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When Sounds Suggest Sense

If maidenhood has no more than maidenhead to protect it, how can it ever endure?

Purity?

A: Oh, that bitch is getting invited to the wedding and it will be the nicest wedding ever and she will cry when she sees it. B: How much of your dreaming about love would you say comes from desire for revenge? A: There’s no way it’s more than twenty percent. Tops.

Colder

The experience that most makes one cold is having had one’s shows of warmth be discarded.

How I Miss My Gentoo

So what’s really cool about Gentoo beyond the occasional speed-up from compiling everything for your own machine? (And the masculatinng quality of doing everything yourself, of course.) What’s cool is that installing things takes no effort. You just type the name of the program and the damn thing’s installed. Moreover, there’s a single, centralized, consistent [...]

Middle Earth

I just saw some pictures of Middle Earth. Man, I wish I had gone there, though I am under the impression that there was not much time for hobbitchasing during the tour.

Love

One hears the word love spoken righteously by many one suspects incapable of the feeling — though they are so sure they know it.

In A Cataloging Mood

Abstractions I distrust: love, truth, freedom. Abstractions I don’t believe in: free will, a purposeful universe, the inevitability of justice.

Let’s Take This To Court

I came to the following conclusion awhile ago and now feel it’s probably the best — and only — hope we have: personal problems should be submitted to general judgment in the same way that crimes are. Of course such trials would utterly miss the dynamics of a relationship. Similarly trials miss the dynamics of [...]

Reck

I just realized reckon and reckless both come from the same root. I’ve been a little slow lately so this seemed like a major revelation, especially given that Google refuses to define reck even though it’s undoubtably an English word — though likely lost like ruth. Nevertheless, it’s not a major revelation. And it’s barely [...]

Phone Song

Phone calls from America always brighten my day.