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Wednesday One-Liners Throw Their Pennies Down the Well

Hipster: ... So he said, 'I wish Jesus was alive now. I'd invite him to join MySpace.com and I'd force him to be my friend.'

--Q train crossing the East River

Overheard by: Beth Smith

via Overheard in New York, Mar 21, 2007

Want a fig

This one too.

"Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen."

Notes from Epictetus

This first one probably sounds familiar.

"We must be afraid of neither poverty nor exile nor imprisonment; of fear itself only should we be afraid."

Also this one was resonating with me, although I'm not angry at anyone right now.

"Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit."

Possessed

"A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the enjoyment of liberty. Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism."

-- Edward Gibbon, History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 9

9/11 television archive

This is an interesting repository of video coverage of 9/11/2001.

Ignore everybody

"Ignore everybody. The more original your idea is, the less good advice other people will be able to give you."
–Hugh Macleod

Ten years since Heaven's Gate

I remember walking around the neighborhood in Los Altos every night seeing the comet in the sky.

Ten years later I live a few miles away from this place, which gives it an extra creepy vibe:

Heaven's Gate Revisited

(San Diego Union-Tribune)

I enjoy Jessica's index cards

Indexed!

Perfect snow doughnuts

A rare treat from nature: Perfect snow doughnuts

"This is no joke. We did not build it," said Mike Stanford, an avalanche-control expert with the state Department of Transportation (WSDOT). "They are a natural occurrence in nature."

(Seattle Times)

The one-weaponed man

"A MAN must be partly a one-idead man because he is a one-weaponed man -- and he is flung naked into the fight. In short, he must (as the books on Success say) give 'his best'; and what a small part of a man 'his best ' is! His second and third best are often much better. If he is the first violin he must fiddle for life; he must not remember that he is a fine fourth bagpipe, a fair fifteenth billiard-cue, a foil, a fountain-pen, a hand at whist, a gun, and an image of God."

- G. K. Chesterton, "What's Wrong with the World"

U 2

Unpack, I meant. I haven't made a lot of progress on the unpacking yet. There is a hard deadline that forces you to pack fast, but there is no real hard deadline when you're unpacking, and it's so unpleasant that it's really worth putting off as long as possible. Except of course that it's hard to find your stuff.

This sounds like something I would have made up

Swiss accidentally invade Lichtenstein (AP via Yahoo News)