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| Dying Ice
The 'New Yorker' asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to shoot a glacier. The real story wasn't the beautiful white top. It ended up being at the terminus of the glacier where it's dying.
-- James Balog
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| Philosophy |
| ISP Employees 2
Q: How many Internet Service Provider employees does it take to change a light bulb?
A: When we upgrade the T3 hub with a modulating power source to access the main grid from the NASA downlink with a turkey baster mainframed to an ATARI 2600 routed ...
| Humor |
| Preserve Me
Psalm 16:1-3
1 Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge.
2 I say to the Lord, “You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.”
3 As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight.
| Bible |
| March 4th, 1941
On this day in 1941, Chicago goalie Samuel LoPresti stopped an NHL record 80 of 83 Boston shots.
| Sports Facts |
| Ignorant People
We have been ruled more by deceit than by force, and we have been degraded more by vice than by superstition. Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction. Ambition and intrigue abuses the credulity and ...
| Philosophy |
| ISP Employees 1
Q: How many Internet Service Provider employees does it take to change a light bulb?
A: To change a light bulb, press 2. To leave a message for the light bulb, press 3. To find out what the current status of the light bulb is, press 4. To find out about ...
| Humor |
| Thinking on the Word
Proverbs 16:20
Whoever gives thought to the word will discover good, and blessed is he who trusts in the Lord.
| Bible |
| March 3rd, 1974
On this day in 1974, future master griller and long-lived boxer George Foreman KO'ed Ken Norton.
| Sports Facts |
| Accept Yourself
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
-- Henry A. Kissinger
| Philosophy |
| Cockfights
Q: How do you know if a Pole is at a cockfight?
A: He's the one with a duck.
Q: How do you know if an Italian is there?
A: He bets on the duck.
Q: How do you know if the Mafia is there?
A: The duck wins.
| Humor |
| Rebekah's Choice
Genesis 27:42-45
42 But the words of Esau her older son were told to Rebekah. So she sent and called Jacob her younger son and said to him, “Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.
43-45 Now therefore, my son, obey ...
| Bible |
| March 2nd, 1929
On this day in 1929, the Chicago Black Hawks were shut-out for an NHL record 8th straight game.
| Sports Facts |
| Honesty
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
-- Isaac Asimov
| Philosophy |
| Mafia Funeral
Q: How many men do you need for a mafia funeral?
A: Just one. To slam the car trunk shut.
| Humor |
| Esau's Plans
Genesis 27:41
Now Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father had blessed him, and Esau said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are approaching; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
| Bible |
| March 1st, 1953
On this day in 1953, former Olympian Babe Didrikson-Zaharias won the LPGA's Sarasota Golf Open.
| Sports Facts |
| It Tolls for Thee
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
-- John Donne
| Philosophy |
| Mafia Humor
Q: How many Mafia hitmen does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Three. One to screw it in, one to watch, and one to shoot the witness!
| Humor |
| Esau's Bitter Blessing
Genesis 27:39-40
39 Then Isaac his father answered and said to him: “Behold, away from the fatness of the earth shall your dwelling be, and away from the dew of heaven on high.
40 By your sword you shall live, and you shall serve your brother;
but when ...
| Bible |
| February 28th, 1957
On this day in 1957, jockey Johnny Longden rode to his 5,000th career victory.
| Sports Facts |
| Deadlines
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
-- Douglas Adams
| Philosophy |
| Computer Scientists
Q: How do you tell an introverted computer scientist from an extroverted computer scientist?
A: An extroverted computer scientist looks at your shoes when he talks to you.
| Humor |
| No Blessing for Esau
Genesis 27: 36-38
36 Then Esau said, “Have you not reserved a blessing for me?”
37 Isaac answered and said to Esau, “Behold, I have made him lord over you, and all his brothers I have given to him for servants, and with grain and wine I have sustained ...
| Bible |
| February 27th, 1959
On this day in 1959, the Boston Celtic's Bob Cousy set NBA record with 28 assists and the Celtics scored 173 points against the Minneapolis Lakers.
| Sports Facts |
| The Present
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.
-- Donald Trump
| Philosophy |