So relaxing…
Web developers are like prostitutes…
there are front end and back end engineers (though most know a little about both).
One astrophysicist to another:
“Hey Johnson, did you hear I made your mother go supernova last night? Long story short, now I’ve got a crab nebula.”
All the money’s in advertising these days, right? That’s how TV stations and magazines make their bank? I’m looking forward to the days when a mugger, instead of taking your wallet, will read copy to you at gunpoint and make you look at pictures of some new energy drink.
Got bugs in the brain, full mad, a looney tune and a gone baboon
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| — | The Satanic Verses, Salmon Rushdie |
take something that is interesting and make it uninteresting.
that is interesting.
and also in a way uninteresting.
and that’s interesting!
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Why don’t books warn you when they won’t offer a satisfying conclusion?
SF blueballs, I didn’t mean to buy half a book. Vernor Vinge’s Children of the Sky was entertaining, but there must be another sequel coming. Entertaining, but not in the same league as A Fire Upon the Deep or even A Deepness in the Sky.
Some say history tends to repeat itself: perhaps this is not unreasonable, if we consider the inexorable cyclic force that we find in all things, that manifests itself from the smallest occurrence: an ant winding back along its path to its home, mundanely rising for work each day, déjà vu sensed in a turn of phrase; to the greatest of divine miracles: the birth of life and the tide, the full moon and the high sun on the summer solstice.
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