7.6.05

Real quick: Dolphins have developed tool use. I think that's awesome.

posted by Eric @ 12:44 AM 3 comments

3.6.05

I have come to conclusion that I don't particularly like excitement in my life. There's nothing wrong with boring. What was that Chinese saying? Something like "May you be cursed with an interesting life," except it probably sounds better in Chinese. More often than not, "interesting" means "bad." That's why no news is good news. Because anything that can go wrong, will.

A penny saved is a penny earned, but what are you going to do with it? I have a friend who gets excited every time she finds change on the ground, even if it's just a penny. I think her glass is usually half-full. "Jaded" is probably just a word to describe yourself when your glass is half-empty and filled with poison instead of water. It's semantic nonsense, but playing around with words is something that can be done in most languages. Puns are terrible, but they always provide some sort of entertainment.

What the hell does "a stitch in time saves nine" mean? And how does that fit with it being easier to ask for forgiveness than permission? If you fail, try again, and fail again, then what do you do? That reminds me of that horrendous song that used something similar to that line about twenty billion times. I think it was attached to an equally bad movie starring Jet Li with a bit part by my former Taekwondo instructor. He was Leonardo in the TMNT movies. Really.

If an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, is a gram of prevention worth a kilogram of cure? And if this is a "western" saying, why is so much of our medicine focused on curing rather than preventing? Cold temperatures do not cause colds, as much as your mother would like you to believe that. Given the assault our bodies take all the time from billions of microbes, it's a wonder we don't all die yesterday. Once more into the breach we go, once more into the breach.

posted by Eric @ 12:55 PM 4 comments