#3101: | You may call it your "home", but it looks to me like your prison. |
#3102: | Survivor producer is about to experience "Survivor: Mexican Prison". http://bit.ly/ciMAzk |
#3103: | I've created a new Tumblr page to highlight my best photos and videos: http://kilroycafe.tumblr.com/ (Better than Facebook for some things) |
#3104: | Houston, Dallas, San Antonio — cities best seen through the rear-view mirror. |
#3105: | The biggest cosmic joke of all would be that God exists but He couldn't care less about us. We would be alone after all! |
#3106: | The ants must see us as gods. They can't fathom why we step on them, but they must figure it's part of our cosmic plan. |
#3107: | The highest achievement of the art of marketing is the branding of bottled water. No bullshit is more pure! |
#3108: | New video: "Who Will Save the Majestic Wal-Mart?" http://youtube.com/watch?v=NnYMFbFlOIk Another environmental tragedy from the Gulf Coast? |
#3109: | This I know about teenagers: Their words are worth nothing. Only their actions matter. Trust but verify. |
#3110: | No tyrant thinks himself evil. He believes he is taking reasonable actions to defend himself. |
#3111: | Haggis is good, but if you were Scottish and had to eat it every day I imagine you'd get pretty tired of it. |
#3112: | The fundamental conflict of fiction—and life—is about a character learning to leave his comfort zone. He must overcome his own inertia. |
#3113: | People are loathe to leave behind their dysfunctional habits because at least they're comfortable and known. In function lies the unknown. |
#3114: | Giving people too much money is like giving them cocaine. They detach from reality, lose incentive and rely on it for all their highs. |
#3115: | The big issue with money is not what you'll do when you have it but what you'll do when you run out of it again. |
#3116: | The deception of gambling, in any domain, is that only the winners get publicity. The losers, although more numerous, are quickly forgotten. |
#3117: | An "investment" has a high probability of success and a "gamble" a low one. Unfortunately, the latter often masquerades as the former. |
#3118: | The classic "Duck and Cover" civil defense film from 1951, featuring Bert the Turtle: http://youtu.be/C0K_LZDXp0I via @nipsespin |
#3119: | A mirror can lie! It draws your attention to details and imperfections that others honestly don't see. It misses the whole package. |
#3120: | Photo: A tragic highway fatality in Louisiana. http://bit.ly/9GuQoM |
#3121: | New videos from Athens: "Why the Greeks Built the Parthenon" http://youtu.be/vmUY9nvMewY "Rules of Acropolis" http://youtu.be/LcgXV0jOuRk |
#3122: | The key to success in any number of fields is being able to set ego aside and see yourself as others see you. It is a rare skill. |
#3123: | RIding the Metro in Athens, can't understand why so many Greek women want to be blonds. It's hopeless! It doesn't work and isn't necessary. |
#3124: | The half-life of beauty is extremely short. It may wow you on first encounter but fades quickly in consciousness. You can't hang much on it. |
#3125: | New Video: Climbing the steps of the Acropolis to the Parthenon in Athens. Facebook: http://bit.ly/c6c0JE |
#3126: | In the hierarchy of human needs, sleep overrules all others (except maybe the need to pee). |
#3127: | Watching TV in Greek is just as painful as English, because I know what they're saying by inflection alone and it's BORING. |
#3128: | The ballerina and the sumo wrestler start out as babies with the same consciousness. Only their experiences tell them they are different. |
#3129: | Photo of the village of Ia on the island of Santorini, Greece... or as some of you know it, "September". http://bit.ly/ac5rSW |
#3130: | The official language of the Greek Islands is English. You better learn it if you expect to get by. (Greek alone won't get you very far!) |
#3131: | Most tourists bring their own stale atmosphere with them—their family and friends—which blocks out most of the world they're visiting. |
#3132: | A failing relationship, after an exciting vacation, is still a failing relationship. Travel can't cure them blues. |
#3133: | The only trouble with nude and topless bathing is that most of those bodies you just don't want to see. |
#3134: | Attention tourists: Flip-flops are not walking shoes! Fine for the beach, not for touring a city. (Clueless dweebs!) |
#3135: | First photos from Santorini in the Greek Islands: http://bit.ly/cmY9LB - As seen in a calendar near you! |
#3136: | It isn't hard to train for a marathon if all you want to do with your life is train for a marathon. |
#3137: | What do you think time is made of - pixie dust? If you squander it on some meaningless hobby, you're blowing away life itself. |
#3138: | To a dog, there are no bad smells, only information. |
#3139: | Lessons of Rome: Success leads to overconfidence leads to overcommitment. Overcommitment leads to crash leads to the Dark Ages. And repeat! |
#3140: | Local governments don't just want tourists but DUMB tourists, because the stupid ones spend far more money. |
#3141: | The fate of the engineer is to design complex and carefully crafted systems to serve the goals of megalomaniacs and buffoons. |
#3142: | By age 70, everyone is a doctor and a walking encyclopedia of symptoms and diagnoses. Set a spell and they'll tell you about it. |
#3143: | Warning to white chicks: Tan today, prune tomorrow. |
#3144: | Hey, kids, here's a fun game! See how far you can push Mom before she goes ballistic. You'll get years of entertainment out of this one! |
#3145: | "Fuck that shit!" — an American colloquialism indicating speaker's intention to defy demands being made upon him. Not to be taken literally. |
#3146: | Most personal decisions are based on the false assumption that one's lifespan is unlimited. |
#3147: | That shade of pink signifies you're gay, support breast cancer awareness or collect Hello Kitty merchandise. |
#3148: | The tragedy of the iPod mind control device is that it sucks the brains out of those who have very little to begin with. |
