Quote of the Day

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
- Charlie McCarthy

Quote of the Day

"It is said that the civilized man seeks out good and intelligent company, so that by learned discourse, he may rise above the savage, and be closer to God. Personally, however, I like to start the day with a total dickhead to remind me that I'm best."
- Rowan Atkinson in "Black Adder"

Gasp, pant, splutter

I've just shuffled away a HUGE mound of snow that fell of the roof last night and deposited in my driveway. I'm soaked with sweat, out of breath, warm and ice cold at the same time... Next year I'm buying a fuckin' snowblower, that's for sure.

West Wing

Having a ridiculous amount of spare time on my hands (don't tell my boss), I've devoted January to the viewing of West Wing, the show about a fictitional US president and his staff. I'd watched the six first seasons and a few of the episodes of the seventh before, but over a span of several years. Seeing the whole thing in less than a month, often a whole season in a weekend really brought home what a wonderful show this is. It's got everything - humor, drama, excitement, intrigue, action, romance. It's so fast paced there's hardly a boring moment in seven seasons of script, and all I can say is that at the end I wanted it to go on and on and on.

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Bishop of Bath and Wells: "Never have I encountered such foul mindless perversity! Have you considered a career in the church?"
- From Rowan Atkinson's "Black Adder"

Quote of the Day

"They do have one redeeming feature: their wallets. More capacious than an elephant’s scrotum and just as hard to get your hands on."
- Rowan Atkinson in "Black Adder"

Quote of the Day

George: Oh, sir, if we should happen to tread on a mine, what do we do?
Edmund Blackadder: Well, normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump up 250 feet into the air and scatter yourself over a wide area.
- Rowan Atkinson in "Black Adder"

Quote of the Day

"Baldrick, I'd like to say how much our association has meant to me over the years, but as we both know, that would be a complete and utter lie. So I'll just leave by saying 'Sod off, and if I ever see you again, it will be twenty billion years too soon!'"
- Rowan Atkinson in "Black Adder"

Quote of the Day

On special request, this week is designated "Black Adder week"...

"They do say, Mrs Miggins, that verbal insults hurt more than physical pain. They are of course wrong, as you will soon discover when I stick this toasting fork in your head."
- Rowan Atkinson in "Black Adder"

Quote of the Day

"Baldrick, you have all the artistic capabilities of a cluster of colour-blind hedgehogs. In a bag."
- Rowan Atkinson in "Black Adder"

I - the pinnacle of evolution

I've always suspected it, of course, but now there's solid evidence - grumpiness is a sign of advanced civilization: "Researchers now believe that being aggressive, intolerant and short-tempered could be a sign of a more advanced nature." If so, I am one of the most advanced people on the planet, is all I can say.

Quote of the Day

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
- Victor Hugo

Prague in the summer

I have my eyes set on Prague for the summer holiday, and I have enrolled my minions in said city to be on the lookout for a decent apartment to rent. Ideally I have this vision of a huge apartment overlooking the river, a place which I can turn into party central for a month or so. Good music, good food and good conversations all through the night... ahhhh.

I am therefore enrolling even YOU, dear reader in my apartment project. If any of you have knowledge of a suitable rental space in Prague this summer, gimme a holler in the comments section. I am available from the last weekend in June till mid August, but I hope to have an agreement of rental nailed down as soon as possible.

These are the parameters of my search, the things that an apartment MUST have:
- At least two bedrooms. I'm probably going to have guests coming down from Norway and possibly other places.
- Two toilets, with at least one shower.
- A decently sized living space. The whole apartment needs to be at least 80 square meters I think, possibly upwards of a hundred.
- Fully furnished (I can't be dragging chairs and tables with me from Norway). I need some equipment in the kitchen too and a working fridge.
- Parking space. Not necessarily connected to the apartment but something not too far away from it.
- Everything paid for in the price quoted. No hidden costs, no extras.

