Browsing Archive: April, 2021

Napoleon's coat

Posted by Ira Chayut on Wednesday, April 28, 2021, In : Humor 
Napoleon may not have designed the coat he wore, but he did have a hand in it.

Website 4 the day:
1891 American slang dictionary: 
https://archive.org/details/americanslangdic00maitiala/page/n5/mode/2up

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Boredom

Posted by Ira Chayut on Wednesday, April 28, 2021, In : Philosophy 
Boredom is a lack of crazy. It's a lack of creativity. Invention. Innovation. If you're bored, blame yourself. 
-- Katelyn S. Irons

Website 4 the day:
Inside a polar bear den: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQHAhPMNU2w

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Crazy theory

Posted by Ira Chayut on Wednesday, April 28, 2021, In : Philosophy 
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. 
-- Niels Bohr

Website 4 the day:
Russian space news:  
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/

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Correct decisions

Posted by Ira Chayut on Wednesday, April 28, 2021, In : Philosophy 
Sometimes correct decisions are not good decisions. 
-- Hassan Choughari

Website 4 the day:
Global Forest Watch:  
https://www.globalforestwatch.org/

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Greatest lesson

Posted by Ira Chayut on Wednesday, April 28, 2021, In : Philosophy 
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
-- Sir Winston Churchill

Website 4 the day:
Book hotels directly: 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/roadwarriorvoices/2015/06/03/why-you-should-book-your-stay-directly-with-the-hotel/83307734/

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Rule making

Posted by Ira Chayut on Wednesday, April 28, 2021, In : Philosophy 
Any fool can make a rule. Any fool can mind it. 
-- Henry David Thoreau

Website 4 the day:
Convert media formats: 
https://www.howtogeek.com/715931/how-to-convert-media-files-using-the-command-prompt-on-windows-10/

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Not all have brains

Posted by Ira Chayut on Wednesday, April 28, 2021, In : Humor 
The problem with the world is that everyone does not have a brain, but everyone does have a tongue.  
― Raheel Farooq

Website 4 the day:
Virtual lava lamp: 
http://www.slightlyinteresting.com/lavalamp/lava.asp

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Beethoven would never succeed

Posted by Ira Chayut on Tuesday, April 27, 2021, In : Humor 
Everyone told Beethoven that he would never succeed in music, just because he was deaf. But did he listen?

Website 4 the day:
Online spirograph: 
https://nathanfriend.io/inspirograph/

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Revenge strategy

Posted by Ira Chayut on Tuesday, April 27, 2021, In : Philosophy 
Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves. 
-- Confucius

Website 4 the day:
1,000,000 giraffes: 
https://www.onemilliongiraffes.com/

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Young and foolish

Posted by Ira Chayut on Tuesday, April 27, 2021, In : Philosophy 
We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right. 
-- Daniel Ellsberg

Website 4 the day:
Minionese translator: 
http://minionstranslator.com/

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Crazy people

Posted by Ira Chayut on Tuesday, April 27, 2021, In : Philosophy 
Crazy people are considered mad by the rest of the society only because their intelligence isn't understood. 
-- Wei Hui

Website 4 the day:
Helmet can stop alien abductions: 
http://www.stopabductions.com/

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Talk to a fool

Posted by Ira Chayut on Tuesday, April 27, 2021, In : Philosophy 
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. 
-- Euripides

Website 4 the day:
Guess Google's autocomplete results: 
https://www.googlefeud.com/

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Perennial folly

Posted by Ira Chayut on Tuesday, April 27, 2021, In : Philosophy 
Folly is perennial and yet the human race has survived. 
-- Bertrand Russell

Website 4 the day:
Send bulk emails in Gmail: 
https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-send-bulk-emails-gmail-from-sheets/

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Life and love

Posted by Ira Chayut on Tuesday, April 27, 2021, In : Humor 
Life is one fool thing after another, whereas love is two fool things after each other. 
-- Oscar Wilde

Website 4 the day:
Worm composting: 
https://digg.com/video/time-lapse-of-worms-composting-leaves-cardboard-and-paper-over-100-days

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Become a trash collector

Posted by Ira Chayut on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, In : Humor 
To become a trash collector you don't need much training. You just pick it up as you go along.

