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How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth. -Sophocles, (495-405 BCE)
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
03:58 a.m.
ihumpedyourhummer.com
-from the manifesto: "Our disdain for the Hummer’s role in contemporary society is not formed through the perspective of any solitary ideological lens in isolation, rather, we offer a unified position from which many disparate groups might band together to cast condemnation on the monolithic vehicle. We welcome all who peacefully and articulately challenge the legitimacy of the Hummer today, whether their motivations be politically, environmentally, or otherwise informed." Read the entire glorious statement at http://www.ihumpedyourhummer.com/blog/manifesto
Thursday, August 3, 2006
04:27 a.m.
Pessimism never works.
Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.
5/4 of all people are bad at fractions.
I do know all the answers but I've been sworn to secrecy.
Ts'i mahnu uterna ot twan ot geifur hingts uto.
Thursday, July 27, 2006
02:57 a.m.
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. -Henry David Thoreau, 1862
Wednesday, July 26, 2006
04:19 a.m.
Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries. -Christopher Morley, (1890-1957)
Friday, July 14, 2006
04:10 a.m.
Summer afternoon - summer afternoon;
to me those have always been
the two most beautiful words
in the English language.- Henry James
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
06:23 p.m.
Keep your edges dry.
"So, booksellers," John Updike concluded, "defend your lonely forts. Keep your edges dry. Your edges are our edges. For some of us, books are intrinsic to our human identity." - Explosive Words At BookExpo America, Publishing's Digital Wave Crashes Against a Literary Pillar
Librarianship’s domain was defined six years ago by the ALA Core Competency
Task Force as including: organization, information and knowledge, service, facilitation of
learning, applications of technology, with research and management interwoven amongst
them all. All of these are components of the profession, and as with most professions,
they are enhanced by a set of values. Holders of these competencies need to be adaptable
and flexible in aiding ‘information consumers’ and the lifelong learning needs of society
for the long term. One might quibble with the wording of this definition, and wish to
clarify and extend some elements, but we might accept it as embracing, more or less, the
profession of librarianship."
Friday, May 26, 2006
05:24 a.m.
Barnum was wrong - it's more like every 30 seconds.
People only get lost in thought because it is unfamiliar territory.
Wednesday, May 17, 2006
04:39 a.m.
"May the god of your choice bless you. And onward through the fog." - Kinky Friedman, independent candidate for Texas governor, 2006
Friday, May 12, 2006
04:58 a.m.
We either make ourselves happy or miserable. The amount of work is the same. -Carlos Castenada
Tuesday, May 9, 2006
04:24 a.m.
The first step is to find out what you love - and don't be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible. I've seen what happens to people when they get to do what they love. They light up. They glow. They have a kind of energy that's wonderful. - Barbara Sher
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Q: How many librarians does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: CHANGE!?
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REPORTER: What do you think of Western civilization?
GANDHI: It would be a good idea.
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Tuesday, April 4, 2006
05:49 p.m.
The Cure for Information Overload
Saturday, April 1, 2006
04:30 a.m.
Communique from Unitarian Jihad.
"Our motto is: "Sincerity is not enough." We have heard from enough sincere people to last a lifetime already. Just because you believe it's true doesn't make it true. Just because your motives are pure doesn't mean you are not doing harm. Get a dog, or comfort someone in a nursing home, or just feed the birds in the park. Play basketball. Lighten up. The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone."
Friday, March 31, 2006
05:06 a.m.
"It is high time librarians stopped belittling
themselves and started esteeming their profession's contributions. For
instance, library automation, which dealt with the fuzzy world of text,
was light years ahead of the computing world of the 1980s, which still
thought of itself as a number crunch factory...[Librarians] must become architects, not bricklayers,
or somebody else will get the architect positions." - Chris Brown-Syed
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
04:56 a.m.
It infuriates me to be wrong when I know I am right. - Moliere
"The expectation of privacy by some Google users may not be reasonable, but may nonetheless have an appreciable impact on the way in which Google is perceived, and consequently the frequency with which users use Google," Ware wrote.
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it. -Herbert
Alexander Simon, economist, Nobel laureate (1916-2001)
Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they? -George Carlin
Surprisingly shortsighted article by John C. Dvorak:
"Academics, Get to Work! We need sociological studies
about the Net and computers." February 21, 2006.
Sunday, February 12, 2006
05:00 a.m.
In our country are evangelists and zealots of many different political, economic and religious persuasions whose fanatical conviction is that all thought is divinely classified into two kinds— that which is their own and that which is false and dangerous. - Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson
Sunday, February 12, 2006
04:55 a.m.
GPO never locks its front door.
James often repeats a story about his first day at work as [GPO]public printer. He asked for a key to the front door and, to his dismay, was denied. GPO never locks its front door. The agency, he learned, has never been closed in 140 years. "This operation runs around the clock to preserve your liberty."
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
08:06 a.m.
If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is
foul, foul, foul. -Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-1992)
Wednesday, February 1, 2006
04:49 a.m.
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are
used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by
destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will
solemnly vote against their own interests. -Gore Vidal, writer (1925- )
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
05:54 a.m.
When you want a kitten, start by asking for a horse.
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
11:37 a.m.
Rumer Godden:
"Everyone is a house with four rooms, a physical, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person." - from A House with Four Rooms
Saturday, January 21, 2006
04:40 a.m.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security.
-Dwight David Eisenhower, 1969
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
05:33 a.m.
Life would be easier if I had the source code.
Logic: the art of being wrong with confidence.
If at first you don't succeed, call it Version 1.0.
Does anal retentive have a hypen?
Resistance is futile if less than 1 ohm.
There's no place like 127.0.0.1
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
The box said "Requires Windows 98 or better." So I installed Linux.
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Domestic theories:
I only have a kitchen because it came with the house.
Normal is just a setting on the washing machine.
I understand the concepts of cooking and cleaning- just not how they apply to me.
I AM in shape. Round is a shape.
Did my reality check bounce?
I was born free. Now I'm expensive.
If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. But if life gives you limes, make margaritas.
Wednesday, January 4, 2006
09:14 p.m.
The Holy Grail of Tech Support:
"Rebooting can cure ailments of all sorts, can stop network troubles, crashing computers, find missing documents, and rescue cats in trees. System admins all over the world have, by and large, trained their users to reboot before even calling support. I mean, when’s the last time you didn’t reboot to see if it cured a problem? "
Wednesday, January 4, 2006
09:05 a.m.
Go outside. The graphics are amazing.
Monday, January 2, 2006
02:41 a.m.
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, then that of blindfolded fear. -Thomas Jefferson, 1826
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
01:45 p.m.
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time...
Sunday, December 18, 2005
05:48 a.m.
"God help us if there is an attack, and we are not protected by the Patriot Act,'' said Sen. Jon Kyl, R-A
About 90 percent of the Patriot Act that Congress passed about a month after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is permanent law.
Sunday, December 18, 2005
05:05 a.m.
If Jesus was a Jew, what's with the Hispanic name?
Sunday, December 18, 2005
02:01 a.m.
"Clarity is of no importance because nobody listens and nobody knows what you mean no matter what you mean, nor how clearly you mean what you mean. But if you have vitality enough of knowing enough of what you mean, somebody and sometime and sometimes a great many will have to realize that you know what you mean and so they will agree that you mean what you know, what you know you mean, which is as near as anybody can come to understanding any one."
- Gertrude Stein
Sunday, December 18, 2005
04:59 a.m.
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