The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else." - Arnold Bennett

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LETS BEGIN IN 2010

[b]Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic


Arthur C. Clarke

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic


Arthur C. Clarke

Ain't that the truth! My new car does magical things every day! I approach the car with my keys in my pocket, and if it is dark out the interior lights come on. When I grab the door handle, it unlocks. When someone else grabs a door handle, it remains locked until I unlock it. When I am out in an unfamiliar area I can ask the car to tell me how to get home. When I am using the voice guidance to tell me how to get home, and I don't like the neighborhood that it suggests that I go through, I can say "Detour" and it tells me a way around the scary places.

Now I wonder why my house doesn't recognise me and unlock the door when I approach the door? Why doesn't my computer recognise me and log me on when I approach the keyboard? Why doesn't my toaster know how I like my toast? Why doesn't the ATM at my bank recognise me? Why doesn't the elevator at work know which floor I work on every day?

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"All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." - Leo Tolstoy

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LETS BEGIN IN 2010

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic


Arthur C. Clarke

Ain't that the truth! My new car does magical things every day! I approach the car with my keys in my pocket, and if it is dark out the interior lights come on. When I grab the door handle, it unlocks. When someone else grabs a door handle, it remains locked until I unlock it. When I am out in an unfamiliar area I can ask the car to tell me how to get home. When I am using the voice guidance to tell me how to get home, and I don't like the neighborhood that it suggests that I go through, I can say "Detour" and it tells me a way around the scary places.

Now I wonder why my house doesn't recognise me and unlock the door when I approach the door? Why doesn't my computer recognise me and log me on when I approach the keyboard? Why doesn't my toaster know how I like my toast? Why doesn't the ATM at my bank recognise me? Why doesn't the elevator at work know which floor I work on every day?

Because you don't have an RFID chip implanted in your body.

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"Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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LETS BEGIN IN 2010

"Cats are like potato chips.....you can't have just one."
Author unknown

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

"No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens." - Abraham Lincoln


LOL. And true.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

"You're unique, just like everybody else."

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- Luke.

"You're unique, just like everybody else."

Yes, you are Luke.

So happy to see you back on the boards, my friend.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

"You're unique, just like everybody else."

Yes, you are Luke.

So happy to see you back on the boards, my friend.

Thx Mate. Always nice to spread the smiles.

As once said... "The past is history, the future is a mystery, today is a gift, that's why it's called the present."

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- Luke.

"Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." - Mark Twain

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

"Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." - Mark Twain

"A cat is a lion in a jungle of small bushes" - Indian Proverb

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- Luke.

"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." - Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

"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." - Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio

Your cat will never threaten your popularity by barking at three in the morning. He won't attack the mailman or eat the drapes, although he may climb the drapes to see how the room looks from the ceiling. - Helen Powers.

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- Luke.

"We need a word for all the kitty-prints that are all over my windshield because the cats like to lie on my hood when the car is still warm." - Megan Coughlin

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Your cat will never threaten your popularity by barking at three in the morning..

An unaltered cat will howl at the moon when it wants a mate. Just ask anyone who has lived with one, or near one.

He won't attack the mailman or eat the drapes, although he may climb the drapes to see how the room looks from the ceiling. - Helen Powers.

Cats do shred things in the house. I know this because I live with 8 cats, and they have shredded the couch, the mini-blinds, the clothes hamper, the box springs of my bed, a door jam, bathroom towels, toilet paper rolls, basically anything that they can get their claws into.

Oh, and moving something up off the floor does not protect it from being shredded unless it is at least 8 feet above the nearest climbable surface.

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Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
Bill Watterson (1958 - )

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BETTER THE WORLD ~ PAY IT FORWARD
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"Beware of people who dislike cats." - Irish proverb

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster