#3201: | @isparklefairy I regret never having attended a "Dubai shopping festival". Air conditioned I assume. Native products from local malls? |
#3202: | There is no absolute truth. The most you can hope for is relative truth compared to the other options available. |
#3203: | While science, math and engineering are useful at times, they are inept at the essential question: Why should we do this? |
#3204: | There is no compelling argument that basic discoveries in science should be made now rather than later. Every "advance" carries a cost. |
#3205: | Behind every scientist is the blind religious faith that more knowledge is better, a belief that is not proven by human history. |
#3206: | On my bucket list: Become the world's foremost expert on the behavior and life cycle of the prairie vole. |
#3207: | On my bucket list: Earn a PhD in astrophysics. |
#3208: | Having the government fund space exploration is like having it fund a church. It's a religious pursuit with no relevance to governance. |
#3209: | Cathedrals in Europe are like McDonalds restaurants. There's one in every town, but you don't need to visit all of them to get the gist. |
#3210: | My best relationship photos: http://bit.ly/9nSrBK (Facebook album) |
#3211: | The nature of recognition is that you probably won't get it until it's too late. |
#3212: | Have no illusions. You are but a small animal on the curb of life trying to cross the busy road. |
#3213: | Never mistake success for quality. |
#3214: | The trouble with being a god or superhero is that people will eventually expect more of you than you're capable of. |
#3215: | To be appreciated fully, you really need to be dead. |
#3216: | Give people a race to run, and they'll run it. Doesn't matter if the race has any meaning; as long as others are doing it, they will too. |
#3217: | The lady inside the GPS is my kind of girl, firm in her opinion about where I should go yet willing to recalculate when I choose to differ. |
#3218: | One of the most important skills in life is the tactical retreat — knowing that your limited resources are better spent elsewhere. |
#3219: | Perseverance, without intellect, is the strategy of fools. Life doesn't owe you success just because you pursued the same unwavering course. |
#3220: | "After all that we've been through" is one of the worst justifications for continuing a relationship. |
#3221: | In the real world, every "solution" creates new problems, sometimes worse than the original one. |
#3222: | Nothing is as alluring as the unobtainable. It never disappoints! |
#3223: | We are not our parents' parent! Caretaker, perhaps, but don't expect any change. |
#3224: | Life's fundamental trauma is the transition from the artificial order of childhood to the chaos of the real world. None of us is prepared! |
#3225: | Advice from the dog world: Any cat that doesn't run isn't a cat worth chasing. |
#3226: | Before the GPS, people navigated by the stars, compass, paper maps, road signs and the nagging complaints of the person beside them. |
#3227: | entertainment — n. a means of occupying time and dealing with your imprisonment without accomplishing anything or facing any of your fears. |
#3228: | The gap between rules and their enforcement is where most of life is lived. |
#3229: | Dogs would make better security guards if they could communicate better. Unfortunately, they have only two outputs: bark or don't bark. |
#3230: | There is no wisdom without humor. |
#3231: | In Heaven, baggage is strictly limited to one carry-on and one personal item, which means most of you people won't be going there. |
#3232: | New video: Visiting my Auntie in Eureka, California. http://youtu.be/XBs_BWQISs4 - "I can't wait for you to meet her!" |
#3233: | New photo album: "Redwood Coast" http://bit.ly/cHRY4S - A 24-hour tour of the Redwoods in Northern California. Bigfoot everywhere! |
#3234: | The typical human, upon gaining relative wealth, constructs a temple to himself called a "home" in which he is entombed until death. |
#3235: | The vast majority of consumer marketing is intended to sell the consumer something not in his true best interests — i.e. a "scam". |
#3236: | New video: Lost in the Redwoods http://youtu.be/NvIzCJp9dN4 - Whichever way I go, there's no way out! |
#3237: | A "no kill" animal shelter sounds noble until the numbers saved exceed the available resources, then all must suffer and none are saved. |
#3238: | In any field, most people see only the skin of things. They can't comprehend the skeleton — the underlying structure that makes it all work. |
#3239: | On my bucket list: Become immortalized as the icon image of a fast food restaurant chain (like Col. Sanders or Wendy). |
#3240: | When you find my tweets attractive, please star them. (recorded at http://favstar.fm/users/kilroycafe ) i.e. click that thar star-------> |
#3241: | cruise — n. a packaged consumer experience providing the illusion of travel without any risk of self-discovery. See also: Las Vegas. |
#3242: | There is no greater tyranny than rigid enforcement of rules without regard to context. |
#3243: | Personality is not open to reason, negotiation or gentle persuasion. Only extended pain has a chance of changing it. |
#3244: | Drug abuse is a personality disorder. It is an expression of not just a chemical addiction but a certain philosophy of life. |
#3245: | Freeway speed limit is 65, but no car is going < 70. Cops ticket at a certain speed but won't reveal it. All of life is a game like that. |
#3246: | Death is the final garage sale. If you can do most of that downsizing now, you might squeeze more life out of the time you have left. |
#3247: | There's a difference between food that tastes good and food that makes you feel good. For your health (in all things), listen to the latter. |
#3248: | Taste is fleeting. Only nutrition lasts. |
#3249: | airport — n. an extravagant municipal construction project funded with public debt based on absurdly optimistic growth projections. |
#3250: | Wherever a system of rules is established, a predator class emerges to feed off the rule system itself and exploit its weaknesses. |
#3251: | The role of a legislature is to respond with outrage to problems created by previous actions of the same body. |
