August, 2010

August, 2010
Ventilation and Noise Control
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A daydreamer is
prepared
for most
things.
Joyce Carol Oates
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On Travel
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who
has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other
culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to
appreciate more lovingly, our own.
—Margaret Mead
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not
intent upon arriving.
—Lao Tzu
But from the time I was in college I learned that
there is nothing one could imagine which is so
strange and incredible that it was not said by
some philosopher; and since that time, I have
recognized through my travels that all those whose views are
different from our own are not necessarily, for that reason, barbarians
or savages, but that many of them use their reason either as much
as or even more than we do.
—René Descartes
If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to
what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what
to do with a two week’s vacation, we would be startled at our false
standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.
—Dorothy Canfield Fisher
When properly administered, vacations do not
diminish productivity: for every week you’re
away and get nothing done, there’s another when
your boss is away and you get twice as much
done.
—Daniel B. Luten
Twenty years from now you will be
more disappointed by the things that
you didn’t do than by the ones you did
do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe
harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
Dream. Discover.
—Mark Twain
Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting
is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which
otherwise would grow dull and blunt. He, therefore, that
spends his whole time in recreation is every whetting,
never mowing; his grass may grow and his steed starve.
As, contrarily, he that always toils and never recreates, is
ever mowing, never whetting; laboring too much to little
purpose; as good no scythe as no edge.
—Bishop Joseph Hall
During the warm season (August 8 and 9), Maine is a true
“vacation paradise,” offering visitors a chance to jump into crystalclear mountain lakes and see if they can get back out again before
their bodily tissue is frozen as solid as a supermarket
turkey.
— Dave Barry
Memory is a child walking along a seashore. You never
can tell what small pebble it will pick up and store away
among its treasured things.
—Pierce Harris
A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time
are vaguer than yours.
—John Boynton Priestley
If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed
himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become
unstable without knowing it.
— Herodotus, 484–424 bc
If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more
mistakes. I would relax. I would climb more mountains
and swim more rivers. I would pick more daisies. I
would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary
ones.
—Don Herold
By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess
yourselves of money enough to travel
and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the
world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners,
and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.
—Virginia Woolf
A pleasant traveling companion helps us on our
journey as much as a carriage.
—Jonathan Swift, 1667–1745
Family values are a little like family vacations — subject to
changeable weather and remembered more fondly with the passage
of time. Though it rained all week at the beach, it’s often the
momentary rainbows that we remember.
—Leslie Dreyfous
The modern airplane creates a new geographical
dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the
whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places
any longer: the world is small and the world is one.
— Wendell Willkie, 1892 –1944
A person travels the world over in search of what he needs and
returns home to find it.
—George Moore
I’d move heaven and earth to break
100,” announced the duffer golfer as he
banged away in a sand trap.
“Try heaven,” advised his partner. “I
think you’ve already moved enough
earth.”
Two farmers were being interviewed by a newscaster. “What
would you do if you were to inherit $10,000,000 tomorrow?” the
reporter asked them.
“Well,” said the first dreamily, “I’d quit workin’ and go fishin’,
take life easy, and live off the income from my good fortune.”
The second farmer scratched his head, thought awhile, then
answered, “I reckon I’d just keep on farming, till my millions was
all gone.”
Slow Waiter: “This coffee is imported from Brazil.”
Tired Customer: “Well, whatta yuh know? It’s still warm.”
A Texas rancher stopped at a New Hampshire farm to get
directions. Then he asked the fanner. “How much land have you
got here?”
“Not much, just a few rocky acres.”
“You know how much land I’ve got?” bragged the Texan.
“Why in the morning I’ll get in my car and start driving. By the end
of the day, I still haven’t reached my property line.
“Tough luck,” said the fanner. “I had a car like that once.”
“Anything the matter with the car?” a kid asked his father.
“Well, there’s only one part of it that doesn’t make a noise,” the
father replied, “and that’s the horn.”
The warden of a large prison was worried about one of his
longtime inmates. Although the man had been there many years, he
had never had a visitor. Since the
warden believed visitors were a great
factor in keeping up prison morale,
he called the man into his office one
day.
“Lefty,” he asked, “haven’t you
any relatives or close personal
friends?”
“Sure,” Lefty answered.
“But no one has come to see you
on visitors’ day since your arrival
here. Perhaps I
could write some of them,” suggested the kindly
warden.
“It wouldn’t do no good,” Lefty replied
with a shrug. “They’re all here.”
The difference between men and women is
that, if given the choice between saving the life
of an infant or catching a fly ball, a woman will
automatically choose to save the infant, without
even considering if there’s a man on base.
— Dave Barry
Writers on Writing
Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes
only were fit subjects for literature. The
writer can only write about what he admires.
Present-day kings aren’t very inspiring, the
gods are on a vacation and about the only heroes left are the
scientists and the poor.
— John Steinbeck, 1902–1968
PUZZLE
Find the fish
Get out your mental fishing pole and see how many fish you can
catch in the following sentences by combining words or parts of
words. You shouldn’t need help.
1. She dropped her ring on the floor.
2. Joe had docked the boat.
3. The star pondered over his part.
4. The impact would stun a man.
5. The butter is melting fast.
6. Baby takes his nap perfectly contented.
7. The boy sterilized the needle.
8. Mary has had the mumps.
9. He has harkened to the warning.
answers
1. Herring. 2. Haddock. 3. Tarpon. 4. Tuna.
5. Smelt. 6. Snapper. 7. Oyster. 8. Shad. 9. Shark.
To have someone call you a dog
is not so bad after all, for the dog
is a faithful friend, and he doesn’t
swear, he doesn’t lie, doesn’t
drink, doesn’t borrow, doesn’t
swindle, doesn’t
pretend, doesn’t
cheat,
and
wouldn’t resent
it if you called
him a man.
