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)
- Never assume tool dimensions
- Always remember not to forget
- Weird plus weird doesn’t make good….it’s still weird
- You can’t hit the ball if someone else is at bat
- Precision is paramount
- Waking up in bed laying in the wrong direction is very disorienting, to reorient turn around
- Bing-bing
- Morp da-beep da-bi
- Yes….maybe…..depends…..
- Its called right of way. I’m right, so get out of my way
- Off plus one equals on
- You need to break a few omlets to make an egg
- I don’t remember “funky” in the manufacturing practices text
- You’ll never get anywhere if you don’t go
- The glass is neither half empty or half full, it merely has a safety factor of 2 for the overflow condition
- The passion I have for the work I do is extraordinary…but it’s the work I do for my passion that is noteworthy
- Really neat things that keep you from killing people
- An emergency meeting is an emergency meeting, never a poker game. Now an executive meeting, THAT’S a poker game! (Ed Norton, The Honeymooners)
- The Universe is not indifferent to intelligence, it is actively hostile to it. (adaptation of Murphy’s Law)
- Variables won’t, constants aren’t. (Osborn’s Law)
- It is easier to screw up and own up than to ask for advanced approval
- It’s a very complicated, simple thing
- It’s fun to do the possible
- Every block of metal has a part inside it and it is the task of the machinist to discover it
- Machining is easy, you just go down to the part and stop
- A picture is worth a thousand words, but it is the subject that can take your breath away
- I love it when my mind makes things up, keeps me on my toes
- Just don’t mash my noodles
- Roses are red, violets are blue, some poems rhyme, others don’t (I forget where I heard this one)
- Insomnia, a dish best served cold
- Driving behind two cars with plates ‘shame 5’ & ‘grumpe 9’
- A drawn reciprocation dingle arm can reduce sinusoidal replenteration
- You can tell a lot about someone from their keys, mine describe a gear head
- Knowledge is power only if you know how to wield it, but ignorance is bliss to even the most inexperienced user
- One shift, two shift, red shift, blue shift
- 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
- There is water at the bottom of the ocean (Talking Heads)
- Color is in the eye of the beholder
- The path least traveled has more dirt
- Can’t we all just get along, even though I’m right and you are wrong?
- By definition a moment can not last for ever, it’s just a moment long
- I always do things the hard way, if I’m spiteful to everyone else I might as well be spiteful to myself too
- I didn’t invent the system, I just use it
- Gravity always wins
- You need to be ruthless to get what you need, and more importantly what you want
- Education: Defective (A. Lincoln)
- Why is the grass grey? Why is the sky grey? Why is a rainbow grey, grey, grey, grey, grey, grey and infragrey? (Wilfred)
- Hey, I’ve got a question, come here for a second….what color is this?
- I’d rather be a nose than an asshole
- Should I shave the boxes? (KZ)
- Time is absolutely relative
- 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…