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Hal Spacejock
I will make this blessedly brief.
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The Most Beautiful Thing I Ever Read
When I saw it first, it was a green and sleeping bud, raising itself toward the sun. Ants gathered aphids and sap around the unopened bloom. A few days later, it was a tender young flower with a pale green center, a troop of silver-grey insects climbing up and down its stalk. Over the summer this sunflower became incredibly ( Read more... ) -
To Mithridate.
"But the most famous antidote is that of Mithridates, which that king is said to have taken daily and by it to have rendered his body safe against danger from poison. It contains costmary 1·66 grams, sweet flag 20 grams, hypericum, gum, sagapenum, acacia juice, Illyrian iris (probably I. germanica[7]), cardamom, 8 grams each, anise 12 grams, ( Read more... ) -
Mid-breath cycling:
The Air Force's C-17 cargo planes alone, at $330 million each, with a total program cost of $65 billion, got $2.5 billion from Congress in 2010 for ten of these planes that the Pentagon didn't even ask for! That $2.5 billion, in 2010, could provide health care for 141,681 people, pay 6,138 public safety officers, 4,649 music and art teachers ( Read more... ) -
This bears worth repeating...
According to Richard C. Cook, veteran Project Manager for the U.S. Treasury Department and Policy Analyst for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration:
"Cheap, mass-produced foods are largely based on grains and beef raised by massive agribusiness firms, so that the atrocious American diet is inextricably linked with capitalist enterprise ( Read more... ) -
Overwhelmed: The Fish Fry Era
Oh, good ol' Semagic. My God, have I missed you. And haven't changed a lick! HALLELUJAH! A single program has remained the same to coax me back to coding.
I feel like I don't know what the fuck I am doing. Shaky, really. So much to do, update, pay etc... I'm starting to secondguess this decision. Life in the "real world" has been so... ( Read more... ) -
The Devil's Dictionary
Originally written in 1911 by an Englishman, this li'l website has been the source of much laughter this evening. A couple of examples:
PIE, n.
An advance agent of the reaper whose name is Indigestion.
MUSTANG, n.
An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.
ABORIGINIES, n.
Persons of ( Read more... ) -
V.
The speech practice Hugo Weaving must've had...
VoilÃ! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished, as the once vital voice of the verisimilitude now venerates what they once vilified. ( Read more... )
