Archive for November, 2014

QOTD November 11 2014

Tuesday, November 11th, 2014

Abraham Lincoln: “Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.”

 

Smile of the Day: Why Chefs Hate People

Monday, November 10th, 2014

Life ain’t easy for a chef these days; a group of guests all ordering medium done steaks seem long gone… 🙂

 

QOTD November 10 2014

Monday, November 10th, 2014

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: “Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.”

 

QOTD November 9 2014

Sunday, November 9th, 2014

Maxine Hong Kingston: “The sweat of hard work is not to be displayed. It is much more graceful to appear favored by the gods.”

 

QOTD November 8 2014

Saturday, November 8th, 2014

Grenville Kleiser: “Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed.”

 

QOTD November 7 2014

Friday, November 7th, 2014

Ezra Pound: “Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.”

 

OK Go – I Won’t Let You Down

Thursday, November 6th, 2014

Wow, WoW, WOW…the alternative rock band OK Go did it again; their latest song ‘I Won’t Let You Down‘ is released with yet another spectacular video clip! After the motorized treadmills in ‘Here it Goes Again‘, a Rube Goldberg Machine in ‘This Too Shall Pass‘ and retractable pneumatic arms set up to play over 1000 instruments from a car in ‘Needing/Getting‘, they now have used 2300 dancers filmed by a drone-mounted camera!

Check it out, it is FAN-friggin’-TASTIC!! 🙂

 

 

QOTD November 6 2014

Thursday, November 6th, 2014

Dr. Ana M Guzman: “I decided not to let my past rule my future so I decided to change my present in order to open up my future.”

Red Hot Chili Peppers Orchestra

Wednesday, November 5th, 2014

Normally musicians in an orchestra put up their most serious faces, fully concentrated giving their best to put up an amazing performance for the audience. Well, the Youtube video below shows something completely different; just watch the Danish National Chamber Orchestra play (with) Red Hot Chili Peppers…ROTFLMAO!! 🙂

 

 

QOTD November 5 2014

Wednesday, November 5th, 2014

Matthew Arnold: “The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.”

Pointless things

Tuesday, November 4th, 2014

There are moments when I think; WTF?!? And there are moments when I think ‘Of courrrrrrse’. The collection of ‘The 31 Most Pointless Things Of All Time‘ is mostly of the first kind, check’m out…ROTFLMAO! 🙂

 

QOTD November 4 2014

Tuesday, November 4th, 2014

Cher: “If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.”

 

QOTD November 3 2014

Monday, November 3rd, 2014

Amy Lowell: “Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.”

QOTD November 2 2014

Sunday, November 2nd, 2014

Arthur C. Clarke: “The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.”

QOTD November 1 2014

Saturday, November 1st, 2014

German Proverb: “Who begins too much accomplishes little.”

 

Rabbit, rabbit, rabbit

Saturday, November 1st, 2014

It is the first of a new month and as I started it this morning by saying ‘rabbit, rabbit, rabbit‘ I will receive good luck for this whole month, yayyyy! 🙂 Apparently any combination of rabbits, white rabbits or bunnies will do, as long as it is said like a mantra. Oh well, let the good luck flow in! 🙂