09/10/08 :: SQL or SEQUEL :: On the correct pronunciation of the acronymn for Structured Query Language
08/15/07 :: Portable MP3-DVD player :: All I want is a Walkman type device that plays MP3s on a data DVD, without the added bulk necessary to play DVD-video.
09/13/06 :: Misterr Dabaar :: The story of how we met (invented) Mrr. Dabaar
06/16/05 :: Christians & Hypocrisy - FAQ :: Abstraction of hypocrisy, application to Christianity, distinct lack of resolution, and some bits about something else
Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.
"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain."
I think this email passes the Turing test on accident:
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ah, yuh
that's right
this one's for all the naysayers and dream-slayers
who told the Hawk-man it couldn't be done.
Listen up.
Your momma is so fat, she's got a trashbag for a sock.
She's so hairy she looks like she's got Don King in a headlock.
Your momma is so ugly that her dog won't give her fleas.
You could stick her face in dough and make monster cookies.
Your momma is so da [...]
Alibech turns hermit, and a monk, Rustico, teaches her to put the Devil in Hell. Afterwards she is brought home, and married to Neerbale.
Dioneus listened attentively to the Queen’s discourse, and when she had done and he knew that only he remained to complete the day’s entertainment, without trifling away the time or awaiting a command from the Queen, thus he began.
Gracious ladies, it may [...]
You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.
Once, men turned thinking over to machines in the hopes that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
'That which submits rules.' ... The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows -- a wall against the wind. This is the willow's purpose.
A world is supported by four things ... the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing ... without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it. (The First Law of Mentat)
he fell into the floating awareness . . . focusing the consciousness . . . aortal dilation . . . avoiding the unfocused mechanism of consciousness . . . to be conscious by choice . . . blood enriched and swift-flooding the overload regions . . . one does not obtain food-safety-freedom by instinct alone . . . animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that its vi [...]
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over and through me. And when it has gone I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.