I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

Woody Allen


Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.

Dave Barry



If you are going through hell, keep going.

Winston Churchill



I know a lot about cars, man. I can look at any car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.

Mitch Hedberg


Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Lily Tomlin



Shut up and talk.

Yogi Berra



I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well."

Emo Phillips

Einstein

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”
"Do not worry about your difficulties with mathematics; I can assure you that mine are still greater."
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.
Everything should be made as simple as possible,but not simpler.
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
anyone who has never made a mistake ,has never tried any thing new.....
Stupidity is doing the same thing over and over again expicting diffrent results each time. [Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.]
Imagination is greater than knowledge
"The crippling of individuals i consider the worst evil of capitalism.
Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship material success as a preparation for his future career."
Nothing is absolute. Only one thing is absolute, that everything is relative.

• "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
• "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
• "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love."
• "I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
• "The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
• "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
• "The only real valuable thing is intuition."
• "A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
• "I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice."
• "God is subtle but he is not malicious."
• "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
• "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
• "The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
• "Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
• "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."
• "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
• "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
• "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
• "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
• "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
• "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
• "The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
• "God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
• "The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
• "Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
• "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
• "The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
• "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
• "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."
• "The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
• "Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
• "Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity."
• "If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut."
• "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
• "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
• "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
• "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
• "In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep."
• "The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
• "Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
• "Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
• "No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
• "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
• "Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."
• "The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking...the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker."
• "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
• "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
• "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
• "The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."
• "Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
• "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
• "One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year."
• "...one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
• "He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
• "A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
• "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem.

George Carlin

It was hard to have a conversation with anyone - there were too many people talking.

Yogi Berra

2:30am

at half past three in the night even the big city seems quiet and calm. cars are not going. people steps are not heard on the sidewalks. autumn and damp. and darkness of the night over rain poured plashes. silence. two lonely lights in the opposite house. sky is cracked for a while from flying plane and then silence again. the cold air flows into the room and my lungs. autumn night`s chill makes me shake myself. rain is not falling. and it seems that also wind has gone in night doze. a dog is not barking. and the railway is keeping silence. all the world is resting in sugary sleep. just some lonely soul is trying to see the stars through the clouds.

Pomelo

Pomelo (citrus maxima) vai pampelmūzis

Pēc augļa lieluma ieņem otro vietu citrusu vidū aiz citrona. Aug 5-10 metrus augstos kokkos, kas var ziedēt un dot augļus visu gadu. Augļi ir lieli un smagi 3 – 5 kg. Lai nogatavotos auglis, tam vajag 6 – 7 mēnešus. Pampelmūza augļi var būt neliela arbūza lielumā. Garums 15 – 18 cm, diametrs 10 – 18 un pat līdz 25 cm. Augļa forma ir no apaļas līdz bumberveidīgai. Mizas krāsa no dzeltenzaļas līdz spilgti dzeltenai. Mīkstums zaļgans, dzeltens, rozā vai sarkanīgs, ar raksturīgu aromātu un skābenu garšu, kam piemīt nedaudz rūgtums vai pat nemaz nav rūgts. Principā garša ir tāda pati kā greipfrūtam, tikai garša ir daudz maigāka.
Augļa dzimtene ir Malajas arhipelāgs, taču šodien pampelmūzis vairs savvaļā nav sastopams. To audzē Indijā, Dienvidāzijā, Dienvid – austrumu āzijā, Austrumāzijā. Šo augli var audzēt arī telpā, bet tam vajag daudz plašuma un pastiprinātu mitrumu.
Augļi satur daudz kālija, C vitamīna. Tam piemīt fitoncīdu un antibakteriāla iedarbība, bet ēteriskās eļļas veicina ēstgribu. Satur ļoti daudz sulas un remdina slāpes
Pampelmūzim par godu arī tiek rīkoti svētki. Piemēram : septembra mēnesī, netālu no Bangogas, par godu šim auglim rīko procesiju, kuras laikā peld ar laivām, kuras pildītas ar šo augli un ziediem.
Galvenokārt pampelmūzis no greipfrūta atšķiras ar to, ka ir daudz vienkāršāka ēšanas „tehnoloģija”. Augli nomizo kā apelsīnu : biezo mizu nedaudz iegriež un tad bez grūtībām nomizo. Nomizoto augli pārplēš uz pusēm, katras daiviņas biezo apvalku pārgriež ar nazi. Izņem mīkstumu. Mīkstums katrā daiviņā guļ brīvi, gandrīz nepiespiests pie apvalka, mīkstums ir ļoti blīvs, tāpēc pie izņemšanas nekas netiek saspiests un sula netiek zaudēta. Ja ir sēkliņas, tad izņemiet arī sēkliņas. Reizēm mēdz būt to diezgan daudz, pa 5 – 6 katrā daiviņā. Attīrītās daiviņas liek porcelāna traukā. Tikai nekaisi cukuru, jo auglis tāpat ir pietiekoši salds. Nu tā auglis ir gatavs ēšanai. Tālāk, jau atliek vien ēst- var ar karoti, var ar rokām, var kaut ar visu galvu nirt traukā.

