X-Git-Url: https://feistymeow.org/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=infobase%2Ffortunes.dat;h=8d4b4610f7c90ddb6db2055232336cac2e17a56b;hb=aaee69abbe193c8d459ccfd349e7926ba2f6072c;hp=a37b4258b92b2969d1d352490a8b5d6810e324b7;hpb=469eefb1b6b0fb86a8b67a4ee2e8b652afb13ad4;p=feisty_meow.git diff --git a/infobase/fortunes.dat b/infobase/fortunes.dat index a37b4258..8d4b4610 100644 --- a/infobase/fortunes.dat +++ b/infobase/fortunes.dat @@ -2609,8 +2609,9 @@ And you may ask yourself "Am I right? Am I wrong?" And you may say to yourself "MY GOD! WHAT HAVE I DONE?" -- The Talking Heads ~ -The nice thing about standards is that there are -so many of them to choose from. +The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from; +furthermore, if you do not like any of them, +you can just wait for next year's model. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum ~ A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, will tell you. @@ -43891,4 +43892,183 @@ reinforces our old habits, which solidifies our karmic tendencies even further. -- Traleg Kyabgon, from "Mind at Ease: Self-Liberation through Mahamudra Meditation", published by Shambhala Publications +~ +ACHTUNG! +ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENSPEEPERS! +DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! +ODERWISE IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN +MIT SPITZENSPARKEN. +IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN +DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS. +ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN. +~ +ATTENTION +This room is fullfilled mit special electronische equippment. +Fingergrabbing and pressing the cnoeppkes from the computers is allowed for +die experts only! +So all the "lefthanders" stay away and do not disturben the brainstorming von +here working intelligencies. +Otherwise you will be out thrown and kicked anderswhere! +Also: please keep still and only watchen astaunished the blinkenlights. +~ +Naval Lint! Belly up to the finest barnacle scrub on the market, and have +your teams boat bright as a button! +Only $9.99 a bottle, sold at all Ben Franklin Department Stores. + -- fictional product developed due to misspelling of navel lint +~ +(a missing phone haiku) + +tech disconnection +no friends, no spam, brain at peace +must log back in now! + + -- fred t. hamster +~ +Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the +truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, +or for being years ahead of your time. If you're right and you know it, +speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the +truth is still the truth. + -- Mahatma Gandhi +~ + The sky is pure, open space, free from all obstructions. The nature of +our mind is similar: the afflictions, self-centered attitude, and other +obscurations are not in its essential nature. Just as clouds may temporarily +obscure the open sky, anger, attachment, and confusion can temporarily obscure +our mind. When they do, the pure, open nature of the mind still remains; we +just can't see it at the time. + By generating the wisdom realizing the emptiness of inherent existence, we +will be able to eradicate obscurations from our mind forever and enjoy the +sky-like spaciousness of a purified mind. + -- Thubten Chodron, from "Awaken Every Day: 365 Buddhist Reflections to + Invite Mindfulness and Joy", Shambhala Publications +~ +i buy all my hats +at interdimensional +pancake restaurant + -- fred t. hamster +~ +Love is about finding something pleasant in everyone. It can't be external +appearance, or what the person is engaged in at the moment; it has to be just +the fact that this is a sentient being who wants happiness and does not want +suffering and who has been the best of friends at some time in the limitless +past. A Tibetan definition of love is that the person pleasantly comes to +mind (yid du 'ong ba). Rather than pushing people away, you experience a core +similarity and closeness in them that makes you receptive to their basic +being, regardless of the problem--regardless of how distorted their current +attitudes and behavior are. That's how strong spiritual love is. + -- Jeffrey Hopkins, from "A Truthful Heart: Buddhist Practices for + Connecting with Others", Shambhala Publications +~ +this is not confirmed yet, but UVa is changing the name of its funding tokens. +UVa is moving away from the PTAO payment codes (Project, Task, Award, and +Organization) to a new acronym using "Cost center, Activity, Program, Spend +category" or... CAPS!!! +finally all my hard work in fallout new vegas will be paying off. +~ +Rob's Meeting Mantra: + +Is what I am thinking necessary to say? +Is it necessary for this to be said by ME? +Is it necessary for me to say this RIGHT NOW? + + -- Rob Diethorn +~ +fred's chow mantra: + just eat when you're hungry, + and be sure you're hungry and not just sating an appetite, + because scheduled food times are irrelevant to your body, + and can lead to overfeeding unless you're malnourished; + so let the body decide when to eat, + and use your brain to decide what you feed it. + -- fred t. hamster +~ +No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. + -- Voltaire +~ +Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence. + -- Thomas Szasz +~ +Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again? + -- Winnie the Pooh +~ +It is well for people who think, +to change their minds occasionally +in order to keep them clean. + -- Luther Burbank +~ +Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about. + -- Benjamin Lee Whorf +~ +Misery is almost always the result of thinking. + -- Joseph Joubert +~ +Most of the mistakes in thinking +are inadequacies of perception +rather than mistakes of logic. + -- Edward de Bono +~ +Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it. + -- Ralph Waldo Emerson +~ +What we think, we become. -- Shakyamuni Buddha +~ +pseudo-code for our daily lives: + +repeat: + if (not one_thing) then { + other_thing + } +:forever +~ +U R brilliant, +U need 2 keep working on that shine, +U can't lord it over others, +U R your own completeness as they are theirs. + -- fred t. hamster +~ +and goddess said to me, she said like, "i am omni-sexual and pan-gender... +bitches." i apologize for her language, but that's what she said. + -- fred t. hamster +~ + +vape temperature mantra for cannabis +(also a haiku if you don't pronounce the numbers...) + + things are tastiest, + celsius degrees ranging 164 -> 228, + dank vaporizer. + + get lightly toasted 164+, + proceed on to half baked at 180+, + way fully baked at 200+. + + dude, know when it's cooked, + never go over 230 ever, + we vape you long time. + -- fred t. hamster +~ + I found I was able to get a lot of tension off my shoulders by almost +"outing" myself in the press in that way, in very early circumstances. So +I wasn't going to get people crawling out the woodwork saying [seedy, muck- +raking voice]: "I'll tell you something about David Bowie that you don't +know..." I wasn't going to have any of that. I knew that at some point I +was going to have to say something about my life. And, again, Ziggy enabled +me to make things more comfortable for myself. There was an excitement that +the age of exploration was really finally here. Which is what I was going +through. It perfectly mirrored my lifestyle at the time. It was exactly what +was happening to me. There was nothing that I wasn't willing to try, to +explore and see if it was really part of my psyche or my nature. I was +terribly exploratory in every way, not just culturally but sexually and... +God, there was nothing I would leave alone. Like a--it's a terrible pun, +but--like a dog with a bone, I suppose! So I buried it! + The quote has taken on far more in retrospect than actually it was at the +time. I'm quite proud that I did it. On the other hand I didn't want to +carry a banner for any group of people, and I was as worried about that as +the aftermath. Being approached by organisations. I didn't want that. I +didn't feel like part of a group. I didn't like that aspect of it: this is +going to start overshadowing my writing and everything else that I do. +But there you go. + -- David Bowie, in Mojo, July 2002 +~