Quote of the Week 9/25

Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf

Atlantis Found

I like Dirk Pitt.

Clive Cussler's "Dirk Pitt" novels are fairly formula-matic. That being said; I like 'em. There is not much I dislike about the books and I have read most of them. Atlantis Found is no different. There is the supper-villain, allot of underwater adventure, author cameo, Dirk Pitt killing a ton of bad guys (though he never reloads his Colt 1911), a diabolical plot to destroy/take over the world and an exotic vehicle. There is just enough fact to make it believable although you would probably disagree if you know anything about diving (which I do not). It is what it is; an adventure novel a fairly mindless (yet entertaining) read.

The pace of Atlantis Found is quick and makes for a fairly quick read.

Quote of the Week 9/18

"I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity."

Gen. Robert E. Lee

I am a Jedi like my father.

I always wanted to be a Jedi. I was ten years old when the first Star Wars movie came out and from that point on I dreamed of adventures in a “galaxy far far away” my lightsaber hanging at my side. Woe that I had to grow up. Two weeks ago I bought my four year old son and myself lightsabers. Mine a toy replica of Luke Skywalker’s. The truth is that if I hadn’t bought one for him he would have wanted to play with mine and that wasn’t going to happen. The next day we wore them to the grocery store. Since then he asked me (with all sincerity) to take mine to work incase there were aliens there. I wanted to but I think it violates the company dress code.

Quote of the Week 9/4

"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time."
Jack London (American Novelist) 1876-1916