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Real Life Math

DLF > DNF > DNS


Translation:

Dead Last Finish is greater than 

Did Not Finish is greater than 

Did Not Start.

Wednesdom - Ideas




Men die but an idea does not.
~ Alan J. Lerner
The Street Where I Live - My Fair Lady

Wednesdom - Kennedy on Diversity


If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.
~ John f. Kennedy
Address at American University, Washington, D.C. - June 1o, 1963

Wednesdom - Temptation


I can resist everything except temptation.
~ Oscar Finigal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde



Yes, yes. Fabiola posted this one too early. Even Fabiola knows that today is Sunday, not Wednesday. Fabiola has issues with time flow, as she said being a figment an' all.

Wednesdom - Winter and Summer



In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candlelight.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
A Child's Garden of Verses

Wednesdom -


Advance twice, set to partners ... change lobsters, and retire in the same order.
~ LewisCarroll
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Wednesdom - Gold, Frankincense, and Myrrh


... behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
... they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense, and myrrh.
~  The Gospel According to Saint Matthew

Wednesdom

Nose, nose, nose, nose!
and who gave thee this jolly red nose?
Nutmegs and ginger, cinamon and cloves,
and they gave me this jolly red nose.
~ Thomas Ravenscroft

Happy Thoughts - Farmer's Markets



Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -
that's what my gramma taught me.
~ Lord Chesterfield

Happy Thoughts - Travel





Like all great travelers,
I have seen more than I remember,
And remember more than I have seen.
~ Benjamin Disraeli

Happy Thoughts - Cats and Lies



One of the most striking differences
 between a cat and a lie
is that a cat has only nine lives.
~ Mark Twain

From the Red Queen



"Now! Now!" cried the Queen.  "Faster! Faster"
~ Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Happy Thought for Friday 07-04-2008




This song causes Fabiola to cry with joy. It does.

It also helps Fabiola to get the dusting done faster. Patriotism is practiced in many ways my dears.

Happy Thought for Thursday 07-03-08


Variety, it is said, is the spice of life. Fabiola thinks that (if life only gets one spice) really, the spice of life is salt.

A Happy Thought For Wednesday


All the things that you truly need to live happy can be found at home with your family and friends,
with God if and wherever he resides in your life...
or at Walmart with 10,000 other people, all of them standing in the aisle you want to go down.

Wednesdom - 06-11-08 - Wildflowers

To see a world in a Grain of Sand,

And heaven in a wild flower,

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand,

And eternity in an hour.

~ William Blake

Wednesdom 05-28-2008

That which costs little is less valued. - Cervantes "Don Quixote"


Wednesdom 05-21-2008

God bears with the wicked, but not forever. - Cervantes "Don Quixote"