Quotes for Today

 Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand, they listen with the intent to reply." - Stephen Covey

"Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling." - Bill Belichick

"On one level, wisdom is nothing more than the ability to take your own advice. It's actually very easy to give people good advice. It's very hard to follow the advice you know is good." - Sam Harris

"If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt." - Dean Martin

Dean Martin - The Coolest Cat Who Ever Lived

Quotes for Today

Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.

"Most people do not listen with the intent to understand, they listen with the intent to reply." - Stephen Covey

"Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling." - Bill Belichick

"On one level, wisdom is nothing more than the ability to take your own advice. It's actually very easy to give people good advice. It's very hard to follow the advice you know is good." - Sam Harris

"If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt." - Dean Martin

"Process saves us from the poverty our intentions."  - Elizabeth King

"Education should not be intended to make people comfortable; it is meant to make them think." - Hanna Holborn Gray

Classic - Don Knotts as Frank Sinatra

Classic - Don Knotts as Frank Sinatra

Happy New Year's Eve and tonight feel free to party like Frank Sinatra Don Knotts.

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Radio legend Don Imus passes away aged 79. Love him or hate him he did good charity work for kids with cancer.

- Another example of why hockey players are the best

- Rewriting human history through DNA

- Dean Martin the coolest cat who ever lived

- Interesting - scientists have discovered a way to manipulate the body's own immune response to boost tissue repair

- A new patent from Tesla may make a million-mile battery a reality.

- Russ Roberts lists his 5 favorite novels. Sadly I haven't even read one of these. Will have to remedy that in 2020.

Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra on How to Make a Burger

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

I'm tired of people calling the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament "the Big Dance". Let's call it what it really is - the NBA pre-draft combine... This is fascinating to watch... Also that time of year again to once again remind people that "physicality" according the the American Heritage dictionary is not a freaking word! I wish sports announcers would stop using that non-word... Dean Martin was the epitome of cool... Is Villanova the only team that is abbreviated by using the end of the name instead of the beginning? Nova. Which in Spanish means "no go". Do you really want to bet on a team that's a no go?... Heh Heh... I haven't filled out a bracket in over a decade. Biggest waste of time of the sports year. You always regret doing it... 

Classic - Don Knotts as Frank Sinatra

Then again - maybe Don Knotts was playing Jason Kidd?

Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra Burgers

Here are "recipes" from Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra for making burgers.

I like Sinatra's "recipe" better.

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

I didn't realize until this morning but Mine that Bird was Calvin Borel's only mount yesterday. That's unusual... On this day in 1892 Benjamin Harrison became the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game... According to Stats Inc - Mariano Rivera of the Yankees has already allowed 10 runs this season. In the entire 2008 season, he allowed just 11 runs.... Today would have been Dean Martin's 92nd birthday. Martin was always my favorites among the Rat Packers. Martin had a license plate DRUNKY which I'm guessing you couldn't get away with today... Exhibit A why people are going away from traditional print sportswriters. Mark Bradley writes a column / blog post - I don't what to call it other than crap - regarding John Smoltz's criticism over the way the Braves let Tom Glavine go. Bradley consciously or unconsciously makes the column all about Mark Bradley. He uses a variation of the word "I" and "me" close to 30 times in the article which ends in Bradley trying to make a joke by calling John Smoltz a dog. Here's the thing a guy like Bradley doesn't get - nobody gives a rats ass about you and how you deemed it OK to congratulate John Smoltz on his 200th win. This was the first time I read something Bradley wrote and it will be the last if I can at all help it. Sportswriters who think they are the story - is there anything more ridiculous?... Happy 58th birthday to Terry O'Reilly...