Here’s to the Crazy Ones
Here’s to the crazy ones.
The misfits. The rebels.
The troublemakers. The round
pegs in the square holes – the
ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules and
they have no respect for
the status quo. You can praise
them, disagree with them,
quote them, disbelieve them,
glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing that you
can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.
- Jack Kerouac
quoted in an Apple Computer Ad, 1997
This page here takes you back to those times when Duke Nukem’s 10 size foot ruled. If you are wondering what I’m talking about then maybe this site is not for you. It hosts many games of the forgotten era of MS-DOS, and you can play them online. Ah, those were the days!
Written by Mary Schmich
Ladies and gentlemen of the class of ‘97:
Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.
Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they’ve faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you’ll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can’t grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.
Don’t worry about the future. Or worry, but known that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 pm on some idle Tuesday.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
Sing.
Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts. Don’t put up with people who are reckless with yours.
Floss.
Don’t waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you’re ahead, sometimes you’re behind. The race is long and, in the end, it’s only with yourself.
Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.
Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements.
Stretch.
Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don’t.
Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You’ll miss them when they’re gone.
Maybe you’ll marry, maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll have children, maybe you won’t. Maybe you’ll divorce at 40, maybe you’ll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don’t congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. You choices are half chance. So are everybody else’s.
Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.
Read the directions, even if you don’t follow them.
Do not read beauty magazines. They will only make you feel ugly.
Get to know your parents. You never know when they’ll be gone for good.
Be nice to your siblings. They’re your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.
Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. WOrk hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.
Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard.
Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.
Travel.
Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you’ll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders.
Respect your elders.
Don’t expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you’ll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out.
Don’t mess too much with your hair or by the time you’re 40 it will look 85.
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts, and recycling it for more than it’s worth.
But trust me on the sunscreen.
This website displays a new aphorism everyday. Consider this:
There are also some funny ones made by visitors. Check this:
“Ruby is a programming language from Japan (available at ruby-lang.org) which is revolutionizing the web. The beauty of Ruby is found in its balance between simplicity and power. “
People always praise about Ruby and how great it is. I did not know how to program in it and to find out I had to read boring tutorials or books. Besides that would have taken much time because then I had to configure it on my OS, set classpaths and all those headaches.
But, here is a great way to learn about Ruby in a very simple, interactive and fast way. It basically is an emulator of Ruby and a flash-like tutorial keeps things really simple by teaching one simple thing at a time. All this, in your own browser.
This little monster here could well be the lamest investment you make. I mean just look at the price and then the thing. It does not even look sexy. I mean, those ugly fans could pass on as a hump on the back. Also, I do not think liquid cooling is such a cool idea especially if you are not cooling the RAM and the video cards. And yet it heats upto 45º C under full load. One more thing, compatibility may be a problem.
May be Richie Rich will buy it.
Awww….my friends hard disk has departed (may it rest in peace). The only solace being that it died a peaceful death, among its loved ones and doing what it loved to do – spin. Then I chanced upon this webpage which made my friend hopeful of a miracle that the hard disk may,after all, survive after some tinkering and he’ll at least save all its sweet memories on another disk.
If you have a dead one, visit this page. You may get lucky.
Hello world. Welcome to this web page.
As the name says it, this blog is a collection of all things I find interesting on the Internet. As I surf endlessly on the Internet i always feel the urge to share the things i experience with like-minded people.
Here, I will post those articles from websites,blogs i find interesting and a link back.
