Birthday 2012

Thirty-six with a bullet baby. Man, last year was a tough year. Amazing and successful but that was some hard work. Not keen to repeat that experience in a hurry.

Anyway today is my birthday and I intend to listen to much jazz, like seriously much.

In previous years on this blog I’ve invited people to leave me a quote in the comments as a birthday gift, like here. But blogging in 2012 is different and most of the social stuff has shifted to the social medias. I ain’t gonna fight it.

(You are still invited to leave a quote in the comments though, if you ain’t Facebook-active or whatever. Just secretly, getting those always makes me delight all up.)

AND I HOPE YOU HAVE A GREAT MY BIRTHDAY!

21 thoughts on “Birthday 2012”

  1. “Decisions are made by those who show up.” President Josiah Bartlet (quoting someone)

    HAPPY BIRTH-DAY!

  3. Morgue, why do I have to work on your birthday?? Sort this out for next year please 🙂

    A musical quote as you will be listening to jazz: Mahler(cos he’s AWESOME) “If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.”

    A random quote from asleep me to husband as he got out of bed at 5am this morning: “DID YOU FORGET YOUR TOAST?”

    Happy birthday 🙂

  4. Some things haven’t changed since the 1700s…
    “The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.” Voltaire

  5. Happy birthday Morgue

    “Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.”

    Lance Armstrong

  6. “If I had once chance to freeze time and stand still and soak in everything, I’d choose right now.” – Newton Faulkner

    Alternatively, “Oh Jesus Christ, Fenton!”

  7. “It is you who are unpoetical,” replied the poet Syme. “If what you say of clerks is true, they can only be as prosaic as your poetry. The rare, strange thing is to hit the mark; the gross, obvious thing is to miss it. We feel it is epical when man with one wild arrow strikes a distant bird. Is it not also epical when man with one wild engine strikes a distant station? Chaos is dull; because in chaos the train might indeed go anywhere, to Baker Street or to Bagdad. But man is a magician, and his whole magic is in this, that he does say Victoria, and lo! it is Victoria. No, take your books of mere poetry and prose; let me read a time table, with tears of pride. Take your Byron, who commemorates the defeats of man; give me Bradshaw, who commemorates his victories. Give me Bradshaw, I say!”

    (The Man Who Was Thursday, GK Chesterton)

    Happy Birthday!

  8. “Astrology is the meeting and confrontation point between the demands of a rational order, as in Greek science, and the myths and superstitions inherited from the East: between logic and magic, between mathematics and mythology, between Athens and Alexandria.” –Eugenio Garin, “Astrology in the Renaissance”

  9. “War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.” –John F. Kennedy

  10. Happy birthday, Morgue! I’m apalled, however, that you would be using your baby as a bullet. Shameful. I hope at least that you’re observing some basic health and safety with the whole enterprise.

  11. Have I emailed you recently? If not, this is currently my sig-file though I haven’t read the book 😉

    “Observation is the generative act in scientific discovery. For all its aberrations, the evidence of the senses is essentially to be relied upon–provided we observe nature as a child does, without prejudices and preconceptions, but with that clear and candid vision which adults lose and scientists must strive to regain.” Peter Medawar (1982). Pluto’s Republic,

  12. Parker (holds up two tubes): Toothpaste, explosive; do not mix these up.
    Leverage

  13. As ever, one of the classics:

    “What’s the point in being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes?” The Doctor (THE Doctor, mind, the Definite Article etc…)

    Hope the day was a rip-snorter! If not, then please, take my bitter bitter envy at your still-tender youth.

    All the best

    Jets.

  14. “Life is like the dice that, falling, still show a different face. So life, though it remains the same, is always presenting different aspects.” – Alexis

  16. “Do you have hope for the future? someone asked Robert Frost toward the end.
    Yes and even for the past, he replied, that it will turn out to have been all right for what it was, something we can accept, mistakes made by the selves we had to be, not able to be, perhaps, what we wished…”

    David Ray from Music of Time

  18. Blogs are still way cooler than facebook.

    Anyway.

    “Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of consciousness and finally go beyond it. The art of meditation is the art of shifting the focus of attention to ever subtler levels, without losing one’s grip on the levels left behind. In a way it is like having death under control. One begins with the lowest levels: social circumstances, customs and habits; physical surroundings, the posture and the breathing of the body, the senses, their sensations and perceptions; the mind, its thoughts and feelings; until the entire mechanism of personality is grasped and firmly held. The final stage of meditation is reached when the sense of identity goes beyond the ‘I-am-so-and-so’, beyond ‘so-I-am’, beyond ‘I-am-the-witness-only’, beyond ‘there-is’, beyond all ideas into the impersonally personal pure being. But you must be energetic when you take to meditation. It is definitely not a part-time occupation. Limit your interests and activities to what is needed for you and your dependents’ barest needs. Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind had built around you. Believe me, you will not regret.” – Nisargadatta

  20. The free market economy is nothing but a stage in the life-cycle of the welfare generation. It’s nothing but the welfare state for the Old Rich. It’s as ideological as menopause.
    – Brian Johnson.

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