Friday thoughts
I guess that it has become thing of a pattern for me to have breakfast on Friday mornings at Wheatfields and start bleeding thoughts into this blog. Cut open a vein and type, as Jack said.
- You are either the dragon or the dragon chow.
- Ole wrote this week that scientists build to learn but engineers learn to build. The former shows dedication to continuous learning, the later shows a dedication to doing the same thing over and over and over again.
- The are patterns in architecture, and their are patterns in software design. Are their patterns in writing -- other than the concept that there are only seven stories to tell?
- I've been called "learned" and "sir" twice this week. Poppycock! Einstein was learned. Collin Powell earned sir. Call me what you will as long as its not late to dinner.
- The Alabama football program has renamed an award that was named for their previous coach. This is causing suffering in the minds of many. Awards are best named for the dead, for in death, all our mistakes are washed away.
- All I needed to know about politics I learned from NASCAR. Front-runners win. Please like drivers not for their own merits but rather because of what brand car they drive. The harder left you turn and the faster you go, the more fascinating the circle your running becomes The same could be said of driving fast and turning right if their was NASCAR in the UK, but they have had the Wisdom to see the folly in it (NASCAR, that is, there's this whole Thatcher thing though.)
- Go hug a tree. It won't press charges.
- The car of life leaves the factory Don't Know Shit, goes to through Can't Learn Shit, stops briefly at Knows All About Shit and Don't Give a Shit for a hot cup of Joe. Eventually our car gets back on the road towards Don't Know Shit, breaks down briefly in Don't have Enough Shit for some expensive repairs, rockets to Becoming the Shit but gets pulled over by the You Are Shit cops and takes a beating. Released, the life car meanders on the backroads now towards Oh, the Shit you'll Know, tours around All the Shit you never Learned finally winds up in a junk yard in Can't leave a Shitsville.
- Everybody would be an ecologist if water were as scarce as gold.
- What I don't get: good French Toast is neither but good French Dressing is a double entendre.
- I'm blessed with good friends, great beer and a large pasture of sweet green grass to chew. Now I just need to let my inner cow go.
- How we see the world: Looks flat. We are as ants running about a table. How God sees the world: we are as ants running about the circumface of a muddy ball.
- RTFM. If the M is confusing, or worse, its F'ed up, F it, go RAFB. If that B didn't help, go WYOFB. That'll teach you good.