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2001-05-02
A trio of quotes:
for your amusement and edification: 1. David Chess: There are so many hard questions, and the way to be wrong is so often to think that there's an answer. He's referring to education, but I find this to be quite applicable generally. A true Nugget Of Wisdom, even. 2. The Bodhisattva Vow, from the book Spiritual Midwifery: The deluding passions are inexhaustible.I vow to extinguish them all.Sentient beings are numberless.I vow to save them all.The truth is impossible to expound.I vow to expound it.The way of the Buddha is unattainable.I vow to attain it. 3. A snippet from a recent email exchange between myself and Daniel, taken out of context (and the context is actually worse than one might suppose): > How does an ATM card get into a bra, anyway?
The same way other assorted objects get there - someone *puts* them there.
Which is what I did, because it seemed important at the time.
Of course, when I inserted the card into the ATM machine, it was promptly eaten.
So I can only assume it was magic of some sort that returned the card to my
bra later on.
Either that, or I misremember. Since I was completely nuts at the time,
this is not too far-fetched.
But hey, I kind of like the idea of a universe in which ATM cards magically
reappear in bras, don't you?
Is it somehow wrong for me to mine my recent trip to la-la-land and back for humorous (I hope) material?
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2001-05-01
A fortune... from when I had lunch with Daniel, David Chess, and Ian Whalley in New York last month: You make people realize that there exist other beauties in this world. I hope that's true. I'm hanging on to this one, I like it.
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2000-12-14
Okay, just *too* too weird:
I hadn't read the full bit of transcripts of interviews & online chats with Russell Crowe, but as I went on, I saw this at the end of the online chat: Russell Crowe: I'd also like to say hi to anyone who's online from Austin, Texas, the music capital of the known world. Color me giggly as a schoolgirl! :) Too bad I'm so late in my joining of the Russell-Crowe-worshipping cult, or I might have actually been online during the chat. Sigh. Swoon.
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2000-12-14
The more I read about Russell Crowe:
The more I like him. Okay, it's not just that he's incredibly good looking (imho), but he seems to be a really cool guy. F'rinstance, when asked the often-heard-these-days question of "boxers or briefs?", he replied:None of your f**king business! That's just plain kick-ass. Very few public figures have the balls to just draw a line and say that, when asked unreasonable personal questions. He exhibits, as it were, the antithesis of what you usually see on Jerry Springer. Though he does reportedly live in a trailer on the farm he set up for his parents in Australia (according to this article, anyway). Heh! (Hey, it's probably an *extremely nice* trailer). Heck, I wanna live in a trailer too! Yes, I decided this before I knew Russell did, so *shut up* already, I know what you're thinking. I might end up going for a nice used bus though, since from what I've been reading, way too many RVs and trailers are total crap.
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2000-12-14
Mars rants eloquently:
in this comment at metafilter. In part: <<The more control designers have over the look of their application, the better!>> NO NO NO! My computer exists for ME TO DO THINGS WITH, not as a canvas for designers to express their overweight egos on. If I want my windows to look different, I'll install a different GUI theme/window manager/skin/whatever, and thank you very much for respecting my decision. It's my computer, not yours, and the fact that I accidentally misstepped onto your misbegotten website does not give you permission to fuck my screen up any more than the fact that you gleaned my email address off some newsgroup gives you permission to mail me MAKE_MONEY_FAST advertisements. And further on in another comment, he adds: Even in the optimal case that your custom window widgets can do all of those things in as convenient a manner as the native GUI widgets did, you still experience a net loss, because the user has to learn your system. They can't apply their existing knowledge of How Windows Work to your window; they have to spend time learning your design, decoding your icons, shifting their expectations about where to click. Maybe it's a small amount of time, but you, the designer, still lose - unless you think your design is more important than the user's convenience, in which case you need to have your designer's license taken away. Preach on, Brother Mars!
