Random Quote

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

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
---- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer

As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal

Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.
---- Albert Einstein

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
---- Mitch Hedberg

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
---- M. Cartmill

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland

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

subscribe to RSS feed
 Saturday January 20 2007

5 things you didn’t know about me

I’ve been tagged by TEFLlogue in an internet meme tell your readers five things they didn’t know about you.

  1. Just like Katie, I have no sense of direction. I completely rely on landmarks to navigate. In Seoul this is not particularly useful since the average lifespan of a building is about 3 years and major businesses either close or move every 1-12 months. I am in stubborn denial of the need for a gps system for my car, but will probably break down eventually and get one.
  2. I hated school as a child and couldn’t understand why anyone would be a teacher, but yet I enjoy my job and have been teaching for almost 10 years now.
  3. I don’t watch broadcast TV, but I do download shows (which are not available on broadcast in Korea as far as I know) like Smallville and Heroes.
  4. In highschool and through university I was big into roleplaying games such as AD&D, Toon, Warhammer, and Magic: The Gathering
  5. Most readers probably are aware that I enjoy a good cup of coffee and if you aren’t aware of that you should read my about page. What you probably don’t know is that about twice a year I quit drinking coffee, for one to two weeks, in order to prove to myself that I can control the addiction. The headaches are brutal and last for 3 days.

So the theory is that I am now supposed to tag five other bloggers. Here goes - David (TEFLsmiler), Polyglot Conspiracy, Tensor, Aaron, & Kangmi.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Saturday Jan 20, 2007 at 06:21 AM
Random_Ramblings |
Picture of fencerider

fencerider wrote 81 words  on  Monday Jan 22, 2007  at  12:26 AM Korea (South)

Where do you download Heros?  I only got through Episode 11 here. http://www.tv-links.co.uk/
I’d like to see more:)
as for coffee…I’m allergic to caffiene (gasps echo throughout bloggerland from those who cannot live without the joe)...yes…it’s true…what happens to you when you dont is a bit like what happens to me if I do (coke and green tea are no-nos too)...two cups of coffee and i get blinding migranes that sometimes require sedation.  bummer eh…thing is…I love the taste of coffe:(

Sean.

Sean. wrote 51 words  on  Monday Jan 22, 2007  at  06:23 AM Korea (South)

I get Heros via torrent - yeah episode 11 is the last one. I believe there are no more until sometime in February.

That really bites about your allergy. I honestly don’t know what I would do without coffee. Much of my social life revolves around meeting friends at coffee shops.

Commenting is not available in this weblog entry.

Members





Auto-login on future visits
Show my name in the online users list

Forgot your password? |  Register

Polling Station

Are you Attending KOTESOL 2009?
pencil

Buy me a Coffee