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it's someone who deals with asshats
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dialectics
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk everything, you risk even more.
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avui (=today) in history
In 1776, one of my uncles published Common Sense. -
man panties
I did not do my laundry yesterday, so today I am wearing designer underwear.
I'm unsure of the purpose served by designer labels ("Polo by Ralph Lauren") when nobody else sees them; it's not as if I would wear these skimpy things on a date. I had better write a public post about them to LJ, so that everybody can know how cool I am.
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if they meant "canoodling," they could have said so
My high school teacher passes out a survey. It has a bunch of questions about relationships and holding hands, all the way to kissing ( Read more... ) -
Reflections on Trusting Trust
Ken Thompson's 1984 Turing Award Lecture, "Reflections on Trusting Trust," is available as a PDF.
-- Communications of the ACM, Vol. 27, No. 8 (August 1984), pp. 761-763. -
honi soit qui mal y pense
I did not go running around skyclad the other night. That's just a story.
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walks on water, Not
Last night, I stayed out later than my connecting bus. My companion called a cab. The trip home might have been unremarkable, except that on my way out the door, I walked into the swimming pool. (*sploosh*)
It turns out that I can swim wearing boots and backpack.
I am as graceful as a cat -- provided that the cat just fell into a toilet. -
frank self-surrender
The Toad saw at once how wrongly and foolishly he had acted. He admitted his errors and his wrong-headedness and made a full apology to Rat ... and he wound up by saying, with that frank self-surrender which always disarmed his friends' criticism and won them back to his side, "Ratty! I see that I have been a headstrong and a willful Toad! ( Read more... ) -
aut dosce, aut disce, aut discede
"I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room." -- Pascal