Overheard

“BBFF (Best Bacon Friends Forever)”

“I find myself thinking of a checklist Wozniak wrote a few years ago describing how to become a genius. His advice was straightforward yet strangely terrible: You must clarify your goals, gain knowledge through spaced repetition, preserve health, work steadily, minimize stress, refuse interruption, and never resist sleep when tired. This should lead to radically improved intelligence and creativity. The only cost: turning your back on every convention of social life.”

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.”

“Ever have something in your teeth that you cannot stop tonguing?”

“ . . . the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage.”

Comments

Nice.

After spending a weekend with my parents recently, I also noticed how similar I am to my dad in so many ways.

I bet if my mom were a man, I would notice how we two are similar too! Of course, if my mom were a man, I'd probably have all sorts of other things to notice...

Posted by Jason  at  11:57 am on May. 11, 2006

Travis, this is an awesome post. It's inspired me to do the same, though the bar it has set for quality will keep me working on it for a few days. Perhaps a good father's day gift.

Posted by James  at  2:41 pm on May. 11, 2006

you forgot the salt on the grapefruit.

Posted by family  at  10:07 pm on May. 15, 2006

Actually, I always remember him putting the salt on the grapefruit, it's just that I never see anyone else doing it -- so it's not that someone else putting salt on reminds me.

And ketchup on eggs. And on stew.

But he knows how to butter popcorn...

Posted by Travis Smith  at  1:49 am on May. 17, 2006

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