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Jon

About Me

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. - Richard FeynmanIf men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
- Elbert Hubbard To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
- Friedrich Nietzsche The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
- Alan Kay You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
- John Kenneth Galbraith Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
- Gordon R. Dickson A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
- GK ChestertonOne
             must
still
               have
chaos
                  within
oneself
                  to
   give
                  birth
       to
                 a
dancing
                  star

~Neitzche The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
- Bertrand Russell Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.
- Gallagher The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
- Sophocles Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
- Cullen Hightower It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
- Dick Cavett Red meat is NOT bad for you. Now blue-green meat, THAT'S bad for you!
- Tommy Smothers If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
- Mark Twain She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- W. Somerset Maugham The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
- Robert Frost You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
- Woody Allen Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.
- William Safire I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas JeffersonWe need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
- Ray BradburyIndeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.
- VoltaireLike so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.
- Kurt VonnegutDuct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
- Carl Zwanzig Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Bertrand RussellLife it seems a struggle between what we see, what we do...
I'm not going to change my ways just to please you or appease you.....
Ashes to ashes... All fall down. Forget about the reasons and the treasons we are seeking.
Forget about the notions that our emotions can be kept at bay.
Forget about the notion we are guilty, we are innocent instead, For soon we will all find our lives swept away.My World Visitor Map!
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You Have A Type A- Personality
You are one of the most balanced people around. Motivated and focused, you are good at getting what you want. You rule at success, but success doesn't rule you.
When it's playtime, you really know how to kick back, Whether it's hanging out with friends or doing something you love!
You live life to the fullest - encorporating the best of both worlds Do You Have a Type A Personality?Here are some pictures from our trip to Maui. If you haven't been... GO!!! (and yes I took all of them myself)
Or you can check out my other 2 Maui Slide showsMaui 1Maui 2Here's a little get together held at the area's PREMIER home audio/video and automation store, Audio Advice. Sounds like good marketing to me. (Thanks Graham!)
This is my latest creation. It once was broken, but now it lives again!!!!
By the way, I'm accepting commissions on other Lego memory dooflotchies if anyone is interested.ALSO...
Turn Counter-Clockwise for Kidney Bruising FUN!
AAAAHHHHH, sometimes I do miss that little yellow fireball that was LaToya...... but then I realize that I still have it and nobody wants to buy it! DOH!
Whew! At least I don't Have to drive it anymore now that I have the IS....
You Are A Martini
You are the kind of drinker who appreciates a nice hard drink.
And for you, only quality alcohol. You don't waste your time on the cheap stuff.
Obviously, you're usually found with a martini in your hand. But sometimes you mix it up with a gin and tonic.
And you'd never, ever consider one of those flavored martinis. They're NOT FUCKING MARTINIS AT ALL!!!!
Good Gin conquers ALL!!!! Viva la Tanqueray!!!!! What Alcoholic Drink Are You?To all my Brothers, near and far, living or dead: I salute you!
"....These guys seriously have no idea how close they really came to Greek life. Every campus has their scary, preppy fraternities like the Omegas. I've heard stories about some of the things our frats do to their pledges and the spanking thing is probably not far off. Every campus also has their run-of-the-mill, fun party guys like the Deltas. Incidentally, at both college campuses I frequent the fraternity that is most like Bluto's Delta Boys is, interestingly enough, Delta Chi."

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Thomas Friedman, Winston Churchill, George Patton, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Abraham, Julius Caesar, Tom Baldwin, Marty Zweig, Chuck Yeager, Ted Nugent, J. Peter Steidlmayer, Alan Shepherd, Uncle Warren, Larry & Sergei, Jesse Livermore, Stevie Cohen, Eddie Lampert

My Blog

The Lam

OK, so....I've been catching ALOT of flack for leaving town and not telling anybody about it, not answering the phone, etc, so forth and so on.FOLKS - THIS IS WHAT BEING ON TEH LAM IS ALL ABOUT!I know...
Posted by on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 16:40:00 GMT

Oh well

While Not entirely correct, and I'm not saying what is and isn't, unfortunately, this is mostly spot on. This stuff is creepy. Anyone else who wants to submit a birthday, just comment one on - this co...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 11:21:00 GMT

Yes this was a bulletin too...

It certainly describes other people I've run on the thing, with a few notable exceptions for each, so I'd say the same is true for mine.  in any case, it is certainly worth giving a try; if nothi...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:55:00 GMT

Hasta Luego

So... I'm getting out of Raleigh for a while. I was in fact leaving today, but would have had to rush and probably would have forgotten something important, so here I am! I'm leaving tomorrow aroun...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 02:30:00 GMT

Love, it's a Bish

A good friend posted her own blog which asked the question: How do you define love?  It got me thinking, and in addition to posting it as a comment, I thought I'd post it as well.  Please fe...
Posted by on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 06:00:00 GMT

What a Freakin Weekend

Wow!  I've gotta say that this past weekend was really something!  First, on Thursday, Shane-money, Dave, Tommy and I made a little trek out to Chapel Hill.  That place is utterly ridic...
Posted by on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 19:32:00 GMT