Juicy Tidbits

Tue Jun 10

“ The big giant is tied down by those little rules and regulations and procedures. And the little guy? He just runs around and does what he wants. Colonel James Van Riper, as quoted in Blink

Tue Jun 3

“ The key is not the will to win…everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important. Bobby Knight, Former Basketball Coach at Indiana and Texas Tech, among others

“ Pressure is a word that is misused in our vocabulary. When you start thinking of pressure, it’s because you’ve started to think of failure. Tommy Lasorda, Former L.A. Dodgers Manager

“ If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? John Wooden, Former UCLA Basketball Coach

“ I’ve had smarter people around me all my life, but I haven’t run into one yet that can outwork me. And if they can’t outwork you, then smarts aren’t going to do them much good. That’s just the way it is. And if you believe that and live by it, you’d be surprised at how much fun you can have. Woody Hayes, Former Ohio State Football Coach

Sun Jun 1

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i’m drunk. i can’t believe you bailed on us.

i needed food so we stopped at the mexican place and got chips and
salsa, as well as waters.

then we moved over to some other group and introduced ourselves.

they were some startup.

we argues for a while until erik went to bed and i stayd up.

i’m not fxiing my yytpnig… no backspaces. yay

fu l, i screwed that part up bad, in an ironic sorta way.

ieverything ismoving around.

hoo-freaking -ray.

sent at railsconf 2008 by a certain project manager i know :)

“ You only learn by falling down. Adam Keys, during Oh, the FAIL I’ve known talk

“ on his nascar’d up website the real adam, speaking of techcrunch

Sat May 31

“ Humility is not one of the pre-requisites of ideas with impact Kent Beck, during keynote at RailsConf 2008

FINISH HIM!!!! « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?

FAIL « Lolcats ‘n’ Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?

Tue May 27

force safari to open all new windows in tabs

defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true

Just paste that into Terminal (located in Applications/Utilities) and hit enter. Posting here so I can find it again some day.

Sun May 25

“ Most people overestimate the regret they’ll experience after making an emotionally charged choice, according to research from the University College London. In fact, Karim Kassam, a psychologist working at Harvard, shows that we figure out how to justify most of our big decisions, no matter how good or bad they were. Research that reveals new paths to productivity » Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk

“ Making promises and keeping them is a great way to build a brand. Seth’s Blog: What do you know?

Sat May 24

wives keep husbands down to earth

me: did you see what i'm doing? *laughing hard*
steph: no, but i'm sure it's dorky