#3149: | Washington Post: "Greece is Tapping China's Deep Pockets" bit.ly/8YzFk8 - The places I just visited: Piraeus and Santorini |
#3150: | Imagine a world controlled by Sarah Palin, Kim Kardashian, Lindsay Lohan, Jesse James and Tiger Woods. That's our world! |
#3151: | It's fortunate that Wal-Mart provides electric "fat carts" for their morbidly obese customers, because how else could they shop for food? |
#3152: | Artificial sweeteners are like pornography: totally fake and reprehensible yet satiating the desire for more dangerous sweets. |
#3153: | In Greece, when marketers want to give their product cachet, they name it in English and use the Roman alphabet. Greek is too provincial. |
#3154: | Google Maps now has DRIVING directions from New York to Sydney, Australia. Check it out! http://bit.ly/aywsAR |
#3155: | More photos from Santorini, Greece, the most stunningly beautiful place I have ever visited! http://bit.ly/cmY9LB (Still many more to add!) |
#3156: | Dreams come in a million flavors. Then reality dashes them and gives you only one. |
#3157: | New Video: Feeding the Prairie Dogs in Wyoming. http://youtu.be/Ki0elJpV6Ow |
#3158: | I still can't see how your $200 noise canceling headphones beat my $2 foam earplugs. |
#3159: | Freedom is your ability to adapt to unanticipated circumstances. |
#3160: | One of life's surprises is how quickly something you think is heaven can turn into hell. |
#3161: | We are all operating under a number of delusions, and when life finally bludgeons us with them, we'll have to admit we knew it all along. |
#3162: | If your life right now is exactly as you predicted it ten years ago, you're either incredibly dull or living in captivity. |
#3163: | The zoo on Rigel Seven found their human specimens were easily controlled by giving them television and the freedom to change the channels. |
#3164: | People usually choose their lifestyle based on how it looks in the brochure, not on how they actually experience it. |
#3165: | Seven Tacky Wonders of the USA: Las Vegas, Orlando, Branson, Pigeon Forge, Venice Beach, Myrtle Beach, Waikiki Beach. |
#3166: | Most people don't have the gene for originality. They can follow the plan of others but can't generate meaningful goals on their own. |
#3167: | The job of advertising is to sell you a fantasy in which use of the product seems perfectly logical. |
#3168: | If you practice, practice, practice, you'll become more practiced at one specific skill, but that doesn't make you more creative. |
#3169: | End Times are coming! Whether we go down together or separately, we're all going down! |
#3170: | All forms of true creativity involve leaving your comfort zone and overcoming your own fears. There's no simple formula for it. |
#3171: | "My own mistakes I've always been able to live with. It's times I've adopted mistakes of others that make me want to kick myself." @TheBosha |
#3172: | Yeah, if life gives you lemons, make lemonade, but if life unexpectedly offers something sweeter, go for it! |
#3173: | One benefit of extended travel is your whole life has to fit in limited luggage space. You're forced to purge the unnecessary. |
#3174: | "Adult Entertainment" is neither. It's more like "Infantile Tedium". |
#3175: | There's a fine line between sexy and stupid. |
#3176: | One person's erotica is another's tedium. |
#3177: | Sexual attraction is a hard-wired function of the reptile brain and not something you should necessarily follow unless you're a reptile. |
#3178: | Easiest rule for weight loss (and the hardest!): Eat only when you're truly hungry, then stop as soon as the hunger goes away. |
#3179: | When we say someone has a "big ego" we really mean the opposite: their ego is so weak that they can accept no contrary information. |
#3180: | Narcissism is the endemic condition of those under 30. |
#3181: | If you invest your identity in being sexy, you'll wake up someday as a pathetic cartoon character. |
#3182: | After coming perilously close to extinction, there are finally signs of life in the blow-up gorilla industry. |
#3183: | Most so-called luxuries impoverish your life more than they improve it. |
#3184: | Essential for any literate human is to know the names and numbers of the L.A. freeways and the impact of a SigAlert on any one of them. |
#3185: | There are two kinds of people in the world: those who give a shit and those who don't. Those who don't should loosen up and try some Ex-Lax. |
#3186: | Love gives you permission to share — and abuse with impunity. |
#3187: | Reporting from Texas: A real cowboy hat is made from cow. What you're wearing there, son, is a nice sun hat made of straw. |
#3188: | Stuffaholism — n. the tragic addiction to possessions and their acquisition. Victim becomes so overburdened with stuff he can hardly move. |
#3189: | The surest road to Hell is to trust the advice of "experts". |
#3190: | Dogs and children, when treated as kings, quickly come to believe it. |
#3191: | sports — n. a system of artificial conflict intended to placate the masses, absorb their energy and keep them from any real accomplishment. |
#3192: | Sleep is where a lot of serious work gets done. We may not know exactly what's happening, but it's as important as digestion. |
#3193: | Every swindler is going to act like the victim as soon as he's caught. |
#3194: | Flashback, 2008: Bad economy? Don't worry about me. I invested it all with Bernie Madoff. Nice, solid returns in good times and bad. |
#3195: | Most of humanity is living in the decrepit shell of past dreams. |
#3196: | I-10 in Texas: 879 miles. 80 mph speed limit. Piece of cake. Just don't try to do it all in one day. Also: Houston sucks. |
#3197: | Ozona, Texas: town named after a ground-level pollutant and dwindling resource in the stratosphere. |
#3198: | I know we've screwed up our environment, but I feel no guilt whatsoever for the extinction of the dinosaurs. |
#3199: | Amazing there can be so much oil pooled underground that it flows out like this. Surely, this must have happened naturally in the past. #BP |
#3200: | Intelligent life anywhere in the universe will face similar conflicts: individual vs society, defending one's ego, dealing with death. |