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I saw this quote in one of the email newsletters I receive - Allyn Gardyne’s Associate Programs Newsletter - and I thought it was great:
“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you would. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
Great advice. I’ll have to try it out.
OK, I know I’ve gone off on this before (see the video below), but I truly hate smokers who throw their cigarette butts out their car windows. I can’t understand why they think it’s acceptable to throw lit garbage out onto the roads or the sides of the roads (which is usually dry grass!). It blows my mind.
Get an ashtray! I’ve got zero problem with smokers. I think if you want to smoke, go for it. It doesn’t bother me except in no-smoking areas, and if you’re outside or in a bar that allows smoking, then it’s my choice to breath the smoke.
But when you’re driving down the road, and you toss your cigarette butt out the window - still lit! - then it pisses me off. It’s littering, and it’s a fire hazard. Just cut the crap and get a damned ashtray already.
Anyways, here’s my video on YouTube:
Just have some common courtesy, smokers!
I just found this great blog post about the “Monkeysphere.” In his “Pointless Waste of Time” blog, David Wong talks about our incapacity to think of other humans beyond our direct sphere of 150 people. Based on Darwinian biology, humans are incapable of thinking of other people as individuals beyond the 150 or so people we know directly. That’s how we can say things like, “Man, I really hate that group of people (insert derogatory term of your choice).”
Basically, the post is a call to stop thinking of people in terms of stereotypes, and try to bring our thinking of people beyond our spheres of influence as individuals. I’m sure there are plenty of people who think I’m a jerk, but I’ve caught myself ranting about some faceless driver on the highway in a way that I would never even consider if I was sitting across a table from them.
Here’s the link:
Here are a couple of quotes I ran across by Douglas Adams, author of the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” books. Running across these quotes reminded me of what an incredible wit he possessed, and the gratitude I have for his sharing it with the world through his writing. If you haven’t read any of his books, you’ve missed out.
The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.
Douglas Adams
Take some time out of your boring, sedentary life to enjoy the absurdity of the universe with Douglas Adams. You’ll thank me (or you won’t), and you’ll enjoy more than a few laughs at the expense of our futile, thrilling, wonderful existence.
I found this great quote from Beatrix Potter, the creator of the Peter Rabbit stories, on Quotiki:
All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife… Believe there is a great power silently working for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.
This quote does a nice job of summing up my feelings on religion. There have been more wars, violence, and atrocity committed in the name of “religion” than any other driver in history - money, power, or ideology (which is just another word for religion to me). Why can’t people just realize that we’re all basically the same on the inside, and some things should just be kept to yourself!
I also found this quote from Albert Einstein to be right on:
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.
Peace!
Here’s a YouTube video I made about my first colonoscopy.
Hope you enjoy!
Well… I’m back on the weight loss wagon, and working with the Weight Watchers program this week. As much as I hate to admit it, I’m a big, fat slob at the moment, and the Super Bowl (and the ensuing weeks) did much to derail my weight loss efforts. Oh, and I have no willpower when it comes to food.
So, I’ve come back to the one “diet” that seems to work for me - Weight Watchers. If I keep track of my food, it seems to get it through my thick skull that I’m only supposed to eat enough to be full. It seems like a lot when I put it down on paper, but when I have it on the plate, the food portions seem lacking. But, I’ve had some success this week, so I’ll keep it up.
Here’s the latest:
New Start Weight: 242.5 pounds
Current Weight: 236.0 pounds
Total Weight Loss: 6.5 pounds
It’s not too bad (6.5 pounds in three days), but I need to get myself ready for the weekend. I have no problem sticking to the diet during the work week, but once I have all that time at home with the food, I crumble. Guess I’ll have to keep myself busy.
I have been exercising at least 5 days a week (LifeCycle and BowFlex), so at least I feel a bit healthier. I’ll be keeping it up (so to speak), and have a goal to watch myself until my birthday on April 13th. This gives me about 8 weeks to lose weight before then. My goal is to lose at least 25 pounds, which is roughly 3 pounds a week (for those of you who couldn’t figure out the math above).
Wish me luck!
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