Sunday, March 28, 2010

March 28, 2010


Quotes of the week

“At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.”
 Maurice Maeterlinck
“All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing”
 Maurice Maeterlinck
If the eye does not want to see, neither light nor glasses will help.
~Proverb, (German)
...a man who's willing to make a decision in the first place can always make another one to correct any mistake he's made.

Harry S. Truman

Meditation of the week

Choices

It's not as difficult as it may first appear to confront fear and anger with love and understanding.

The decision to do so is the first step.

Making this decision every morning is the second step.

Observing the success of this choice every night is the third.

Nothing will ever be the same again when we make this a daily practice.
Dear Moms Who Work Downtown

Video of the week

Piano improve on Chatroulette

Lines from a movie of the week

No Country for Old Men is a 2007 American crime thriller film adapted for the screen and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, You have to wade through all the violence and chaos to get to the good stuff. Here are two examples:
Loretta Bell: How'd you sleep?
Ed Tom Bell: I don't know. Had dreams.
Loretta Bell: Well you got time for 'em now. Anythin' interesting?
Ed Tom Bell: They always is to the party concerned.
Loretta Bell: Ed Tom, I'll be polite.
Ed Tom Bell: Alright then. Two of 'em. Both had my father in 'em . It's peculiar. I'm older now then he ever was by twenty years. So in a sense he's the younger man. Anyway, first one I don't remember too well but it was about meeting him in town somewhere, he's gonna give me some money. I think I lost it. The second one, it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin' through the mountains of a night. Goin' through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on goin'. Never said nothin' goin' by. He just rode on past... and he had his blanket wrapped around him and his head down and when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. 'Bout the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin' on ahead and he was fixin' to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold, and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there. And then I woke up...

You can’t make up such a thing as that, I dare you to even try

Also from “No Country for Old Men “
                               Bell
               My lord, Wendell, it's just all-out 
               war. I don't know any other word for 
               it. Who are these folks? I don't know
               ...
 
 
He rattles the paper. 
 
 
               ...Here last week they fund this 
               couple out in California they would 
               rent out rooms to old people and then 
               kill em and bury em in the yard and 
               cash their social security checks. 
               They'd torture them first, I don't 
               know why. Maybe their television 
               set was broke. And this went on until, 
               and here I quote...
 
 
He looks through his glasses at the paper. 
 
 
               ..."Neighbors were alerted when a man 
               ran from the premises wearing only a 
               dog collar." You can't make up such a 
            thing as that. I dare you to even try.
 
 
He peers over his glasses at Wendell who respectfully shakes his head and 
tsk's.
 
Sheriff Bell rattles the paper again. 
 
 
               ...But that's what it took, you'll no-
               tice. Get someone's attention. Diggin 
               graves in the back yard didn't bring 
               any. 
 
 
Wendell bites back a smile. Sheriff Bell gazes at him over his glasses for 
a long beat, deadpan. 
 
 
               ...That's all right. I laugh myself 
               sometimes.

And finally, the culmination of millennia of scientific endeavor


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