5 minutes can be huge...

"UHSEM schmoosem"

Perfume with the scent of Play-Doh is commercially available. What'll they think of next...

Hasbro believes that the smell will transport adults back to their youth. Not a bad assumption, smells can really do that for people.

"It takes three to tango"

- silly-sounding line from SD

"We really need women here. We have been reduced to sharing them."

- young man from Isstadir on the effects that importing large numbers of manual laborers has had on the dating scene in Northern Iceland

Supposedly, if you smile at people in France they think you're retarded.

One of my friends has an interesting theory for why girls have pretty eyes.

"He looks like he could kill someone and enjoy it"

- what someone said about my boss

Skipper the Penguin: Status.
Private the Penguin: [Walking on computer keyboard] It's no good, Skipper. I don't know the codes.
Skipper the Penguin: [Slapping Private] Don't give me excuses, give me results!

Today I gave up control over my body for a couple of hours. This was different than going to sleep.

Brits eat 2.5 curries a week (Source: BBC Radio 1).

That's about 10 times more curries than I eat. And sometimes I'm told I'm too Asian/Indian...

"You don't really know someone until you fight them."

- Seraph, from "The Matrix Reloaded"

While listening to "Mumbai After Dark" (a dark Bollywood house track) a thought came to my head: What'll it be like to visit India?

I haven't been there in about 10 years. Will it be like looking into a mirror for the first time? Familiar but new? Recognizable, but ungraspable and separate?

Systems deteriorate, that's the law of entropy. Sometimes we can delay this by doing work, putting in energy.

Our dwellings gather dust and many things need to be cleaned. The accumulation of dust and dirt is entropy at home. I wonder if there is a connection between how people deal with entropy at home and entropy in their lives. Are those that always feel the need to clean strongly also those that are uncomfortable with disorder, ambiguity or complexity in their life? Do they need to keep things in their life clear, planned, concrete, tangible?

"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."

- William A. Ward

"I have gotten far more out of alcohol than alcohol will ever get out of me."

- Winston Churchill

According to a blood technician, I have "beautiful" veins. They're "a blood technician's dream" - thick, and whoever is trying to draw blood can't miss it. Mine are "textbook-perfect" apparently.

When people aren't getting a tip from you anything good they say about you is less likely to be flattery and more likely to be a genuine compliment.

Actor Peter O'Toole wears (or used to wear) a watch on both wrists. When asked why he replied, "Life is too short to risk wasting precious seconds glancing at the wrong wrist."

"You're one of the only people I know who doesn't hate their job"

- something recently said to me

I can't believe I've listened to a song called "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk"...