Edgar is the Quotoons™ icon and mascot. He represents. He is a recurring character and shows up randomly in the strip. Edgar likes to stay up late, collect dead moths, and eat Hákarl.
One definition of the proverb, “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” is that people often have intentions to do good things, but in fact never do them, because they are lazy or weak or they procrastinate. How long can you wait to do good things? Will you take the Yellow Brick Road? Don’t wait too long (to do good deeds) or you …
Instead of trying to figure out what this quote actually means, it might be better to just appreciate it for the words themselves and how it plays out in your head. Sound and light dancing together. You know? The pure rhetoric of it? Or is that just an enigma wrapped up in a connundrum. Carl …
“Poetry is an Echo, asking a Shadow to Dance.” – Carl Sandburg Read More »
A couple of Murphy’s law adages claim that idiot-proof systems cannot be made. For example, “Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool”. Along those lines, Douglas Adams wrote in Mostly Harmless, “a common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of fools”. Perhaps the Evolution of an Idiot would …
Make it idiot-proof, and someone will make a better idiot. Read More »
