STREET LIFE - bits_n_pieces

La / El Computer

noreply@blogspirit.com (Dave ACENAS) — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 13:30:59 +0800

A Spanish teacher was explaining to her class that in Spanish, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or feminine.

"House" for instance, is feminine: "la casa."

"Pencil," however, is masculine: "el lapiz."

A student asked, "What gender is 'computer'?"

Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether "computer" should be a masculine or a feminine noun.

Each group was asked to give four reasons for its recommendation.

The men's group decided that "computer" should definitely be of the feminine gender ("la computadora"), because:

1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic;

2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else;

3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for possible later retrieval; and

4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.

(THIS GETS BETTER!)

The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be Masculine ("el computador"), because:

1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on;

2. They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves;

3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time they ARE the problem; and

4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have gotten a better model.

Who do you think won?

SOWING AND REAPING/LAW OF RECIPROCITY

noreply@blogspirit.com (Dave ACENAS) — Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:54:17 +0800

"If all you do is all you're doing, all you'll get is all you're getting."

-- Brian Tracy

"If you add value out, you'll bring value in."

--Jeffrey Gitomer

"Working hard is the foundation for any success in life...but many people have what I call the 'Reverse Disease'...they see 'working hard' as 'hardly working'...and expect the same results....yeah right."

--Doug Firebaugh

"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run."

--Syndey J. Harris

And here’s about ACCEPTANCE:

To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.
Sandra Bierig

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are...your simple presence can make others happy.
Jane Roberts

INFLUENCE & ASSOCIATION

noreply@blogspirit.com (Dave ACENAS) — Thu, 12 May 2005 12:00:27 +0800

"Walk away from the 97% crowd. Don't use their excuses. Take charge of your own life."
-- Jim Rohn

"If you would be successful, first you must walk hand-in-hand and side-by-side with successful people."
-- Nido Qubein

"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it."
-- Knute Rockne

"The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?"
-- Dale Carnegie

ATTITUDE

We have but one life--whether we spend it laughing or weeping.
-- Author unknown

EXPERIENCE & KNOWLEDGE

noreply@blogspirit.com (Dave ACENAS) — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:15:00 +0800

Experience has twothings to teach: the first is that we must correct a great deal; the second,that we must not correct too much.

EugeneDelacroix (1798-1863)
Artist

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Age is other things,too. It is wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly. It is experience andknowledge. And it is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if youcannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way soyou won't get run over.

MiriamMakeba
Singer and humanrights activist

Bits of Qoutes from the Masters

noreply@blogspirit.com (Dave ACENAS) — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 12:20:00 +0800

A clear conscience sleeps during thunder.
-- Jamaican Proverb

A clear conscience makes a soft pillow.
-- Roadside Church Sign

Death cannot kill what never dies.
-- American Proverb

I want to go on living even after my death!
-- Anne Frank

EXPERIENCE

"We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when
we know the path which has led to the present."
-- Adlai E. Stevenson

"The good times we put in our pocket. The hard times we
put into our heart."
-- Les Brown

"Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"For years I have been accused of making snap judgments.
Honestly, this is not the case because I am a profound military
student and the thoughts I express, perhaps too flippantly,
are the result of years of thought and study."
-- George S. Patton

Opportunity

noreply@blogspirit.com (Dave ACENAS) — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 12:27:25 +0800

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them. Every one must be challenged. A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.

Maltbie D. Babcock (1858-1901)
Clergyman
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You have to be in the right place at the right time, but when it comes, you better have something on the ball.

Groucho Marx (1890-1977)
Comedian

ACHIEVEMENT

noreply@blogspirit.com (Dave ACENAS) — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 17:11:58 +0800

Personal excellence can be achieved by a visionary goal, thorough planning, dedicated execution and total follow-through.

Gerald R. Ford
U.S. President

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Give me a lever and a place to stand, and I will move the world.

Archimedes (287 B.C.-212 B.C.)
Mathematician and inventor

LAUGHTER

noreply@blogspirit.com (Dave ACENAS) — Fri, 07 Jan 2005 13:10:00 +0800

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, or seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you'll get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The Adolescent
W.W. Norton & Co.

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Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart.

Mort Walker
Comic-strip artist