Clearly, there is no place in modern reporting for this kind of
unregulated, unprotected access to readily available facts, let alone
in capriciously using them to illustrate areas of concern.
-- ZDNet UK, 2005-08-09

'What I'm actually doing is figuring things out on the fly,' Phil said. That's what all IT adepts do, all the time. We do it in such a rapid, fluid, and automatic way that we don't seem to be constantly learning or relearning ( Read more... )

We have a stake in people not staying together if they don't feel good about their relationship and it's not really going anywhere for them, it's not really helping them build one another's dreams, it's not a relationship that has dignity. But we like to help people understand why it is that it didn't work, so that the next relationship, or next ( Read more... )

It also had the best warning sticker I've seen: "Engage brain before operating machine."
-- blackanvil, from a description of a power hammer in a tool-porn post, 2005-03-28

If you think you live in the center of the universe, you have an old map....
-- fuzzface00, via AIM, 2005-03-22 (approx.)

What's needed in politics really is NOT Left and Right, but a Sane Folks Movement.
-- dragonscholar, 2005-03-22 (A post talking about thoughtful intelligent right-wing commentary on the Schiavo case.)

Somehow this Kingdom of Loathing effect that a clanmate bestowed upon me seems particularly fitting: The disembodied voices of your ancestors want to know when you're going to get a real job. It's really annoying, but at least some of their ectoplasmic energy is rubbing off on you.
Today I rewrote most of my resume to focus on transferrable skills ( Read more... )

Love is a lie and a perverse fantasy. Loyalty, honesty and trust are not.
-- city_of_dis, 2005-03-15

The rest of the post is well worth reading...

"It appears that no rational purpose exists for limiting marriage in this state to opposite-sex partners,"
-- Richard Kramer, San Francisco superior court judge, 2005-03-15

One of nancylebov's new button slogans made me laugh out loud:

Change is inevitable. Exact change is appreciated.