Negotiable points:
- WIFI. I could always find a cafe, but it's practical to have a working internet connection in the apartment.
- Length of stay. Ideally a month. Could be as little as 3 weeks, could be as much as 6 weeks.
- Location. Again, ideally central - meaning Mala Strana, Stare Mesto, Holesovice and parts of Nove Mesto. But I'm open to other locations if the place is brilliant.
- Price. Ideally, as low as possible, hehe... but I can go up to 25 000 koruna for a month.

Quote of the Day

I will call no being good, who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow-creatures; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.
- John Stuart Mill

Quote of the Day

Beware the fury of a patient man.
- John Dryden

Quote of the Day

If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so.
- Thomas Jefferson

Quote of the Day

The pen is the tongue of the mind.
- Miguel de Cervantes

I rule

Go and take this quiz. If you get every question right, you are a godlike being and worthy of my friendship and the adoration and envy of all. If you fail, you're a miserable mortal, and along with 98% of the American population a moron. Heh.

Quote of the Day

While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple.
- Gerald W. Grumet

Quote of the Day

At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.
- Marshall Lumsden

Numbers

I weighed in at 116,7 kg this morning - just 1,2 kg more than I weighed before I left for London in December. Tomorrow I'll start exercising again. Wheeeeee!

Quote of the Day

Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
- Samuel Johnson

Quote of the Day

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
- Francis Bacon

Quote of the Day

Computer: a million morons working at the speed of light.
- David Ferrier

Quote of the Day

It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.
- Diogenes

B12

Went to my doctor last week and it turns out I have a B12 vitamin deficiency. I arranged for someone in the health faculty at school to give me the injection (I first asked if maybe some pupils would volunteer to poke a hole in me, but it seems we no longer educate for that profession), and showed up yesterday with my B12 in small glass bottles. I had read the small stuff about the medication, but I failed to understand the meaning of the term "intramuscular". Basically, it means you get a shot in the ass, not in the arm... as I got the injection high on my left buttock. A Swedish friend of mine says "intramuscular" means it should be possible to set the injection in any muscle, but either this was the correct muscle or I've been royally had by my colleagues...

Quote of the Day

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen

Quote of the Day

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
- Jerome K. Jerome

Quote of the Day

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.
-Al Capp

Facebook

I have reluctantly signed up for Facebook, and I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. Everything about its smirky, user-unfriendly, intrusive, cuntfaced existence makes me loathe it. Jury's still out on whether I keep it or not, as of now I am only using it to feed my blogposts to a larger audience.

I keep getting silly suggestions for "friends" to add - people I haven't seen or heard from in years keep popping up, and I WILL NOT consider them friends of mine - not then, not now, not EVER. Same goes for the chat function, I WILL NOT chat on Facebook. I have Googletalk, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo, thank you very much. If that doesn't suit you, fuck off.

Worst of all is the inane chatter people use Facebook for. I have been following, with an equal mix of unbelief, horror and loathing the minute details shared, the boring facts of uninteresting, little lives regurgitated ad nauseam and finally the insane games people play on there. I don't give a flying fuck if you've found a pot of gold, want to send me roses or that you were tagged on someone else's photos. How the fuck do I turn it OFF? How do I weed the 99% that's utter rubbish from the sadly few, interesting little pieces of useful information on people's pages? Head, meet desk.

Quote of the Day

It's not the monuments that teaches us history. It's the ruins.
- Carl Hammaren

Quote of the Day

As long as people believe in absurdities, they will continue to commit atrocities.
- Voltaire

Special re-run

As a public service to my loyal readers I present you once again with my artistic masterpiece, "Muhammed, the ass-fucked prophet, here seen impaled on a Halliburton oil pipe". This post is of course a follow-up to the "I'm Kurt Westergaard"-post of last week.