#3252: | It's impossible for me to mention Transylvania without pronouncing my w's as v's and expressing my fervent desire to ingest your hemoglobin. |
#3253: | The trouble with too much money is it often takes the place of brains, encouraging complicated and expensive solutions to simple problems. |
#3254: | Technically, coffee is not "food" and does not constitute "breakfast". |
#3255: | He who trusts his GPS without understanding the route himself has a fool for a copilot. |
#3256: | "You get what you pay for" is false! The quality of a solution has little relation to its price, more the thought you put into it. |
#3257: | If something makes you happy once, it won't necessarily make you happy again when repeated, because by then your needs will have changed. |
#3258: | The other side of "charming" is "inefficient". Makes you want to strangle it sometimes. |
#3259: | Most of life's problems are best addressed by taking control of them yourself instead of expecting others to solve them for you. |
#3260: | Budget airline route maps: RyanAir http://bit.ly/bhG2gt EasyJet http://bit.ly/bhlo0L - I could spend hours with these, just dreamin'! |
#3261: | People of Wal-Mart are a distinct human race, like Neanderthals. They supply our prisons and child welfare system and breed prodigiously. |
#3262: | Among adult humans, curiosity is rare. They may notice an alien presence in their environment, but they won't change course to investigate. |
#3263: | Curiosity is avoided because it carries a cost: It runs the risk of revealing that your own personal investments are in error. |
#3264: | "The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." — Oliver Wendell Holmes via @tweetsayings |
#3265: | You call me homeless. I call you home burdened and feel very sorry for you. |
#3266: | The Stockholm Syndrome says that hostages eventually come to identify with their captors. See also: "family" |
#3267: | Someone whose home is a museum is not really living life, merely curating it. |
#3268: | New video: Area 51 Exposed at Last! http://youtu.be/HRIqb7JPrSI (0:44) - What the networks don't want you to know! |
#3269: | Photo: Aboard a bus from Dallas to Austin. http://bit.ly/9b5j4P - Ah, the bus! Transportation of the proletariat. |
#3270: | Catholic Church — cult known for its inquisitions, crusades, breeding of pedophiles and opposition to birth control, all in the name of God. |
#3271: | The only difference between a "cult" and a "religion" is the number of members. |
#3272: | The highest achievement of comedy is not just to be funny but to be so insightful, wise and observant that it makes you laugh. |
#3273: | Even after years of research and testing, there is still no clean-burning form of love. |
#3274: | The first phase of love is exploratory. That sustains you a while, until everything is known; the mystique is gone, and love becomes work. |
#3275: | No great fraud can be blamed entirely on deception. The victim also conned himself, ignoring the warning signs to serve his emotional need. |
#3276: | "Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better." - Andréide via @tweetsayings |
#3277: | In software, as in life, every upgrade comes at a cost. Something that worked is now broken, and some simple but powerful feature is lost. |
#3278: | Sex is fun and all, but sooner or later someone's going to take it seriously and think it means something. |
#3279: | Something can be truly "fun" only the first time you do it. With each repetition, it becomes more and more like work. |
#3280: | Time is the only non-negotiable resource — and in the end the most precious. |
#3281: | Only those without morality need a God to give it to them. |
#3282: | Those who expect order from the world will get, at best, only the temporary illusion of it. |
#3283: | On my bucket list: Write a catchy but meaningless slogan for a major advertising campaign selling a product no one really needs. |
#3284: | The dark side of love is attachment that lasts long after the relationship has lost its function. |
#3285: | Never buy any product with "smart" in the title (e.g. SmartWater). Falling for that ploy just proves you're not. |
#3286: | On my bucket list: Become a Russian spy and infiltrate American society, becoming known as a femme fatale with my sexy Facebook photos. |
#3287: | The trouble with journalism is that both sides get equal time — even if one side is a single lunatic spouting nonsense. |
#3288: | TV ad says "You haven't seen nature until you've seen it in HD." Actually, you haven't seen nature until you've seen it in RL. |
#3289: | Reply to @wordymouth "How do you get RL? Is that an upgrade?" - RL is HD 3D 360 with olfactory and tactile channels. No warranty, though. |
#3290: | American society today consists of two classes: people in prison and people on the outside laboring to support them. |
#3291: | Mail order bride from Russia? So how long do you expect to keep her after she gains U.S. citizenship? Facebook ad: http://bit.ly/d7nezI |
#3292: | There's nothing so schadenfreude as watching the rich and famous get old and decrepit. See, they're not so different! |
#3293: | Want to destroy someone? You don't need guns or blackmail. Just give him instant fame or a huge amount of money and watch him self-destruct. |
#3294: | Low fares. Spacious seating. No security screening. No seatbelt requirements. No cellphone restrictions. Go Greyhound! http://bit.ly/d2qGJ3 |
#3295: | Good food is not just what tastes good but what makes you feel good afterwards. |
#3296: | Life's most difficult challenge is seeing your life from the outside, as a dispassionate observer without a stake in the proceedings. |
#3297: | Latest news flash from Hollywood is that the people who make their living pretending to be other people are emotionally screwed up. Duh! |
#3298: | Pro Tip (travel): Always pee before visiting Manhattan. Your last clean restroom is a casino in Atlantic City. |
#3299: | On my bucket list: Become a Manhattan chocolatier, assembling exquisite handcrafted bonbons for my well-to-do Park Avenue clientele. |
#3300: | In Hell, they make you ride a jam-packed city bus across Queens—forever! They promise to get you to LaGuardia Airport, but it never happens. |