Website 4 the day:
Prank glitter bomb: 
https://pranksanonymous.com/product/glitter-bomb/

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Success

Posted by Ira Chayut on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, In : Philosophy 
In order to succeed, you can’t be afraid to fail. Just do it and don’t let anybody tell you you can’t.
-- Faith Hill

Website 4 the day:
Modern Windows file manager: 
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/files/9nghp3dx8hdx?activetab=pivot:overviewtab

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Stop drawing lines

Posted by Ira Chayut on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, In : Philosophy 
You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.
-- Shonda Rhimes

Website 4 the day:
Drones-eye view of a bowling alley: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgS54fqKxf0

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Forget "what" and think of "how"

Posted by Ira Chayut on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, In : Philosophy 
Forget about what you have to do for a second. How do you want to be for today?
-- Jane Scudder

Website 4 the day:
F-bomb in Beatles' "Hey Jude": 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyo1ScwcDAc

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Done and perfect

Posted by Ira Chayut on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, In : Philosophy 
Done is better than perfect.
-- Sheryl Sandberg

Website 4 the day:
Animated engines: 
http://animatedengines.com/

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Black clouds and blue skies

Posted by Ira Chayut on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, In : Philosophy 
My experiences remind me that it’s those black clouds that make the blue skies even more beautiful.
-- Kelly Clarkson

Website 4 the day:
High-performance Python compiler: 
http://numba.pydata.org/

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Someday

Posted by Ira Chayut on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, In : Humor 
Someday is not a day of the week.
-- Denise Brennan-Nelson

Website 4 the day:
Email aliases: 
https://polycred.com/

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Luggage theft

Posted by Ira Chayut on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, In : Humor 
I went on trial for stealing some luggage. It was a brief case.

Website 4 the day:
O RLY book cover generator: 
https://dev.to/rly

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Like a sewer

Posted by Ira Chayut on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, In : Humor 
Life is like a sewer… what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
-- Tom Lehrer

Website 4 the day:
Golf-Tip: 
https://1800golftip.com/

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Short weekends

Posted by Ira Chayut on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, In : Humor 
The weekends are too short for sleep!
-- Bryant A. Loney

Website 4 the day:
13 psychology tricks: 
https://thelifehacker.org/2020/06/22/13-psychology-tricks-that-will-work-on-anybody/

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Wherever Dad is

Posted by Ira Chayut on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, In : Humor 
I’m sure wherever my Dad is, he’s looking down on us. He’s not dead, just very condescending.
-- Jack Whitehall

Website 4 the day:
The Greek Antikythera Mechanism: 
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-84310-w.pdf

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Afraid of success

Posted by Ira Chayut on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, In : Humor 
My therapist says I’m afraid of success. I guess I could understand that, because after all, fulfilling my potential would really cut into my sitting-around time.
-- Maria Bamford

Website 4 the day:
Who hates who? 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWX0bbGAd0k

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Living within your means

Posted by Ira Chayut on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, In : Humor 
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
-- Oscar Wilde

Website 4 the day:
Nano vs. Bitcoin: 
https://medium.com/nanocurrency/nano-is-what-bitcoin-hoped-to-be-a84aecf46b74

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The Los Angeles Angels

Posted by Ira Chayut on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, In : Humor 
Does it disturb anyone else that ‘The Los Angeles Angels’ baseball team translates directly to ‘The The Angels Angels’?
-- Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Website 4 the day:
C extensions for Python: 
https://cython.org/

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Winter fat gone

Posted by Ira Chayut on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, In : Humor 

Finally, my winter fat is done. Now I have spring rolls.

Website 4 the day:
Official US Government website: 
https://www.usa.gov/

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Sushi and plastic surgery

Posted by Ira Chayut on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, In : Humor 
A good rule to remember for life is that when it comes to plastic surgery and sushi, never be attracted by a bargain.
-- Graham Norton

Website 4 the day:
Open access journals and articles: 
https://doaj.org/

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Beautiful sunrises

Posted by Ira Chayut on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, In : Humor 
There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.
-- Mindy Kaling

Website 4 the day:
Search the Dark Web: 
https://ahmia.fi/

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Lack of communcation

Posted by Ira Chayut on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, In : Humor 
I haven’t spoken to my wife in years. I didn’t want to interrupt her.
-- Rodney Dangerfield

Website 4 the day:
Escape Zoom meetings: 
https://zoomescaper.com/

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Other's paths

Posted by Ira Chayut on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, In : Humor 
Never follow anyone else’s path. Unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. Then by all means follow that path.
-- Ellen DeGeneres

Website 4 the day:
Slap-cooking a chicken: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHFhnnTWMgI

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Start of shopping season

Posted by Ira Chayut on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, In : Humor 
Halloween is the beginning of the holiday shopping season. That’s for women. The beginning of the holiday shopping season for men is Christmas Eve.
-- David Letterman

Website 4 the day:
Construct3 game maker: 
https://www.construct.net/en

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Easy to be wrong

Posted by Ira Chayut on Tuesday, April 6, 2021, In : Philosophy 
It is so easy to be wrong - and to persist in being wrong  - when the costs of being wrong are paid by others.     
-- Thomas Sowell

Website 4 the day:
Learn to draw:
https://drawabox.com/

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