Random Quote
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
---- Arnold Toynbee
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
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
---- Edward R. Murrow
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
---- Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995
"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
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
---- Pablo Picasso
Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
---- H. G. Wells
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
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
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
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
This may be the most interesting blog theme I've ever seen. http://eflgeek.com/index.php Definitely in my top 5 at least.
---- Steve Dembo
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
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
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
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
Library Thing
I was browsing Gord Sellar’s site the other day, when I noticed he had this block of book covers on his side bar. Intrigued I clicked through and found Library Thing. Library Thing allows you to catalogue every book you own or have read. You can then display them on your blog or export the data to excel or csv files.
I’ve already added 200+ books. It is very easy to add books, just type in the isbn number or title and author and search takes care of the rest. I did have to manually add a few titles but that was also easy. You have a number of ways to share your info on your blog. You can have a list, a set of book covers, using tags have a category cloud or author cloud. It’s really quite exciting. I’ve set up a library page on this blog displaying a random 100 books from my library; click here or use the link on the top menu bar. Just for kicks I’m going to add a tag cloud and an author cloud to this entry and a random book covers cloud.





gordsellar wrote 50 words on Wednesday Feb 14, 2007 at 10:31 PM
Yeah, I love librarything. I’m actually tracking my current reading on listal, where I’m also tracking my movie-viewing and music-listening, but as for cataloging stuff, librarything is just outstanding. Glad you’re enjoying it. If you keep on enjoying it, the lifetime membership isn’t very expensive, so you might consider it.
Sean. wrote 18 words on Thursday Feb 15, 2007 at 05:36 AM
Gord,
I bought the lifetime membership about 90 minutes after signing up. Will check out listal as well.