excellent article

"You may notice during meditation that you sometimes levitate or glow. Do not let this distract you."
-- Buddhist teachings

"The idea of voting for either of them fundamentally disgusts me. There is no meaningful sense in which we are choosing a human being to lead anything humane or social. We are choosing between the programed factotums of two nominal subdivisions of a single syndicate of sinecures that not only lacks a shred of moral authority, but lacks the ( Read more... )

If this is for real, she's bloody amazing!

"I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known."
-- Walt Disney

Out of the gloom a voice said unto me, "Smile and be happy, things could get worse". So I smiled and was happy, and behold, things did get worse.
-- ?

"How do you think R compares with SAS, whose name could be re-arranged into a one-word review of it as a scripting language?" -- comment on OSNews

"Where is Herrod when you need him?"

Yes, I spent an hour at the mall :)

"servers are like old people - you put them to sleep at night and there's a few dead ones in the morning" -- BOFH ( Read more... )

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we.
They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our people
and our country, and neither do we."
-- George W. Bush