Original Gelnotes

Gelnotes

(a.k.a. Gelnoisms)

(ordered, in no order)

Gelnote- sayings from the mind of Gelno. Usually unique but occasionally adapted or borrowed from other sources/people. May be as short as a single, nondescript word.

(initially posted weekly on Facebook from September 27, 2010 until September 25, 2011)

1. Never assume tool dimensions
2. Always remember not to forget
3. Weird plus weird doesn’t make good….it’s still weird
4. You can’t hit the ball if someone else is at bat
5. Precision is paramount
6. Waking up in bed laying in the wrong direction is very disorienting, to reorient turn around
7. Bing-bing
8. Morp da-beep da-bi
9. Yes….maybe…..depends…..
10. Its called right of way. I’m right, so get out of my way
11. Off plus one equals on
12. You need to break a few omlets to make an egg
13. I don’t remember “funky” in the manufacturing practices text
14. You’ll never get anywhere if you don’t go
15. The glass is neither half empty or half full, it merely has a safety factor of 2 for the overflow condition
16. The passion I have for the work I do is extraordinary…but it’s the work I do for my passion that is noteworthy
17. Really neat things that keep you from killing people
18. An emergency meeting is an emergency meeting, never a poker game. Now an executive meeting, THAT’S a poker game! (Ed Norton, The Honeymooners)
19. The Universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it. (adaptation of Murphy’s Law)
20. Variables won’t, constants aren’t. (Osborn’s Law)
21. It is easier to screw up and own up than to ask for advanced approval
22. It’s a very complicated, simple thing
23. It’s fun to do the possible
24. Every block of metal has a part inside it and it is the task of the machinist to discover it
25. Machining is easy, you just go down to the part and stop
26. A picture is worth a thousand words, but it is the subject that can take your breath away
27. I love it when my mind makes things up, keeps me on my toes
28. Just don’t mash my noodles
29. Roses are red, violets are blue, some poems rhyme, others don’t (I forget where I heard this one)
30. Insomnia, a dish best served cold
31. Driving behind two cars with plates ‘shame 5’ & ‘grumpe 9’
32. A drawn reciprocation dingle arm can reduce sinusoidal replenteration
33. You can tell a lot about someone from their keys, mine describe a gear head
34. Knowledge is power only if you know how to wield it, but ignorance is bliss to even the most inexperienced user
35. One shift, two shift, red shift, blue shift
36. Life is never easy…if it weren’t a challenge it would be boring and worthless…doesn’t mean I like it all the time
37. There is water at the bottom of the ocean (Talking Heads)
38. Color is in the eye of the beholder
39. The path least traveled has more dirt
40. Can’t we all just get along, even though I’m right and you are wrong?
41. By definition a moment can not last for ever, it’s just a moment long
42. I always do things the hard way, if I’m spiteful to everyone else I might as well be spiteful to myself too
43. I didn’t invent the system, I just use it
44. Gravity always wins
45. You need to be ruthless to get what you need, and more importantly what you want
46. Education: Defective (A. Lincoln)
47. Why is the grass grey? Why is the sky grey? Why is a rainbow grey, grey, grey, grey, grey, grey and infragrey? (Wilfred)
48. Hey, I’ve got a question, come here for a second….what color is this?
49. I’d rather be a nose than an asshole
50. Should I shave the boxes? (KZ)
51. Time is absolutely relative
52. If you are not capable of (or willing to) writing a cohesive or extended story/book/play/etc…instead, write a series unique and/or borrowed, descriptive sayings and personal quotes released once a week spanning a year culminating with instructions describing what to do if you are not capable of (or willing to) writing a cohesive or extended story/book/play/etc…