Quote of the Day

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"
- Peter Sellers, "Dr. Strangelove"

Quote of the Day

There are two rules for success. . .
1) Never tell everything you know.
- Roger H. Lincoln

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People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.
- Wilbur N. Nesbit

Quote of the Day

Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
- Miguel de Cervantes

Quote of the Day

No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.
- Scott Adams

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A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai Stevenson

Quote of the Day

It is bad luck to be superstitious.
- Andrew W. Mathis

Quote of the Day

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
- Mark Twain

Quote of the Day

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay

Quote of the Day

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
- Jack London

Quote of the Day

Any priest or shaman must be presumed guilty until proven innocent.
- Robert A. Heinlein

I am Kurt Westergaard

In solidarity with the Danish cartoonist attacked in his home a few days back, I reproduce the drawings of Muhammed. The title of this blogpost is of course a reference to the famous "I am Spartacus"-line from the movie (and also to "I'm Brian"...).

Unlike some commenters in the Norwegian media who stress they don't find the drawings offensive or have no desire to offend, I would like to repeat this: I find the whole concept of religion offensive and repulsive and I find the religion known as Islam to be especially contemptible, moronic and dangerous. I piss on "the great religion of Islam", I spit on its "holy" writings and I fart in the general direction of its followers.

The drawings:


Westergaard's drawing:

Quote of the Day

All in all, I can't say I believe in god. If, in fact, I ever find out that he does indeed exist, I think I'll stay away from him, because if he's responsible for half the things he gets credit for, he's got to be one mean son of a bitch.
- Peter Gether

Cunting moron

We have a quick break in the program for today's staff meetings. The first half of the day is a seminar by a cunting moron named Arnt Sæther who is charging good money for spouting gibberish, telling lame jokes and generally behaving like an asshole. It's incredible how much time and money is wasted every year on stuff like this all around the country. We've got meetings and seminars and inspirational talk coming out our collective asses and it's enough to make me want to go postal.

Update: Lunch is over and were going to dept. meetings. These seminars where some cunt like Sæther talks for eons about nothing at all makes me almost homicidal. I just want to put on my brass knuckles and go to town on his face.

Quote of the Day

"It’s snowing still," said Eeyore gloomily.
"So it is."
"And freezing."
"Is it?"
"Yes," said Eeyore. "However," he said, brightening up a little, "we haven’t had an earthquake lately."
- A. A. Milne, "Winnie the pooh"

Quote of the Day

Absurdity: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion.
- Ambrose Bierce

Status report 3

Headbanging to Guns & Roses with some Poles now... this night is already legendary...

Status report 2

Just finished singing my way through most of Joshua Tree with a couple of Americans. This might be one of the best nights ever.

Status report

It's 10:56 PM and I've got a bar full of people headbanging to Enter Sandman. I rock.

Quote of the Day

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
- Dave Barry

What a night

Tonight I've been DJ-ing for a few hours. Hooked my laptop onto the sound system and let it rip - mostly rock, like WASP, Queen and Pink Floyd. I had the distinct and hysterical pleasure of watching a Polish guy headbang to Metallica's "Sandman". The Poles were a nice bunch, as were a group of Italians. We chatted about everything from Berlusconi to Italian food to soccer in the early 80s. We shared a dislike of the French and a love of Juventus (a Turin soccer club). Good times.

The Germans, as usual, were not so nice. I dunno... when people become hideously drunk and instead of politely asking me, start TELLING me what they want to hear, I go into asshole mode. Ugh. On the bright side, some of the Krauts were polite and they all seemed to love my chocolate.

Anyways, I've been entrusted with the music for all of Saturday night and it's going to be a blast - good old rock & roll, baby. DJ Ghost in da house! Wheeeeeeee!

Party in Prague

Things are changing down here in Prague. The owner of the hotel building (an arrogant asshole if ever I saw one) has taken over the hotel as of today. He's already started firing people left and right. We don't know how long the Brick Bar has left - a month, maybe two. Sad times.

On the bright side we had a helluva party last night. I'd brought tons of Norwegian chocolate, cut them up and placed them in two huge glass bowls on the counter. They were a huge success. At midnight we went up to Letna Park to watch the Czechs go apeshit with dangerous missiles. Needless to say there was drunken debauchery everywhere. The only actual Czech person in our group, Jana, had of course brought some rockets. Here are the pics:


Spencer lighting the fuse.


The Beauty and The Beast... Jana and Spencer.


Chris, a Texan and Socrates, the Mad Greek


Bethany (sp?) and Travis, two nice Americans I met.


There was a full moooooooooooooon last night. Aooooooooooooo!

Quote of the Day

Justice is truth in action.
- Benjamin Disraeli

Quote of the Day

Wealth I ask not, hope nor love
Nor a friend to know me
All I seek, the heaven above
And the road below me.
- Robert Louis Stevenson


Happy New Year, fans!

I'm first! Me, me me!

An historical event happened at the airport today. I was the first to check in! When I arrived the Wizz Air counter hadn't opened yet, so I hung around, lurking in the shadows. When a middleaged woman walked up to an empty counter and started punching in on the computer, I made an educated guess and got in line. Lo and behold, it was Wizz Air and yours truly made it as numero uno. Wheee!

Also, this free internet thingy they have at the airport is pretty nifty - I'm typing these words at a cafe table in the terminal. It's just too stupid that you normally have to pay through the nose for something that ought to be normal courtesy in 2009 for any business of size & repute. Hrmph.

Lest I jinx this trip, let me close by cursing the effin parking house at the airport. Since it's bloody cold and there's lots of snow all over, I thought I'd splurge and park indoors. The sign outside the parking house said there were still a few open spots, so I drove in. Sadly there was not a fuckin space to be fuckin had on account of all the fuckin cunts doubleparked liked fuckin twats all over the fuckin place. I had to park way the fuck up at the back of the outdoors area and drag my way through the snow to the terminal. Curses.

Quote of the Day

I'm off to Prague in a few minutes... smell ya later!

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
- Franz Kafka

London IV

I spent a few happy hours at the Imperial War Museum yesterday, as my flight didn't leave until the evening. The museum has a magnificent audio guide and I highly recommend it (£3.50). The main hall has various assorted goodies, there's a submarine expo (mainly for children, which means I loved it), there's a WW1 and WW2 exhibit and also a little tribute to Monty - Bernard Montgomery, the Field Marshal who turned the tide of the war at El Alamein. The man was stark raving mad in some respects, but a brilliant leader of soldiers.

Another exhibition I spent some time at was titled "The Children's War" and focused on the war experience through the eyes of children. An essential element was the relocation of tens of thousands of children from the major cities to the countryside, and even to other English-speaking nations. The experience was diverse in the extreme. Some were poor, dirty, uneducated, often came from homes were abuse was common - and they came to the rich English countryside with space, fresh air, good material living - a long, blissful holiday, really. Others came from good homes and were treated badly - "a rotting matress in a room filled with rat droppings" was one line I remember. Often, children who returned home didn't recognize their parents. Some were sent overseas to South Africa, Canada and the US. As the exhibition makes clear, not all ships made it - some were sunk by submarines. There were also tons of info on everything from school to play, clothes, food, propaganda posters, etc, and of course lots and lots of old pictures (which I love). Highly recommended.

The V-2 and a Russian T-34. Piece of junk made by the Czechs in '55, captured by the Israelis, no doubt never fired a shot. Hehe.


The Sherman tank. Not the best, but easily mass produced by the allies.


Little Boy, the Hiroshima nuke. Sweet Jesus, I was tempted to sneak up behind the Asian guy and pop a paper bag.


Propaganda posters from the Children's War exhibition.


See here, children actually had to fuckin' WORK!


All pics here.

