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i’ve been sick for a couple of days, 101°+ fever, kicked in right when i finished the phd paperwork, and then today worked at the office till almost midnight, and i bought nyquil on the way home, so i thought now would be a good time to share this excerpt from dennis leary’s no cure [...]

found at the new york times

Relationship experts report that too many couples fail to ask each other critical questions before marrying. Here are a few key ones that couples should consider asking:

Have we discussed whether or not to have children, and if the answer is yes, who is going to be the primary [...]

A rare type of crime, or rather, the opposite of crime. An anti-crime… must:
… be done in such a way that it causes outrage and/or humiliation to the victim. Merely giving someone something is not enough. Examples of this type include breaking-and-decorating, proffering-with-intent, and whitemailing (for example threatening to reveal a [...]

The Ten Commandments of the Ethical Atheist

Thou SHALT NOT believe all thou art told.
Thou SHALT seek knowledge and truth constantly.
Thou SHALT educate thy fellow man in the Laws of Science.
Thou SHALT NOT forget the atrocities committed in the name of god.
Thou SHALT leave valuable contributions for future generations.
Thou SHALT live in peace with thy fellow [...]

I hate Perl more than Cartman hates Kyle.
Can Alkan
Perl is the only language where you can bang your head on the keyboard and it compiles.
Anonymous
Perl - The only language that looks the same before and after RSA encryption.
Keith Bostic
A Perl script is ‘correct’ if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.
Programming in [...]

In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was [...]

I found this while looking for something else, just wanted to save it for my files. It was presented as an example of second person narrative.:
You are not the kind of guy who would be at a place like this at this time of the morning. But here you are, and you cannot [...]

Busier than a three-legged cat trying to cover shit on a marble floor while having to go five miles for dirt
I was trying to think of a funny way of saying how occupied I am getting ready for BM, and found some witty phrases here and here.
Actually, on further reflection, I think I’ll drop the [...]

Paraphrased from Joe Haldeman, Old Twentieth p. 20.
“the opposite of love is not hate; it is indifference.”

Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced [...]