[The kids are making pancakes and watching them cook]
Alpha: Ugh, they look like pimples
Beta: No, they look like zits because they pop!
Quotes
Hot Chocolate
[Scene: I’m standing on a rocky ledge with both girls and Butter the dog. Meghan is above the ledge, refusing to come down to meet us.]
Me: You could be down here with your daughters and husband and dog.
Beta: That’s better than hot chocolate!
Alpha: Well… Hot chocolate is actually pretty good…
From the “That’s-Gonna-Leave-A-Mark” Department
If you don’t come home muddy or bloody, you didn’t have a good time.
— David Poore, circa 1992
[My mother really didn’t like the effects of this motto — Editor]
Fortune
Living in the world is not a dress rehearsal. You better have fun with it.
— Mark Gubin
Source: http://m.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/a-typical-welcome-sign-that-wont-fly-b99519325z1-307301071.html
Halon
You know that big button near the door in the data center, the one labeled “Halon?” That’s French for “exit,” so you push that to unlock the door and get out.
From a slashdot post
Hint: don’t hit the ‘halon’ button unless you like getting a big bill for disaster recovery and cleanup — Editor
Cars
“The sixties were good to you, weren’t they?”
— George Carlin
Now I really get it when Sarge says “The sixties weren’t good to you, were they?” to Fillmore (voiced by Mr. Carlin) in Pixar’s ‘Cars’.
I don’t have any cash
“No! I work on a cash-only basis.”
“But it’s a perfectly good check!”
“No! I’ll make it very clear. You slip me the cash, and I’ll slip you the wiener.”
“But I don’t have any cash.”
“Then I don’t have a wiener!”
— Adventures in Babysitting
Fortune
If ‘alternative medicine’ worked, it would be called ‘medicine.’
I don’t wanna go to the store! I wanna go shopping!
— Beta child, who didn’t want to go to the grocery store
Two Hard Things
There are only two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors