Words of +WIS : Life Is Like A Mop

Stanley Spadowski's ClubhouseSometimes you just hafta take what life gives ya, ’cause life is like a mop and sometimes life gets full of dirt and crud and bugs and hairballs and stuff… you, you, you gotta clean it out. You, you, you gotta put it in here and rinse it off and start all over again and, and sometimes, sometimes life sticks to the floor so bad you know a mop, a mop, it’s not good enough, it’s not good enough. You, you gotta get down there, like, with a toothbrush, you know, and you gotta, you gotta really scrub ’cause you gotta get it off. You gotta really try to get it off. But if that doesn’t work, that doesn’t work, you can’t give up. You gotta, you gotta stand right up. You, you gotta run to a window and say, “Hey! These floors are dirty as hell, and I’m not gonna take it any more!”

– Stanley Spadowski, UHF (1989)

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Words of +WIS : “I’m a Girl, Damn It!”

10406__mallrats_lYou took me where you went shopping, you jerk! You think I care what store in that shitpit dirt mall has the latest Godzilla bootlegs? Do you call eating pizza in the same dive pizzeria every night eating out? Do I give a shit when two major comic book labels are crossing over characters, selling two editions of the same book in varied-ink chromium covers? I’m a girl, damn it! I wanna do girly things! Like fix up someone’s hair and get phone calls expressing romantic sentiments!

– Rene, Mallrats (1995)

Ok, fellas.  This post is for you.  Ladies, if you’d like to step back for a moment and have a good laugh at the fact that I even felt the need to write this particular post feel free.

Let’s be honest guys.  Despite all of the facts and figures out there that point out how much sense it makes to lead a healthy lifestyle, if you’re on this web site looking for tips and tricks to lose weight and/or get in shape you’re most likely doing it because you’re looking for a girlfriend.  There’s nothing wrong with that particular motivation.  I myself dropped the biggest chunk of my weight during a period where I was single after my divorce.

Getting into a relationship is one thing.  STAYING in a relationship is an entirely different subject altogether, and Rene sums up one of the challenges we (as geeks face) – remembering that girls, occasionally, like to do girly things.  Even if you’re fortunate enough to land yourself a geek girl (which I have…you may envy me now), there are still going to be times when she wants to do something romantic.  Her idea of romantic MAY involve singing Klingon Opera together, but it’s just as likely she may want you to bring her flowers and cuddle up with her to watch Pride and Prejudice.  Hell, if you’re open to the experience you may even enjoy it (although I’m still not seeing what the big deal of “wet Colin Firth” is).

Long story short?  A woman who is willing to put up with all the weird geek stuff you’re in to is a precious thing.  Don’t blow it by constantly neglecting the things SHE likes to do as well (because, believe it or not, not every girl has a “dressing up like Slave Leia” fantasy).

Quote Of The Day

It is my belief that when man is given a choice to work, or not to work, he will choose not to.  That is why the invention of a machine that will do all of man’s work for him will be the destruction of our society.  The human condition is not prepared for the drastic change that will be inflicted by such a machine.  It will remove the sense of purpose that man has unknowingly needed throughout all of recorded time.

– Joe Popp, Maxwell :  A New Rock Musical by Joe Popp

Inspirational Quotes

I’ve always held a quote from Anne Frank very close to my heart.  “In spite of everything, I still believe people are good at heart.”  This came from a girl who hid for years from the Nazi’s only to end up dying in a Concentration Camp.  I read something else today from a person in a similar situation.

You only live once. Let’s keep trucking. If we don’t do that, who’s going to do it for us? We have to be happy. Why hate?  The world is full of hate, and yet they don’t know what they want.

The man who said this was a Prisoner of War in a Nazi slave camp, who saw hundreds of his comrades die and who was told by his own government that he was not allowed to talk about his experiences when he came home.  You can read the full story here.

People like them give me hope for the world.  If they can hold on to goodness and hope when they’ve been through atrocities that I’ll never come close to experiencing I certainly can.

Divine.

I just got back from a surprise birthday dinner. netgoth let me choose a restaurant, so I picked the Maraconi Grill. The food was superb, the service was excellent, I had an operatic serenade of Happy Birthday in Italian, and I got to spend the evening with the most wonderful woman in the world.

In short, it’s one of the best birthdays I’ve ever had.

And the evening isn’t over yet. 🙂

Seriously, though. The dining experience in and of itself was so great that I’m going to write a letter to the company to thank them. I know Macarnoi Grill is a chain, but if the location here in St. Petersburg is any indicator of the rest of the locations I’d highly recommend it to any of my friends.

And on a completely unrelated note to the evening, but a highly relevant one in stuff I’ve been dealing with for the last few days, I bring you a quote from today’s Something Positive.

Everyone hurts someone they care about. It’s just part of being human…One day you’ll do something that’ll hurt me, but you know what? I’ll hurt you as well. No one means to do it. It just happens. Sometimes the measure of friendship isn’t your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.

– R.K. Milholland, “Something Positive”

Quote Of The Day

Never before in my time at the bar or on the bench have I ever had to deal with somebody who voluntarily allowed himself to be buggered by a dog on the public highway.

Entire story here.

Quite frankly, I could give a damn if the guy wanted to get special with his dog. Doing it in public probably wasn’t the smartest idea, though. Damn but that’s a hilarious thing to picture a british magistrate saying, though.