SURF, WOMEN, GUITAR
QUOTE: A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
QUOTE: "We are living in a world today
where lemonade is made from
artificial flavoring and furniture polish
is made from real lemons."
QUOTE: "How come we choose from just two people for President, and fifty for Miss America?"
QUOTE: "Prison inmates are treated to cable TV, hot meals and a college education, while on the outside some people can only afford these things through a life of crime!"
QUOTE: "The U.N. is a place where governments opposed to free speech demand to be heard!"
QUOTE: "America; first we fight for our freedom,
then we make laws to take it away."
QUOTE: "Most people are so lazy, they don't even exercise good judgement!"
ELLEN BROWNING SCRIPPS
was born in London in 1836, and emigrated to the United States in 1844. She attended Knox College, not far from the family's Illinois farm. Later, she worked with older brother James and younger half-brother E. W. in the newspaper industry, where she earned a reputation as both a brilliant businesswoman and a talented journalist. In 1891 she joined E. W. in San Diego and built a home in La Jolla.One of the country's most notable philanthropists, "Miss Scripps," as she was affectionately known, was featured on the cover of Time magazine in 1926 (the year of E. W.'s death). The editors introduced her to readers as "a woman who taught school when Lincoln was a country lawyer, who helped found a newspaper in 1873, and who [now] founds a college [Scripps College for Women] at age 89. Miss Ellen has always regarded her wealth as a trust for the benefit of humanity. She has made giving an art."Time's "most beloved woman in southern California" shared the wealth she earned and inherited with many organizations. In addition to founding Scripps College for Women, in Claremont, California, she paid for the establishment of Scripps Memorial Hospital in San Diego, the San Diego Community Welfare Building, a park in La Jolla, and what was then the world's largest aviary, at the San Diego Zoo. Much of the credit for funding in the early days of Scripps Institution of Oceanography also belongs to her.
MS. SCRIPPS' MAJOR CONTRIBUTIONS:
* 1903 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla
* 1912 La Jolla Precinct, including The La Jolla Woman's Club
* 1913 La Jolla Recreation Center
* 1915 Birch Aquarium at Scripps, La Jolla
* 1915 Scripps Park, La Jolla
* 1918 Valentien paintings of California wildflowers at San Diego Natural History Museum
* 1923 Scripps Aviary, San Diego Zoo
* 1924 Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla
* 1924 Scripps Clinic , La Jolla
* 1924 Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla
* 1926 Scripps College for Women (now Scripps College), Claremont, California
* 1931 Scripps Children's Pool, La Jolla
* 1931 Scripps Cottage, San Diego State University, San Diego
WHAT THE FUCK IS GEORGE DOING TO THIS CAT?
Does the statement, "We've always done it like that" ring any bells? Read this to the end; you'll love it!!
The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches.That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used?Because that's the way they built them in England, and English expatriates built the US Railroads.Why did the English build them like that?Because the first rail lines were built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and that's the gauge they used.Why did "they" use that gauge then?Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel spacing.
Okay! Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing?Well, if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England, because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.
So who built those old rutted roads?Imperial Rome built the first long distance roads in Europe (and England) for their legions. The roads have been used ever since.
And the ruts in the roads?Roman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels. Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome, they
were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing. The United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war chariot. And bureaucracies live forever.So the next time you are handed a specification and wonder what horse's ass came up with it, you may be exactly right, because the Imperial Roman army chariots were made just wide enough to accommodate the back ends of two war horses!Now, the twist to the storyWhen you see a Space Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory at Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs would have preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory happens to run through a tunnel in the mountains.The SRBs had to fit through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad track, and the railroad track, as you now know, is about as wide as two horses' behinds.So, a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand years ago by the width of a horse's ass!And You thought being a HORSE'S ASS wasn't important!
LET'S CHECK THE GAF METER AND SEE IF I GIVE A FUCK TODAY...
...NOPE...STILL DON"T GIVE A FUCK!
PLEASE PAY HOMAGE TO MY GODDESS MS. GWYNETH PALTROW!
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There seems to be two kinds of searchers: those who seek to make their ego something other than it is, i.e. holy, happy, unselfish (as though you could make a fish unfish), and those who understand that all such attempts are just gesticulation and play-acting, that there is only one thing that can be done, which is to disidentify themselves with the ego, by realizing its unreality, and by becoming aware of their eternal identity with pure being. - Fingers Pointing Toward the Moon by Wei Wu Wei