Month: January 2005

  • Ole and Lena

    Ole, while not a brilliant man, was a gifted portrait artist.  His fame grew and soon people from all over the country were coming to him for paintings.One day, a beautiful young woman pulled up to his house in a stretch limo.  She asked Ole if he would paint her in the nude.  This was…

  • Waiting

    I’ve started to realize that waiting is an art, that waiting achieves things.  Waiting can be very, very powerful.  Time is a valuable thing.  If you can wait two years, you can sometimes achieve something that you could not achieve today, however hard you worked, however much money you threw up in the air, however…

  • Caffeine

    Cigarette smoking nearly doubles the rate at which the body metabolizes caffeine.National Geographic, pg. 32, January 2005

  • Once a pun a time

    Evidence has been found that William Tell and his family were avid bowlers.  However, all the league records were unfortunately destroyed a fire.  Thus, we’ll never know for whom the Tells bowled.A marine biologist developed a race of genetically engineered dophins that could live forever if they were fed a steady diet of young seagulls. …

  • Change

    One way or another; change always starts as a destructive process.Tommy Zerse

  • Life

    Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever.  Photographs are.Susan Sontag

  • The lost chapter of Genesis

    Adam was hanging around the garden of Eden feeling very lonely.So, God asked him, “What’s wrong with you?”Adam said he didn’t have anyone to talk to.God said that He was going to make Adam a companion and that it would be a woman.  He said, “This pretty lady will gather food for you, she will…