http://iveneverdonethat.com/index.htmlI've Never Done Thatennickwoo@me.comCopyright 2011 I've Never Done That2012-01-01T03:34:45-08:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:19:12 -0800nickwoo@me.comPersonalLife2011-12-31T09:12:57-08:00http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/hair.html#unique-entry-id-378http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/hair.html#unique-entry-id-378
"There's many a man has more hair than wit."
--William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors
]]>nickwoo@me.comPersonalLife2012-01-01T01:01:19-08:00http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/newyearsresolution.html#unique-entry-id-377http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/newyearsresolution.html#unique-entry-id-377
“Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory.”
--C.S. Lewis
]]>nickwoo@me.comCrossFit2011-12-30T16:26:05-08:00http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/murph.html#unique-entry-id-376http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/murph.html#unique-entry-id-376
"In his final act of bravery, he continued to engage the enemy until he was mortally wounded, gallantly giving his life for his country and for the cause of freedom. By his selfless leadership, Lieutenant Murphy reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service."
--Official Medal of Honor Citation for Lt. Michael P. Murphy
]]>nickwoo@me.comSan Francisco2011-12-29T16:26:04-08:00http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/playlandnotatthebeach.html#unique-entry-id-374http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/playlandnotatthebeach.html#unique-entry-id-374
"Goodbye to all that, to part of our youth, and like that youth, we expected Playland to last forever. It is an odd, sad feeling to have outlived it."
--Herb Cain
]]>nickwoo@me.comPersonal2011-12-28T16:26:03-08:00http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/glidememorial.html#unique-entry-id-373http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/glidememorial.html#unique-entry-id-373
"I was homeless, but I wasn’t hopeless. I knew a better day was coming."
--Chris Gardner
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"Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France."
--Chef Paul Prudhomme
]]>nickwoo@me.comMusic2011-12-26T20:31:02-08:00http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/jawharp.html#unique-entry-id-371http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/jawharp.html#unique-entry-id-371
"[Jaw harp], n. An unmusical instrument, played by holding it fast with the teeth and trying to brush it away with the finger."
--Ambrose Bierce
]]>nickwoo@me.comMoviesChristmas2011-12-25T12:02:51-08:00http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/miracleon34th.html#unique-entry-id-370http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/miracleon34th.html#unique-entry-id-370
"Faith is believing when common sense tells you not to."
--Fred Gailey as played by John Payne in Miracle on 34th Street
]]>nickwoo@me.comFoodChristmas2011-12-24T02:30:30-08:00http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/stollen.html#unique-entry-id-369http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/stollen.html#unique-entry-id-369
"There are certain things Germans do better than everyone else. Not incurring massive amounts of public debt is one of them. Christmas baking is another."
--L.V. Anderson, You're Doing It Wrong: Christmas Bread
]]>nickwoo@me.comChristmasCrafts2011-12-23T01:36:37-08:00http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/gingerbreadtree.html#unique-entry-id-368http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/gingerbreadtree.html#unique-entry-id-368
“Had I but a penny in the world, thou shouldst have it for gingerbread.”
--William Shakespeare
]]>nickwoo@me.comNew YorkTouristFoodEating2011-12-22T01:36:58-08:00http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/katzdeli.html#unique-entry-id-367http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/katzdeli.html#unique-entry-id-367
"I'll have what she's having."
--Katz's Deli patron played by Estelle Reiner in When Harry Met Sally...
]]>nickwoo@me.comNew YorkTourist2011-12-21T19:08:24-08:00http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/bookofmormon.html#unique-entry-id-366http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/bookofmormon.html#unique-entry-id-366
"This book will change your life!"
--from the song "Hello!", The Book of Mormon
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"The Empire State Building is the closest thing to heaven in this city."
--Terry McKay as played by Deborah Kerr in An Affair to Remember
]]>nickwoo@me.comNew YorkTourist2011-12-19T18:04:59-08:00http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/ladyliberty.html#unique-entry-id-364http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/ladyliberty.html#unique-entry-id-364
"Colossal statuary does not consist simply in making an enormous statue. It ought to produce an emotion in the breast of the spectator, not because of its volume, but because its size is in keeping with the idea it represents and with the place which it ought to occupy."
