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Lord Acton

Mon, 08 Oct 2007 21:04:55 GMT

I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favorable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption it is against the holders of power, increasing as the power increases. Historic responsibility has to make up for want of legal responsibility. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men...

Yum spare parts

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:31:53 GMT

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fortune

Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:37:01 GMT

Fortune's Law of the Week (this week, from Kentucky):

No female shall appear in a bathing suit at any airport in this

State unless she is escorted by two officers or unless she is armed

with a club. The provisions of this statute shall not apply to females

weighing less than 90 pounds nor exceeding 200 pounds, nor shall it

apply to female horses

>more function:fortune

wget http://www.iheartquotes.com/api/v1/random.

Friedman and Westmoreland on the Draft

Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:28:51 GMT

Vietnam troop commander William Westmoreland gruffly announced during one commission hearing that he was not interested in leading an army of “mercenaries.” Friedman coolly replied, “Would you rather command an army of slaves?”

Westmoreland bristled. “I don’t like to hear our patriotic draftees referred to as slaves,” he said. “I don’t like to hear our patriotic volunteers referred to as mercenaries,” Friedman snapped back—

Cool Cal

Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:57:10 GMT

We have enough laws already, I don't need to sign any more.
- explanation for taking a vacation for the entire summer
There's no chance for job advancement.
- after being asked why he would not seek re-election
It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.
Asked about being sworn in as President. "I think I can swing it".

Must get famous and give this commencement speech

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:34:44 GMT

[Tosses aside Harvard commencement speech Advisor wrote for him]

Nathan: I don't need this stupid speech! [looking out at graduates] You think you're smart huh? Think you can come up here and take a piece of this? Huh? Any of you? You? You? Listen, Harvard. I'm a billionaire. And most of you are gonna graduate, and move back in with your parents! I'm gonna tell you somethin', though. We have something in common: we're all gonna die. No matter whatcha' do, no matter whatcha' do with your lives, you're dead! You're dead! You're dying. You're gonna die, all of you, dead. You, dead. You, dead, all of you. You, lady? Your tits will be eaten by maggots, in just a few short years. So here's my message, my message to you, a very simple message: Go forth. Go forth, and DIIIIIE!

Edison

Sat, 09 Dec 2006 00:16:09 GMT

"Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something."

Thomas A. Edison

Discussions about Middle East politics remind me of a bit from a comic, Pearls Before Swine

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:36:41 GMT

Discussions about Middle East politics remind me of a bit from a comic, Pearls Before Swine. One of the characters is a Zebra, who can't understand why the lions keep eating his fellow Zebras. So, he writes a letter to the lions filled with philosophical questions about peace, understanding and the nature of being, asking why can't they all get along, why can't they be friends..

The answer comes back from the lions "we eat Zebras becuz you taste gud."

Kentuckian

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 21:23:29 GMT

Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport, he is a Kentuckian too.

—The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner

Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:29:39 GMT

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.
George S. Patton

Turbosupercharging

Fri, 22 Sep 2006 21:38:44 GMT

Apparently you can both supercharge and turbocharge an engine. New mission in life do this to my car before I die.

screw you manning

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 05:07:15 GMT

To everyone picking the Colts to win the Super Bowl. Really, we have to go through this every season? They choke every January, Manning walks off the field in shock, we all agree they can never win the Super Bowl, Skip Bayless' face turns dark maroon talking about it on Monday morning's "Cold Pizza" … and then nine months pass and it's almost like the NFL brainwashed us to forget what happened. I mean, Peyton Manning could be 63 and walking around with a colostomy bag and Peter King would still be claiming that this will be his season. Give it up. It's not happening. If anything, he's one more January collapse from going A-Rod on us.

Programming Qoutes

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:47:12 GMT

Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.

Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.

Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term.

Woohoo it's out.

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 20:53:36 GMT

My babies free from the beta frontdoor.

http://qna.live.com

Two Reviews so far.

http://www.searchengineguide.com/laycock/008294.html

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/08/29/windows-live-qna-open-for-use

Diggination

http://digg.com/tech_news/Windows_Live_Qna_is_now_in_a_public_beta

good stuff

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 17:47:27 GMT

Bender: Hey, the guy's dead, there's no law against grave-robbin'.

Professor Farnsworth: Everyone's always in favor of saving Hitler's brain but when you put it in the body of a great white shark suddenly you've gone too far.

Bender: I'm not allowed to sing. Court order.

Bender: Although you may have to make a metaphorical deal with the Devil. And by Devil, I mean Robot Devil. And by metaphorical, I mean get your coat.

