WBQotW #221

If the Professor could make a radio out of a coconut, why couldn’t he fix a hole in a boat?

Hiking is just walking where it’s okay to pee outside.

This week’s white board quip is brought to you by Wolf Pen Gap in the Ouachita National Forest in Western Arkansas. Tammy and I had a fantastic vacation there last weekend.

We trailered Thumper and Buzz up there and rode all over the places where it’s okay to pee outside. I have some pictures and video that I hope to put together later this week along with a full report. But for now, let me just say that my wife is awesome. This was only her second time on her four-wheeler and she did amazingly well. Together we rode every open trail in Wolf Pen Gap, even the hardest ones. We only chickened out on the single hardest obstacle there, a big boulder field. I’m such a lucky guy.

I’m a mammal, but I don’t like to brag about it.
-Wally

Once upon a time, people were completely freaked about about subliminal advertising. They insisted that the previews at movie theaters contained subliminal messages that made you hungry and/or thirsty. There were oodles of supposedly evil subliminal messages in TV commercials.

Now days, I think we just don’t care. In the age of pop-up ads and spam emails, the idea of secret messages altering our minds wouldn’t be so much something to fear as it would be a pleasant relief from all the non-subliminal junk.

And now for this week’s white board quip:

Today’s subliminal thought is:

Did you ever get the feeling that someone did not appreciate you enough? Like maybe they’d rather stare at a blank wall than listen to you? Nah. Me neither.

You are totally blocking my view of the wall.
-Dogbert

I’ve got several big projects going at the house and they all have some dependence on each other. I have not been clear headed enough to really organize them into a workable plan yet and yet they are all, in some way, in progress. So, what I really need is a plan, which reminds me of this quip from Moss.

A plan? Let me put on my slightly larger glasses.
– Moss (IT Crowd)

We’re back!

It’s surprising how much you yearn for normalcy when you are forced to go without it for a couple of weeks. And there’s nothing like a death in your immediate circle of friends and family to rattle your perspective. So this week’s white board quip is not nearly as original or clever as usual, but it certainly is true and very much in the front of my mind this week.

Don’t take life too seriously. No one makes it out alive.

Hey, pal, do you have any idea who I think I am?

Yeah. I think I met that guy.

I’m starting out on a new project. I’m going to learn Ruby on Rails. No, it doesn’t have anything to do with trains or geology. It’s the latest greatest programming language for the web. Rails is quickly replacing Perl and PHP has the go-to web language and I need to get on board. Frankly, I’m several years behind the trend, so I’ve got catching up to do.

Speaking of Perl (the first “web” language I learned) here’s a great white board quip from RandyPants.

Perl is a funky language.  It’s like duct tape and velcro had a baby.
– RandyPants

This week’s white board quip is particularly apropos*, considering all that’s going on in the world this week. Funny thing is it was chosen completely at random. (Thanks Arron!)

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you can find a rock.
-Will Rogers

* I had a heck of a time finding this one in spell check because it has a silent “s,” stupid French.