To zap food cravings, tap 10 times on various body parts and hum "Happy Birthday" until the urge disappears.

- Paul McKenna

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.

- Anatole France

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

- Edmund Wilson

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

- Judith Martin

There is the person that you are, and then there is the person that you want to be.

In most cases, you're actually better off and are happier being the person that you are.

If you are a sniper, there are 4 things that give you away, and they all begin with S: shape, shine, silhouette, and shadow.

Being an icon is overblown. Remember, an icon is moved by a mouse.

- William Shatner

"He threw a kettle over a pub. What have you done?"

- Gareth Keenan, from The Office

John Lennon was #1 in the US and the UK when I was born
The songs were "Imagine" and "(Just Like) Starting Over"

Gandhi's Talisman

"I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything
by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj [freedom] for the hungry and spiritually starving millions? Then you will find your doubts and your self melt away."

One of the last notes left behind by Gandhi, in 1948.

A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

- George Bernard Shaw on dance and dancing

Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.

- Horace Mann

"New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. It's climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it-once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough."

- John Steinbeck

She shivers in the wind like the last leaf on a dying tree
I let her hear my footsteps
She only goes stiff for a moment
Care for a smoke?
Sure. I'll take one
Are you as bored by that crowd as I am?
I didn't come here for the party
I came here for you
I've watched you for days
You're everything a man could ever want
It's just not your face
Your... figure
Or your voice
It's your eyes
All the things I see in your eyes
What is it you see in my eyes?
I see a crazy calm
You're sick of running
You're ready to face what you have to face
But you don't want to face it alone
No
I don't want to face it alone
The wind rises electric
She's soft and warm and almost weightless
Her perfume is sweet promise that brings tears to my eyes
I tell her that everything will be alright
That I'll save her from whatever she's scared of and take her far far away
I tell her... I love her

- Sin City

I saw a ninja's utility belt for sale online. The thing has VELCRO fasteners for the pouches. Most of the customer reviews underneath complained that it was hard to be stealthy with the loud velcro. Who ARE these people? Then again, what was I doing looking for a utility belt...

An electric sports car.
http://www.teslamotors.com/

The company is based in California. The bulk of production is done by Lotus in the UK. The car goes 0-60 in 3.9 seconds. Price tag is US$109,000.

If you really want everything, then give up everything.

- Lao Tzu

The RAC Foundation, a British nonprofit organization that focuses on driving issues, asked 17 drivers, age 17 to 24, to use a driving simulator to see how texting affected driving.

The reaction time was around 35 percent slower when writing a text message — slower than driving drunk or stoned.

- NY Times

Recent compliments I received -

"Sh*t, look at this guy"

(to me and someone else)
"You are kings amongst men"

- More than 90% of passengers at the largest US airports use cars or taxis to travel to and from the airport. Only 10% use public transport.
- In Oslo, 64% use public transport to get to the airport. In Hong Kong, 63%, in Tokyo, 59%. For JFK, it's 19%.
- "In the USA most people think of a bus as a dirty, smelly thing for poor people to get around the inner city."
NY Times

Car and oil companies are probably happy that these transportation dynamics exist in the US. They may have even blocked attempts to build better public transportation links to airports. It's good for their business, and good for the economy. It's the environment that suffers.