Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Quote of the Day

Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
-- Aldous Huxley

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

Quote of the Day

In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded.
-- Terry Pratchett

Monday, April 28, 2014

Quote of the Day

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.
-- David Letterman

Sunday, April 27, 2014

Quote of the Day

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

Saturday, April 26, 2014

Quote of the Day

Indoor electric illumination is often referred to as "artificial light." How can it be artificial? The way I look at it is this: If I can read by it, see myself in the mirror, and recognize my friends, it's probably as real as I'm ever going to need it to be.
-- George Carlin

Week in Review

- Leave It
- Quote of the Day
- Trolls don’t understand the First Amendment
- Mmmm, Fried Chicken Crust
- Until the end of their days
- MST3K 0108 – The Slime People
- Redeem Your Reputation and More!
- Easter
- Easter Yeggs
- Bag of Weed

Friday, April 25, 2014

Quote of the Day

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
-- Douglas Adams

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Quote of the Day

Science has 'explained' nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
-- Aldous Huxley

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Quote of the Day

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1/2 tons.
-- Popular Mechanics, March 1949

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Quote of the Day

I've begun worshipping the sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the sun. It's there for me every day. And the things it brings me are quite apparent all the time: heat, light, food, a lovely day. There's no mystery, no one asks for money, I don't have to dress up, and there's no boring pageantry. And interestingly enough, I have found that the prayers I offer to the sun and the prayers I formerly offered to "God" are all answered at about the same 50-percent rate.
-- George Carlin (Brain Droppings)

Monday, April 21, 2014

Quote of the Day

They used dogs. They used probes. They used cardio plate crossoffs. They used teepers. They used bribery. They used stick tites. They used intimidation. They used torment. They used torture. They used finks. They used cops. They used search and seizure. They used fallaron. They used betterment incentives. They used finger prints. They used the bertillion system. They used cunning. They used guile. They used treachery. They used Raoul-Mitgong but he wasn't much help. They used applied physics. They used techniques of criminology. And what the hell, they caught him.
-- Harlan Ellison, "Repent, Harlequin, said the Tick-Tock Man"

Sunday, April 20, 2014

Quote of the Day

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
-- Mark Twain

Saturday, April 19, 2014

Quote of the Day

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- Jacob Bronowski

Week in Review

- Another Brick in the Wall
- Quote of the Day
- It Doesn’t Matter!
- Mmmm, Yeast Rings
- 1.09 Million
- Creationist Cosmos
- Tax Day
- MST3K 0107 – Robot Monster
- Fox “News”: Race in America
- MST3K Short – Radar Men from the Moon 1

Friday, April 18, 2014

Quote of the Day

If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something.
-- Jack Handey

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Quote of the Day

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of a sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trapping of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
-- Bertrand Russell

Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Quote of the Day

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
-- Alexander Pope

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Quote of the Day

I don't say that we ought to all misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
-- Orson Welles

Monday, April 14, 2014

Quote of the Day

People whose concept of ancient history is the first series of Star Trek may be treated with patience, because it's usually not their fault they were reduced to getting their education from school.
-- Terry Pratchett

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Quote of the Day

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
-- J.R.R. Tolkien

Saturday, April 12, 2014

Quote of the Day

A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and
B is for biff, which reads all your mail.
C is for cc, as hackers recall, while
D is for dd, the command that does all.
E is for emacs, which rebinds your keys, and
F is for fsck, which rebuilds your trees.
G is for grep, a clever detective, while
H is for halt, which may seem defective.
I is for indent, which rarely amuses, and
J is for join, which nobody uses.
K is for kill, which makes you the boss, while
L is for lex, which is missing from DOS.
M is for more, from which less was begot, and
N is for nice, which it really is not.
O is for od, which prints out things nice, while
P is for passwd, which reads in strings twice.
Q is for quota, a Berkeley-type fable, and
R is for ranlib, for sorting ar table.
S is for spell, which attempts to belittle, while
T is for true, which does very little.
U is for uniq, which is used after sort, and
V is for vi, which is hard to abort.
W is for whoami, which tells you your name, while
X is, well, X, of dubious fame.
Y is for yes, which makes an impression, and
Z is for zcat, which handles compression.

-- THE ABC'S OF UNIX

Week in Review

- One of These Days
- Quote of the Day
- Fox “News” Anchor Congratulates UConn for Being the “NAACP” Champions
- Mmmm, Floor Tortilla
- Technique?
- MST3K 0106 – The Crawling Hand
- From fiction’s most notorious serial killer…
- MST3K Short – General Hospital 3
- What’s The Frequency, Kenneth?
- Animation Shows How Chile̢۪s Tsunami Took Over the Entire Pacific Ocean

Friday, April 11, 2014

Quote of the Day

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
-- Charles Mingus

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Quote of the Day

Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off.
-- Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)

Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Quote of the Day

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-- Albert Einstein

Tuesday, April 08, 2014

Quote of the Day

There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.
-- Bertrand Russell

Monday, April 07, 2014

Quote of the Day

Certainly, in the topsy-turvy world of heavy rock, having a good solid piece of wood in your hand is often useful.
-- Ian Faith

Sunday, April 06, 2014

Quote of the Day

I've recently noticed "as if for the first time" that when people pray they always look "upward" -- i.e. perpendicular to whatever place they're standing -- or kneeling or groveling. I deduce that they conceive of their "god" as topologically isomorphic to a huge donut, about a thousand miles wider than Earth.
-- Robert Anton Wilson

Friday, April 04, 2014

Quote of the Day

The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
-- Richard Dawkins

Thursday, April 03, 2014

Quote of the Day

How many hors d'oeuvres you are allowed to take off a tray being carried by a waiter at a nice party?

Two, but there are ways around it, depending on the style of the hors d'oeuvre. If they're those little pastry things where you can't tell what's inside, you take one, bite off about two-thirds of it, then say: "This is cheese! I hate cheese!" Then you put the rest of it back on the tray and bite another one and go, "Darn it! Another cheese!" and so on.

-- Dave Barry, "The Stuff of Etiquette"

Wednesday, April 02, 2014

Quote of the Day

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick

Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Quote of the Day

He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.
-- Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)