tags: quotes

2001

September

2001 Sep 8
Unsustainable

An eruption of brain farts. Nothing really interesting today.

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2003

August

2003 Aug 22
quotes from "the simpsons"

Homer Simpson is my hero.

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2003 Aug 22
more quotes from "the simpsons"

Moe Szyslak has a way with words.

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2003 Aug 27
even more simpson quotes

Choice quotes from Arnold SchwarzeneggerRainier Wolfcastle and Ned Flanders

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2003 Aug 31
futurama quote

A quote from Bender the Bending Robot

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2004

March

2004 Mar 27
hope

Dum spiro, spero

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2006

April

2006 Apr 11
whenever i feel terrible

…and I don’t want to face the world, I am reminded of this conversation from “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”:

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September

2006 Sep 7
no one is useless

If you can’t be a good example, then you’ll just have to be a horrible warning. — Catherine Aird

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November

2006 Nov 11
random walk

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy also talks about love. It says, “Avoid if at all possible.”

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2007

April

2007 Apr 3
great is the fall of gondolin

I’m still slowly working my way through

The Lost Tales

by J.R.R. Tolkien and edited by his son Christopher. I found the story of the destruction of the great, hidden city of the Elves wonderfully moving—the story in

The Lost Tales

presents much more detail than the version in

The Silmarillion

and there are some interesting concepts that Tolkien later removed.

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May

2007 May 5
definition of insanity

Listening to: “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” by St. Etienne

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2007 May 12
returning to normality (normal for me, at least)

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem. — Tricia McMillan AKA Trillian from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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2007 May 13
unwell

Is this aching in my belly anxiety or dysentery? One wonders.

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2007 May 15
there is clearly something wrong with me

Man, that was an incredible waste. Three hours down the drain just to get a stupid RSS widget to work in MySpace. I wish that Myspace would just let me crosspost to their blog engine, but noooo.

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2008

April

2008 Apr 3
random quotes gleaned from the web

Twitter is an exercise in simulating Brownian motion in a network. It's kind of like the example of the drunkard trying to find his way from the bar by choosing a random direction at each intersection he crosses. Or, technically, I guess, it's a random walk on a graph, where instead of merely choosing cardinal directions, you could just as easily choose walking through a tunnel, down a diagonal, or up a freeway on-ramp.

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