Primal Sneeze

I.T. Aphorisms

  • Home is where you hang your @
  • The e-mail of the species is more deadly than the mail.
  • Some of God’s greatest gifts are unanswered mails.
  • A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click.
  • You can’t teach an old mouse new clicks.
  • Great groups from little icons grow.
  • Speak softly and carry a mobile.
  • C:\ is the root of all directories.
  • Don’t put all your hypes in one home page.
  • Pentium wise; pen and paper foolish.
  • Too many clicks spoil the browse.
  • The geek shall inherit the earth.
  • A chat has nine lives.
  • Don’t byte off more than you can view.
  • Fax is stranger than fiction.
  • What boots up must come down.
  • Windows will never cease.
  • Virtual reality is its own reward.
  • Modulation in all things.
  • A user and his leisure time are soon parted.
  • There’s no place like http://primalsneeze.blogspot.com/
  • Know what to expect before you connect.
  • Oh, what a tangled website we weave when first we practice.

July 23, 2006 Posted by Primal Sneeze | Fun, Tech stuff | | No Comments

Ode to Tom Prescott

Hurrah for brave Tom Prescott
Verily half man half biscuit
He knew his Linux inside out
Bought his software from a tout
And when he broke it, he could fix it
Hurrah for brave Tom Prescott

© Paul C - bored at work, order management, Informix Irl., circa 1995. About quarter past one, I’d say.

July 23, 2006 Posted by Primal Sneeze | Fun, Tech stuff | | 2 Comments

Science for kids

  • You can listen to thunder after lightening and tell how close you came to getting hit. If you don’t hear it, you got hit, so never mind.
  • Talc is found on rocks and on babies.
  • The law of gravity says its not fair jumping up without coming back down.
  • Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.
  • Someday we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any direction.
  • A vibration is a motion that cannot make up its mind which way it wants to go.
  • Many dead animals in the past changed to fossils while others preferred to be oil.
  • Genetics explain why you look like your father and if you don’t why you should.
  • Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they’re there.
  • Some oxygen molecules help fires burn while others help make water, so sometimes it’s brother against brother.
  • We say the cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation. Evaporation gets blamed for a lot of things people forget to put the top on.
  • To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists solutions are things that are still all mixed up.
  • In looking at a drop of water under a microscope, we find there are twice as many H’s as O’s.
  • I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing.
  • Water vapor gets together in a cloud. When it is big enough to be called a drop, it does.
  • Humidity is the experience of looking for air and finding water. We keep track of the humidity in the air so we won’t drown when we breathe.
  • Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dogs tongue will kill the strongest man.
  • Thunder is a rich source of loudness.
  • Isotherms and isobars are even more important than their names sound.
  • It is so hot in some places that the people there have to live in other places.
  • The wind is like the air, only pushier.

July 23, 2006 Posted by Primal Sneeze | Fun, Science | | No Comments