out of John's mind

one moment you're contemplating total world domination,
the next moment you're happy you remembered to button your fly!

wisdom of sorts from John Landerholm

Mar
9th

Tue

In the world of the NFL athlete: If you think you are underpaid, I have two words for you. Free Agency! Just remember, you have to be a eligible to participate! So Mr. 20 something millionaire “Put up or STFU!

— MeMyself&I

Mar
7th

Sun

Why do I so much love these contraptions? Is it because they are created by higher life-forms or is it because they are pure manifestations of extreme human ingenuity?

Mar
5th

Fri

Buy into a business that’s doing so well an idiot can run it, because sooner or later, one will. The U.S. is sort of like that.

— Warren Buffett

Jan
26th

Tue

How can you prepare for less than full speed unless you are going to play that way?

If you don’t prepare these kids at full speed, if they don’t work every time they put their hand down at full speed, then they aren’t getting ready.

You know what they’re getting ready for?

They’re getting ready to get beat.

Nov
2nd

Mon

The difference between Baseball and Football told by George Carlin

Oct
31st

Sat

Mars has global warming, but without a greenhouse and without the participation of Martians

— Dr. Habibullo Abdussamatov (the head of the Space Research Laboratory at St. Petersburg’s Pulkovo Astronomical Observatory and one of the world’s most eminent critics of the notion that man made CO2 is driving global warming)

Oct
29th

Thu

The public is never told that these models are merely “stories”, or speculative “what if” scenarios. Just the opposite. It is the models and the stories they tell that have convinced much of the public that the consequences, if global warming does come true, will be so grave that we really should be better safe than sorry.

— Lawrence Solomon, author of “The Deniers” on the subject of computer models and “forecasting” climate change

Oct
27th

Tue

Science is not, nor ever has been, about consensus, but about experimental and observational data and testable hypotheses.

— Dr. Robert M. Carter

Oct
9th

Fri

Novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.

— Thomas Kuhn author of “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” who coined the phrase “paradigm shift” and won a Nobel prize

Oct
6th

Tue

Life’s simple.. if u think u ca do it (ur right).. if u think u cant do it.. ur right :)

— #71 Walter Jones (Seattle Seahawks all-world left tackle)

Oct
4th

Sun

Amazing 2 minute video explaining Google Wave. Gotta love the presentation technique.

Sep
18th

Fri

I’m watching you 59

— referee’s remark to Aaron Curry “playing to the echo of the whistle”

Sep
6th

Sun

Dream big, dream the impossible dreams. Like I always say, it’s all about attitude.

Accidents drive scientific discovery, confusion does not.

— Thomas S. Kuhn

Sep
3rd

Thu

Is this the best beer commercial ever made? I dunno, but one thing is for sure it must have been expensive, complicated and time consuming to produce.