--Auguste Bartholdi, sculptor of the Statue of Liberty
]]>nickwoo@me.comNew YorkTourist2011-12-18T17:46:31-08:00http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/september11th.html#unique-entry-id-363http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/september11th.html#unique-entry-id-363
"Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11."
--President Barack Obama
]]>nickwoo@me.comNew YorkTouristFoodEating2011-12-17T18:50:27-08:00http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/joespizza.html#unique-entry-id-362http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/joespizza.html#unique-entry-id-362
"...But then, in New York, I discovered pizza. It blew my mind wide f---ing open. I would buy ten or twenty slices a day. And then, when I realized you could buy a great big pizza all for yourself, I started ordering them wherever we went."
--Ozzy Osbourne talking about food in the 70's
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"As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed."
--Vincent Van Gogh
]]>nickwoo@me.comNew YorkTourist2011-12-15T19:29:20-08:00http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/themet.html#unique-entry-id-360http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/themet.html#unique-entry-id-360
"A good painting to me has always been like a friend. It keeps me company, comforts and inspires."
--Hedy Lamarr
]]>nickwoo@me.comWashington DCTouristMuseums2011-12-14T14:05:18-08:00http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/spymuseum.html#unique-entry-id-359http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/spymuseum.html#unique-entry-id-359
"All warfare is based on deception."
--Sun Tzu
]]>nickwoo@me.comWashington DCTourist2011-12-13T06:18:09-08:00http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/whitehouse.html#unique-entry-id-358http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/whitehouse.html#unique-entry-id-358
"The White House is the finest prison in the world."
--Harry S. Truman
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"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
--Abraham Lincoln
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"The dinosaur's eloquent lesson is that if some bigness is good, an overabundance of bigness is not necessarily better."
--Eric Johnston
]]>nickwoo@me.comChicagoTouristArt2011-12-10T20:10:42-08:00http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/franklloydwright.html#unique-entry-id-355http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/franklloydwright.html#unique-entry-id-355
"The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization."
--Frank Lloyd Wright
]]>nickwoo@me.comChicagoTourist2011-12-09T20:18:15-08:00http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/searstower.html#unique-entry-id-353http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/searstower.html#unique-entry-id-353
"The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man."
--Roland Barthes
]]>nickwoo@me.comChicagoTourist2011-12-08T12:16:58-08:00http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/pizzariauno.html#unique-entry-id-352http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/pizzariauno.html#unique-entry-id-352
"It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease."
--Jeremy Piven
]]>nickwoo@me.comTourist2011-12-07T09:42:44-08:00http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/rockies.html#unique-entry-id-351http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/rockies.html#unique-entry-id-351
"In fact, just about all the major natural attractions you find in the West- the Grand Canyon, the Badlands, the Goodlands, the Mediocrelands, the Rocky Mountains and Robert Redford- were caused by erosion."
--Dave Barry
]]>nickwoo@me.comTourist2011-12-06T16:50:04-08:00http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/amtrak.html#unique-entry-id-350http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/amtrak.html#unique-entry-id-350
"A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."
--Theodore Roosevelt
]]>nickwoo@me.comAFI100Movies2011-12-05T16:50:02-08:00http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/stinkinbadges.html#unique-entry-id-349http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/stinkinbadges.html#unique-entry-id-349
"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"
--Gold Hat (as played by Alfonso Bedoya)
]]>nickwoo@me.comRunning2011-12-04T19:04:27-08:00http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/marathon.html#unique-entry-id-348http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/marathon.html#unique-entry-id-348
"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually, it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever."
--Lance Armstrong
]]>nickwoo@me.comSacramento2011-12-03T22:32:35-08:00http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/statecapitol.html#unique-entry-id-347http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/statecapitol.html#unique-entry-id-347
"...I hope you leave enough room for my fist because I'm going to ram it into your stomach..."
--California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger asBen Richards in Running Man
]]>nickwoo@me.comFoodCooking2011-12-02T23:54:59-08:00http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/eggnog.html#unique-entry-id-346http://iveneverdonethat.com/2011_blog/files/eggnog.html#unique-entry-id-346
"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love."
--Hamilton Wright Mabi
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