No blogging this weekend. We're going camping at Eagle Creek Campground/Lost Cove/Campsite 90 in the Smokies. I backpacked there a few years ago. This time we're chartering a boat from Fontana Dam on Saturday. On Sunday we're slackpacking: hiking back, but putting our gear on the boat and picking it up at the marina.

New to the Quotes File

If your cat had narcolepsy how could you tell?
- Mark Thomas

There's two kinds of people in this word: the quick and the hungry.
- Gregory family saying

There are...two ways of improvement, to wit by one's own disasters or those of others; the former is the more vivid, the latter is the less harmful.
- Polybius

I for one, find gambling, women and booze wonderful. Unless of course, I lose, they hate me, or I'm already hung-over. Then I despise the entire lot of 'em.
- TheDystopian, on Plastic

The conservationist is someone who built his cabin in the woods last year; the developer is someone who wishes to build his this year.
- unknown

Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark where they will mature into something you'd want to have dinner with.
- Unknown

A woman needs four animals in her life. A mink in the closet. A jaguar in the garage. A tiger in bed. And an ass to pay for it all.
- Anne Slater

France is like someone who’s been given a glimpse of the future, sees himself committing suicide, and resolves to spend his remaining days making it look like murder.
- James Lileks

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Winston Churchill

John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
- Unknown

I read recently that there is a prion disease where you suffer months of insomnia before dying a slow, agonizing death from neural degeneration. So make sure you bookmark that link. If you ever get that disease, you'll want to print out some OMG standards documents and force yourself to read them. It could save your life someday.
- MillionthMonkey, on Slashdot