It’s hard to be self-deprecating when there are so many other people to deprecate . . .
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This Diet Pepsi tastes like paint thinner. If this is my last update ever, I love you guyzzz . . .
Elf Girls
I wonder what elf girls taste like? Peppermint? Gingerbread?
EppsNet at the Movies: Babette’s Feast
Babette’s Feast (1987)
Directed by Gabriel Axel. With Stéphane Audran, Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel, Jarl Kulle.
There comes a time when our eyes are opened and we come to realize that mercy is infinite. We need only await it with confidence and receive it with gratitude. Mercy imposes no conditions. And lo! Everything we have chosen has been granted to us. And everything we rejected has also been granted.
This movie brought a lot of joy to my weekend.
Highly recommended!
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I had an argument with a Mobius strip. It was one-sided.
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I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain . . .
USC Football – UNFILTERED – UCLA
UCLA Fires Rick Neuheisel
UCLA Fires Rick Neuheisel
NOOOOOO! Ignore the naysayers! The program is headed in the right direction! Great things are on the horizon! The gap is closing!
Closing the Gap: USC 50, UCLA 0
We have closed the gap more with SC. We got a chance to win a championship this week. That’s closing the gap. We haven’t had that chance in the past. We’ll see where the gap is after the ball game, but the gap is closed.
Tonight they were clearly the superior team. I don’t think that’s the case all the time. I believe we can close the gap, and we will. We weren’t good enough to play a marquee team like USC.
The gap was really close. You can tell by the score.
Maybe Neuheisel meant that the gap has been closed since 1929, when USC won the inaugural crosstown showdown 76-0.
Using any more recent date as a starting point for gap measurement, it looks wider than ever.
At 10-2, USC finishes with the best record in the Pac-12 Southern Division but because of NCAA sanctions isn’t eligible to play in the conference championship.
That means that officially UCLA is the Southern Division “champion” and will play Northern Division winner Oregon next Friday.
Represent!
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- USC blows out crosstown rival UCLA 50-0 (abclocal.go.com)
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EppsNet at the Movies: Arthur Christmas
Now I know how Santa delivers all the presents in one night!
By the way, if you like to avoid the crowds, Thanksgiving night is a great time to go to the movies! Everyone’s either in a food coma or resting up for Black Friday shopping.
We went to the 9:30 show at the Irvine Marketplace. There was no ticket line, no one in the lobby, one girl working the box office and one at the snack bar.
The box office girl had to work double because there was no ticket taker on duty. Instead of just selling the tickets and handing them to us, she also tore them in half and said, “You’re in Theater 2.”
“We’re in Theater 2,” I repeated for the boy’s benefit.
“Are you sure she didn’t say we’re the only two people in the theater?” he asked.
Recommended!
Adolf Hitler in New Jersey
The New Jersey parents who named their boy Adolf Hitler seem like fruitcakes but if being a fruitcake is now a justification for taking your kids away, you could walk through any mall in America confiscating kids left and right . . .
But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth. — James 3:14
Problems
- If you tolerate it, you insist on it.
- If you insist on it, it will be supplied.
- If you see a problem, you own it.
- If you ignore a problem, you’ll see more of it.
USC Football – UNFILTERED – Oregon
The Best Measure of Truth
If you act as if something is true, you will shortly find out whether it is or isn’t. Any reduction of effort or increase of abundance you enjoy as a consequence of your new belief is the best measure of its truth.
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L’enfer, c’est les autres …
It’s Rivalry Week!
Jim McCarthy on Steve Jobs
He was utterly intolerant and disdainful of, and even mean spirited about, mediocrity. Not a designer himself, but a sublime critical thinker, he totally focused his life’s work on design perfection. This intensity, obsessiveness, and his total lack of compassion about others’ inferior thinking resulted – over a period of about 25 years, in five or six truly, climactically great products (the reader – as an exercise – may figure out
what they were, and why they make the cut.)
What You Say You Believe
What you say you believe isn’t as important as what you believe. And, obviously, you don’t believe what you don’t enact. Although describing, proselytizing, or otherwise articulating your beliefs in media other than your own acts can be fun, it is seldom very useful to you or anyone else. Babbling on about a value is a distraction from attaining it.