Wods of Wisdom

“Age is a high price to pay for maturity.”

~Tom Stoppard

Apologies

I apologize yet again for not updating this blog in months. I will resuscitate it as best I can, with the hope that it will be better than before. Wish me luck.

~Armando

Killing An Hour

"Who has never killed an hour? Not casually or without thought, but carefully: a premeditated murder of minutes. The violence comes from a combination of giving up, not caring, and a resignation that getting past it is all you can hope to accomplish. So you kill the hour. You do not work, you do not read, you do not daydream. If you sleep it is not because you need to sleep. And when at last it is over, there is no evidence: no weapon, no blood, and no body. The only clue might be the shadows beneath your eyes or a terribly thin line near the corner of your mouth indicating something has been suffered, that in the privacy of your life you have lost something and the loss is too empty to share."

~Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves (2000)

Words of Wisdom

"Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns. He should be drawn and quoted."

~Fred Allen

Fire Underground

A fire has been burning under the town of Centralia, Pennsylvania since 1962. As of 2007 the population is estimated at 7.

Read more at Centralia's wikipedia entry.

Light Graffiti

Here are some incredible examples of light graffiti.











From here.

A Riddle

Short was my life, and brilliant my career;
Behead me, I in lovely green appear;
Behead again, I once was made to save
My chosen inmates from a watery grave.

What am I?