May 2010
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“How do I quit my job without actually quitting?
I want to make sure my paycheck...”
– anonymous comment @ How to quit Facebook without actually quitting Facebook
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“we learn new things everyday - today I learned I stay one person away from Sarah...”
– Sarah Palin’s profile on LinkedIn
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“A ‘teacher’ told my child in class that dolphins were mammals and not fish! And...”
– Comment left on the new website set up by the national Republican Party to help develop the party’s agenda for the 2010 elections. (via peterfeld) (via ayse)
you know, being a Republican is not a crime…
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“It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.”
– Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, U.S. Naval officer, and an early computer programmer; developer of the first compiler for a computer programming language; term “debugging” inventor.
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Why Lost Fans Will Never Be Satisfied
sunday:
bbook:
“Rat Racers suffer from “arrival fallacy”— the false belief that reaching a valued destination can sustain happiness.”
-Tal Ben-Shahar in Happiness
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“One of the embarrassing problems for the early nineteenth-century champions of...”
– The Encyclopedia Britannica, 1968, p. 420
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“History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a...”
– Thomas Jefferson in a letter to Baron von Homboldt in 1813
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“In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is...”
– Thomas Jefferson to Horatio G. Spafford, 1814. ME 14:119
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“Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of...”
– Thomas Jefferson - Notes on the State of Virginia - Query XVII
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B&W printer in hands of customer turns into...
clientsfromhell:
Client: ”Why does the eblast print in black-and-white?”
Me: ”Are you using a black-and-white printer?”
Client: ”Yes.”
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“Between 1980 and 2003, the amount Americans spent on prescription drugs quietly...”
– Prescription for disaster: drugs, lies, and greed - The Boston Globe
The Chronic Disease Industry in America is designed at it’s core to bleed us dry of our hard earned money. Pills and scalpels do not cure chronically unhealthy behavior. I hope the American public quickly realizes that spending...
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“Katie: In my world everyone is a pony, and they all eat rainbows, and poop...”
– Horton Hears a Who! (2008)
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“If you are falling, the only way to regain balance is to move”
– unclear
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“I’m not telling you it is going to be easy, I’m telling you...”
– ascribed to Art Williams
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“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty”
– ascribed to abolitionist Wendell Phillips
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Every Day Is Better with Data
idiosyncratic-routine:
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conversations at work
ash: Ack to your initrd patch
pcarmody: Ack yours, too. :)
Don't you ack me, or I'll ack you so hard you won't be able to merge for a week!
pcarmody: Frankly, I've forgotten when was the last time I merged.
I thought you were planning on pulling last thursday?
That was mere cherry-picking, actually.
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“A teacher is a person who never says anything once.”
– Howard Nemerov
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“Of all races in an advanced stage of civilization, the American is the least...”
– ascribed to Moiseide Ostrogorski (1902, 302-303)
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“Why aren’t we ranking higher on Google? Our name starts with A, and this other...”
– (via clientsfromhell) 