Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 06, 2008

I am learning a new language....

.... or trying to anyway. Being the most "tech-savvy" person constantly at home (that's really not saying much, by the way), I got recruited to create various websites for the family. I can now read a tiny, little, itty-bitty amount of HTML code, which I guess is something. I am going to leap into style sheets soon, and hopefully I will conquer it. Maybe, in the next five or ten years, I will be able to put out a nice-looking, well-flowing website. By then there will be something much better. (You always have to close something computer/internet related with that statement. Nothing lasts very long in technology; at least, I haven't seen it if something has!)
It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.
--- Clive James
Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked.
--- Jeff Pesis
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
--- Paul Ehrlich
Technology has the shelf life of a banana.
--- Scott McNealy
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. [I've got to remember this one]
--- Thomas Alva Edison

Monday, December 24, 2007

Merry Christmas, Y'all!

I meant to post this quote from Luke last week, but I forgot.
"Those bad guys can't get me because I'm behind here [a cardboard box full of wheat bran], but I can get them because I have my WD 40!"
He was explaining his war plan to me and Mama while we were cooking. He later explained that a WD 40 is similar to an AK 47.


Merry Christmas, y'all!

Thursday, November 15, 2007

A couple of quotes

"If there is no rush, you can't piddle." --- Claire on piddling.
"I obey frequently." --- Luke after he said that he already knew everything we were going to teach him... except reading.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Daddy said...

"Even though we, as individuals, are so ignorant, when we pull together.... our ignorance is even greater."

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Silly Sayings

Our radar is acting up right now; that's the only way I can explain this one:

Global warming conference canceled by sudden snow storm.



We passed a church on the way home the other day, and this was on the sign:

Need a new look? Come inside for a faith lift.



Here's a few other ridiculous church slogan thingys (I goin' technical on you again!):

Church shopping? We're open Sundays.

ATM inside: Atonement, Truth, and Mercy

Free tickets to Heaven. Details inside.

The best vitamin for a Christian is to B1.


I don't like corny, "witty", irreverent church signs; I promise I have seen all of these and more! These things drive me crazy! "I can't stand 'em; I just can't stand 'em!"

Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Shakespeare

I've been trying to get through all of Shakespeare's plays. Perhaps I wouldn't feel like doing this had not the plays all been in one large book. For some reason I cannot make myself only partially read a book, whether it be a book of other books or not. So far, I've read over half of these famous plays, and I've understood them well enough (surprisingly!). However, lugging this book around the house with me is becoming tedious, and I will rejoice when I am through.

I found a quote I wanted to post on here, although I am not entirely sure what they are talking about in the context of the play. It can be applied to today's world though:

Sands: New customs, though they be never so ridiculous, nay, let 'em be unmanly, yet are followed.

That's from King Henry VIII, Act I, Scene III.

Friday, August 17, 2007

Something I found in a magazine

Those promotional tactics- and hundreds like them- are funded by the Beef Checkoff Program. It starts at the state level, where $1 is collected on each head of cattle sold. The state beef council then sends 50 cents of every dollar to the Cattlemen's Beef Board for national beef promotion, research, and consumer education, and the other 50 cents is retained by the state. In Tennessee, that money is used in several ways.

"We work with local retailers like Kroger and Publix to provide them with beef signs, point-of-purchase promotional material, recipe racks, in-store demonstrations for new products, and sometimes even drawings for consumers to win steak knife sets or beef cookbooks," Bass says. "We also provide educational kits to teachers across the state free of charge, and we work with doctors and dietitians so they can provide nutritional information to their clients."



I have a bad feeling about this, although I don't particularly know why.

Monday, August 06, 2007

Quotes of the Evening

The first two here are from Luke; the last is from Kyle!

"I was gonna check email!" Excusing his extreme distraction during the discussion after family worship.

"My hair was like pig slop!" Talking about how he came in after picking the garden with Claire this morning.

"Well, if I knew big words, I'd like to use 'em!" During a conversation on vocabulary.

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Another Good Quote

From Luke. Hey, some of the best things come from him (even though he doesn't mean to)!

"Do you know what insightful is?" Daddy asking Luke.

"What I say." Luke answering.

We had a good laugh over that.