Well here we go. Millions of people across the earth have blogs that go unread on a regular basis. Here's one more. If it's any consolation to you, I don't see myself blogging much so don't worry about having to check in on a lot of updates.
I needed a stable landing site for some essentials I wanted to exodus from the MySpace page I'm about to decommission, seeing as how I haven't used MySpace in a couple of years and I doubt it'll be there much longer anyway. So I figured why not Blogger? I don't think Google's going anywhere soon. Also it took me like seventeen seconds to get the blog up and running so why not?
Another thing I figured I'd need is a better "About Me" page for my Twitter account. Yes I use twitter; no I never thought I would. But I find it keeps me... i dunno... intellectually stimulated in a strange way. There's a small group of people I follow -- some "famous," some not -- and I find myself replying to and retweeting much of it.
The trick is in what you add to the tweet, and how creative, witty, insightful, shocking, what have you, in those 140 characters. The better able you are to do that, the more stimulating it can be. Here's the strange part, at least in my case: I don't particularly care if they ever get read. Of course, I like when people comment back with an LOL or WTF, etc., but I find that I will go back over my own tweets from time to time. Because I liked them. Its a lot like my photography.
Anyhow, throughout history there have been many people far more eloquent than myself. And I like quotes. So what follows is a list of quotations most core to my... philosophy? ...heart? ...soul? Something. Even the order I have them in is important to me. So if you're interested in knowing a bit about me, this way to the Great Egress:
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? -- Henry David Thoreau
Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. -- Rabbi Julius Gordon
Speak only if it improves upon the silence. -- Mohandas Gandhi
In the fight between you and the world, back the world. -- Frank Zappa
Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. -- David T. Wolf
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. -- George F. Will
Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. -- George Carlin
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
Subtle is the Lord, but malicious He is not. -- Albert Einstein
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. -- Albert Einstein
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. -- Benjamin Franklin
No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball. -- Connie Mack
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. -- Albert Einstein
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. -- Buddha
To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy. -- Sun Tzu
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. -- Albert Einstein
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane. -- Philip K. Dick
No human thing is of serious importance. -- Plato
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Here are some other interesting quotes I've collected. Also check me out on QuotesDaddy here.
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