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Vision in this technological feast becomes unregulated gluttony; all perspective gives way to infinitely mobile vision, which no longer seems just mythically about the god-trick of seeing everything from nowhere, but to have put the myth into ordinary practice. And like the god-trick, this eye fucks the world to make techno-monsters. Zoe Sofoulis (1988) calls this the cannibal-eye of masculinist extra-terrestrial projects for excremental second birthing. ~ Donna J. Haraway npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems Real software engineers don't comment their code. The identifiers are so mnemonic they don't have to. npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems Woody: What's the story, Mr. Peterson? Norm: The Bobbsey twins go to the brewery. Let's just cut to the happy ending. -- Cheers, Airport V Woody: Hey, Mr. Peterson, there's a cold one waiting for you. Norm: I know, and if she calls, I'm not here. -- Cheers, Bar Wars II: The Woodman Strikes Back Sam: Beer, Norm? Norm: Have I gotten that predictable? Good. -- Cheers, Don't Paint Your Chickens npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems Horror is beyond the reach of psychology. ~ Theodor Adorno npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems Once Again From the Top Correction notice in the Miami Herald: "Last Sunday, The Herald erroneously reported that original Dolphin Johnny Holmes had been an insurance salesman in Raleigh, North Carolina, that he had won the New York lottery in 1982 and lost the money in a land swindle, that he had been charged with vehicular homicide, but acquitted because his mother said she drove the car, and that he stated that the funniest thing he ever saw was Flipper spouting water on George Wilson. Each of these items was erroneous material published inadvertently. He was not an insurance salesman in Raleigh, did not win the lottery, neither he nor his mother was charged or involved in any way with vehicular homicide, and he made no comment about Flipper or George Wilson. The Herald regrets the errors." -- "The Progressive", March, 1987 npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems 75% of people wash from top to bottom in the shower. npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems Dear Miss Manners: My home economics teacher says that one must never place one's elbows on the table. However, I have read that one elbow, in between courses, is all right. Which is correct? Gentle Reader: For the purpose of answering examinations in your home economics class, your teacher is correct. Catching on to this principle of education may be of even greater importance to you now than learning correct current table manners, vital as Miss Manners believes that is. npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems Who in your life has been such a servant to you? Who has helped you love the good that grows within you? Let's just take ten seconds to think of some of those people who have loved us and wanted what was best for us in life, those who have encouraged us to become who we are tonight - just ten seconds of silence. -- Fred Rogers npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems Coach: What would you say to a beer, Normie? Norm: Daddy wuvs you. -- Cheers, The Mail Goes to Jail Sam: What'd you like, Normie? Norm: A reason to live. Gimme another beer. -- Cheers, Behind Every Great Man Sam: What will you have, Norm? Norm: Well, I'm in a gambling mood, Sammy. I'll take a glass of whatever comes out of that tap. Sam: Oh, looks like beer, Norm. Norm: Call me Mister Lucky. -- Cheers, The Executive's Executioner npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems Psychologists think they're experimental psychologists. Experimental psychologists think they're biologists. Biologists think they're biochemists. Biochemists think they're chemists. Chemists think they're physical chemists. Physical chemists think they're physicists. Physicists think they're theoretical physicists. Theoretical physicists think they're mathematicians. Mathematicians think they're metamathematicians. Metamathematicians think they're philosophers. Philosophers think they're gods. npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems A man is locked in a room with only a piano. How does he escape? The man uses a piano “key” to escape. Then he uses religion to escape, then drugs, then a relationship that clearly won’t work out in the long term, then unhealthy food, then rage, then the “key” again, because it’s a cycle, it’s an endless cycle, and he can never truly escape until he accepts that she’s really gone. .. ~ Ethan Kuperberg npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems Why I Can't Go Out With You: I'd LOVE to, but... -- I've got a Friends of the Lowly Rutabaga meeting. -- I promised to help a friend fold road maps. -- I've been scheduled for a karma transplant. -- I'm staying home to work on my cottage cheese sculpture. -- It's my parakeet's bowling night. -- I'm building a plant from a kit. -- There's a disturbance in the Force. -- I'm doing door-to-door collecting for static cling. -- I'm teaching my ferret to yodel. -- My crayons all melted together. npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems While I have felt lonely many times in my life, the oddest feeling of all was after my mother, Lucille, died. My father had already died, but I always had some attachment to our big family while she was alive. It seems strange to say now that I felt so lonely, yet I did. -- Bill Murray npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems The Fundamental Truths (11) Every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and a different presentation, regardless of whether it works. (11a) (corollary). It is always possible to add another level of indirection. npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it. ~ Euripides npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems mal de coucou n. A phenomenon in which you have an active social life but very few close friends people who you can trust, who you can be yourself with, who can help flush out the weird psychological toxins that tend to accumulate over time which is a form of acute social malnutrition in which even if you devour an entire buffet of chitchat, you'll still feel pangs of hunger. ~ Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems Information Center, n.: A room staffed by professional computer people whose job it is to tell you why you cannot have the information you require. npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems > I thing you're missing the capability of Makefiles. It takes several _hours_ to do `make' a second time on my machine with the latest glibc sources (and no files are recompiled a second time). I think I'll remove `build' after changing one file if I want to recompile it. -- Juan Cespedes <[email