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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

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May
18th
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Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
— Joe Theismann -ex NFL quarterback and recipient of the Lawrence Taylor tough breaks award
Mar
27th
Tue
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Conquer first, plunder later.
— Genghis Khan
Mar
19th
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The four energy imperatives

power density

energy density

cost

scale

Mar
16th
Fri
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Shit happens, meanwhile try not to look too stupid

How stupid are we going to look in the eye’s of our grand children when after squandering $850,000,000,000 Googillion on C02 reduction, the Earth slips into another ice-age due to comet impact or volcanic eruption?

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The hardest thing about the internet is that it’s difficult to validate the information.
— Abraham Lincoln
Mar
15th
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What is the battery range of a Volt carrying 5 adults and luggage — in San Francisco?

Depends on how many of the passengers are pedaling.

— MarkW commenting on an article about electric scooters on wattsupwiththat.com
Mar
14th
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Some seriously funny shoes. Somebody had fun at work.

Some seriously funny shoes. Somebody had fun at work.

Feb
25th
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Trængsel??

This is seriously the funniest comment I’ve read concerning traffic congestion (trængsel) in Copenhagen. Trust me, there have been quite a few suggestions for curing congestion, but this one is by far the most imaginative ever!!
Feb
24th
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Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent that in passive agreement, for, if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper agreement than the latter.
— Bertrand Russell A Liberal Decalogue (1951)
Feb
22nd
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The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.
— Albert Einstein
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Hot on your heals!

Hot on your heals!

Feb
2nd
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Unbelievably beautiful creation!

Dec
17th
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Weight watching tip: change your aftershave.

Dec
12th
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Whether or not you believe that CO2 is the secular apocalypse, one thing is certain, the people that are trained in the arcane science of climate proxies are inadequate in training and incompetent in execution of something as large as architecting a future for our civilization.
— Dennis Ray Wing in an article “The True Failure of Durban” on www.wattsupwiththat.com
Nov
29th
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The kindest thing that can be said is that they have so little moral and intellectual anchoring that they easily drift with the currents of the day. To be kind, it’s not that they are dishonest, so much as they cannot recognize dishonesty. They are moral idiots, as per Kant.
— Jim Tynen commenting on the morals of Climategaters in his column Outside Observer