Cavus Idus Martie...

(beware the Ides of March)

What is the opposite of fear? It's not bravery, not fearlessness. I think it may be beauty.

I mean beauty, the sort of sublime truth you see in starlight, or the ocean, or the smile of an old friend.

Please God, make me a stone.

Ladies and Gentlemen, your amusing, intriguing, and horrifying articles of the day:

• Windows Vista: a.k.a Windows ME 2.0
• Dolphins with laser beams strapped to their fins.
• It's Patch Tuesday (also known as Black Tuesday to sysadmins)
• Models, apparently unhappy at being judged entirely by their looks, crying into their piles of money.
• Comcast "unlimited" ( Read more... )

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Ladies and Gentlemen, your amusing, intriguing, and horrifying articles of the day:

• May I present the Lord of the Rings, Mr. Wizard style.
• The 13 most overlooked tax deductions each year.
• 13 years later, oil from the Exxon Valdez is still polluting Prince William Sound. Exxon comments, "...there is nothing newsworthy or significant in the report ( Read more... )

Check it out folks...Windows Vista as you've always wanted it.

"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses..."

Are you Native American? Then you can protest illegal immigration.
Everyone else against illegal immigration? Shut the f*ck up.

There's something odd, in that it's easier to deal with a list of things not to be (such as the 7 Deadly Sins) instead of a list of things to be (the 7 Cardinal Virtues). For example, I bet you know the former in passing, and not the latter.

The 5 Ideas for Stressful Living.

1. Attempt to control absolutely everything
2. Believe in the ( Read more... )

Ladies and Gentlemen, your Elegant Sentiments for today are people. Young and old, men and women, knarled and wise, young and hale. Faces, with knowledge and joy, power and love, sorrow and pain, etched into our lives like a sculptor with marble.

Here's where I find my joy, and my wisdom.

( And here's one example: )