protected] > npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems That could certainly be done, but I don't want to fall into the Forth trap, where every running Forth implementation is really a different language. -- Larry Wall in <[email protected] > npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems In California, Bill Honig, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, said he thought the general public should have a voice in defining what an excellent teacher should know. "I would not leave the definition of math," Dr. Honig said, "up to the mathematicians." -- The New York Times, October 22, 1985 npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems Reyna d’Assia: The Key to Immortal Consciousness 27. Respect contracts you have signed. npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. -- Shakespeare, "King Lear" npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems There are those who claim that magic is like the tide; that it swells and fades over the surface of the earth, collecting in concentrated pools here and there, almost disappearing from other spots, leaving them parched for wonder. There are also those who believe that if you stick your fingers up your nose and blow, it will increase your intelligence. -- The Teachings of Ebenezum, Volume VII npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems The world is the totality of facts, not of things. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems "Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone." - Ayn Rand npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems Real software engineers don't like the idea of some inexplicable and greasy hardware several aisles away that may stop working at any moment. They have a great distrust of hardware people, and wish that systems could be virtual at ALL levels. 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Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'" --Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer. npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems There are two kinds of people in the world: those who say, "There are two kinds of people in the world: those who say there are two kinds of people in the world, and the other kind," and there's who don't say. Well, then there's me. npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems Reyna d’Assia: The Key to Immortal Consciousness 54. Do not try to distinguish yourself by your appearance. npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals? -- Ogden Nash npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems It is reason which breeds pride and reflection which fortifies it; reason which turns man inward into himself; reason which separates him from everything which troubles or affects him. It is philosophy which isolates a man, and prompts him to say in secret at the sight of another suffering: 'Perish if you will; I am safe.' No longer can anything but dangers to society in general disturb the tranquil sleep of the philosopher or drag him from his bed. A fellow-man may with impunity be murdered under his window, for the philosopher has only to put his hands over his ears and argue a little with himself to prevent nature, which rebels inside him, from making him identify himself with the victim of the murder. The savage man entirely lacks this admirable talent, and for want of wisdom and reason he always responds recklessly to the first promptings of human feeling. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin of Inequality npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or asleep, that he is a colony of cells in action, and that it is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself. ~ Albert Claude npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems Que no se objete que el cristianismo ordena a los nios a amar a sus padres, a los padres a amar a sus hijos, a los esposos a feccionarse mutuamente. S, les manda eso, pero no les permite amarlo inmediata, naturalmente y por s mismos, sino slo en dios y por dios; no admite todas esas relaciones actuales ms que a condicin de que dios se encuentre como tercero, y ese terrible tercero mata las uniones. El amor divino aniquila el amor humano. El cristianismo ordena, es verdad, amar a nuestro prjimo tanto como a nosotros mismos, pero nos ordena al mismo tiempo amar a dios ms que a nosotros mismos y por consiguiente tambin ms que al prjimo, es decir sacrificarle el prjimo por nuestra salvacin, porque al fin de cuentas el cristiano no adora a dios ms que por la salvacin de su alma. Aceptando a dios, todo eso es rigurosamente consecuente: dios es lo infinito, lo absoluto, lo eterno, lo omnipotente; el hombre es lo finito, lo impotente. En comparacin con dios, bajo todos los aspectos, no es nada. Slo lo divino es justo, verdadero, dichoso y bueno, y todo lo que es humano en el hombre debe ser por eso mismo declarado falso, inicuo, detestable y miserable. El contacto de la divinidad con esa pobre humanidad debe devorar, pues, necesariamente, consumir, aniquilar todo lo que queda de humano en los hombres. La intervencin divina en los asuntos humanos no ha dejado nunca de producir efectos excesivamente desastrosos. Pervierte todas las relaciones de los hombres entre s y reemplaza su solidaridad natural por la prctica hipcrita y malsana de las comunidades religiosas, en las que bajo las apariencias de la caridad, cada cual piensa slo en la salvacin de su alma, haciendo as, bajo el pretexto del amor divino, egosmo humano excesivamente refinado, lleno de ternura para s y de indiferencia, de malevolencia y hasta de crueldad para el prjimo. Eso explica la alianza ntima que ha existido siempre entre el verdugo y el sacerdote, alianza francamente confesada por el clebre campen del ultramontanismo, Joseph de Maistre, cuya pluma elocuente, despus de haber divinizado al papa, no dej de rehabilitar al verdugo; uno era en efecto el complemento del otro. Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin, God and the State npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems All of a sudden, I want to THROW OVER my promising ACTING CAREER, grow a LONG BLACK BEARD and wear a BASEBALL HAT!! ... Although I don't know WHY!! npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home. -- W. C. Fields npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems Living in LA is like not having a date on Saturday night. -- Candice Bergen npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you. -- Sherlock Holmes, "The Norwood Builder" npub13ta54yz2n3453v0nenc23jmf7nhwsk960fw6pmxzhqncqcq3a3ps973rvq FortuneGems Fortune presents: USEFUL PHRASES IN ESPERANTO, #2. ^Cu tiu loko estas okupita? Is this seat taken? ^Cu vi ofte venas ^ci-tien? Do you come here often? ^Cu mi povas havi via telelonnumeron? May I have your phone number? Mi estas komputilisto. I work with computers. 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