That’s why he
has such a good
reputation.
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon
compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon
compounds that crawl.
— Mike Adams
Death is a low chemical trick played on
everybody except sequoia trees.
— J. J. Furnas
Chemistry ought to be not for chemists alone.
— Miguel de Unamuno
“Boy! Don’t you hate to see the ‘Back to School’
decorations going up?”
Sticks and Balls
During the summer of 1839, Abner Doubleday, an instructor at a
military preparatory school in Cooperstown, New York, and later
to be a general in the Union Army, is said to have laid out the first
baseball field and to have conducted the first game of baseball ever
played. The National Baseball Hall of Fame commemorates this
event at Cooperstown, and baseball devotees pay tribute to the man
who is popularly supposed to have started the game.
It has been shown, however, that the Great American Pastime
was played by Washington’s men at Valley Forge, back in 1778!
True, we’d scarcely recognize this as the baseball we know today,
but there was a distinct similarity in the game played by the ragged
Continental soldiers and the one to be seen in a modern ball park.
In 1781, the faculty of Princeton College forbade students to “play
with balls and sticks in the back common of the college.” And
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., told an interviewer that he had played
baseball at Harvard in 1829.
It is believed that the game of baseball was derived from the old
pastime of “rounders” or, as sometimes called, “feelers,” a popular
sport in London centuries ago.
A hundred and fifty years ago, baseball
was played on the community “common,”
a tract of land open to the public. While
women hung up their wash to dry, lovers
picnicked, and older folks sat sunning
themselves, the young men of the area
ran the bases, obstructed here by a hedge
and there by a clump of trees. The
smoothly laid out diamonds we know
today were non-existent in those days,
and the lively players had to content
themselves with crabgrassed fields replete
with ankle-catching holes.
The first professionals played baseball during the Civil War. The
Cincinnati Red Stockings, the first
completely professional team, was
organized a few years after the cessation
of hostilities. Its star player received
the staggering salary of $1,400 a year,
and was delighted to get it.
Today baseball is no longer an
American game exclusively. The
Japanese have taken to it with zest and
zeal, and our neighbors to the south
have developed a similar passion for
the game that is played with “balls and
sticks.” A number of our Major League players ran their first bases
on sandlots outside the United States, and it is very possible that
Uncle Sam’s baseballers may some day find themselves playing in
World Series where spats with the umpires may have to be conducted
in Spanish or Japanese.
— Post Script
Cornelia Otis Skinner, the daughter of
actor Otis Skinner, declared that as a child she
was so ugly that her mother used to weep.
“But I did have a genius for something even
then,” she says. “I was good at trade and I
made money from Dad. He thought I was a good correspondent. I
was; for, for every letter I wrote him, I received an answer. I cut the
‘Cornelia’ from the address on the envelope containing his reply,
and sold the ‘Otis Skinner’ as my father’s autograph. Sometimes
it brought a dime, sometimes a quarter.”
If you your lips would keep from slips,
Five things observe with care;
Of whom you speak, to whom you speak,
And how and when and where.
If you your ears would save from jeers,
These things keep meekly hid;
Myself and I, and mine and my,
And how I do and did.
How easy it is the night before
to get up early the next morning.
When you want a thing deeply, earnestly and intensely, this feeling of desire reinforces your will and arouses in you the determination
to work for the desired object. When you have a distinct purpose in
view, your work becomes of absorbing interest. You bend your best
powers to it; you give it concentrated attention; you think of little
else than the realization of this purpose; your will is stimulated into
unusual activity, and as a consequence you do your work with an
increasing sense of power.
— Grenville Kleiser
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ife is a continuous struggle for our basic needs, food,
clothing, shelter, self-preservation, and the perpetuation
of our family tree. We seek conditions about us — for
example, our homes, our jobs and our status in the community
— that contribute to our pride and self-esteem.
But there is one more human desire that needs no
explanation in its relation to our cosmic urge. That is the
eternal quest for fraternal love and friendship. We do not
mean business friends and financial successes — Mr. Carnegie
gives you a Master’s degree for that in his text How to Win
Friends, etc or you can study the biographies of the captains
of industry and political tycoons. We want friends who
permit us to rise above our limitations, and “who know all
about us and like us the same.” True friends are the realization
of all of our best thoughts about all humanity.
We choose our friends for loyalty, sincerity, courtesy, and
ambition; men who have “their eyes on the stars and their feet
on the ground.”
The Boy and His Bicycle
Twelve-year old Arlie Trulove went to a public auction at police
headquarters. Anile hoped to buy a bicycle with the nickels and
dimes and pennies he had saved. Time and again the youngster
started the sale with a firm bid of “Eight dollars and seventy-five
cents,” and each time a higher bid topped him.
The boy stood wide-eyed, with his money in his hands. One by
one the bicycles were auctioned away, and finally there were only
two left.
“What am I bid for this one,” said the auctioneer; “she’s a
beauty!”
“Eight dollars and seventy-five cents,” said the boy.
“Fifteen dollars,” said a junk dealer.
“Sold for fifteen dollars,” called the auctioneer.
One bicycle left! Shiny, lightweight, red — the most beautiful
the boy had ever seen. Again the auctioneer asked, “What am I bid
for this bicycle — the best of them all?”
This time the boy’s bid came almost in a whisper of heartbreak:
“Eight dollars and seventy-five cents!”
The boy looked around at the others in the room. They looked
back at the boy — looked back and understood. Not a word was
said. The auctioneer smiled, and then just as fast as any auctioneer
ever said it, he cried: “Sold to the boy for eight dollars and seventyfive cents!”
Don’t blame
the hammer
for not hitting
the nail.
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