Little Thoughts to Live By:
.. No one respects a victim.
.. Revenge is the only pure motive.
.. Offense is taken, never given.
.. Never assume that the technology is going to work.
.. Never depend on Version 1 of anything.
.. The evil man designates his new product “Version 2.”
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“Am I going to answer the question I just asked, before you get a chance to? — Yes.”
“Do politicians do that all the time? — For sure. And others, too.”
“Doesn’t that just bug you? –I’ll bet it does!”
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The following arrived in spam email. Here it is, unaltered except for the addition of some line breaks:
“The practick part, he ought besides the keeping that had saved
he is my friend, then,
said he was not the little reserve which he exhibited
then fight with the sons of pandu,
what reverses a wonderful facial ugliness.
He had, however, been trading with Indians.
The expedition was of such a fate,
that fierce bowman shooting came from behind the palms.
No I was to wait for not unknown to thee.
Do thou, however, instruct as the last fire company passed,
the blue umbrella has been composed.
Thou art he whose dancing it is not good to live long in one place.
Therefore.”
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The Washington Post reports that doctors in Burma have been taking cell phones from bodies of drowned men and women, and calling the stored numbers to inform people that their family members or friends are dead.
This grim factoid could be the basis for quite a nice little piece of fiction. — But it seems to me that if there’s enough water to drown you, there’s enough water to ruin your cell phone.
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