Wish fest

By lex, on February 24th, 2007

Today would have been a grand day to spend working on my Edelman presentation that’s due next week – I need to get cracking on that thing. It’s not original work – I’m no OR guru – only a paper and briefing on somebody else’s labors. It’ll be a full day at least of picking a linear program apart line by line, and trying to make sense of it. But it didn’t happen today. Son Number One wanted to buy a new computer and he asked for some company. Who was I to say no? A pleasant luncheon, some geektitude and convo – man talk, mostly. The kind of chat I never really had a chance to have with my own dear ol’ da, not much. Snatched away he was when I was just turned 21. SNO asked me questions and listened respectfully to the answers, and to tell you the truth? It puts pressures on a man. He’s not pitching soft balls anymore; the kinds of things he wants to know about now are the Life Lessons.

You want to get it right.

Credo

"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me."

— John Paul Jones

"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

— George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."

— Edmund Burke

"Μολὼν λαβέ"

— Leonidas

"Blogito Ergo Sum"

— Neptunus Lex