Net Quotes

Really, Bruce? 

“Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their spirit can be directed to an eternal object, their bodies, passions, and imaginations are in continual change, for to be in time, means to change. Their nearest approach to constancy, therefore, is undulation--the repeated return to a level from which they repeatedly fall back, a series of troughs and peaks.”

― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

 "Water is an individual, an animal, and is alive, remove the hydrogen and it is an animal and is alive; the remaining oxygen is also an individual, an animal, and is alive.

Recapitulation: the two individuals combined, constitute a third individual - and yet each continues to be an individual - here was mute Nature explaining the sublime mystery of the Trinity so luminously that even the commonest understanding could comprehend it, whereas many a trained master of words had labored to do it with speech and failed."

- Mark Twain

Okay... One more try here... 

ENOUGH!!!

I'm A Marvel...no, a DC... no... a PC!!!

We're giving away a PC a week! it said...
(No you're not, not anymore, LIARS!)

They do add this explanatory note though:
Thank you for your interest in the “I’m a PC” contest. The contest has closed and we are no longer accepting entries. Please visit the Microsoft Home Magazine contest page to view current and future contests.

Aww - that's just too damn bad, Microsoft!
I so wanted to add another instrument of daily frustration to my exasperated existence; another source of hair-pulling angst, since I am, after all, such a glutton for punishment here...!

 

I had the PERFECT (or should I say the Luminous) entry to propose, too:
"I AM A PC - BECAUSE I AM PATIENT AND CORDIAL.
UNDER THE WORST POSSIBLE CIRCUMSTANCES TOO - WHICH ARE ENCOUNTERED FAIRLY ROUTINELY, WHEN ONE OWNS A PC...!"

See - a surefire WINNER!

 

Alas, twas not to be.
Because the Microsoft powers-that-be
are the grinches that they are
stealing my beef - or, as it is, my PC -
this Christmas Time!

Boo-hoo
eh?

See if I care!

Photos property of Microsoft Corporation's Home Magazine.

:)

Ha...! I Could Say "A-Ha" - But I Won't...

I could rave right now
How all my predictions came true
How the Montreal Canadiens
proved to be nothing but PRETENDERS
not top notch CONTENDERS at all
hence proving that they were only LUCKY
and riding a wave of ignorant bliss
and make-believe overconfidence
against the Boston Bruins

How the San Jose Sharks choked
yet again

And how the New York Rangers
simply WILL NEVER BUY
ANOTHER CHAMPIONSHIP
EVER, EVER AGAIN!

(Nota Bene:
the same applies to
the Damn Yankees!)

But the truth is
I am WAY too lukewarm
about all that crap
to even GIVE A DAMN!


No, really,
NONE of that really matters -
NONE of it...

And to the
Red Wings fans
Penguins fans
Stars fans
and Flyers fans
I say this:
your euphoria
will be short-lived
and likely
not even remembered
in a very, very short while!

As for my team,
even if, this summer, they
replace the faltering parts
(an aging Glen Murray;
a mercenary Peter Schaefer;
a temporary fit, a.k.a.
Glen Metropolit...)
with top notch
snipers/marksmen -
thus definitely fixing
their only true problem
and propeling the team
into TOP CONTENDER
status for YEARS to come,

I don't give a damn!

To paraphrase Phil Collins...