June 17th, 2007
“I’d heard that if you play the Microsoft CD’s the other way you’d hear demonic phrases, but I don’t know what is worse, if you play them right, you install Windows.”
— Found on darice.org
Still not quite dead yet. Ever since my latest Blue Screen Attack and a rebuilt laptop later, I’ve decided to rebuild everything from scratch site-wise. Is taking longer than I anticipated.
I lost a lot of data a week ago. I became royally pissed-off at myself for not keeping up-to-date backups. It feels as if I’m always having to start over. In real life. In web life. Just never getting anywhere fast.
But enough of that. GNET will continue as soon as I pick my sensibilities off the floor. In the meantime, you can stalk me at these places:
collect me @: http://groonk.tumblr.com/
friend me @: http://myspace.com/groonk
follow me @: http://twitter.com/Groonk
see me @: http://www.flickr.com/photos/groonk/
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June 3rd, 2007
When the monkey trainer was handing out acorns, he said, ‘You get three in the morning and four at night,’ This made all the monkeys furious. ‘Well, then,’ he said, ‘you get four in the morning and three at night.’ The monkeys were all delighted.
— From The Chuang Tzu
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May 30th, 2007
Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history.
–John F Kennedy
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May 20th, 2007
“Adventure is the invitation to common people to become uncommon.”
—Warren Miller
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April 30th, 2007
CHRIS DOWD:Is there a cliquey-ness to the U.K. comedy scene? And is there an element of jealousy when someone strikes out on their own? Coogan and Hollywood? Do people sneer?
GRAHAM LINEHAN: What’s that quote? I think Gore Vidal said it – it’s not enough to succeed, our friends must fail.
Chatattack, “The Star and Writer of The IT Crowd discuss things”
Don’t think that mentaliy is limited to comedy or the UK, Mr Dowd.
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April 22nd, 2007
“There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes.”
The 4th doctor, Tom Baker
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April 15th, 2007
“Childhood’s over the moment you know you’re gonna die.”
–Top Dollar, THE CROW
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April 12th, 2007
Do you know what a Humanist is? I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that functionless capacity. We Humanists try to behave well without any expectation of rewards or punishments in an afterlife. We serve as best we can the only abstraction with which we have any real familiarity, which is our community.
We had a memorial services for Isaac a few years back, and at one point I said, “Isaac is up in Heaven now.” It was the funniest thing I could have said to a group of Humanists. I rolled them in the aisles. It was several minutes before order could be restored. And if I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, “Kurt is up in Heaven now.” That’s my favorite joke.
–Kurt Vonnegut
Thanks, Boingboing.
More things Kurt Vonnegut said better than anyone else.
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April 9th, 2007
The artist is, in effect, a sort of gangster. He hitches up his trousers and goes into the guarded bank of the unconscious in an attempt to steal the gold of inspiration. The producer is like the getaway driver who sells the getaway car and waits outside the bank grinning about what a great deal he’s made.
— David Mamet
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April 2nd, 2007
I am returned.
18) Declare your apartment an independent nation, and sue your neighbors upstairs for “violating your airspace”
26) Finish all your sentences with the words “in accordance with prophecy”
58) Repeat everything someone says, as a question
—101 ways to be annoying
I’m 34% more annoying and I’m working hard on #18.
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