Apr. 14th, 2007

wilson, squee, wmd, humor, science, headdesk, challenge, deadish, recklessness, Sarah Jane, devourer, teh mad, school, drink, bean, omg, techie, happymaking things, alfa, dumb, servalan, amour, cougar, baking, torchwood, mad science, asshat, weirdness, brooding, dark, tea, wave, grin

Get out the carving tools again

Today's lesson:

Sometimes there simply aren't any answers, just questions.

That includes the times when the answers are things you can't grasp or comprehend.

The Clue Stick

Nov. 6th, 2006

wilson, squee, wmd, humor, science, headdesk, challenge, deadish, recklessness, Sarah Jane, devourer, teh mad, school, drink, bean, omg, techie, happymaking things, alfa, dumb, servalan, amour, cougar, baking, torchwood, mad science, asshat, weirdness, brooding, dark, tea, wave, grin

Bring out the clue stick

Today's lesson:

There are some things that can't be fixed.

The Clue Stick

Sep. 15th, 2005

wilson, squee, wmd, humor, science, headdesk, challenge, deadish, recklessness, Sarah Jane, devourer, teh mad, school, drink, bean, omg, techie, happymaking things, alfa, dumb, servalan, amour, cougar, baking, torchwood, mad science, asshat, weirdness, brooding, dark, tea, wave, grin

In the study, with the Clue-bat

Today's lesson:

When you're dusting yourself off and cursing your scraped hands and bloody nose because you've fallen down again, what the people around you see is just you getting back up for the Nth time. Sometimes a little distance allows room for compassion and clarity.

The Clue Stick

(and not being superhuman is still not a character flaw. Dammit.)

Aug. 18th, 2005

wilson, squee, wmd, humor, science, headdesk, challenge, deadish, recklessness, Sarah Jane, devourer, teh mad, school, drink, bean, omg, techie, happymaking things, alfa, dumb, servalan, amour, cougar, baking, torchwood, mad science, asshat, weirdness, brooding, dark, tea, wave, grin

Clue-By-Four

Today's lesson:

Nobody needs seven pairs of Crusader Rabbit ears. Particularly not all at once.

Take a few of those off. :P

The Clue Stick

Jun. 12th, 2005

wilson, squee, wmd, humor, science, headdesk, challenge, deadish, recklessness, Sarah Jane, devourer, teh mad, school, drink, bean, omg, techie, happymaking things, alfa, dumb, servalan, amour, cougar, baking, torchwood, mad science, asshat, weirdness, brooding, dark, tea, wave, grin

Here, have another clue

Today's lesson:

Counterintuitive as it may seem, when one is broke, not only is it permissible to still spend money on small pleasures, sometimes it is essential.

The Clue Stick

Jun. 7th, 2005

wilson, squee, wmd, humor, science, headdesk, challenge, deadish, recklessness, Sarah Jane, devourer, teh mad, school, drink, bean, omg, techie, happymaking things, alfa, dumb, servalan, amour, cougar, baking, torchwood, mad science, asshat, weirdness, brooding, dark, tea, wave, grin

More for the clue stick

Today's lesson:
Sometimes waiting is the hardest possible thing to do. Sometimes waiting is the only thing you can do.

I need to get at least one of the previous ones tattooed on my forehead or something. (Not having superhuman patience is still not a character flaw.)

May. 31st, 2005

wilson, squee, wmd, humor, science, headdesk, challenge, deadish, recklessness, Sarah Jane, devourer, teh mad, school, drink, bean, omg, techie, happymaking things, alfa, dumb, servalan, amour, cougar, baking, torchwood, mad science, asshat, weirdness, brooding, dark, tea, wave, grin

Inscriptions on a clue stick

Today's lesson:

Sometimes there simply aren't any answers, just questions.

Previously inscribed:

  • There are some things that can't be fixed.

  • When you're dusting yourself off and cursing your scraped hands and bloody nose because you've fallen down again, what the people around you see is just you getting back up for the Nth time. Sometimes a little distance allows room for compassion and clarity.

  • Nobody needs seven pairs of Crusader Rabbit ears. Particularly not all at once.

  • Counterintuitive as it may seem, when one is broke, not only is it permissible to still spend money on small pleasures, sometimes it is essential.

  • Sometimes waiting is the hardest possible thing to do. Sometimes waiting is the only thing you can do.

  • There is no shame in failing where it is impossible to succeed.

  • There are some situations in which no human could possibly succeed, no matter how much determination or willpower one possesses. Not being superhuman is not a character flaw.

  • Sometimes correctly identifying the problem is enough for a solution to present itself. Sometimes it is not.

  • The true measure of a person is not in how one deals with success, but how one deals with failure.

  • Life is rarely so obliging as to provide a clear villain.