Fight or Flight

My favorite Jim quote is: "It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?"-Jim Carrey LIFE I don't think anybody should go through life without a team of psychologists. I have been through times when I'm literally squatting in the living room, having one of those open-throated cries, where you're crying all the way to your butthole. I always believed I would come out of it, though. I don't make it in regular channels, and that's okay for me. My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere. Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity. I don't think anybody is interesting until they've had the shit kicked out of them. The pain is there for a reason. A lot of times when I was in those depressions, I also had the thing going through my head that this is what I've asked for. I've prayed to God that I would

Season 1, Episode 10 (The Loobenfeld Decay) Leonard: How long is [Toby/Leo] going to stay here? Sheldon: He's a homeless drug addict, Leonard. Where's he going to go? Boy, you have a lot to learn about lying. Sheldon: (Knocking on Penny's door early in the morning). Penny, Penny, Penny! (Penny opens the door). Sheldon: Good morning. Penny: Do you have any idea what time it is? Sheldon: Of course I do, my watch is linked to the atomic clock in Boulder, Colorado. It's accurate to one-tenth of a second, but as I'm saying this it occurs to me once again your question may have been rhetorical. Sheldon: Artificial intelligences do not have teen fetishes. Season 1, Episode 11 (The Pancake Batter Anomaly) Sheldon: We have no idea what pathogen Typhoid Penny’s introduced into our environment. And having never been to Nebraska I’m relatively certain that I have no Corn Husking antibodies. Sheldon: Obviously you're not well-suited for three-dimensional chess. Perhaps thr

Season 1, Episode 3 (The Fuzzy Boots Corollary) Sheldon: (to Leonard, who has decided to give up on Penny) Well, at least now you can retrieve the black box from the twisted, smoldering wreckage that was once your fantasy of dating her and analyze the data so you don%u2019t crash into Geek Mountain again. Sheldon: I think that you [Leonard] have as much of a chance of having a sexual relationship with Penny as the Hubble telescope does of discovering at the center of every black hole is a little man with a flashlight searching for a circuit breaker. Sheldon: There's always a chance that alcohol and poor judgment on her part may lead to a wonderful evening. Sheldon: I don't come over to your house changing things on your boards. Leslie: That's because I don't have mistakes on my boards. Sheldon: That's...That's... Leslie: When you think up an adjective text me. Sheldon: You have about as much chance with her as the Hubble Telescope does of finding in the middle o

The Big Bang Theory is an American situation comedy created and executive produced by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady, which premiered on CBS on September 24, 2007. It concerns two male Caltech prodigies in their twenties, one an experimental physicist (Leonard) and the other a theoretical physicist (Sheldon), who live across the hall from an attractive blonde waitress with show-biz aspirations (Penny). Leonard and Sheldon's geekiness and intellect are contrasted with Penny's social skills and common sense for comedic effect. Two equally geeky friends of theirs, Howard and Rajesh, are also main characters. Season 1, Episode 1 (Pilot) Sheldon: I don't know what your odds are in the world as a whole but as far as the population of this car goes you're a veritable mack daddy. Penny: I’m a Sagittarius, which probably tells you way more than you need to know. Sheldon: Yes, it tells us that you participate in the mass cultural delusion that the sun’s apparent position relative to

Response to Apollo I Launch Pad Fire Eugene F. Kranz called a meeting of his branch and flight control team on the Monday morning following the Apollo 1 disaster that killed Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. Kranz made the following address to the gathering (The Kranz Dictum), in which his expression of values and admonishments for future spaceflight are his legacy to NASA: "Spaceflight will never tolerate carelessness, incapacity, and neglect. Somewhere, somehow, we screwed up. It could have been in design, build, or test. Whatever it was, we should have caught it. We were too gung ho about the schedule and we locked out all of the problems we saw each day in our work. Every element of the program was in trouble and so were we. The simulators were not working, Mission Control was behind in virtually every area, and the flight and test procedures changed daily. Nothing we did had any shelf life. Not one of us stood up and said, 'Dammit, stop!' I don't know what

With elections around the corner in India Its painful to see how shamelessly politicians are playing a religion based card and how the majority of the educated people are falling for it.Reminds me of Iron Maiden's 'For the greater good of God' song.Here are the lyrics: Are you a man of peace Or man of holy war Too many sides to you Don't know which anymore So many full of life But also filled with pain Don't know just how many Will live to breathe again A life that's made to breath destruction or defense A mind that's vain corruption bad or good intent A wolf in sheep's clothing Or saintly or sinner Or some that would believe A holy war winner They fire off many shots and many parting blows Their actions beyond a reasoning only god would know And as he lies in heaven or it could be in hell I feel he's somewhere here or looking from below But I don't know, I don't know Please tell me now what life is Please tell me now what love is Well tell m