Year: 2004

  • Blame

    People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.George Bernard Shaw

  • Character

    Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings.  Only one thing endures and that is character.Horace Greeley

  • Man, Alive!

    I gotta get me one of these!  For only 9.500 Euro’s you too can get yourself a conference bike.  Check out the cool movie.  The only problem is I don’t think that I have six friends that would want to go on a picnic with me; and I’m already married, so its use as a…

  • Fairness

    Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.Dennis Wholey

  • The zen of folding a shirt

    This Sunday is Halloween! Do you have your costume yet?  No?  Well, have you considered dressing up as Beaker the Muppet? LinkRon Lichty points us to this demonstration of how to fold a shirt: LinkSomeone collects flight attendant uniforms.  Ahh, the Web. LinkFor productivity fans, I wrote a different kind of column here: LinkSurprising it…

  • Red Sox Joke

    Three fans are walking to Fenway Park for the Red Sox-Yankees playoff series, when they see a foot sticking out of some bushes.An inspection revealed a dead-drunk naked woman.  One man placed his Orioles baseball cap on her right breast.The Red Sox fan placed his cap on her left breast, and the Yankee fan put…

  • Purpose

    We are here on earth to do good for others.  What the others are here for, I don’t know.W.H. Auden