saruna ar rītdienu

man ir bail ar tevi runāt, mana rītdiena.
man ir bail sadzirdēt to, ko tu vēlies teikt. sevišķi tad, ja tava atbilde būs tāda, ko nevēlos dzirdēt. es zinu savus soļus neatkarīgi no tā, ko teiksi. bet daļa soļu ir tādi, ko es nevēlos spert.
bet tu vienalga nāksi. un mums vajadzēs lietas padarīt skaidras. tev nesāpēs. tu tikai pateiksi kas un kā. un tas, kas paliks man, būs sekas no taviem vārdiem. tu nejūtīgi turpināsi ceļu, lai gan man laiks būs iespējams iestrēdzis starp divām nebūtībām.
tu iespējams iesi lēkāt pa peļķēm, kas būs veidotas no manām asarām un mest gaisā samirkušas rudens lapas. nejūtīgā tu!

darkness

"I'm not sure about what life will brings..
but I'm sure that whatever the darkness is around.. the light of hope will never disappear from her face.."

Hearty Ravioli

Feb 9th, 2007

by chris.

This is a vegan and low in fat dish suitable for a romantic Valentine’s dinner, our contribution to the “Vegetable Love” challenge of Fatfree Vegan.

Classic spinach ravioli floating in an Italian tomato sauce

Serving Size: 4

Ingredients:

for the filling:

• 450 grams of spinach, large stems removed and chopped
• 1 tbs. grainy mustard
• 1 teaspoon sesame oil
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 2 tbs. bread crumbs
• pinch of salt

for the raviolis:

• 1 c. semolina four
• 2 tsp. olive oil
• 1/2 cup water
• pinch salt

for the sauce:

• 1 can crushed tomatoes
• 1 onion, minced
• 1 tbs. olive oil
• 1 clove garlic, minced
• various Italian herbs (fresh would be best)
• salt and pepper to taste
• dash of lemon
• pinch of cayenne pepper

Directions:

for the ravioli dough:

1. In a bowl, combine the pasta dough ingredients to make a dough.
2. Wrap in a towel and let sit for 30 minutes.

for the filling:

1. Wash the spinach and remove the large tough stems.
2. Chop the spinach and steam or saute in water. (sweat)
3. Place in a large mixing bowl.
4. Add the mustard, salt and bread-crumbs and mix well.
5. Season further with salt, cayenne and pepper.
   

for the sauce:

1. Saute the minced onion in the olive oil until the onion is glassy.
2. Add the minced garlic and saute.
3. Add the tomatoes and reduce heat to simmer.
4. Add the herbs, lemon juice, salt and pepper and continue to simmer on a low heat.
5. Season to taste with additional salt, pepper and cayenne.

making the ravioli:

1. Divide the dough in fourths and roll out each portion on a floured work space, allowing the first sheet of pasta to sit while rolling out the second. One of the tricks to the pasta is to make sure you?ve rolled the dough out very thin.
2. Cut out your ravioli shapes and fill with the filling. Place the top part of the ravioli over the filling and close with a fork.
3. If you have a form or press, then of course that saves time you merely place 1 sheet of dough on one side, put the filling on the dough and then lay the 2nd sheet of dough on top. Close the form to seal and cut off the extra using a knife.
   
