TV channels would actually add a lot more value if they were the last to leave the scene of a calamity, instead of being the first to reach.
Author: Adi
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was…
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was a backside heelflip in the parking lot after detention.
Just another ordinary upbringing
The details of my life are quite inconsequential … Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15-year-old French prostitute named Chloé with webbed feet. My father would womanize; he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament … My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon … luge lessons … In the spring, we’d make meat helmets … When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds — pretty standard, really. At the age of 12, I received my first scribe. At the age of 14, a Zoroastrian named Vilmer ritualistically shaved my testicles. There really is nothing like a shorn scrotum — it’s breathtaking … I suggest you try it.
– Dr. Evil
Life ==> Money =/=> Life
Life changes when you learn that trading your time for dollars isn’t reversible.
– @ritholtz, via Paul Kedrosky
You make me want to be a better…
You make me want to be a better man.
– Melvin (Jack Nicholson) in As Good As It Gets
Missing Home
Missing family badly for some reason. Dipping into that depressive mood. Wanna be 7yo again, tuck into bed with no worries & parents around.
Getting there…
Swam my first 10 length set today. :-)
After I’d already swum 30 lengths as 7.5x 4 length sets ;-)
After I’d ridden over 145 km yesterday I’m and around Chilterns :D
I’m happy, obviously.
We all come from the sea but we’re…
We all come from the sea, but we’re not all of the sea. Those of us who are, we children of the tides, must return to it again, and again. Until the day we don’t come back, leaving behind only that which we touched along the way.
Frosty, in Chasing Mavericks
He was a fire bellied toad who took…
He was a fire bellied toad, who took a chance, and became a prince for a day.
Charles’ obituary for Scott in Straight A’s
You lose everything and you win the war…
You lose everything and you win the war, you’re a hero.
You lose everything and you lose the war…. you’re just a fool.
Jack, in The Gangster Squad