Sometimes when you look at a word it seems strange to you. Not because it's misspelled. Today it's:

Certified

I just put on an Indian DVD and saw that in the SUBTITLES menu I could choose between "English" and "English for the hearing impaired"...

Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember, involve me and I'll understand.

- Chinese proverb

Personal liability has a way of concentrating the mind.

Genitalia is not an Italian airline. And an algorithm is not a quote by a former US vice president.

- CC

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.

- Robert A. Heinlein

HAPPY 7TH BIRTHDAY, my blog.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

- T.S. Eliot

Strangers are usually made magnificent with your imagination, it's after two years with them that they have more fact than fiction.

- Friend

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

- Abraham Maslow

The fear of heights sometimes involves the urge to throw yourself over the edge.

If your problem has a solution then... why worry about it?
If your problem doesn't have solution then...why worry about it?

- Chinese Proverb

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.

- Aldous Huxley

"What is the F-Bomb? I've been in the [Belgian] Navy for many years, but I haven't heard about that bomb."

- KD

US tax laws and requirements are way too complicated for their own good.

The instructions for how to fill out the New York State tax return form is 100 pages!

If you don't believe me, here it is -
http://www.tax.state.ny.us/pdf/2008/inc/it150_201i_2008.pdf

A good plan violently executed right now is far better than a perfect plan executed next week.

- General George Patton (1885-1945) US Army General

Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.

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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things, though memory does not often fail with regard to things that are of real interest to us. Cicero illustrated this with the stroke of a pen: No old man forgets where he has hidden his treasure.


- From Memories of my Melancholy Whores, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.

According to a study by researchers at the University of Ohio, french fries account for 25% of vegetable consumption of children. Juices make up 40% of fruit intake. This wasn't the case for me - I ate lots of fruit & vegetables. I also ended up much taller than my parents. I'm convinced that's because I had better nutrition than they did.

The US Government's definition of a high-speed train is one that goes 90mph. That's a joke. I wonder how they'd define the speed of the train in Shanghai that can attain a speed of 259mph. Transport infrastructure in the US is poor. I believe it's because the auto industry has been too powerful.