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Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"
---- Sam Levenson
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
---- Arnold Lobel
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
it's probably not a good idea to underestimate my ability to make an ass out of myself—just when I seem to have it under control, I'll turn around and surprise you.
---- Tenser said the Tensor
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
---- George Orwell
100 pushups
Today is the first day of the second semester, so back to work for me. The web design business is doing pretty well, since I’ve got about 3 clients backed up.
Today will be a quick meet the students and a 4 minute level test to see how many students I can kick out of my class and move them to the advanced class. Real lessons will start from day 2 this week. In other news, my university finally got around to giving us a raise after three years, so morale is much improved.
Finally, I’ve decided to take the 100 pushup challenge. I took the strength test on Friday and I’m in column three (the most difficult). I did my pushups for day one this morning and will work on day 2, come Wednesday.
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Monday Sep 1, 2008 at 07:00 AM
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kwandongbrian wrote 47 words on Sunday Sep 14, 2008 at 08:55 PM
I just did the test and will start tomorrow. I hope to balance that with running Tuesday, Thursday and once on the weekend.
I was able to keep my focus for 4 weeks in the summer and like the short timeline of six weeks for this program.
kwandongbrian wrote 45 words on Monday Sep 15, 2008 at 08:13 PM
I hope you won’t think I am cheating but I have started a steroid program simultaneously with starting the 100 push up program.
Seriously, I have a viral infection and have been given the steroids to deal with the infection.
Was that Barry Bonds’ excuse?