quotes from the road

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. " -- Douglas Adams
December 1, 2005, 6:20 pm

a little dirt and wear around the edges validates a city, really.
October 19, 2005, 5:47 pm

"Educated the expensive way, he knows his claret from a beaujolais.."
August 30, 2005, 6:15 pm

"you think you won't meet the girl of your dreams in a bar? well, what's a dream besides something that only lasts for one night that you barely remember in the morning?"
August 18, 2005, 4:30 pm

fruit on the bottom, hope on top.
May 18, 2005, 11:15 am

sporting it fresh is NOT an option.
October 28, 2004, 6:23 pm

"your wife isn't asking you about first downs because she cares about football. she's just tired of not being able to talk and is considerately staying on-topic."
August 18, 2004, 12:46 pm

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." -- Aesop
August 13, 2004, 3:54 pm

It's a thousand pages, give or take a few, I'll be writing more in a week or two. I can make it longer if you like the style, I can change it round and I want to be a paperback writer
May 4, 2004, 3:37 pm

"It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others." -- Steven Wright
April 27, 2004, 11:04 pm

probably still my favorite quote of all time: "Factorials were someone's attempt to make math seem exciting." -- Steven Wright
March 25, 2004, 10:19 pm

'the stars look very different today.. '
February 13, 2004, 1:17 pm

'a lot of good carrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrs are japaneeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese '
February 5, 2004, 2:33 pm

'The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent folks are so full of doubts.' -- Bertrand Russell
January 27, 2004, 4:44 pm

Back in school again, Maxwell plays the fool again, teacher gets annoyed..
January 14, 2004, 1:43 pm

".. and I made my sandwich. Did I put the twist-tie back on? NO! I did what every man in America does.. I spun the bread once and tucked the tail in under the loaf." yeah.
December 23, 2003, 11:38 pm

"For anyone to say that, I think it's a misunderstatement." -- Keyshawn Johnson
November 19, 2003, 10:17 am

the apple kool-aid is very tasty.
November 19, 2003, 12:03 am

i'd love to be british so i can say things like "brilliant" and "cheers" and watch soccer without feeling weird. and if i was european, maybe i'd actually dress well.
October 6, 2003, 7:08 pm

royston langdon is the most unintelligible human ever.
September 29, 2003, 12:09 pm

would it be dorky to say my parents bootstrapped me successfully?
September 1, 2003, 3:00 pm

"these are so boring! I wish they had papers on tape."
August 27, 2003, 2:52 pm

it's odd that fark gives me news faster than any other news source. but cool.
July 22, 2003, 1:59 pm

what can't I live without? listerine.. weird, eh.
June 19, 2003, 8:03 am

are humans the only species to be able to harbor the thought that the world may be better off without their species?
June 17, 2003, 10:01 am

prioritization and perfectionism don't mix.. and no, I'm not referring to myself or anyone in particular.
June 16, 2003, 2:09 pm

happy happy happy
June 4, 2003, 9:40 pm

apples in stereo is good music.
May 23, 2003, 12:56 pm

"never trust anyone with a job invented after 1990." -- best quote i read last week.
May 8, 2003, 10:59 am

i hate making the interweb.
May 1, 2003, 11:44 am

daily's margarita mix straight tastes like melted pop-ices. mmm.
April 12, 2003, 7:04 pm

bad religion: four chords and a higher education
April 3, 2003, 8:23 am

jesse james is my new hero
March 31, 2003, 8:30 pm

martinis left in the freezer for a night become martini slurpees. cool.
March 30, 2003, 7:57 pm

apple tea with apple butter and peanut butter (mmm butter) sandwiches is excellent.
March 24, 2003, 2:35 pm

look at the smile on my face. ear to ear, baby. i drive a ferrari. 355 cabriolet. i have a ridiculous house in the south fork. i have every toy you could possibly imagine. and best of all kids, i am liquid.
March 21, 2003, 11:26 pm

giving html presentations with lynx rules
March 18, 2003, 5:13 pm

why does slackware include xsane and not xpdf by default, let alone no at/bc/sudo/etc..
March 13, 2003, 3:15 pm

i dislike solutions in search of problems. too bad that's the foundation of modern-day computer science!
March 11, 2003, 10:45 am

I hate people chewing gum with their mouths open, sue me.
March 7, 2003, 1:57 pm

"you just signed your own gift certificate!"
February 19, 2003, 9:54 pm

i've realized there's a certain type of person in the world with no original thought, that lives by tearing everything around them down
February 16, 2003, 5:59 pm

travis.. like coldplay, with an extra helping of radiohead
February 11, 2003, 4:00 pm

it's not a stereotype if it's true...
February 11, 2003, 9:19 am

my tivo is in love with the women's entertainment channel...
February 8, 2003, 5:24 pm

so many people, all alike, with their suits worn for the first time and unscuffed leather binders.. all printing their resumes out 5 minutes before their interview on craptastic printer paper.
February 6, 2003, 3:00 pm

this woman's head, it's like a pumpkin!
February 3, 2003, 9:38 am

14 of 18 new employees here are women!
February 3, 2003, 8:26 am

i hate the weird, dirty old men that are always in the foreign films section at borders...
January 31, 2003, 9:30 pm

it does not need an F1 wing... it's a kia!
January 30, 2003, 4:49 pm

people with rolling bookbags annoy me
January 29, 2003, 9:35 am

"as they say in golf, there's a lot of golf left to be played." - john madden
January 26, 2003, 9:35 pm

there is no better way to start the morning than an avocado salad, as long as it has a half-can of spam in it.
January 25, 2003, 12:31 pm

the cosby show was genius
January 22, 2003, 9:25 pm

last night I made chili .. with tofu. i'm a bad bad person.
January 22, 2003, 9:40 am

red lobster's "all you can eat shrimp" sounds like a real real bad idea in a college town..
January 21, 2003, 3:03 pm


these quotes are received from my nokia 8290 sony-ericsson t68i nokia 6620 over tmobile's at&t's cingular's sms/email gateway and turned into a miniblog with a few lines of perl and mysql.