Comment from a lady coming out of a portable toilet, during the Northface Endurance Challenge Half Marathon this weekend
You know, it is cold, when you don’t want to come out of the porta-potti!!
It was 36 degrees!! 🙂
OverHeard
It is never too late..
Ran across this post on the BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8202378.stm) regarding a 90 year old Nairobian man who recently expired. He decided to get himself educated and enrolled in school at the age of 85. Next time, you think it is too late to start something, reconsider it 🙂
Overheard : Comment about Greencard
You have to be an immigrant to the USA, to understand this :).
My friend, Hareesh, sent this posting on an online forum related to immigration matters
I am so HAPPY today. My lawyer told me that my daughter can sponsor both me and my wife once she is 18. She is only 3 now, so thats 15 years away only. It would have taken 20+ years with my EB2-based case (PD May 2008). I am so HAPPY today.
Overheard : Comment about expensive stores
Comment by my friend, Rich, on expesive stores
Whole Foods = Whole Paycheck
Neiman Marcus = Needless Markup
🙂
Overheard : Comment about progress
Comment by a colleague about progress
Somebody told me once that getting it right the first time is accident, second time is coincidence and the third time is consistence.
OverHeard : Comment about contribution
Comment by a colleague about how useful your contributions are at work..
Yesterdays recipe is today’s shit
In other words, there is no end to the race :)..
OverHeard : Comment about conflicts
Comment by George Mitchell, new US envoy for Middle East appointed by President Obama and Secretary of State Clinton, about conflicts
Conflicts are created, conducted and sustained by human beings; they can be ended by human beings..
OverHeard : Comment about Software development
Comment by an esteemed colleague when discussing the need to purchase hardware to fix performance issues..
Software is like a gas.. it expands to fill all the space (capacity) available to it”
This is derived from Myhrvold’s law which states “As the software becomes more complex, the likelihood of problems tend to increase”. The original article is on Wired.com at http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.09/myhrvold.html.
OverHeard : Comments about relationship and life
Relationship : “It you work too hard to make it happen, it is not worth it.”
Life : “Life is what you make out of it”
Credit goes to Huma :)..
Overheard : Comment about life
Comment by a survivor of the 1972 Uruguayan Air Force crash on the Andes..
Plan to live for a 100 years, but be ready to die today..
Heard this on NPR during a review of the documentary Stranded..