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Your one syllable words are easier to eat.

Quote

My technical interests in household appliances waned after experiencing the excitement of serving as the primary ground conductor for the 1,000 V yoke of my family's Zenith television picture tube (perhaps motivating my interests away from hardware to software?).

--Alfred Hero, "President's Message", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol 23, #5, September 2006

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It's easy for a stingy man to get rich--but what's the use?

Seen in the Wild

{The techie part is just a way to get to the humor. So don't worry if you don't know what a dll is.}

Prudence would seem to dictate that unregistering the dll would be the wise thing to do.
[Her sister Temperance doesn't use a computer, so has no opinion in this case.]

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In America we believe in Life, Liberty and the Pursuit.

Advice

Don't worry about what people think, they don't do it very often.

"Tag"line

Anyone who works for a law firm makes loopholes.

Free Classical Music (link)

Ok, not all of you are big classical music fans, but this is pretty neat.

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston has a live concert series on Sundays from September through May. (Yeah, I can't make it there either!) They have decided to not only record (at least some of) them. More importantly, they are making them available for all with little restriction. You can read more and get the MP3 files here:
<http://gardnermuseum.org/music/podcast/theconcert.asp>

I've listened to the first three and all have been very good; but I do like the Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola (K. 364) by Mozart. But I'm looking forward to the Schubert songs too.

"Tag"line

Dracula was in it for the gory.

Quote

If your opponent is quick to anger, seek to irritate him.
—Sun Tzu

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Wall street has bulls, bears, and 'chickens'.

A Man Walks into a Bar...

A termite walks into a bar and asks,"Where is the bar tender?"

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Love--An ocean of emotions entirely surrounded by expenses.

Quote

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.
--Ian Fleming, Goldfinger

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Bandleader: A man who can face the music.

Definition

Sweater: a garment worn by a child when a mother feels chilly.

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It's better to have old second hand diamonds than none at all.

School Kids

"Give me a sentence about a public servant," said a teacher.

The small boy wrote: "The fireman came down the ladder pregnant."

The teacher took the lad aside to correct him. "Don't you know what pregnant means?" she asked.

"Sure," said the young boy confidently. "It means carrying a child."

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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everyone enjoys.

Seen in the Wild

In a world where children are taught that they are simply animals, they grow up to act accordingly.

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Polite masseurs never rub customers the wrong way.

Quote

First management had plans, and then strategic plans. Now we have vision, and we're only one small step from hallucination.
--Ainsley Throckmorton, President, Bangor Seminary

Bumper Sticker

[I saw this today (well it was today when I wrote this draft!). It was in an ugly fuchsia with hideous typefaces. Yes typeface_s_.]

I embarrass my offspring.

Video (link)

Philips has a new technology: clothing with embedded LEDs.
The press release is here:
<http://www.research.philips.com/newscenter/archive/2006/060901-lumalive.html>
A video is on YouTube here:
<http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/3457>
Neat, even if it's just another way to assault us with advertising.

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Mind over matter: If you don't mind, it don't matter.

Quote

In the end, a vision without the ability to execute is probably an hallucination.
--Stephen M. Case, Former Chairman, AOL Time Warner

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Fools rush in where fools have been before.

How-to (link)

[Gee, not quite like the Boy Scouts' basketry merit badge...]

<http://dangerouslyfun.com/cardboardstool.html>

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Rhodes Scholars ride first class.

Quote

[I couldn't agree more."Diarrhea of the mind" indeed!]

Spectrum: But isn't the point of brainstorming to suspend judgment to permit greater creativity?

Doug Hall: Yeah, but that's a pile of crap. There's no data to support that "no judgment" rule. Look through years of literature on the topic and what you'll find is that the rule that Alex Osborne came up with for brainstorming [when he coined the term] in 1953 creates a lot of quantity but no quality. A sort of diarrhea of the mind. The fact of the matter is--this is not art. This is what I call capitalist creativity. If you want to do art, then go to art school. But this is about ideas that you can sell, and so you need to stay very focused.

IEEE Spectrum, "Resources: The Idea Man", Aug. 2006, p. 46.
<http://www.spectrum.ieee.org>
(but since it's from last month, you might not have access to the original article)

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A rumor goes in one ear and out many mouths.

School Kids

A second grader came home from school and said to her mother, "Mom, guess what? We learned how to make babies today."

The mother, more than a little surprised, tried to keep her cool. "That's interesting," she said. "How do you make babies?"

"It's simple," replied the girl. "You just change "y" to "i" and add "es."

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Inflation--whatever goes up will go up some more.

A Man Walks into a Bar...

A man walks into a bar with a slab of asphalt under his arm and says:
"A beer please, and one for the road."