I fail to see why people perpetually want to draw lines ( Read more... )

"You're a gentleman," they used to say to him. "You shouldn't have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that's no occupation for a gentleman."
---Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

Popular culture update again, this time from Magdalene

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIbxfC0VMDc

Another entry for the popular culture front

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460791/

Alas that I still must work

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"I know if anybody does, but it would take twelve hours to explain the various factors and the way they interrelate."
from Neuromancer, William Gibson.

One of the things I like best about the people here at library school, is that they understand my habit of self mockery and self-parody, and that when I caricature myself as geeky or socially awkward or any of the obvious stereotypes, they know that it is the alien values that I am mocking, and not myself. As such, they do not give me advice on how ( Read more... )

"He seems perpetually surprised at the world's never being quite so intelligent as he is, although he would be even more surprised if he found out that perhaps he is himself not so intelligent as he thinks.'
--Shirley Jackson, Hangsaman

According to experts, my personality type is :
Buddhist Monk
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"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
-- Terry Pratchett