DonQHoti - Thoughts, Quips and Assorted Stuff

The pictures of Jupiter taken of perspectives we can't see from Earth are mind boggling.

Here is a picture of Io, a moon of Jupiter, taken by Voyager 1 as it passed by. The background, of course, is Jupiter.

One summer day a few years ago I looked out the window into our back yard and saw the scene below. A short time later I went out and felt he sidewalk and then the grass near by; the concrete was much cooler than both the grass . . . and the air.

Once upon a time I had a couple books of Frank Frazetta's work -- most were cover art for books of science fiction and fantasy. This one is my favorite:

My sister wondered if she was unhinged because she always loved Earnest T. Bass. I told her that we are all unhinged in our own way.

I am here to learn from others. I have no idea why the others are here.

Ask yourself: "What would I do if I only had a week left to live?" and take 10 minutes to write down your answer. "What would I do if I only had a month left to live?" and take 10 minutes to write down your answer. "What would I do if I only had a year left to live?" and take 10 minutes to write down your answer. "What would I do if I only had five years left to live?" and take 10 minutes to write down your answer. "What would I do if I only had a life left to live?" and take 10 minutes to write down your answer. Finally, take 10 minutes to reread all of your answers while asking yourself, "How can I design my routine this week to more closely align with these answers?"

A stockman named Bruce was overseeing his herd on the stock route in Western Queensland when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust. The driver, a young man in a Brioni® suit, Gucci® shoes, RayBan® sunglasses and YSL® tie, leaned out the window and asked the stockman, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?" Bruce looks at the man, who obviously is a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, why not?" The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell® notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular RAZR V3® cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo. The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop® and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, ...

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?"  She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

Beware of well . . . Just Beware

I'll have a cafe mocha vodka valium latte to go please.

Life has no remote. Get up and change it yourself.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.  -- Douglas Adams

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.  -- Will Rogers

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.  -- Douglas Adams

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.  -- H.G. Wells

 "Attempting to debate with a person who has abandoned reason is like giving medicine to the dead."  -- Revolutionary pamphleteer Thomas Paine

"No matter how cynical I get, it's impossible to keep up."  -- Lily Tomlin

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex in the box?

If a mute swears does his mother wash his hands with soap? 

This is one of the first cat memes I ever saw and remains my all time favorite. Tomorrow we start a string of quips and quotes.

As a matter of fact, day after day we live far beyond the bounds of our consciousness; without our knowledge, the life of the unconscious is also going on within us. The more the critical reason dominates, the more impoverished life becomes; but the more of the unconscious, and the more of myth we are capable of making conscious, the more of life we integrate. Overvalued reason has this in common with political absolutism: under its dominion the individual is pauperized. C. G. Jung, “Memories, Dreams, Reflections”, Vintage Books Edition, April 1989 (Random House), p. 302

So my sister has multiple blogs and one of them has had daily entries for something like eight years. She told me that she schedules a bunch of posts and figures she has plenty of time to add more but when she looks there are few or none left. So this is my BITB* with daily blogging -- the scheduled posts ran out and in my mind there were still a whole bunch left to go. Truth be told, this all started when I decided to clean out my computer and just blog all the miscellaneous crap I had collected over the years because I liked it or thought it was funny. What I'm going to do is put up some more on a daily basis, and when I finish cleaning my computer - - - well, we'll see what happens. *Bite in the butt