an action research experiment

April, 2009

Captain Pugwash

Dolloping doubloons! Dolloping dolphins! Coddling catfish! Lolloping landlubbers! Suffering seagulls! Staggering stalactites! Nautical nitwits! Plundering porpoises! Kipper me capstans! Tottering turtles! Dithering dogfish! Scuttling cuttlefish! Stuttering starfish! Blistering Barnacles! Scupper me skull-and-crossbones!

Cap'n Pugwash - Caught in the act

Posted Wed, 04/01/2009 - 18:27 by Bart

Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding

Posted Thu, 04/02/2009 - 14:19 by Bart

The only traditional wooden boatbuilding school in the world to use and teach the distinctive methods developed in the early 1900's by Puget Sound shipwrights and master boatbuilders.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1675804639018750891

A map of the area

Posted Thu, 04/02/2009 - 20:31 by Admin

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

— Bill Gates, 1981

Any man who seeks to deny equality among all his brothers betrays the spirit of the free and invites the mockery of the tyrant.

Tell me what you think, Captain, I'm all ears.

— Spock

Suicide Hotline...please hold.

If certain acts of violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us....We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow. To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our own lips as well.

— Nuremberg Tribunal Justice Robert Jackson, Chief of Counsel for the United States

If the shoe fits, buy it.

— Imelda Marcos

I tried to think but nothing happened!

— Curly

I am logged in, therefore I am.

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

— Tom Jones

The trouble with being punctual is that people think you have nothing more important to do.

Daddy, what does FORMATTING DRIVE C mean?

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

— George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Calm down. its only ones and zeros.

The first duty of society is justice.

— Alexander Hamilton

Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently.

— Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) Polish-German socialist, writer.

Tis better to be thought a fool, then to open your mouth and remove all doubt.

Real Programmers Practice Safe HEX.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.

— Spanish philosopher George Santayana; Two quotes for use on any side of an argument!

(A)bort, (R)etry, (P)retend this never happened...

It would be two hits -- me hitting him and him hitting the floor. I see this guy in the most prestigious office in the world, and this guy says 'bring it on.' A guy who ain't never been shot at, never seen anyone suffering, saying 'bring it on?' He gets to act like a cowboy in a western movie...it's sickening to me.

— US Marine Corps Corporal Henderson, an Iraq war veteran, talking about what would happen if he ever met President George W. Bush

An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information.

— Albert Einstein

Yield to temptation, it may not pass your way again.

— L. Long

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism -- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.

— US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

To err is human, to forgive....$5.00.

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

A cynic smells the flowers and looks for the coffin.

A conscience does not prevent sin. It only prevents you from enjoying it.

A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer.

96.7% of all statistics are made up.

911... Press 1 if your house is on fire... Press 2 if...

9 out of 10 men who try Camels prefer women.

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied...but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing.

— John Berger

24 hours in a day and 24 beers in a case. Hmmmm...

A seminar on Time Travel will be held two weeks ago.

A pessimist is never disappointed.

A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work unless its open.

A man is not complete until he is married. Then he is finished.

A mainframe: The biggest PC peripheral available.

A hen is an eggs way of making another egg.

A friend: someone who likes you even after they know you.

A feature is a bug with seniority.

A diplomat thinks twice before saying nothing.

Answers: $1, Short: $5, Correct: $25, dumb looks are still free.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Always smile. It makes people wonder what youre up to.

Always remember youre unique, just like everyone else.

Always glad to share my ignorance -- I've got plenty.

All work and no play, will make you a manager.

All life's answers are on TV.

— Bart Simpson

Corrupted by wealth and power, your government is like a restaurant with only one dish. They've got a set of Republican waiters on one side and a set of Democratic waiters on the other side. But no matter which set of waiters brings you the dish, the legislative grub is all prepared in the same Wall Street kitchen.

— Huey "Kingfish" Long, elected governor of Louisiana and later assassinated

AAAAA - American Association Against Acronym Abuse.

Back up my hard disk? I cant find the reverse switch!

In a country where they give Prozac to shy teenagers, all marijuana use is medical.

— Dennis Peron

Avoid hangovers: Stay drunken.

ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI!

As I said before, I never repeat myself.

As easy as 1, 2, 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841

Anything worth doing, is worth getting someone else to do.

Any of you seen a modem carrier around here?

Behind many a successful man is an exhausted woman.

Our religion is to go and blow it all; So it's shoppin' every Sunday at the mall; All we ever want is more; A lot more than we had before

— Lyrics from "Ka-Ching!", by Shania Twain and Mutt Lange

Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home.

Barium: what you do with dead chemists.

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.

Canadians spend less than 10 percent of their gross domestic product on health care for 100 percent of their residents under a national health care system. But the U.S. spends 15 percent of its GDP on health care for 85 percent of the population, with the rest going uninsured.

— Author and lawyer Gary Benjamin

Backup aborted: Please remove disk #192 and start over.

Question even the existence of God, for if there be one, He will more likely pay homage to Reason than to blind faith.

— Thomas Jefferson

Brain over - Insert coin.

Blessed is the end-user who expects nothing, for ye shall not be disappointed.

Blessed are the pessimists, for they make backups!

Black holes really suck...

Beware of programmers carrying screwdrivers!

Best file compression around: "rm -rf /" = 100% compression.

Clones are people two.

Chess players mate better.

The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other nation on earth. The population of the United States comprises 5% of the world's population but its incarcerated population is equal to more than 25% of the world's prisoners.

— Defense attorney Jill Soffiyah Elijah, citing US 'Justice' Dept. statistics

C program run, C program crash, C programmer cry.

But I thought YOU did the backups...

Bugs come in through open Windows.

Breathing may be hazardous to your health.

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

— Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards

The US has by far the most expensive health care system in the world; Canada has nationalized health care. Q: The avg life expectancy of Canadians is how much longer than the avg US life expectancy? A: More than 4 years.

— US CDC, Statistics Canada

Q: What did US Attorney General John Ashcroft do to a pair of partially nude statues in the Great Hall of the Justice Department? A: He ordered curtains draped in front of them at a cost to taxpayers of more than $8,000.

— Alternet.org article

Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.

Computers can never replace human stupidity.

Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.

Computer Lie #1: Youll never use all that disk space.

COMMAND: A suggestion made to a computer.

Documentation -- The worst part of programming.

DisneyLand: A people trap operated by a mouse.

Discoveries are made by not following instructions.

The Canadian people enjoy democracy, freedom and human rights as well as the Norwegian and Swedish people. Did you ever hear that the embassies of Canada, Norway and Sweden were bombed?

— U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Robert Bowan

Daddy, why doesn't this magnet pick up this floppy disk?