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Three Hard Things

Neal @ January 15, 2010 # No Comment Yet

Kicking a whale up a beach
Braiding grape jelly
Comforting the chronically afflicted.
(1/22/09 P.S. to RW: who asked “Why would you kick a whale?” The only reason I can think of is that 1) he’s down, and 2) you’re that sort of fellow.)

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Pithyism #4

Neal @ November 21, 2009 # No Comment Yet

NEVER YODEL NEXT TO A sleeping cat.

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Pithyism #2

Neal @ November 15, 2009 # No Comment Yet

THE REASON WE NEED each other is that life rarely contains enough different viewpoints to even begin understanding Life.

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A Proposal for the Moon of Earth

Neal @ October 5, 2009 # No Comment Yet

I HEREBY OFFER ONE MILLION U. S. dollars to the first person, corporation or agency with the vision to proclaim humanity’s name to the cold eternal stars.
To wit: the construction of a suitable solar-powered visual display in the lunar crater Tycho, for the purpose of looping Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A space odyssey.
The display [...]

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Pithyism #3, 6 or 7

Neal @ September 30, 2009 # No Comment Yet

SCRATCH A MYSTIC, FIND A solipsist.

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