4. Meanwhile, bring a large pot of salty water to boil.
   
5. Put your ravioli into the salty water and cook. They are ready when they come floating to the top. I would suggest cooking only a few raviolis at a time.
6. Place the first cooked raviolis in the oven to keep warm until they are all ready.
7. When ready to serve, put a layer of sauce on the plate and lay the raviolis on top.
   
8. You can garnish with some fresh cut herbs or if you have soy cheese, you can dust some on top.

pārsteidzošā pasaule

savāda sajūta, kad lietas, kuras tev šķitušas sasāpējušās un dikti sarežģītas mēdz iegūt pavisam vienkāršu atrisinājumu, kad beidzot pieķeries tām klāt.
un dīvaina ir cilvēku spēja izdarīt ko tādu, ko no viņiem vismazāk gaida. (: dažkārt arī pozitīvā nozīmē.
ir lietas, kurām tu vienkārši neķeries klāt. tās ir jāpabeidz. bet pirms tam tās ir jāsāk pabeigt. un tas ir grūtākais solis. un ne vienmēr vajag baidīties šo soli spert. sevišķi tad, ja nav ko zaudēt. bet šī apgaismība nāk tikai pēc tam, kad šis solis ir sperts. apgaismībai piemīt kustību sensors! tā nostrādā tikai pēc pirmās kustības (:
daudzreiz grūtības sagādā doma, ka cilvēks pie kura vērsīsies tevi nesapratīs vai nosodīs!
bet kā jau minēju - cilvēki mēdz pārsteigt!
sagaida atplestām rokām un palīdz kā vien spēdami! un tad tu sēdi tāds nobijies pelēns un domā - pasaule ir brīnumaina šodien!
superveiksmīga diena!

[pēc garām mocībām sakarā ar universitāti, beidzot kāda cilvēka maza spiediena un pašas vēlēšanās iespaidā, aizčāpoju uz 3.kursa dekanātu. tik daudzas reizes biju nodomājusi, ka sekretāre, kas tur sēž ir tāda piekasīga un grib izvilkt tikai sliktāko no cilvēka dvēseles. bet maldījos. uj kā maldījos! pateica gan, ka nevar paņemt mani 3.kursā jo ir par vēlu. un 2. ar 3 parādiem nelaiž, lai tos kārtotu. bet ieteica iet uz tālmācības daļu pie Uģa, lai tur maksājot par visiem kredītpunktiem parādos un ejot uz lekcijām un laboriem kā klausītājs (: visu izstāstīja un visu izprintēja! piezvanīja Uģim un neļāva iet viņam pusdienās, lai mani gaidot! vienkārši fantastiski! neko nepārmetot un ar pozitīvu un patīkamu attieksmi (:
Uģis saformēja visu, paņēma info un tagad gaidu zvanu nedēļas beigās!
es atkal būšu students! iiiiiiihaaaaa!!!!!!!! :) veiksmi man!]

solārijcilvēki

solārijos aizmirstie cilvēki nepiestāv pat rudens košajām krāsām.

aizsvīduši logi

viņa pārvilka kailos pirkstus pār cilvēku karstās elpas veidoto miglu uz autobusa loga, lai padarītu skatu uz pasauli skaidrāku.

cilvēki un logi

vai tas, ka kāds iztīra lielu caurumu aizsvīdušā, necaurredzamā autobusa logā, norāda uz plašu redzesloku?

un ko var teikt par cilvēku, kas izveido mazu šķirbiņu?

autumn [translated to eng]

She flanged the coat on the shoulders over the thin blouse, capped the hat on a head and made a chips of door keys to bang quietly for a couple of time. She went in the autumnal streets. softly touching wet asphalt with metal heels of shoes. ruddy leaves. yellow. little bit brown. little bit green with flamy mottles. all mixed up in yet unfrozen grass, which has scrolled out alongside sidewalks edge. the sun was trying to throw on the last refreshing warm sights in a frost furled world, but in the late eves stinging icy wind was dancing victory dance over burning leave pyre. She blast out hot vapour in chilly airspace. naked fingers were freezing and could not find hideaway even in the distal corners of the pockets. high above Her head were glittering insensitivly frozen blue sky, which had captured white clouds somewhere here and there. some strayed leave playfully whirled down afore of Her. savage autumn wind crawled behind collar. huddled up scarf tighter, She shivered once. the long way ahead. 

rudens2

sarmas sacukurotajā zālē vizēja sasaluši rasas pilieni. trausls zirnekļa tīkls vēl centās noturēt stiebrus līdzās. vējš gariem pirkstiem spēlēja skumjas tievajos pavedienos un nežēlīgi svieda degošās lapas pie aukstās zemes sāniem.

rudens1

blāvi brūnganās laternas gaismā stāvēja viņa, ietinusies pelēkaraibā tilla mēteli, rokassomiņu ādas cimdā, melniem matiem un sāpošu sirdi. lija smalks lietus.

