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Sunday, October 29, 2023

Another microwave oven day

 "'I was once a fortunate man  but at some point fortune abandoned me.'  But true good fortune is what you make for yourself.  Good fortune:  Good intentions, good character, and good interactions." - Marcus Aurelius

Friday, October 27, 2023

A hungry moose

 "Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true." - Julius Ceasar

Sunday, October 22, 2023

Splorer

 "No loss should be more regrettable to us than losing our time, for that is irretrievable." - Xeno of Citium

Monday, October 16, 2023

Disc Brakes, Truck Beds, and Shift Work

 "If one makes a mistake and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake" - Plato

Saturday, October 14, 2023

Mark's Hard Cider

"Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them.  There is almost no kind of outrage - torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians - which does not change its moral color when it is committed by "our" side.  The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." - George Orwell

Monday, October 09, 2023

Sunday, October 08, 2023

Take a moment to appreciate the pauses

 "You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by, you take no heed.  You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, though all the while, that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca.

Thursday, October 05, 2023

Battling entropy

"Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair" - from the sonnet 'Ozymandias' by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Tuesday, October 03, 2023