enjoy yourself, you can be happy between sad times or you can [...]

If you are being criticised by someone, if it’s true, fix your mistake. If it’s not, treat it as precaution and you will avoid in the future.
  - Chinese Proverb

I think tequila is the cure for hot spicy mouth the way its a cure for ugly, it just numbs it a little bit…
   - Kari Byron (love her!) of Mythbusters for Chili Pepper Spicy Mouth Cure episode

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.
  - Dr. Suess
 
[thanks to my mom for sending this to me]

Thou art to me a delicious torment.– On Friendship Ralph Waldo

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
   -Andy Rooney

Just because you can’t figure out how to compromise a machine doesn’t mean someone else can’t.

…depends on your point of view. :o)
A chicken standing in front of a coyote sees fear and danger. A coyote sees lunch.

If you aren’t enjoying yourself with what you are doing, you have only yourself to blame.

For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry and art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is continually ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims.
    – [...]

The world is made up of two types of people         those who call the shots and                  those who dodge the bullets.

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