Much human ingenuity has gone into finding the ultimate Before. The current state of knowledge can be summarized thus: in the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded.
[Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies]
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Nuclear Sunrise #1
Nuclear Sunrise #1, originally uploaded by kcm76.
This morning’s cold December sunrise, reworked artistically in Photoshop.
Quote: Atheists & Conscience
Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It’s a little easier if you’ve got a god to forgive you.[Ian McEwan; Sunday New York Times Magazine;
02 December 2007]
Sunrise with Crow
Sunrise with Crow, originally uploaded by kcm76.
Taken early this December morning through the study window.
The Secret
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing.
If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.
Groucho Marx
Wizard of Id
Yesterday’s (or was it today’s?) Wizard of Id cartoonfrom comics.com is another with a really zen quality to it (well at least if you think about it):
Whoopee: Love in a deep-sea style
For amusement … Whoopee: Love in a deep-sea style. It absolutely cracked me up!
Monty Python
Skatje over at Lacrimae Rerum has today observed:
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is an educational commentary on nobility-peasant relationships.
Don’t think I could have put it better myself. Says it all really.
Wonderful Weekend English
I was watching the soccer results programme on TV this afternoon. Some player (I didn’t hear who) had obviously had a bad day; this was described by one of the studio pundits as:
He’s had a holocaust.
Endless Screw
Apparently the manual for servicing the keel-lifting mechanism of a Beneteau Oceanis 311 yacht advises:
Unscrew the bolt THM8 located at the end of the endless screw.
[New Scientist; 24/11/2007]