"History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it"-Winston Churchill

Ask a Ninja: Net Neutrality

Wed, 31 May 2006 06:59:24 GMT

We have this wall build out of the shredded first ammendment... held together with a glue made out of greed

Nice to Hear

Tue, 23 May 2006 20:23:05 GMT

Mr. Chairman, we have heard a lot about what this debate is about. That is not what it is about. This is not about whether or not this House is going to support our brave men and women in uniform as they fight this war on terror. Every time the Commander in Chief has come to us and asked us to pass a supplemental appropriation to put guns on the front lines, ammunition on the front lines, gasoline on the front lines, equipment on the front lines, we have done it. We have done it. That is not the question….
Clearly, the greatest threat, the greatest threat to our country is the war on terror. But we also have another threat, and that is out-of-control Federal spending. If we are going to buy the guns, we had better get a little lean on the butter, and we had better quit wrapping the butter in the American flag in this sleight of hand. It is wrong, Mr. Chairman. It is wrong to do it. We will support our troops, but to sit here and pay for all of these earmarks and all the pork projects wrapped in the American flag is the wrong thing to do.

Also this link is good.

Happy Users

Sat, 20 May 2006 17:43:16 GMT

Failure

Tue, 16 May 2006 01:34:04 GMT

Software Hall of Shame (from IEEE article Why Software Fails)
History's Worst Software Bugs (Wired)
Software Horror Stories (Nachum Deshowitz, Tel Aviv University)
Forum on Computer Risks (ACM moderated mailing list)
Failure Rate (collection of failure rate statistics from IT surveys)

Patton

Fri, 12 May 2006 07:47:04 GMT

"When a man is lying in a shell hole, if he just stays there all day, a German will get to him eventually. The hell with that idea. The hell with taking it. My men don't dig foxholes. I don't want them to. Foxholes only slow up an offensive. Keep moving. And don't give the enemy time to dig one either. We'll win this war, but we'll win it only by fighting and by showing the Germans that we've got more guts than they have; or ever will have. We're not going to just shoot the sons-of-bitches, we're going to rip out their living Goddamned guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We're going to murder those lousy Hun cocksuckers by the bushel-fucking-basket. War is a bloody, killing business. You've got to spill their blood, or they will spill yours. Rip them up the belly. Shoot them in the guts. When shells are hitting all around you and you wipe the dirt off your face and realize that instead of dirt it's the blood and guts of what once was your best friend beside you, you'll know what to do!" "I don't want to get any messages saying, "I am holding my position." We are not holding a Goddamned thing. Let the Germans do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy's balls. We are going to twist his balls and kick the living shit out of him all of the time. Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether we have to go over, under, or through the enemy. We are going to go through him like crap through a goose; like shit through a tin horn!" "From time to time there will be some complaints that we are pushing our people too hard. I don't give a good Goddamn about such complaints. I believe in the old and sound rule that an ounce of sweat will save a gallon of blood. The harder WE push, the more Germans we will kill. The more Germans we kill, the fewer of our men will be killed. Pushing means fewer casualties. I want you all to remember that."

The General paused. His eagle like eyes swept over the hillside. He said with pride, "There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again. You may be thankful that twenty years from now when you are sitting by the fireplace with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in the great World War II, you WON'T have to cough, shift him to the other knee and say, "Well, your Granddaddy shoveled shit in Louisiana." No, Sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say, "Son, your Granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a Son-of-a-Goddamned-Bitch named Georgie Patton!"

Photo Album: new mustang wheels

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:30:06 GMT

new mustang wheels

mustang, wheels, tires 001

mustang, wheels, tires 002

mustang, wheels, tires 003

mustang, wheels, tires 004

Photo Album: Dinosaur cake

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:23:12 GMT

Dinosaur cake

Photo Album: Mount Si

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 05:06:23 GMT

Mount Si

Mountain Summit, We got to the top of that.

Snommish Valley

Wintana on top of summit with rainer behind her.

Wintana with seattle in the distance

Photo Album: I broke solitaire.

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 19:59:35 GMT

I broke solitaire.

messedupsolitaire

messedupsolitaire2

Photo Album: New Brakes

Mon, 27 Mar 2006 07:02:23 GMT

New Brakes

New Brake Dirty

New Brake Clean

Old Rear brakes, but with new pads and machined rotors.

new versus old.

Photo Album: beer

Thu, 29 Sep 2005 06:38:10 GMT

beer

Untitled Photo

Photo Album: Hizzouse

Tue, 13 Sep 2005 07:12:56 GMT

Hizzouse

Roomage

Closed

voila

Photo Album: Car pics

Fri, 09 Sep 2005 06:01:13 GMT

Car pics

Whole Engine

K&N Fipk

Ghetto Headlight

Photo Album: Alpine Lake

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 18:16:22 GMT

Alpine Lake

bunch of people

i90

lake1

Photo Album: Twin Sisters Falls

Thu, 25 Aug 2005 07:10:19 GMT

Twin Sisters Falls

Untitled Photo

Photo Album: August 25

Thu, 25 Aug 2005 07:08:36 GMT

August 25

Untitled Photo

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