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Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
---- Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
---- Mitch Hedberg
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
---- Albert Einstein
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
---- M. Cartmill
Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
---- Terry Pratchett
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
---- Malcom Forbes
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
---- Kin Hubbard
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
---- Arnold Toynbee
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
---- George Orwell
5 things you didn’t know about me
I’ve been tagged by TEFLlogue in an internet meme tell your readers five things they didn’t know about you.
- Just like Katie, I have no sense of direction. I completely rely on landmarks to navigate. In Seoul this is not particularly useful since the average lifespan of a building is about 3 years and major businesses either close or move every 1-12 months. I am in stubborn denial of the need for a gps system for my car, but will probably break down eventually and get one.
- I hated school as a child and couldn’t understand why anyone would be a teacher, but yet I enjoy my job and have been teaching for almost 10 years now.
- I don’t watch broadcast TV, but I do download shows (which are not available on broadcast in Korea as far as I know) like Smallville and Heroes.
- In highschool and through university I was big into roleplaying games such as AD&D, Toon, Warhammer, and Magic: The Gathering
- Most readers probably are aware that I enjoy a good cup of coffee and if you aren’t aware of that you should read my about page. What you probably don’t know is that about twice a year I quit drinking coffee, for one to two weeks, in order to prove to myself that I can control the addiction. The headaches are brutal and last for 3 days.
So the theory is that I am now supposed to tag five other bloggers. Here goes - David (TEFLsmiler), Polyglot Conspiracy, Tensor, Aaron, & Kangmi.





fencerider wrote 81 words on Monday Jan 22, 2007 at 12:26 AM
Where do you download Heros? I only got through Episode 11 here. http://www.tv-links.co.uk/
I’d like to see more:)
as for coffee…I’m allergic to caffiene (gasps echo throughout bloggerland from those who cannot live without the joe)...yes…it’s true…what happens to you when you dont is a bit like what happens to me if I do (coke and green tea are no-nos too)...two cups of coffee and i get blinding migranes that sometimes require sedation. bummer eh…thing is…I love the taste of coffe:(
Sean. wrote 51 words on Monday Jan 22, 2007 at 06:23 AM
I get Heros via torrent - yeah episode 11 is the last one. I believe there are no more until sometime in February.
That really bites about your allergy. I honestly don’t know what I would do without coffee. Much of my social life revolves around meeting friends at coffee shops.