52 Things I Learned: 2024
"You will not laugh! You will not cry! You will learn by the numbers! I will teach you!" - Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, Full Metal Jacket
Steve Makofsky
Espresso Shots 12-8-24
"I'm staying. I'm finishing my coffee. Enjoying my coffee." - John Goodman as Walter Sobchak in The Big Lebowski
Espresso Shots 11-25-24
"I put instant coffee in a microwave oven and almost went back in time." - Steven Wright
The Overwhelming Noise
"External things are not the problem. It’s your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now." - Marcus Aurelius
Espresso Shots 11-10-24
"I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell." - Christopher Walken (as fictional music producer Bruce Dickinson on SNL)
Espresso Shots 11-3-24
"If it wasn’t for the coffee, I’d have no identifiable personality whatsoever." - David Letterman
Espresso Shots 10-20-24
"As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?" ― Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
Your Goal Broke the System
"Because I've done a lot of television, I'm sort of a generalist. I'm not a pastry cook, but I've had to learn a certain amount about it. I'm not a baker, though I've had to learn how to do it. I'm sort of a general cook." - Julia Child
Espresso Shots 10-6-24
"Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes." — Maggie Kuhn, The Socratic Method
Espresso Shots 9-22-24
"I am not an optimist. I’m a very serious possibilist." - Hans Rosling