Tā

Tā uzmeta plecos savu mēteli virs plānās jakas, uzlika galvā cepuri un lika klusi noklaudzēties durvju atslēgas robiņiem pāris reizes. Tā izgāja rudenīgajās ielās. liegi skarot slapjo asfaltu ar metāla kurpju papēdīšiem. sārtas lapas. dzeltenas. mazliet brūnas. mazliet zaļas ar ugunīgiem lāsumiem. visas sajaukušās vēl nenosalušajā zālē, kas izritinājusies cieši līdzās ietves malai. saule centās uzmest pēdējos veldzējoši siltos skatus sarmā tītajai pasaulei, bet dedzinoši ledains vējš vēlos vakaros dejoja uzvaras deju pār degošo lapu sārtu. Tā izpūta karstus garaiņus saltajā gaisa telpā. kailie pirksti sala un neatrada patvērumu pat kabatu tālākajā strūrī. augstu virs Tās galvas mirdzēja nejūtīgi aizsalušas zilas debesis, kuras sagūstījušas vietām baltus mākoņus.kāda nomaldījusies lapa rotaļīgi novirpoja lejā Tās priekšā. negants rudens vējš aizlīda aiz apkakles.saritinājusi šalli ciešāk, Tā nodrebinājās. priekšā tāls ceļš.

u

and there comes a moment when you understand - he is the one!

mēneša sekundes

*minūtes garums esot atkarīgs no tā, kurā tualetes durvju pusē atrodamies.*
laikam ir nežēlīgas mērvienības, kuras ar sajūtu piedevu veikli maina savu garumu.
tāds tukšums, kad blakus nav tevis, manu cilvēk! tukšums un reizē tāda karsta liesma krūtīs, domājot par tevi! vēl pāris stundas atpakaļ tavi pirksti slīdēja pār manu ādu, tava elpa krita uz mana kakla, kur tavas lūpas dāvāja man maigus skūpstus, un tava balss liegi atskanēja manā dvēselē.
bet nu, kāda bezkaislīgi auksta lidmašīna savicina spārnus un aiznes mani kilometriem tālu no brīnišķās vietas - tev līdzās. veroties pa iluminatora logu, neticās, ka lidoju prom. es neciešu lidmašīnas, kad viņas nes mani prom. pār vaigiem plūst karstas asaras, tos apdedzinot, un padarot manu jaku slapju. vienalga. pilsētas ugunis miedz ar acīm. tā nakts uz jumta, kad pētījām zvaigznes. kad vērojām ciematu gaismas tur tālu kalnos un mājas piekājē. acu priekšā kā īstenība. tikai tu.. lidostas telpās, no kurām mani nes prom šī metāla briesmone.
un lidosta numur divi. pauze starp divām pasaulēm. tur - kopā ar tevi - un tejieni - četru sienu pasauli. sēdot uz sola, krusteniski saliktām kājām, asarām acīs un aukstumu, kas saldē nemanāmi karstajā lidostas uzgaidāmajā telpā. te mani neviens negaida. kāpēc vajag atstāt vietu, kur cilvēks bez manis nevar, lai dotos uz vietu, kur mani negaida nekas un neviens?
tavi vārdi, tavas acis, tavs smaids - acu priekšā.
atpakaļ realitātē. autobusa logā pasaule mainās, kā sarkan-dzeltenā filmā. riteņi tinās prom pa lietus samitrinātajām ielām. vai viss kas bij nav bijis tikai neticams sapnis? bet nē. tavas bildes. mūsu bildes. un video. u are crazy. ak, kaut ātrāk es spētu būt tavās skavās. bez termiņiem. vienmēr. mīlu.
mans pats pats vis vis :*