Quote of the Day

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
- E. Joseph Cossman

Quote of the Day

School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers.
- H. L. Mencken

London III

Christmas Day I spent two hours on a brisk walk through the center of London, on a "London Walks" tour called "Samuel Pepys' London". We met in Trafalgar Square, by the Norwegian Christmas tree. The rest of the day as well as all of Saturday I spent in my room, except for brief forays to hunt down food (there's an Indian restaurant round one corner and a McDonalds around the other).

Today I've spent a few delicious hours at the National Gallery, then I went and saw Sherlock Holmes at a theatre in Leicester Square. It sucked. Not hard, but not worth the time and money either. The worst part is, they show scenes in the trailer that isn't even in the fuckin' movie and that pisses me off.

On the bright side, things have picked up at the hotel. The room is tiny, but since the plumber came on Wednesday the water in the shower has been ok and I think I might stay here again next time I'm in London. It's difficult finding decent, cheap accomodation in this city but this is as close as I've ever come.

The Christmas Tree in Trafalgar Square and the placard accompanying it:




The obscenely good dessert at the Ciao cafe...

Quote of the Day

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed.
- Lloyd Jones

Quote of the Day

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.
- Kahlil Gibran

Quote of the Day

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
- Victor Hugo

Dinosaurs

Here are some pics I took at the Natural History Museum yesterday... all pics here.

Black & White. Lookin' purdy good.


The T-Rex. Mean mo'fo'.


Eggs. Awwwwww.

Quote of the Day

I find that we all get more legendary as time goes by. "Legend" means, basically, "bullshit".
- Joel Rosenberg

London II

Today I spent a few lazy, pleasurable hours at the Natural History Museum, mainly looking at DINOSAURS cuz they're COOL. Also looked at the mammals section.

Then I went back to the hotel for a little rest - such as could be had when there was a plumber fixing stuff and a receptionist knockin over the cupboard so it fell on the bed (good thing I wasn't on it). Hrmph.

In the evening I had a highly (lowly? middling?) mediocre dinner at Garfunkels, then popped next door to The Dominion and saw the musical "We will rock you". Great show, great cast, great tunes.

Quote of the Day

Happiness: An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
- Ambrose Bierce

London I

The flight over yesterday was pure hell. We first sat for almost three hours on the tarmac in Oslo, waiting for fuckin Gatwick to fuckin open. Then my hotel turned out to be a cramped little hole, where the water in the shower really came with only one option: Scalding hot.

Today has picked up considerably. I first went and spent some wonderful hours at the National Portrait Gallery, this time mainly the Victorians. Then I had a good lunch at the Ciao, the Italian cafe behind the gallery. In the evening I went out to Hammersmith and saw Jimmy Carr savage a couple of hecklers (he did a lot of other stuff too, but the hecklers were the best part).

Quote of the Day

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
- Horace Walpole

Numbers

This morning I weighed in at 115,5 kg - down 0,6 kg in a week. I still rock, but I fear what will happen during my upcoming 8 days in London. I'm bringing one manual with me and I intend to walk to my greedy little heart's desire, but the food is also very, very good in that city... sigh.

Quote of the Day

I'm off to London today. Buh-bye!

If it doesn't burn fuel or make a lot of noise, what good is it?
- Jim Byers

Quote of the Day

Eternal damnation awaits anyone who questions God's unconditional love.
- Bill Hicks

Happy Festivus

Soon (Dec 23) we shall enter that joyful holiday, Festivus - the holiday for the rest of us. As usual I don't give a flying fuck about Christmas, seasonal greetings, presents and decorations and intend to spend the day watching DVDs and maybe working out once or twice. But this year I thought I'd give Festivus a shot, more specifically the "airing of grievances". This is where I let you all know how much you've disappointed me over the past 12 months. Here goes:

- My family. You still haven't become rich and died, leaving me a vast fortune to squander as I please. I shall never forgive you.

- My colleagues. I have a stroke, and all you guys can think of is joking about my loss of a driver's license for two months! You've been mean to me, and one day I will come with a shotgun and explain to you exactly how I feel.

