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bq. He visually located the big pink sign that said Bookstore, Mandatory Book Drop, stared at it uncomprehendingly for a moment, turned around to acknowledge my instruction with a curt nod and then walked over and proceeded to drop his bag in a huge green recycling bin. Ah, the leaders of tomorrow.
This goes out to all of my writer friends:
bq. “Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.”
bq. – Robert Byrne
(via the “Quote of the Day mailing list”:http://ca.geocities.com/quotationoftheday/index.html)
Yeah thanks a bunch there Harald – that really helps me out! ;-)
In “an article about the difference between the best programmers and the mediocre”:http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html, this paragraph made me laugh out loud:
bq. In some other industries, cheap is more important than good. Wal*Mart grew to be the biggest corporation on Earth by selling cheap products, not good products. If Wal*Mart tried to sell high quality goods, their costs would go up and their whole cheap advantage would be lost. For example if they tried to sell a tube sock that can withstand the unusual rigors of, say, being washed in a washing machine, they’d have to use all kinds of expensive components, like, say, cotton, and the cost for every single sock would go up.
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Jeff K says: I’m not too sure why you like what that Joel has to say. Yes he makes me laugh, but you don’t want to know why. Well that whole iPod orgasm of his was pretty laughable for one.
Gareth’s synopsis:
bq. Cheesy!
later:
bq. Ok, cheesy and predictable!
The classics of my childhood, disemboweled by an eight-year-old… :-)
Nita says: *ow*
Oh, *ow*.
Yah, my childhood smarts today, apparently.
Eureka! I finally understand :-). The picture at the bottom, with the men reördered by height, did the trick for me.
Happy (O)e(a)(o)st(e)r(e)… circle the letters that match your belief system
(found on “blog of the photo”:http://photo.tenebrophilia.org/?showimage=228
Today is the first snowfall of spring, a fine Canadian tradition….
bq. Maintaining badly written code is like trying to solve a crossword puzzle set by someone who can’t spell.
(taken from “Simon”:http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2005/03/18/quotes)
Dummies::Dungeons & Dragons For Dummies:Book Information
Next they’ll be letting just anyone play on the Internet…
Huh — when I were a lad, if you had a troll chasing you with an ax, it were a _real_ troll, and you’d better pray you were faster!
Uphill both ways twenty miles in the snow with no boots on…
My car barely made it to the school and back, but that’s not why I’m writing.
I wished I taken my camera with me today. As I was leaving the school I saw one of our big snowplows (not the truck kind, but the big construction grader style ones).
It was stuck in a large snow bank, slowly being pulled out by one of those industrial tow trucks….
I’m not your damn search engine
“I’m someone’s fetish”:http://www.nonzerochance.com/index.php?p=buypage&design=fetish&style=kshirt
“polyamory is wrong!”:http://www.cafepress.com/captainwhimsy.16788296?zoom=yes#zoom (read the back :-)
Wow, I’m impressed. A search for ‘panvore’ in “google”:http://www.google.com/?q=panvore returned no hits! We’ve been joking about Brian (the human garberator) for years. Most of us are omnivores (we eat anything); Brian is a panvore, because he eats *everything*.
_Update_: two days later, and I’ve been indexed; the search now returns this page…
Apparently we’ve developed cochroach contraceptives:
The Straight Dope: Is it possible to control bugs by making them sterile?
This one has been sitting in my to-post pile for two weeks now. *sigh.
From “My head just exploded”:http://www.xoverboard.com/blogarchive/week_2004_10_03.html#000967
bq. So this website, by means of a Kevin-Bacon-style relationship of crossovers, has logically linked one hundred and sixty-two television series as existing in the same universe of continuity… and therefore are all the creation of the autistic Tommy Westphall.
Check it out…
“zombies seeking brains”:http://www.defectiveyeti.com/archives/001006.html
I was looking up forecasts, and tripped over a short-range (i.e. 3 months) map of “temperature predictions”:http://weatheroffice.ec.gc.ca/saisons/image_e.html?img=sfe1t_s for Canada. The second map on the page is the one that amused me; it’s a map of historical accuracy. Most of the map hovers around 50%.
In other words, they’d be just as well off flipping a coin :-)
bq. “Food is an important part of a balanced diet”.
— Fran Leibowitz
bq. “Vegetables are what food eats”.
— Andrew Flint
(I may add more :-)
Wow; the “ultimate messy computer desk”:http://bash.org/mess/accepted/382128_PinkFuzzyBunny! My Ivar isn’t nearly as bad!
On the other hand, I do have friends whose desks are almost this messy! I wish I had known the contest was running; I would have taken a picture of my father-in-law’s office…
(Click on the arrows to see the rest of the collection of messy desks :)
It has come to amaze me that people feel buying 5 books for an education is some sort of monumental requirment, achievement or some sort of largess. This rather implies they could not afford, or chose not to have purchased more than 5 books in the past. Perhaps not even an overview of philosophy, history or psychology. I know of some people that have *never* read such a book. Perhaps some are working for nothing herding gerbils at bookstores.