• On Science-Fiction

    I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.

    I don't think I'm alone when I say I'd like to see more and more planets fall under the ruthless domination of our solar system.

    - Jack Handey, "Deep Thoughts"
  • In education as elsewhere, the broad primrose path leads to a nasty place.

    - A. N. Whitehead
  • A great war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.
  • English is a language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other languages and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary.
  • True words are not beautiful,
    Beautiful words are not true.
  • Bishop of Bath and Wells: You fiend! Never have I encountered such corrupt and foul-minded perversity… Have you ever considered a career in the church? Blackadder: Yes, but I couldn't get used to the underwear.

    Blackadder the Second
  • What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

    - Samuel Johnson

  • Terry Pratchett

    That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?" An American says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?"

    "It's still a lie. Like the lie about masks."
    "What lie about masks?"
    "The way people say they hide faces."
    "They do hide faces."
    "Only the one on the outside."

    Maskerade

  • Balzac a dit:

    Mes avis sur vos relations avec les femmes sont aussi dans ce mot de chevalerie: Les servir toutes, n'en aimer qu'une.

    Le véritable amour est éternel, infini, toujours semblable à lui-même; il est égal et pur, sans démonstrations violentes; il se voit en cheveux blancs, toujours jeune de cœur.

More box ticking & Beard Papa’s Sweets

Posted on 28 May, 2008 by Jon Whyte

Set up Streamline banking and internet banking account and access.
Buy Engineering School approved calculator and get sticker of said approval.
I’m so proud of me. :D

Now I’ll have to learn to use the damned thing…I’ve been on a graphics calculator for 4 years, man! Four years! How do these puny, weak little things work, anyway?? [And [...]

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Men at Work – Down Under

Posted on 28 May, 2008 by Jon Whyte

Oh man, I remember this song. Brings back so many lovely, nostalgic memories. :) Lovely beat and rhythm and sweet, sweet lyrics. ♥

Travelling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of zombie
I met a strange lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast
And she said,
Do [...]

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Bend and SNAP

Posted on 28 May, 2008 by Jon Whyte

After my engineering lecture, some guy gave me a hard knock on the chin as he flailed to get his arms through the shoulder straps of his bag. My head did one of those movie snaps.
Bastard didn’t even apologise. T__T

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