Just For Fun...

2012-01-24T12:40:00.001-05:00

"I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it."
(Jean Kerr)

2012-01-22T17:54:00.002-05:00

"Love and laughter happens when one person thinks about what would cause the other person to feel good."
(Yakov Smirnoff)

2012-01-21T15:29:00.000-05:00

"My outgoing voicemail message says 'I'm sorry I can't come to the phone right now. It's 2012. Learn to text.'"
(Unknown)

2012-01-21T03:31:00.002-05:00

"He who laughs most, learns best."
(John Cleese)

2012-01-16T16:00:00.000-05:00

You've probably all read this quote:

"You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth."
(William W. Purkey)

I'm not sure how long ago he wrote that - but there's already a modernized variant, for our digital world:

"Dance like the photo's not tagged, Love like you've never been unfriended, Tweet like nobody's following!"
(Kelli)

2012-01-14T18:54:00.002-05:00

"If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible."
(James Whistler)

2012-01-11T14:04:00.002-05:00

"When it comes down to it, we're really just a big ant farm with beepers."
(Dennis Miller)

2012-01-10T10:49:00.000-05:00

"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."
(Vincent Van Gogh)

2012-01-09T14:05:00.002-05:00

"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other."
(Audrey Hepburn)

2012-01-08T23:49:00.002-05:00

"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."
(Stephen Hawking)

2011-12-23T01:15:00.002-05:00

"Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working."
(Pablo Picasso)

2011-12-15T13:46:00.002-05:00

"I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody."
(Lily Tomlin)

2011-11-11T01:02:00.000-05:00

"I got complimented today. Makes me feel good when I get complimented. It was only from the phone company… still… out of the blue they ring me up and go: 'Mr. Barron, you've got an outstanding account!'"
(Carl Barron)

2011-10-06T01:15:00.000-04:00

"Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away."
(Sir Thomas Beecham)

2011-10-04T23:54:00.000-04:00

"People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant."
(Ellen DeGeneres)

Bonus: Anyone who has enjoyed both Dr Seuss and Dr. Who will probably be amused by this.

2011-10-03T15:21:00.000-04:00

"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."
(Steve Wozniak)

2011-10-01T02:18:00.000-04:00

"Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes."
(Jim Carrey)

2011-09-28T10:18:00.002-04:00

"Facebook and you: If you're not paying for it, you're not the customer. You're the product being sold."

Read on a page about the reaction to the new Facebook changes - which I've heard about but haven't actually seen - since I live in an alternate universe which doesn't include Facebook. (But I do use Google's free services - for which the same basic point holds true...)

2011-09-28T02:31:00.000-04:00

"I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!"
(Dr. Seuss)

2011-09-17T23:46:00.000-04:00

"There is nothing that will not reveal its secrets if you love it enough."
(George Washington Carver)

2011-09-14T12:17:00.002-04:00

"I've suffered for my music. Now it's your turn."
(Neil Innes (composer best known for his work with Monty Python))

TFFT used to have more email subscribers than it does today. As long-term TFFT subscribers(1) may remember, there was a brief time where I would occasionally post ~~music~~ my piano-playing on the blog. I continue to maintain that the piano posts and the drop in subscribership are unrelated(2)

Soon(3), however, this practice stopped. Not so much out of kindness to TFFT readers as much as because the tiny little MP3 recorder I used died. Well, you'll be glad to ~~know~~ be warned that I now have a new MP3 recorder. And here is something I recorded last night which show-cases my well-developed skill at plagerism (which the astute long-time listener will notice is now so finely honed that I even ~~steal~~ borrow from myself)

Dancing

Before you rush to unsubscribe, let me assure you that I won't inflict these things on you very often.(4)

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(1) Quite possibly both of them
(2) Seriously - they were even in different years. No, really!
(3) Although there are some who say not soon enough
(4) I really don't have that much spare time to play or record more things. You're welcome.

2011-09-12T10:33:00.000-04:00

"All happiness comes from the desire for others to be happy. All misery comes from the desire for oneself to be happy."
(Shantideva, c. 7th century, India)

2011-09-10T12:34:00.000-04:00

"You do the big things by doing the little things right."
(Steven Cooper)

2011-09-04T20:16:00.000-04:00

"Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible."
(Richard P. Feynmen)

2011-09-04T01:29:00.002-04:00

"I needed a password with eight characters so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves."
(Nick Helm)