- My pupils. Dumb, ignorant, uninterested, ungrateful little bastards you are! Whining just because you have to interpret an English poem or write an essay of more than two paragraphs. Also, the next one of you to spell "with" as "whit" will have your fingers cut off.

- The CIA. You fuckers STILL haven't passed me a suitcase full of unmarked 20-dollar bills, despite all I've done for you. I'm giving fair warning, if an offer comes from the Russkies, I'll contemplate it.

- Mossad. I keep defending Israel, and you kikes STILL haven't given me a pair of über-cool sunglasses and a set of super secretive assassination weapons to use on my pupils. I'm warming to the Arabs is all I can say.

- My readers. You've not kept up the pressure in the comments section on my exercising scheme. I had to go ahead and have a STROKE before I started losing weight. I'm sorely disappointed in you, I had expected better (=worse).

- Barack Obama. Nuff said.

Quote of the Day

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
- W. D. Howells

Quote of the Day

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
- George Santayana

Quote of the Day

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

Up, up and awaaaaaay

I've done it again. I've gone and challenged fate by purchasing a trip to England Dec 21-28. Bet I'll be coming down with swine flu on Sunday evening... I'm flying to Gatwick with Norwegian Air and planning on a week's quick trip to see the sights of southeastern England - Surrey, Kent, West Sussex, East Sussex and possibly Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

Then on to Prague from Torp Airport in the south on Wednesday the 30th...

Update Thursday: Meh. All of Southeast England is CLOSED for Christmas, so I'm taking a week in London instead.

Quote of the Day

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.
- Tom Stoppard

Quote of the Day

"There's someone out there for everyone - even if you need a pickaxe, a compass, and night goggles to find them."
- Steve Martin in "LA Story"

Numbers

This morning: 116,1 kg. Lost 1,3 kg since last week. I rock.

Quote of the Day

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.
- Calvin Coolidge

Idiocy all round

A new study by PEW shows that Democrats, even more so than their supposedly more religious counterparts the Republicans, are braindead. The prevalence of ghosts, fortunetellers, communicating with the dead and other such rubbish is about twice as high amongst Democrats as Republicans.

Not surprisingly, "women are also twice as likely to have consulted a fortuneteller or psychic". This fits with personal experience, which is that women are more into fuzzy, feel-good, new age drivel, while men go more for the institutionalized, impersonal major religions. Regardless, it is a sad fact that Democrats, albeit perceived as more "secular" in their policies, are at least as irrational, ignorant and just plain DUMB as the Republicans in their world view.

Quote of the Day

Be not too hasty to trust or admire the teachers of morality; they discourse like angels, but they live like men.
- Samuel Johnson

Quote of the Day

"Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with a seat missing, but it hurts."
- Leslie Nilsen in "Naked Gun 2 1/2"

Quote of the Day

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Quote of the Day

Freedom is on the march!
- George W. Bush

Quote of the Day

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.
- Winston Churchill

Quote of the Day

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-sufficient.
- Michel De Montaigne

Quote of the Day

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
- Erich Fromm

Numbers

Weighed in at 117,4 kg this morning - 1.3 kg less than last week. Wheee!

Quote of the Day

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, on prayer

Quote of the Day

Revolutions are not made with rosewater.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

I can fly, I can fly, I can flyyyyyyy

Well, not really. But I can DRIVE again! Since my last trip to the hospital on September 29, I have had a ban on driving. Today I finally had a test of my cognitive abilites and I completely and utterly aced it. I circled the right numbers, I put the right pics in the right place and so on and so forth. No more buses, no more driving with family members, and most important of all: No more harassment from colleagues! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee!

Quote of the Day

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
- George Bernhard Shaw

Quote of the Day

A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
- Bert Leston Taylor

Quote of the Day

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.
- Ursula LeGuin

Quote of the Day

The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
- Mikhail Gorbachev