So you run all out, cross the line in first place and turn to look at the clock and see... a new World Record! How great must that feel? Pretty great, I bet.Then, five days later, your phone rings...
Day: May 20, 2006
Danger + Opportunity
You know that story about how the Chinese word for crisis includes the characters for both danger and opportunity? False. I always hated that story even when I thought it was true.
Spurious Quotations
GK Chesterton is famous for saying "Once a man ceases to believe in God, he doesn't believe in nothing, he believes in everything." Or something like that. Which is the point. Some research was done on what Chesterton might have actually written, and this is what turned up. Interesting, I think.