Tony Sutherland

Friendship Friedrich Schiller Friend!--the Great Ruler, easily content, Needs not the laws it has laborious been The task of s...

Quand la pluie tombait en rafales Sur notre petite maison Nous etions a l'abri de mail, Blottis aupres de la raison. La raison est...

Each one of these is rather good -  http://www.upworthy.com/30-classic-dr-seuss-quotes-that-will-change-your-life-again-2

Someone just asked me who Heraclitus was.  A Greek philosopher I said.  Phew, I thought, when I looked up the wikipedia entry to show to tha...

xkcd: Time Robot : Once again - thank you Randall.

Interesting movie this - Irreversible Interesting review this ... http://www.gotterdammerung.org/film/reviews/i/irreversible.html Irr...

Youtube video of "Tumbleweed" by Dave

12-12-12 If one skips the century nominator (whether at the beginning or the end), then one ends up with a numerically repetitive date - t...

A nice little palindromic mini-date.

Not a bad number for a date.

A nice little blog post from Dyneslines explains a common misquotation from Nietszche bandied around a lot nowadays: As it often the case...

Ay, let them laugh and revel o'er his fall! Perchance, albeit in life the missed him not, Dead, they will cry for him in straits of war....

I saw a classical recital this afternoon, which I rather enjoyed. It prompted me to pen a short poem, in the style and language of an untit...

"An eye is meant to see things. The soul is here for its own joy. A head has one use: For loving a true love. Feet: To chase after. ...

The past, the future: Wenn die beste Freundin When the best girlfriend With the best girlfriend, for shopping, for shopping, going for...

Every person has at least one secret that will break your heart.

11-11-11 11-11

"I feel happy with you, I think you're the love of my life, and I don't ask for anything more than that.  But that shouldn'...

Man is by nature good. Men are depraved and perverted by society. Respect the individual, not the multitude. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau (17...

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. - Aristotle

"MULTILOQUENT VERBOSITY  This week I stumbled upon a review in an American magazine, The Academy, dated 1 October 1881. It was of E W ...

'Well, of course, that's an understood thing; the heart's not an apple; you can't divide it. If you're in love, you...

A XKCD strip had an image text rollover which stated: Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article tex...

Before beginning, plan carefully.  - Cicero

Hoodwinks the boundary gluttonous mutton chops

“If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am re...

You will miss a ton, but that’s OK. We’re so caught up in trying to do everything, experience all the essential things, not miss out on anyt...

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage - Cicero

The Phantom of Youth

This right and true man This egregious damage to one so fine, so good Matters not, matters not. It is hard to accommodate the paradox t...

Besides, risibility come to man from his fundamental intention: he tortures himself, bloodies himself, and kills himself trying to reach the...

A human is the only computer that can be mass produced with unskilled labor. --  Werner von Braun, paraphrased

Re-blogged from http://www.crackingyarns.com.au/2010/03/25/the-most-important-27-words-a-screenwriter-will-ever-write/ - with kind permissi...

IBM's Thomas J Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY has recently completed a new grand challenge - to program a computer to pl...

disce quasi semper victurus vive quasi cras moriturus Learn as if always going to live; live as if tomorrow going to die.

Tim Crago, who worked in Harris & Sutherland and remained a friend from that time on, died on Thursday 27 January 2011. Now is done thy...

Tim Crago, who worked in Harris & Sutherland and remained a friend from that time on, died on Thursday 27 January 2011. Now is done thy...

Just had to post for 11-1-11

Reflection on a Wicked World by Ogden Nash Purity Is obscurity.

“You see, what [Don] Juan wanted to do to [Carlos] Castenada … was to find some way of motivating him to be congruent and expressi...

But with the judge it is otherwise; since he governs mind by mind; he ought not therefore to have been trained among vicious minds, and to h...

“I just want to convey that I’m not trying to be a man, I need people to accept that I am a woman and that I’m playing a man,” she said. “I...

Then you also object to Corinthian girlfriends for men who are to be in good physical condition. - Plato, "The Republic", 404d, p....

But the right kind of love is by nature the love of order and beauty that has been moderated by education in music and poetry? - Plato, ...

The Heavens have been torn open. Passion has been spilt everywhere. -- Madame Bovary BBC series

You're a man, like any other. It will be beyond you. -- Madame Bovary BBC series

7 Social Processes That Grease the Slippery Slope of Evil 1. Mindlessly Taking the First Small Step 2. Dehumanization of Others 3. De-in...

Southern Africa has evidence of what would have been a large city, populated around 200,000 years ago.

It is amazing how much time just drifts away, day by day.

Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us Define your purpose Orient to your purpose Succeed

Physicists Tame Time Travel by Forbidding You to Kill Your Grandfather | Wired Science | Wired.com Maybe explains inexplicable strange behav...

Arete (Greek) is that state or property that makes something good or excellent in itself - it's "virtuousness".

Philip Zimbardo - Time-focus February 2009 See http://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_prescribes_a_healthy_take_on_time.html and http://bl...

'But I'm getting off the point. The point is, you came to ask me about something that really is important. So why be ashamed and ...

It never ceases to enwonderment me (did you like my New New English) the representations of oneself that repeat from years gone by. Names s...

"I am not going to talk about religious beliefs but about matters so obvious that it has gone out of style to mention them. I believe i...

Everybody is informed of everything. George glances through them all and then tosses the lot into the waste-bucket, with one exception: an...

Pleasure is, therefore, a necessary element in the best life, but it is not the whole of it nor the principal ingredient. The value of a lif...

I recollected so well how I used formerly to watch the course of that same stream, following it with inquiring eagerness, forming romantic i...

Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you! -- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, "The Sorrows of Young...

Oh, the brilliant wretchedness, the weariness, that one is doomed to witness among the silly people whom we meet in society here! The ambiti...

It was a glorious sight, and was rendered more striking by the darkness which surrounded the spot where we were. We remained for some time ...

The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away, and leave no trace behind -- how few yield any fruit -- and the fruit itself, ho...

In vain do I stretch out my arms toward her when I awaken in the morning from my weary slumbers. In vain do I seek for her at night in my be...

It is as if a curtain had been drawn from before my eyes, and, instead of prospects of eternal life, the abyss of an ever open grave yawned ...

You should see Charlotte dance. She dances with her whole heart and soul; her figure is all harmony, elegance, and grace, as if she were co...

If you enquire what the people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere." The human race is but a monotonous affair....

Because how can someone be a good teacher when he has an inborn drive towards the abyss? We may deny it and gain dignity, but it still attr...

Just sit right back And you'll hear a tale A tale of a fateful trip, That started from this tropic port, Aboard this tiny ship. The mate...

About to go shopping - more birthday presents

What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of...

There are a number of unanswered questions implicit in what DeMarco has written : 1. How does one actually choose the projects? How does...

1) Internet = collective nervous system: OK 2) Web = collective brain: hmmm… the Web is an important part of the infrastructure of the g...

"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public"   - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I am also having an interesting time using everything on the web only, as opposed to PC only. At the moment it is a bit of a combination - w...