Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Quote of the Day

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.
-- Gore Vidal

Monday, June 29, 2009

Quote of the Day

Communism is like one big phone company.
-- Lenny Bruce

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Quote of the Day

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
-- Groucho Marx

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Quote of the Day

...I don't think music turns people into social liabilities. Because you hear a lyric -- there's no medical proof that a person hearing a lyric is going to act out the lyric. There's also no medical proof that if you hear any collection of vowels and consonants, that the hearing of that collection is going to send you to Hell.
-- Frank Zappa

Week in Review

- Friday Random Ten: 2009-06-26
- Fox “News” Shenanigans
- Don’t look at it. Shut your eyes
- Drum and Bugle Corps Scores – 2009
- Friday Random Ten: 2009-06-19
- That’s a whole lot of stupid…
- More Linux Posters
- Linux for the Damned
- Are audiophiles really this stupid?
- Friday Random Ten: 2009-06-12

Friday, June 26, 2009

Quote of the Day

It's tough to have sex during marriage because you're always walking that tight rope between "this again?" and "where did you learn that?"
-- Emo Philips

Thursday, June 25, 2009

Quote of the Day

I'm not a bad guy. I work hard and I love my kids. So why should I spend half my Sunday hearing about how I'm going to Hell?
-- Homer J. Simpson

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Quote of the Day

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
-- Isaac Asimov

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Quote of the Day

In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death -- even vegetarians.
-- Spock, "Wolf in the Fold", stardate 3615.4

Monday, June 22, 2009

Quote of the Day

Frank knew that no man had ever crossed the desert on foot and lived to tell about it. So, he decided to get back in his car and keep driving.
-- Jack Handey

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Quote of the Day

I scrambled to the top of the precipice where Nick was waiting. "That was fun," I said. "You bet it was," said Nick. "Let's climb higher." "No," I said. "I think we should be heading back now." "We have time," Nick insisted. I said we didn't, and Nick said we did. We argued back and forth like that for about 20 minutes, then finally decided to head back. I didn't say it was an interesting story.
-- Jack Handey

Friday, June 19, 2009

Quote of the Day

If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em.
-- Yogi Berra

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Quote of the Day

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.
-- Mark Twain

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Quote of the Day

God's given me a gift. I shovel well. I shovel very well.
-- The Shoveler

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Quote of the Day

The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business.
-- Frank Zappa

Monday, June 15, 2009

Quote of the Day

I don't own a computer, or a modem, or anything like that; I still work on a manual typewriter, by choice, and to those who consider me a Luddite I say: Fuck you and yo mama. I operate at the level of technology that best suits my needs. And I type at 120 words per minute --two fingers --I make no mistakes, and my manuscripts are real. You can pick them up and hold them. My typewriter doesn't dump it's memory --I don't lose a book.
-- Harlan Ellison

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Quote of the Day

And how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
-- Homer J. Simpson

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Quote of the Day

If you ever require a picture of resentful apathy, check out any background munchkin in the Wizard of Oz. Also, I think it's shameful to try to pin the collapse of the lollipop industry on the lollipop guild.
-- John Hodgman (via twitter)

Week in Review

- Are audiophiles really this stupid?
- Friday Random Ten: 2009-06-12
- A really stupid article
- Reading: _Lawrence of Arabia_
- _Futurama_ is being resurrected on Comedy Central
- Friday Random Ten: 2009-06-05
- You Twit Face
- The Stupid, It Burns!
- Our long national nightmare finally comes to an end
- Another Tiresome Scam Email

Friday, June 12, 2009

Quote of the Day

A noble spirit embiggins the smallest man.
-- Jebidiah Springfield

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Quote of the Day

No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
--Yogi Berra

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Quote of the Day

One does not need to puzzle long over why religionists hate atheists so venomously. Atheist stir up the suppressed doubts of believers to the point of producing anguish. This is the anguish that incited believers to burn heretics and atheists at the stake in olden times to remove the source of the unsettling, disturbing doubts that plagued the believers.
-- C. W. Dalton, The Right Brain and Religion

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Quote of the Day

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
-- Clarence Darrow

Monday, June 08, 2009

Quote of the Day

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
-- William S. Burroughs

Sunday, June 07, 2009

Quote of the Day

Let's face it, comedy is a dead art form. Now tragedy, ha ha ha, that's funny!
-- Bender Unit 22

Saturday, June 06, 2009

Quote of the Day

The five main kinds of electricity are alternating current, direct current, lightning, static, and European. Most American homes have alternating current, which means that the electricity goes in one direction for a while, then goes in the other direction. This prevents harmful electron buildup in the wires.
-- Dave Barry

Week in Review

- Friday Random Ten: 2009-06-05
- You Twit Face
- The Stupid, It Burns!
- Our long national nightmare finally comes to an end
- Another Tiresome Scam Email
- Friday Random Ten: 2009-05-29
- Wall of Voodoo: ‘Tomorrow’
- Reading: _Lawrence of Arabia_
- Euro-Millions Lottery Results
- Friday Random Ten: 2009-05-22

Friday, June 05, 2009

Quote of the Day

All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
-- Carl Sagan

Thursday, June 04, 2009

Quote of the Day

Oh, everything's too damned expensive these days. This Bible cost 15 bucks! And talk about a preachy book! Everybody's a sinner! Except this guy.
-- Homer J. Simpson

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Quote of the Day

But this one goes to eleven.
-- Nigel Tufnel

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Quote of the Day

The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
-- Stephen Jay Gould

Monday, June 01, 2009

Quote of the Day

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
-- Bertrand Russell