Cheap thoughts.
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Career success can be judged by how few keys one carries. The more successful one is, the fewer keys one must carry around.
Take the President of the United States, for instance. Do you think he or she carries any keys? How about fat cat CEOs? Think they do any driving? Heck, no! They’ve got people for that.
The low man on the totem pole is always the poor schmuck with the mountain of tin hanging from his belt loop.
How many cookies is too many cookies?
Why do digital clocks always reset to 12:00 AM? I know 12:00 AM is the start of a day, but most people spend the majority of their days in the afternoon and evening. Any clock-setting will most likely occur after noon, so why not make the clock show noon by default?
Then again, maybe if clock makers provided easier ways of setting clocks this wouldn’t be an issue.
There is no better sanctuary than the great outdoors.
If you tell someone “have a nice day” and they do wind up having a nice day, do you get to take some sort of credit?
“Thanks for telling me to have a nice day, Chuck. I wouldn’t have thought about it if it wasn’t for you.”
“Hey, that’s what friends are for!”
I noticed this morning that our weather-beaten nylon American flag is starting to tear. The proper way to dispose of the American flag is to burn it. However, how does one burn a nylon American flag without the EPA showing up at one’s doorstep?
A community organizer is a community activist who actually gets something done.
During the beach daydream of the other day, I also had a strange but interesting idea flash through my mind. It was of a material that can change its state and density instantly through some sort of simple but as-yet-undiscovered process. When an electric or mechanical field is applied, the material changes from a solid, concrete-like density to a liquid form (or various stages in between). It’s like melting a block of ice and refreezing it, only instantly – with a flip of a switch. This change can also affects the material’s weight (but perhaps not its mass), so that it can be easily manipulated with the process is in effect but becomes heavy again in its natural state. The process involves harmonizing the material’s molecules or atoms in some way so that they’re all synchronized, a process which somehow suspends the material’s usual properties.
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What if the alphabet wasn’t arranged in a way that make some of the letters rhyme in The Alphabet Song? Would this cause millions of kids to not be able to spell?
Today’s server rooms are modern day monasteries, where the world’s collection of knowledge is shepherded by monks toiling silently alone.
