quotes

Musician?

2006-11-21T03:18:18Z

"Does he want to be a musician or an airline pilot?"

- A professor auditioning an electronic musician in the movie FAME

And I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond.

2006-10-04T01:04:10Z

"I'm a Modern Man"

George Carlin, November 5th, 2005
Beacon Theater, NYC

I'm a modern man.
I'm a modern man.
I'm a modern man.
I'm a modern man.

I'm a modern man,
A man for the millennium,
Digital and smoke free.

A diversified multicultural postmodern deconstructionist,
Politically anatomically and ecologically incorrect.

I've been uplinked and downloaded.
I've been inputted and outsourced.
I know the upside of downsizing.
I know the downside of upgrading.

I'm a high tech lowlife.
A cutting edge state-of-the-art bicoastal multitasker,
And I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond.

I'm new wave but I'm old school,
And my inner child is outward bound.

I'm a hot wired heat seeking warm hearted cool customer,
Voice activated and biodegradable.

I interface from a database,
And my database is in cyberspace,
So I'm interactive,
I'm hyperactive,
And from time-to-time,
I'm radioactive.

]]>
Behind the eight ball,
Ahead of the curve,
Riding the wave,
Dodging a bullet,
Pushing the envelope.

I'm on point,
On task,
On message,
And off drugs.
I got no need for coke and speed,
I got no urge to binge and purge.

I'm in the moment,
On the edge,
Over the top,
But under the radar.

A high concept,
Low profile,
Medium range ballistic missionary.
A street-wise smart bomb.
A top gun bottom feeder.

I wear power ties,
I tell power lies,
I take power naps,
I run victory laps.

I'm a totally ongoing bigfoot slam dunk rainmaker with a proactive outreach.
A raging workaholic.
A working ragaholic.
Out of rehab,
And in denial.

I got a personal trainer,
A personal shopper,
A personal assistant,
And a personal agenda.

You can't shut me up,
You can't dumb me down.
'Cause I'm tireless,
And I'm wireless.
I'm an alpha male on beta blockers.

I'm a non-believer and an over-achiever.
Laid back but fashion forward.

Up front,
Down home,
Low rent,
High maintenance.

Super size,
Long lasting,
High definition,
Fast acting,
Oven ready,
And built to last.

I'm a hands on,
Foot loose,
Knee jerk,
Head case.

Prematurely post traumatic,
And I have a love child who sends me hate mail.

But I'm feeling,
I'm caring,
I'm healing,
I'm sharing.
A supportive bonding nurturing primary care giver.

My output is down,
But my income is up.
I take a short position on the long bond,
And my revenue stream has its own cash flow.

I read junk mail,
I eat junk food,
I buy junk bonds,
I watch trash sports.

I'm gender specific,
Capital intensive,
User friendly,
And lactose intolerant.

I like rough sex.
I like rough sex.
I like tough love.
I use the f word in my email,
And the software on my hard drive is hard core, no soft porn.

I bought a microwave at a mini mall.
I bought a mini van in a mega store.
I eat fast food in the slow lane.

I'm toll free,
Bite sized,
Ready to wear,
And I come in all sizes.

A fully equipped,
Factory authorized,
Hospital tested,
Clinically proven,
Scientifically formulated medical miracle.

I've been pre-washed,
Pre-cooked,
Pre-heated,
Pre-screened,
Pre-approved,
Pre-packaged,
Post-dated,
Freeze-dried,
Double-wrapped,
Vacuum-packed,
And I have an unlimited broadband capacity.

I'm a rude dude,
But I'm the real deal.
Lean and mean.
Cocked, locked and ready to rock.
Rough tough and hard to bluff.

I take it slow.
I go with the flow.
I ride with the tide.
I got glide in my stride.

Drivin' and movin',
Sailin' and spinnin',
Jivin' and groovin',
Wailin' and winnin'.

I don't snooze,
So I don't lose.
I keep the pedal to the metal,
And the rubber on the road.

I party hearty,
And lunch time is crunch time.

I'm hanging in,
There ain't no doubt.
And I'm hanging tough,
Over and out.

Heinlein's RenMan

2006-09-23T15:35:11Z

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly.

Specialization is for insects.

---From the notebooks of Lazarus Long (1966-4272)

Pixar...sniffle...sniffle

2006-09-05T03:19:47Z

I'll cry at a Pixar film, but I'll try no to show it.

- A. M.

Cough Syrup

2006-08-31T07:23:10Z

Stan. You need to lay off the cough syrup. Seriously. I'm worried about you, man.
- Cartman from *South Park*

Cocoa Java

2006-08-26T19:24:55Z

"You can even write cocoa programs in Java.
Don't write cocoa programs in Java."

- Aaron Hillegass

Painless

2006-05-23T06:23:20Z

I'm free! Free from the spell of those diabolical teletubbies!

Thank You.

When the world is mine, your death shall be quick and painless.

Stewie - Family Guy

Academia: here's why I left. Almost forgot.

2006-05-18T16:53:17Z

I was constantly surprised at the facility with which, by the aid of a few sonorous phrases, they refuted, without having comprehended me. They had learned, I know not where, that a monk... had formerly invented a mode of noting the gamut by ciphers: a sufficient proof that my system was not new.

J. J. Roussea *Confessions*

Engage

2006-05-05T08:53:09Z

This amusement engaged me so much that [friends] were obliged to force me from it; and thus it is with every inclination I give into, it continues to augment, till at length it becomes so powerful, that I lose sight of everything except the favorite amusement. Years have not been able to cure me of that fault, nay, have not even diminished it... behold me, like an old dotard, infatuated with another, to me useless study, which I do not understand, and which even those who have devoted their youthful days to the acquision of, are constrained to abandon, at the age I am beginning it.

- J. J. Rouseau, *Confessions*

Flaps down, captain.

2006-05-02T02:22:40Z

Maybe I'll just learn twisted or just give up and be more linear in the way I'm thinking, but that won't probably teach me what's actually happening "under the hood" when somebody needs to write something like node-watcher, twisted or, in my case, buffer watcher. I guess writing thread-safe event-based programming is hard, huh? ...given that the most clear "here's how you do it" I can find is http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/365292 and that ain't short. Then again, neither is this email. ...

C++

2006-02-10T20:25:19Z

I'm having a little "hello world" problem over here.

- AM

Getting some

2006-02-07T20:21:43Z

I come over to your house to get data and make out.

- AM

Music Business

2006-02-03T20:03:09Z

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."

- Hunter S. Thompson

Who are YOU?

2006-02-03T04:32:34Z

since yesterday i have very much been interested in being me.

-AM

Wiz kid

2006-01-24T23:07:31Z

"The wiz man never fit you like the wiz kid did." --Ben Folds

*sigh**