more quotes

from my Godfather's business' pocket calendar

-all your dreams come true if you have the courage to pursue them -Walt Disney

-anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new -Albert Einstein

-only love can be divided endlessly, and still not diminish -Anne Morrow Lindberg

-it's amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit -Harry S. Truman

-words, once printed, have a life of their own -Carol Burnett

-a day without laughter is a day wasted -Charlie Chaplin

-God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers -Rudyard Kipling

-a goal without a plan is just a wish -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

-success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom -General George Patton

-forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age -Victor Hugo

-it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation -Herman Melville

-nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself -Liberace

-it's never too late to be what you might have been -George Eliot

-Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs..since the payment is pure love -Mildred B. Vermont

-love is the greatest refreshment in life -Pablo Picasso

-nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he is talking about. -Sam Ewing

Excellence

some pithy sayings:

-It's hard to soar with the eagles when you're surrounded by a bunch of turkeys

-He who wakes up and finds himself famous hasn't been asleep.

-you should seek growth, not perfection

t-here will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
(Louis L'amour)

Private companies fighting hunger

from the Christian Science Monitor

"Pepsico, Kraft, Cargill, Land O' Lakes, and TNT Express are among many companies that have created nonprofit divisions to help alleviate hunger in developing countries."

I thought I'd reward them with some publicity in my blog.

link

Satan

in reality, not mythology..

I used wolfram alpha, and discovered:

1)satan eurystomus is the genus and species of the 'texas blind catfish' (Widemouth Blindcat)
(eurystomus is the only species of the genus satan)

also,
2)Satan is a city in Maguindanao, Phillipines. pop. 4,068

interesting, no?
again, I'd still like to know the backstory of how and why.

Love

Does anybody know the etymology of love?

(in tennis, I mean, as a score of zero)
help me out, wikipedia doesn't say..

okay, I answer my own question:
"The term 'love' in tennis, comes from the French word l'oeuf which means egg. The egg is shaped like a zero." -ask.com

I still want to know more, though..

still reading

latest reads, of yours truly, from the library

-The Bedwetter, stories of courage redemption and pee, by Sarah Silverman
-The Omega Theory, by Mark Alpert
-The Huffington Post complete guide to blogging
-Final Jeopardy, man vs. machine and the quest to know everything, by Stephen Baker
-The lean belly prescription, by Travis Stork, M.D.
-The case for books, by Robert Darnton
-Me talk pretty one day, by David Sedaris
-The science of evil, by Simon Baron-Cohen
-Man-made monsters, by Dr. Bob Curran
-Take it like a mom, by Stephanie Stiles
-Midnight in the garden of good and evil, by John Berendt
-The Cosmic Landscape, by Leonard Susskind

-Arrow of God, by Chinua Achebe
-The Man with the golden arm, by Nelson Algren
-Tent of Miracles, by Jorge Amado
-The Dark Frontier, by Eric Ambler
-The Portrait of a lady, by Henry James
-The Ambassadors, by Henry James
-One Day in the life of Ivan Denisovich, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
-Fear of Flying, by Erica Jong
-White Teeth, by Zadie Smith

I'm resuming my quest to read the 1,001 novels from 'books you must read before you die'
(I'm off my schizophrenia and madness kick, for now)

I'll git 'r done, fo' sho'
Pedro Archanjo rules!

also
I'm excited about exploring the internet's Jeopardy question archive
(which I didn't know existed, until I read about J! in Final Jeopardy)
http://j-archive.com/ (218,283 clues, so far, it says!)