"I learned that I was right and everyone else was wrong when I was nine. Buck Rogers arrived on the scene that year, and it was instant love. ... Friends criticized. Friends made fun. I tore up the Buck Rogers strips. For a month I walked through my fourth-grade classes, stunned and empty. One day I burst into tears, wondering what devastation had happened to me. The answer was: Buck Rogers. He was gone, and life simply wasn’t worth living. ... I went back to collecting Buck Rogers.
Since then, I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.” - Ray Bradbury
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Reblogged from mynameisangus  28,709 notes
Posted 12, May, 2013

It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any. By  Hugh Laurie  (via mirnah)

Reblogged from mysinmysoul  18,197 notes
Posted 21, April, 2013

  • (We’re taking a calculus final. The TA is a well-known Lord of the Rings fan, and we’ve had running LotR jokes all semester.)

  • TA:

    “Okay, guys, everyone look at me. We’ve been over the rules, but just in case: no notes, pencil your answers in on the scantron sheet, and graphing calculators only – no more ‘can I just used my cell phone’ nonsense.”

  • Student:

    “[TA's name], my calculator batteries just died! What should I do?”

  • TA:

    “Here, I’ve got a big box of spares.”

  • Student:

    *struggling* “I can’t get this packaging open…”

  • Student 2:

    “Here, I’ve got a pocket knife.”

  • TA:

    “And I’ve got a pair of scissors if you need them.”

  • Student 3:

    *from the back of the room* “OR MY AXE!”

  • (Everyone starts laughing.)

  • TA:

    “The only axes allowed on the exam are in the graph section.”

  • (Everyone groans.)

  • TA:

    “Oh, come on, you’re in a math class. Deal with the math jokes.”

  • (The professor enters with a stack of exams. With him are two exam proctors.)

  • Professor:

    “Tolkien jokes already, [TA's name]?”

  • TA:

    “Hey, I didn’t start it.”

  • (The professor starts handing stacks of exams to the TA and proctors.)

  • Professor:

    “But I’m about to finish it. [TA], take these exams down the left flank. [Proctor 1], follow the desks down the center. [Proctor 2], take your exams right, along the wall.”

  • (At this point, many of the students have realized where this is going:

    Theoden’s lines from ‘Return of the King.’)

  • Professor:

    “Forth, and fear no problems! Solve! Solve, students of calculus! Points shall be taken, scores shall be splintered! A pencil day! A red-ink day! Until three thirty!”

  • (The professor pulls out a pencil, holding it out like a sword, and runs down the first row holding it out. Students hold up their pencils, hitting his as he passes.)

  • Professor:

    “Solve now! Solve now! Solve to good grades and the class ending! MAAATH!”

  • Entire Class:

    “MAAATH!”

  • Professor:

    “MAAAAATH!”

  • Entire Class:

    “MAAAAAATH!”

  • Professor:

    “Forth, exam-takers!”

  • (The entire class rises to their feet and gives him a standing ovation. A week later, we get an email from the professor.)

  • Professor:

    *at the end of the email* “PS: I appreciate all of you who wrote in their evaluations that I was the one professor to rule them all, but the best one yet was the student who called me ‘Mathrandir.’”

Reblogged from patrickbatemanslittlechow  93,769 notes
Posted 19, April, 2013

hippy-daze:

kripke-is-my-king:

hahry:

a venn diagram of the things george washington said not to do and the things america did would be a circle

#washington sitting in the afterlife screaming ‘TWO THINGS AMERICA. I SAID TWO FUCKING THINGS. #ISOLATIONISM. #NO POLITICAL PARTIES. #DID I FUCKING STUTTER #DID I STUTTER MY ENTIRE FAREWELL ADDRESS #GOD DAMN LINCOLN NEVER HAD TO PUT UP WITH THIS SHIT [via thecapn]

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