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2000-12-14
Wandering around at imdb:
I find that Carrie-Ann Moss of the Matrix is a Leo (like me, cool, not that astrology means anything, but anyway), and she uttered this spiffy quote: After The Matrix, I cannot wear sunglasses. As soon as I put them on, people recognise me. Heh! And chaotically enough, she was also in a short-lived tv series in 1993 called Matrix. Go figure. Speaking of the Matrix, I see that Matrix 2 and Matrix3 are already in imdb's database (don't ask me why one has a space and the other doesn't, though). Cool! I just hope they don't suck. I have very high expectations... I went to imdb today to look for the guy who played Apoc in the Matrix, known as Julian Arahanga. I thought I recognized him from the excellent and devastatingly sad New Zealand movie Once Were Warriors. I was right! And I also happened to notice that the same character name he had in that movie (Nig Heke) is listed under another movie, from 1999, called What Becomes of the Broken Hearted. Hey, it looks like a sequel! Hmmm... I'll have to check it out, even though it has a lower rating than the original and was written by someone different. As a side note, I have to say that the girl who played Grace in Once Were Warriors, Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell, has a gorgeous first name. The whole thing is pronounced like a fluid stream that turns around a rock. The rock is the 'g', which is soft. Anyway, I learned how her name was pronounced when I saw a version of Once Were Warriors on cable that included the director's commentary and some footage about the making of the movie. It doesn't look like she's acted in anything else yet, but dang, she was *very, very good*. I hope she does more acting, I'd definitely see anything she'd appear in. Maybe she's in school or something for now. It's always nice to find some spiffy gems when you're out wandering the web.
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2000-12-13
Good SCOTUS quotes:
That is, the Supreme Court of the United States. I just read all 65 pages of yesterday's decision (well okay, I skipped and scanned a little). Here are my favorite bits. Justice Breyer, dissenting: The Court was wrong to take this case. It was wrong to grant a stay. It should now vacate that stay and permit the Florida Supreme Court to decide whether the recount should resume. Justice Ginsburg, dissenting: I might join the Chief Justice were it my commission to interpret Florida law. But disagreement with the Florida court's interpretation of its own State's law does not warrant the conclusion that the justices of the court have legislated....In sum, the Court's conclusion that a constitutionally adequate recount is impractical is a prophecy the Court's own judgment will not allow to be tested. Such an untested prophecy should not decide the Presidency of the United States.I dissent I noted well the absence of the word "respectfully" from Justice Ginsburg's "I dissent" statement. All the other dissenters included "respectfully". I get the feeling she's highly peeved, as am I. You go, girl! Anyway, it'll be a mess, who cares, Dubya's moving out of Austin! At least if he has to be President, it's going to be really lame for him. He's the Fraudulent Monkey Puppet President. This will be a loooong four years, but it'll end eventually, and his little smirking butt will be outtathere...
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2000-12-13
Heh, heh.
Maybe you have to be geeky in the way that I am geeky to truly appreciate this quote, but here goes: Is the difference between a difference of degree and a difference of sorts a difference of degree? Or a difference of sorts? from baylink, in a metafilter discussion.
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2000-11-03
So he's not an atheist, but I like this:
Organized religion to me, frankly, is like joining NASA in order to look at the moon. - James Lileks, author of (DEAD LINK) the Bleat
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2000-10-18
Yet another atheist quote:
I seem to be doing a lot of these today. This one is from Mars Saxman, the same guy who does Edgecase. I don't believe in anything. If I have to believe in it, it isn't true. If it were true, it would just be.
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2000-10-05
I like this:
Goal in life: To do as little as I possibly can, but make it all count. Lance of Glassdog
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2000-09-18
Chomsky quote about the net:
From a thingie at Greenspun: I think that there are good things about it, but there are also aspects of it that concern and worry me. This is an intuitive response -- I can't prove it -- but my feeling is that, since people aren't Martians or robots, direct face-to-face contact is an extremely important part of human life. It helps develop self-understanding and the growth of a healthy personality. You just have a different relationship to somebody when you're looking at them than you do when you're punching away at a keyboard and some symbols come back. I suspect that extending that form of abstract and remote relationship, instead of direct, personal contact, is going to have unpleasant effects on what people are like. It will diminish their humanity, I think. For what it's worth, I agree with him. I may pontificate on this topic later.
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2000-09-08
Scott McCloud says:
If you can guarantee the results in advance, it's not an experiment. I'm not sure if he's the first person to say it, but I like it.
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2000-09-05
Cute quote:
I hadn't seen this before: God grant me the Senility
to forget the people I never liked anyway,
the good fortune to run into the ones I do,
and the eyesight to tell the difference...
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2000-08-25
I want one of these:
A bumper sticker that says "Bush and Gore make me want to Ralph". Now if I can only find one of those "I didn't vote for his daddy either" bumper stickers I keep seeing around town. I greatly covet one of those.
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