Saturday, June 29, 2019

KERR'S LAW

"Professors are a series of individual faculty entrepreneurs held together by a common grievance over parking.”
- former University of California president Clark Kerr 

Saturday, June 22, 2019

MURRAY'S LAW

"Nothing makes me want to leave a website more than a pop-up window saying, “Are you sure you want to leave this page."- Bill Murray

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

AUNT ABBIE'S ADVICE

If the sum of a house's ghosts exceeds the sum of its tenants, sell it.  (From Robert Charles Wilson's novel "Last Year.")

Saturday, June 15, 2019

BRAUDE'S LAW

"Intelligence is as much a liability as a virtue: it increases your repertoire of possible errors. it just gives you more ways that you can get in your own way, or screw up."  
-Stephen E. Braude, professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. (November 2, 2016)

Sunday, June 9, 2019

BOURDAIN'S LAW: Remembering Anthony Bourdain A Year After His Passing

"If the waiter takes ten minutes to describe a dish, and it takes three minutes to eat it, something's really wrong"- the late  great Anthony Bourdain. 
That's what I loved about his show- he appreciated a good plate of drunken noodles from a street vendor, or a really well made toasted cheese sandwich at a neighbourhood dive, as much as the fine dishes from a Michelin Star rated restaurant.

Saturday, June 8, 2019

SHATNER'S LAW

"There's only one problem flying by the seat of your pants.  Sometimes you end up naked." -William Shatner, in TV GUIDE 8/22/16

Thursday, June 6, 2019

DONAHUE'S LAW

"The coin of our realm is the size of our audience."- Phil Donahue
on CNN, June 25 2017

Saturday, June 1, 2019

LOPEZ'S LAW

"The people who drink the most Red Bull are the people who seem to have the least going on"
-Chloe Lopez, on Twitter, 11/20/2-14