Wednesday, June 20, 2012

My old quotes file.

A long time ago, I used gmail drafts to save data, like links and such. (I now use ubuntu one, dropbox or my own server).

Below is a old quotes file I found, thought it would be interesting to share it. It's at least 4 years old.

I have marked in bold the quotes that I particularly liked, upon reading it again. 


The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned. (Bruce Ediger, bediger@teal.csn.org, in comp.os.linux.misc, on X interfaces.)
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Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.
- Evan Esar
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It could be worse I guess. It could be 10,000 rhinoceroses instead of monkeys.
- Rick
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
- Gore Vidal
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone
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The difference between a monk and a philosopher is that a monk spends years trying to clear
his mind by meditation , a philosopher spends years trying to fill it by deep thinking.
- James Mcclain
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In hell you think of how great it would be to relive the worst days of your life.
- James Mcclain
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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
- Eric Hoffer
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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
- Ronald Reagan
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The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. (Favorite of this list)
- William Gibson
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I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
- Emo Phillips



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Tell me what you think of them, and if you have your own quotes file, share it.

Wednesday, June 6, 2012

Does this exist, or is this a unique mental disorder I invented?

So, I have *no* idea why this was going through my mind. But I had to write it down.
Considering *how* many mental disorders there are, I figure this *has* to be one, but I have not yet found one in my searches.

So here is a description:

Basically, for every object the person see's, they *have* to give it a name. So, as soon as they focus on something specific, in their mind they hear a name, and when they recognize that object again, they will remember that name. The person likely cannot choose the name that their mind gives the object.  So this means that while they should be able to remember what their friends name are, in their mind they will always hear the original name whenever they recognize their friend. It is like you recognize a face, or remember any other object by it's image, it's just they associate a proper noun to it.


So for this person, every door in his house, his cups(if he can distinguish them apart), his tv, the doornobs, have names.

They are not actively *remembering* these names, they simply *know* when they see the same thing again.

It's like this:
You walk into a denny's, you have to sit in a waiting area, and you notice a scratch on the wall. You look at it while you wait.

Then 2 days later, you go to the denny's again, and sit in the same place, you will certainly remember the scratch as the one you looked at before. A person with this disorder is the same, except when they remember it, they also hear "Jeff", or whatever name their brain gave the scratch originally.

So, for anyone reading this what do ya think?

Possible names for this syndrome:


  • Adam and Eve Syndrome Taken
  • Earthsea Syndrome # seems to be good. Maybe you guys can think of a better one.



Sunday, June 3, 2012

I'm rather excited to write in my blog again.(soon)

I sadly don't have time now, or until this quarter ends, however, I believe I can work writing in my blog into my schedule. And most of all, writing in my actual entertainment blogs, not just this one. My Today I learned blog an my Let's Consider still get a pretty good amount of views. And that is with only a few post's. As I add more post's to them, more and more views come each day, from google searches and such. I hope to add many more post's to them, and see all the views they can get then.

The problem is, however, that this blog is very easy to write. They are not, I have to make sure what I write is interesting, and people want to share it, and people stay entertained. It's what they *deserve* if I hope to make any money off them. So, I need time to write in them.

My greatest hope is that eventually I will be able to put together a schedule where I make one post a week in each of them, I think that would be a massive improvement.

I *know* I could do it too. In fact, if I did not let myself get so behind, I would be able to do it *now*. But hopefully I will live and learn.