Retired Facebook Favorite Quotes
Just reading some Leonardo da Vinci, and thought I'd change my "Favorite Quotes" on Facebook...
Here are the retirees, some of which have already appeared previously on "MMC":
- "Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." -Will Rogers, humorist
- "We can do no great things, only small things with great love." -Mother Teresa
- "In the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught." -Baba Dioum, Senegalese environmentalist
- "Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life." - Dr. David M. Burns
- "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.... Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings -- that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide." - Buddha
- "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a great battle." -Philo of Alexandria, ancient philosopher
- "I feel the vacuum, the loneliness, the silence, the dehydration of the soul as people who desperately want to save our constitution, our country and planet still wander the street without knowing how to say hi to one another." -Sam Smith
- "The mind, once expanded to the dimensions of bigger ideas, never returns to its original size." -Oliver Wendell Holmes
- "A book ought to be the ax to break the frozen sea within us." -Anton Chekhov
- "Being a graduate student is like becoming all of the Seven Dwarves. In the beginning you're Dopey and Bashful. In the middle, you are usually sick (Sneezy), tired (Sleepy), and irritable (Grumpy). But at the end, they call you Doc, and then you're Happy." -Ronald T. Azuma, CS Engineer
- "The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again." - George Miller
Previously retired Facebook quotes:
- "Sacred cows make the best hamburger." - Mark Twain
- "Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love." -Socrates
- "Indifference to the wonder of being is the root of all sin." -Abraham Heschel, Rabbi, Professor, Holocaust survivor
- "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
- "Either that wallpaper goes or I do." - Oscar Wilde, last words.
Return of the Fun Quizzes of Questionable Utility!
"To most Americans, an accent is something that only other people have, those other people usually being in New York, Boston, and the South. And of those other people, half of the ones you meet will swear they 'don't have an accent.' Well, strictly speaking, the only way to not have an accent is to not speak. If you're from anywhere in the USA you have an accent (which may or may not be the accent of the place you're from). Go through this short quiz and you'll find out just which accent that is..."
My results? Southern?? Apparently, not so much!
(via The Presurfer)
My results? Southern?? Apparently, not so much!
| What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Inland North You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop." | |
| The Midland | |
| The Northeast | |
| Philadelphia | |
| The South | |
| The West | |
| Boston | |
| North Central | |
| What American accent do you have? Take More Quizzes | |
Different ways for bloggers to say "Sorry, I haven't posted in a while..."
(via grow-a-brain)
Oh, BTW, "sorry I haven't posted in a while..."
(My brain must not have been overflowing with "mental clutter"!)
:-)
Quote of the Day...
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice, there is."
- Chuck Reid
(Anybody know who this guy is???)
Newsflash: "Is Nothing Sacred? Paris Mayor Auctions Fine Wines"
Haven't posted in a long while, frankly because not much has inspired me to do so... Until this!
Get lit thanks to the "City of Lights"! Paris is auctioning off the finer wines in the municipal wine cellar!! Bottles of wine originally bought for about $60 are expected to fetch over $1200 retail today!!!
Get lit thanks to the "City of Lights"! Paris is auctioning off the finer wines in the municipal wine cellar!! Bottles of wine originally bought for about $60 are expected to fetch over $1200 retail today!!!
How's that for liquidating your assets?! :-)
Is Nothing Sacred? Paris Mayor Auctions Fine Wines - New York Times
Is Nothing Sacred? Paris Mayor Auctions Fine Wines - New York Times
Venice in the News...
"'Real Time Rome' project debuts in Venice" (Cool!)
Venice Wants to Clean Up Lagoon Pigeons (Thank God!)
Memorial image at right via grow-a-brain.
Casanova
Well, we've already established that "Casanova: The Movie" wasn't exactly historically accurate... which is too bad, since the life of the real Casanova was often stranger than fiction (or maybe even was fiction, considering that he wrote his own life story himself!!) Wanna know more? Check out the Casanova Research Page. Enjoy!!
(via The Presurfer)
(via The Presurfer)
Scientists saving the Renaissance!
"Physicists in Italy are developing a new device for assessing the condition of some of the country's most valuable fresco paintings. The tool can reveal information about the condition of a wall painting without ever touching its surface, making the device a potentially valuable aid to restoration and preservation efforts...."
Weird Science in Sidebar Video: Sound & Salt
It's been a while since I ran into such a thoroughly cool (and trippy!) science link on the web... Watch how changing sound waves create increasingly intricate patterns in table salt! Enjoy!!
(via grow-a-brain)
"Hey Ya"? Today's Sidebar Video!
Thanks to Hotlinks for bringing this great cover to my attention!
Although only three years old, Outkast's "Hey Ya!" has already been listed as #180 of Rolling Stone's "Greatest 500 Songs of All Time." But it's not just a great song... The video's fantastic, too, and was listed as Stylus Magazine's 72nd top music video of all time!
