Get Revenge! Live long enough to be a problem for your children!

The Fundamental Truths (7) It is always something (7a) (corollary). Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick any two (you can't have all three).

Darth Vader: There is no escape. Don't make me destroy you. pauses Luke, you do not yet realize your importance. You have only begun to discover your power. Join me, and I will complete your training. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy. Luke Skywalker: I'll never join you! Darth Vader: If you only knew the *power* of the dark side. Obi-wan never told you what happened to your father. Luke Skywalker: He told me enough! He told me *you* killed him. Darth Vader: No. *I* am your father.

hyperbaton rhetorical device in which word order is reversed

Chuck Norris once sued the Houghton-Mifflin textbook company when it became apparent that their account of the war of 1812 was plagiarized from his autobiography.

> The day people think linux would be better served by somebody else (FSF > being the natural alternative), I'll "abdicate". I don't think that > it's something people have to worry about right now - I don't see it > happening in the near future. I enjoy doing linux, even though it does > mean some work, and I haven't gotten any complaints (some almost timid > reminders about a patch I have forgotten or ignored, but nothing > negative so far). > > Don't take the above to mean that I'll stop the day somebody complains: > I'm thick-skinned (Lasu, who is reading this over my shoulder commented > that "thick-HEADED is closer to the truth") enough to take some abuse. > If I weren't, I'd have stopped developing linux the day ast ridiculed me > on c.o.minix. What I mean is just that while linux has been my baby so > far, I don't want to stand in the way if people want to make something > better of it (*). > > Linus > > (*) Hey, maybe I could apply for a saint-hood from the Pope. Does > somebody know what his email-address is? I'm so nice it makes you puke. (Taken from Linus's reply to someone worried about the future of Linux)

The mysteries practiced among men are unholy mysteries ~ Heraclitus, Fragments

If he who has control of men ought not to control the laws, then he who controls the laws ought not control men: otherwise his laws would minister to his passions.. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

two hard core pornies metadramas i - hers standing female. someone stands behind her, massaging her breasts with a delicate clockwise motion. duration: 46.3". ii - his standing male. someone kneels in front of him, rubbing head in his crotch. duration: 46.3". ~ Dick Higgins [NYC, Sept-Oct, 1985]

The Fundamental Truths (6) It is easier to move a problem around (for example, by moving the problem to a different part of the overall network architecture) than it is to solve it. (6a) (corollary). It is always possible to add another level of indirection.

Instead of raising your hand to ask a question in class, how about individual push buttons on each desk? That way, when you want to ask a question, you just push the button and it lights up a corresponding number on a tote board at the front of the class. Then all the professor has to do is check the lighted number against a master sheet of names and numbers to see who is asking the question. -- Jack Handey

Chuck Norris died 20 years ago, Death just hasn't built up the courage to tell him yet.

GOOD-NIGHT, everybody ... Now I have to go administer FIRST-AID to my pet LEISURE SUIT!!

"MSDOS didn't get as bad as it is overnight -- it took over ten years of careful development." (By dmeggins@aix1.uottawa.ca)

Gauls! We have nothing to fear; except perhaps that the sky may fall on our heads tomorrow. But as we all know, tomorrow never comes!! -- Adventures of Asterix

Protism, Simple A retroactive coinage used by Uthentine and Erasmas to contrast the traditional conception of Protism, which consisted of one Hylaean Theoric World having a causal relationship to the cosmos in which Arbre is embedded, to their new scheme, which they dubbed Complex Protism. See Protism, Complex. ~ From the glossary of 'Anathem' by Neal Stephenson

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy. -- Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason

I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30. -- Groucho Marx

Han Solo: Damn fool, I knew you were going to say that. Ben (Obi-Wan) Kenobi: Who's the more foolish, the fool, or the fool who follows him?

Those were the days when difficulty was 1, and you could find blocks with a CPU, not even a GPU. I mined several blocks over the next days. But I turned it off because it made my computer run hot, and the fan noise bothered me. -- Hal Finney; Mar 19, 2013