Message of the Day for Jul 30, 2006

One reason why George Washington
Is held in such veneration:
He never blamed his problems
On the former Administration.
-- George O. Ludcke

Message of the Day for Jul 29, 2006

"What is the Nature of God?"

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1 QT. SOUR CREAM
1 TSP. SAUERKRAUT
1/2 CUT CHIVES.
STIR AND SPRINKLE WITH BACON BITS.

"I've just GOT to start labeling my software..."
-- Bloom County

Message of the Day for Jul 28, 2006

"More software projects have gone awry for lack of calendar time than for all
other causes combined."
-- Fred Brooks, Jr., _The Mythical Man Month_

Message of the Day for Jul 27, 2006

It would seem that evil retreats when forcibly confronted.
-- Yarnek of Excalbia, "The Savage Curtain", stardate 5906.5

Message of the Day for Jul 25, 2006

My My, hey hey
Rock and roll is here to stay The king is gone but he's not forgotten
It's better to burn out This is the story of a Johnny Rotten
Than to fade away It's better to burn out than it is to rust
My my, hey hey The king is gone but he's not forgotten

It's out of the blue and into the black Hey hey, my my
They give you this, but you pay for that Rock and roll can never die
And once you're gone you can never come back There's more to the picture
When you're out of the blue Than meets the eye
And into the black
-- Neil Young
"My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue), Rust Never Sleeps"

Message of the Day for Jul 22, 2006

Velilind's Laws of Experimentation:
(1) If reproducibility may be a problem, conduct the test only once.
(2) If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data points.

Message of the Day for Jul 18, 2006

"We Americans, we're a simple people... but piss us off, and we'll bomb
your cities."
-- Robin Williams, _Good Morning Vietnam_

Message of the Day for Jul 17, 2006

Like winter snow on summer lawn, time past is time gone.

Message of the Day for Jul 16, 2006

Not to laugh, not to lament, not to curse, but to understand.
-- Spinoza

Message of the Day for Jul 15, 2006

Suddenly, Professor Liebowitz realizes he has come to the seminar
without his duck ...

Message of the Day for Jul 14, 2006

"The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through
three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and
Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases.
"For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can
we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by
the question 'Where shall we have lunch?'"
-- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Message of the Day for Jul 13, 2006

The problem with engineers is that they tend to cheat in order to
get results.
The problem with mathematicians is that they tend to work on toy
problems in order to get results.
The problem with program verifiers is that they tend to cheat at
toy problems in order to get results.

Message of the Day for Jul 12, 2006

Two friends were out drinking when suddenly one lurched backward off his
barstool and lay motionless on the floor.
"One thing about Jim," the other said to the bartender, "he sure
knows when to stop."

Message of the Day for Jul 11, 2006

My love, he's mad, and my love, he's fleet,
And a wild young wood-thing bore him!
The ways are fair to his roaming feet,
And the skies are sunlit for him.
As sharply sweet to my heart he seems
As the fragrance of acacia.
My own dear love, he is all my dreams --
And I wish he were in Asia.
-- Dorothy Parker, part 2

Message of the Day for Jul 10, 2006

Our way is peace.
-- Septimus, the Son Worshiper, "Bread and Circuses",
stardate 4040.7.

Message of the Day for Jul 9, 2006

Bolub's Fourth Law of Computerdom:
Project teams detest weekly progress reporting because it so
vividly manifests their lack of progress.

Message of the Day for Jul 8, 2006

Deadwood, n.:
Anyone in your company who is more senior than you are.

Message of the Day for Jul 7, 2006

When the revolution comes, count your change.

Message of the Day for Jul 6, 2006

Once at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, "I predict, Sir, that
you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease". Disraeli replied,
"That all depends, Sir, upon whether I embrace your principles or your
mistress."

Message of the Day for Jul 5, 2006

You never get a second chance to make a first impression.

Message of the Day for Jul 4, 2006

Jealousy is all the fun you think they have.

Message of the Day for Jul 3, 2006

Meantime, in the slums below Ronnie's Ranch, Cynthia feels as if some one
has made voodoo boxen of her and her favorite backplanes. On this fine
moonlit night, some horrible persona has been jabbing away at, dragging
magnets over, and surging these voodoo boxen. Fortunately, they seem to
have gotten a bit bored and fallen asleep, for it looks like Cynthia may
get to go home. However, she has made note to quickly put together a totem
of sweaty, sordid static straps, random bits of wire, flecks of once meaniful
oxide, bus grant cards, gummy worms, and some bits of old pdp backplane to
hang above the machine room. This totem must be blessed by the old and wise
venerable god of unibus at once, before the idolatization of vme, q and pc
bus drive him to bitter revenge. Alas, if this fails, and the voodoo boxen
aren't destroyed, there may be more than worms in the apple. Next, the
arrival of voodoo optico transmitigational magneto killer paramecium, capable
of teleporting from cable to cable, screen to screen, ear to ear and hoof
to mouth...

Message of the Day for Jul 2, 2006

Charity, n.:
A thing that begins at home and usually stays there.