Here, Mat Weddle from Phoenix-based band Obadiah Parker does his own improbably-entertaining acoustic "Hey Ya" version! Enjoy!!
Although only three years old, Outkast's "Hey Ya!" has already been listed as #180 of Rolling Stone's "Greatest 500 Songs of All Time." But it's not just a great song... The video's fantastic, too, and was listed as Stylus Magazine's 72nd top music video of all time!
Here, Mat Weddle from Phoenix-based band Obadiah Parker does his own improbably-entertaining acoustic "Hey Ya" version! Enjoy!!
More fun with "Pat & Stanley"!
Can't get enough of "Pat & Stanley" in the sidebar video??
Luckily, we can continue to follow their adventures through a whole series of animated shorts available on YouTube, like...
- Pat plays the "Stanley-Pipes"
- Wild West
- Pat & Stanley play ball
- Pat annoying Stanley
- Stanley giving Pat a hand
- Stanley gets a new hairdo
- Toothbrush hip-hop
- Danger in the bathtub
- Pat & Stanley play the spaghetti game
- Pat challenges Stanley to yet another game
- Yet another Pat & Stanley "pissing contest"
- Pat says goodbye!
Mystery ship discovered in Italian waters!
"Ride, capitano, ride... upon your mystery ship!!"
After Maine's "Mystery Beast," we've got Italy's very own "mystery ship"...
Linkfilter cites Ghost ship discovered in the Italian waters from Pravda.Ru!
Now, the Pravda version includes a photo looking like it's straight outta "Pirates of the Caribbean." Seems a little large to have gone unnoticed before... So, I looked the story up in Italy's La Repubblica.
And now, behold... the "Italian Ghost Ship"!
In addition to the details given in English by Pravda, Italians first reported on August 22nd other essential information like the ship also contained "badly-made clothing." What's more, the next day the newspaper recounted that another police station had received an anonymous note saying, "In the Mediterranean, a sailboat will appear with a bomb on board." Even though continued searches of the vessel have so far uncovered no explosives, investgators have determined that any information regarding route and heading were wiped clean from the navigation equipment.
Ah, but little did Pravda realize that the very day they broke the news, the mystery surrounding the ghost ship would be apparently resolved! Turns out that the ship was owned by a Luxembourger, who had left it exactly where it was found because he had an urgent call to return to his home country. Still, questions remain... Why leave the boat so utterly abandoned? Why were all identifying marks erased? The owner claims that he knows only that he had originally left everything in legal order.
I'll post any further updates as I find 'em... but so far, this story has seemingly begun to dry up!
The end (?)
After Maine's "Mystery Beast," we've got Italy's very own "mystery ship"...
Linkfilter cites Ghost ship discovered in the Italian waters from Pravda.Ru!
Now, the Pravda version includes a photo looking like it's straight outta "Pirates of the Caribbean." Seems a little large to have gone unnoticed before... So, I looked the story up in Italy's La Repubblica.
And now, behold... the "Italian Ghost Ship"!
In addition to the details given in English by Pravda, Italians first reported on August 22nd other essential information like the ship also contained "badly-made clothing." What's more, the next day the newspaper recounted that another police station had received an anonymous note saying, "In the Mediterranean, a sailboat will appear with a bomb on board." Even though continued searches of the vessel have so far uncovered no explosives, investgators have determined that any information regarding route and heading were wiped clean from the navigation equipment.
Ah, but little did Pravda realize that the very day they broke the news, the mystery surrounding the ghost ship would be apparently resolved! Turns out that the ship was owned by a Luxembourger, who had left it exactly where it was found because he had an urgent call to return to his home country. Still, questions remain... Why leave the boat so utterly abandoned? Why were all identifying marks erased? The owner claims that he knows only that he had originally left everything in legal order.
I'll post any further updates as I find 'em... but so far, this story has seemingly begun to dry up!
The end (?)
Oddities by Photographer Arthur Grace
This photo, "Boy with Gun, Venice, 1979" by photographer Arthur Grace appeared on today's Unusual Children Links at grow-a-brain.
The boy could have just as well have been my future husband, since it turns out that the photo is not actually from the historic center of Venice, but rather from the Lido, the barrier island just off of Venice that's the local beach hotspot!
My Venetian hubby was born on the Lido, and spent his childhood going to the beach at the Excelsior Hotel (the terribly posh resort that hosts the Venice Film Festival every year), which just so happens to be the one depicted in the photograph from 27 years ago (and which hasn't changed a bit since!!)
Che mondo piccolo!
The boy could have just as well have been my future husband, since it turns out that the photo is not actually from the historic center of Venice, but rather from the Lido, the barrier island just off of Venice that's the local beach hotspot!
My Venetian hubby was born on the Lido, and spent his childhood going to the beach at the Excelsior Hotel (the terribly posh resort that hosts the Venice Film Festival every year), which just so happens to be the one depicted in the photograph from 27 years ago (and which hasn't changed a bit since!!)
Che mondo piccolo!
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