John Myles White: Die Sudelbücher

I loved my Oscar Wilde widget and its endless supply of clever snipes at human pretense, but I discovered today that it was using, by itself, a full 250MB of memory to run. Has anyone else ever used the widget and seen this kind of memory use? I almost suspect virus-like behavior with that amount of memory being committed to one widget. Or is it simply a very severe memory leak coupled with excess caching? Does anyone know about this? Because I could find not information about this on Google, I have no plans to run the widget ever again, but I would like to.

And to think that people are so indignant about the Wordpress modifications.

Who is not surprised at least once a day by the behavior of these featherless bipeds?

Different types of dangerous lives.– You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb: your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do! For us life is more dangerous: we are made of glass — woe unto us if we merely bump ourselves! And all is lost if we fall!¹

1. Friedrich Nietzsche : The Gay Science : Book III : Secion 154↩

The profound difference between our view of death and the Christian’s cannot be resaid too many times: to the Christian, death is a door that the self passes through, but to us it is a wall that bounds the world.

There are so few moments when justice is plainly done in this life that you have to revel whenever you come across one:

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The average modern man is so confused about life because he does not realize that it is only in a world where actions have no consequences and humans have no goals that two things can be different without one being better.

She was too sweet to be steadfast; he too firm to be forgiving. But their love was the best that life could offer either of them and that was enough for them.

As far as I am concerned, any information on the web that does not come up in the top ten results on Google when I search for it might as well not exist at all. If your product has name X and feature Y, any search for the phrase “X Y” should return as the top result a page on your website summarizing feature Y of product X. If you do not have such a page, do not even bother adding feature Y to your product.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.¹

1. H.L. Mencken↩

It is common to claim that hindsight is 20/20, but in practice it is slightly farsighted and severely myopic.