quote of the day may: on us

"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."
~Thomas Edison

quote of the day may: on food

Michael Pollan has made many good points about our culture's relationship to food. He notes there less actual food in supermarkets now and more "food-like products." He offers many insights and tips in his book In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, such as "Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly Plants." But this is my favorite quote:

"Don't eat anything your
great-great grandmother
wouldn't recognize as food."

quote of the day may: on smarty pants

"You know it's one thing about intellectuals: they prove that you can be absolutely brilliant and have no idea what's going on."

~Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) in Annie Hall

quote of the day may: on buffett

Warren Buffett is the most famous, rich, charitable, Nebraskan ukalalle-playing businessman in the world. He is cool and I am a fan. Here are some of his words of wisdom:

"If you're in the luckiest 1 per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent."

"We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone whoe repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic'."

"A public opinion poll is no subsititute for thought."

quote of the day may: on nature

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
The winds will blow their own freshness into you...
while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
~John Muir

quote of the day may: on memorial day

Abraham Lincoln delivered "The Gettysburg Address" for the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery on November 19, 1863. He was wrong about people forgetting what what said at the site that day. Now regarded as one of the most famous speeches in American history, it seems fitting to read his words on Memorial Day:



"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that tall men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this; but, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate-we cannot consecrate-we cannot hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion- that we here highly resolve that these here shall not have died in vain-that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth for freedom- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

quote of the day may: on pancakes

A fantastic crimp on pancakes from one of my favorite shows, The Mighty Boosh:

Eggs, milk and flour
pancake power
look at its milky yellow sunshine face.
Flip it now flip it good- ooh!
Flip it now flip it good- ooh!
Some are salt
Some are sweet
Some are fruit
Some are meat
The time we used the chive it really came alive!
Edible frisbees, springtime Tuesdays
I like to boogie.