Certain readers resented me when they could no longer recognize their territory, their institution. ~ Jacques Derrida

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

CP/M: An antiquated operation system from the early days of computing, based on inscrutable prompts like A>, terse commands, and absurdly backward conventions, such as 11-character limits on filenames. Contrasted with today's modern versions of DOS.

Lost interest? It's so bad I've lost apathy.

< DanielS> still, throne of blood sounds like a movie about overfiend and virgins or some crap -- in #debian-devel

oxymoron figure of speech combining contradictory terms

Han Solo: Traveling through hyperspace ain't like dusting crops, boy.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. -- Ogden Nash

I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamt that I was reading on, so I woke up from sheer boredom.

Human labor, in general, is still divided into two exclusive categories: the firstsolely intellectual and managerialincludes the scientists, artists, engineers, inventors, accountants, educators, governmental officials, and their subordinate elites who enforce labor discipline The second group consists of the great mass of workers, people prevented from applying creative ideas or intelligence, who blindly and mechanically carry out the orders of the intellectual-managerial elite This economic and social division of labor has disastrous consequences for members of the privileged classes, the masses of the people, and for the prosperity, as well as the moral and intellectual development, of society as a whole. -- Mikhail Bakunin

I will not instigate revolution.

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. -- Roy Croft

Youth is a disease from which we all recover. -- Dorothy Fuldheim

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief? ~ William Blake

Play beween humans and pets, as well as simply spending time peacebly hanging out together, brings joy to all the participants. Surely that is one important meaning of companion species. Nonetheless, the status of pet puts a dog at special risk in societies like the one I live in - the risk of abandonment when human affection wanes, when people's convenience takes precedence, or when the dog fails to deliver on the fantasy of unconditional love. Many of the serious dog people I have met doing my research emphasize the importance to dogs of jobs that leave them less vulnerable to human consumerist whims. Weisser knows many livestock people whose guardian dogs are respected for the work they do. Some are loved and some are not, but their value does not depend on an economy of affection. ~ Donna J. Haraway

Ethereum: a mechanism for making normally-free voluntary distributed computing schemes cost money

couic! a metadrama enters in a suit of medieval armor. trips. falls. ~ Dick Higgins [NYC, Sept-Oct, 1985]

"There do exist enquiring minds, which long for the truth of the heart, seek it, strive to solve the problems set by life, try to penetrate to the essence of things and phenomena and to penetrate into themselves. If a man reasons and thinks soundly, no matter which path he follows in solving these problems, he must inevitably arrive back at himself, and begin with the solution of the problem of what he is himself and what his place is in the world around him. For without this knowledge, he will have no focal point in his search. Socrates’ words, “Know thyself” remain for all those who seek true knowledge and being." ― George Gurdjieff

kenopsia n. The eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that's usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet school hallway in the evening, an unlit office on a weekend, vacant fairgrounds an emotional afterimage that makes it seem not just empty but hyper-empty, with a total population in the negative, who are so conspicuously absent they glow like neon signs. ~ Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

variation on a theme by shiomi a metadrama look for the vanishing smile. ~ Dick Higgins [NYC, Sept-Oct, 1985]