A collection of signatures

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----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu #0001:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu * Earth is 98% full.... please delete anyone you can. * #0002:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu * God is real, unless declared integer. * #0003:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu * I came, I saw, I deleted all your files. * #0004:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu * Black holes are where God is dividing by zero. * #0005:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu * The world will end in 5 minutes. Please log out. * #0006:
Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, # Relmerts Trawets ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam. # stremler @ (I have a catapult. Unless you give me all the money # rohan sdsu edu I will throw an enormous rock at your head.) # . . #0007:
"Why yesh offisher I've been drinking but thatsh wash owersh ago." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stewart John Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu #0008:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'll use my own pre-conceived ideas, | Stewart Stremler Thank You very much!" | -L. Bill | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu #0009:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "What can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the Reaper Man?" -Terry Pratchett #0010:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A diagnostic is someone who doesn't | Stewart John Stremler know whether there are two gods. | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu #0011:
Mary had a little car |||||||| Stewart J. Stremler |||||||| She drove it very brisk |||| stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu |||| Wasn't she a silly soul || Sandy Eggo State University || Her little *? | These are _not_ the opinions of SDSU! | #0012:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ceasar entered on his head, | Stewart John Stremler a helmet in his hand, a spear | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu in his eye, a gleam. | * Still having problems with punctuation * #0013:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stewart John Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unencumbered with facts as I am, I will comment. #0014:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Reality is what you bump into when you | Stewart Stremler walk around with your eyes closed." | --Raymond Fiest | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu #0015:
Roses are reddish \ / Stewart Stremler Violets are bluish \ / stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu If it wasn't for Jesus \ / We'd all be jewish \ / AXP Linux #0016:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "En Cee Cee One Seven Oh One.... | Stewart Stremler No bloody 'A', 'B', 'C', or 'D'." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu --M. Scott #0017:
+---------+-----------+-------------------------+-----------------+ | __| McQ-okay | Stewart Stremler | San Diego State |Printed | ///| on avg.! | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu | University | on |__ /// +-----------+-------------------------+------------+----+ 100% |\\\ /// | "Amiga, the computer for the Creative Mind" (tm) |recyclable | \\X// | "Macintosh, the computer for all the rest" (tm) |phosphor +---------+--------------------------------------------------+ #0018:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Don't ever speak more clearly than you think." | Stewart Stremler --attributed to Neils Bohr | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #0019:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Oh, drat these computers. They're | Stewart Stremler so naughty and so complex. I could | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu pinch them." --Marvin the Martian | #0020:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Any sufficiently advanced bug is | Stewart Stremler indistinguishable from a feature. | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Unknown. | #0021:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Be Continued.... Stewart Stremler ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #0022:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Back off, man. I'm a scientist." | Stewart Stremler --Dr. Venkman (_GhostBusters_) | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #0023:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am NOT a committee!" | Stewart Stremler --Leia (_Empire_Strikes_Back_) | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #0024:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Well I don't trust him either, but he is my / Stewart Stremler friend." --Han Solo (_Empire_Strikes_Back_) / stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #0025:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Talking is something you can't do | Stewart Stremler judiciously unless you keep in practice." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu --Gutman (_The_Maltese_Falcon_) | #0026:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Never let facts stand in the way of dogma." | Stewart Stremler (--Dave Cole, 1991) | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #0027:
-----Stewart Stremler-------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu----- The Egocentric model of the Universe: Since the earth is circling the sun on an orbit which is quite exactly right to keep me happy, this universe must have been constructed for myself. QED. #0028:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "OK, so, ten out of ten for style, but minus | Stewart Stremler several million for good thinking, right?" | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu --Zaphod Beeblebrox | #0029:
________________________ ---------------------------------------------------/ "You said you wanted excitement and adventure / Stewart Stremler and really wild things." -Marvin the Android / stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ________________________________________________/--------------------------- #0030:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "`Exciting' is hardly the word | Stewart Stremler I would use to describe it." (--C3P0) | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #0031:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I wonder if your feelings | Stewart Stremler on this matter are clear...." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu --the Emperor (_Return_of_the_Jedi_) | #0032:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I find this most intriguing.... | Stewart Stremler Please continue with your petty bickering." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu --Data (Star Trek: TNG) | #0033:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "OK, the situation is totally under | Stewart Stremler control as of this moment in time." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu --Zaphod Beeblebrox | #0034:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen." | Stewart Stremler --the Emperor (_Return_of_the_Jedi_) | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #0035:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Did I do something wrong today, or has the world | Stewart Stremler always been like this and I've just been too | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu wrapped up in myself to notice?" --Arthur Dent | #0036:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Ho ha ha guard turn parry dodge spin ha thrust!" | Stewart Stremler --Daffy Duck | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #0037:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "LIFE: (noun) Any set of observables | Stewart Stremler governed by Murphy's Law." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu (--Phillip Spencer, 1992) | #0038:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "This is my own personal observation | Stewart Stremler and may bear no resemblence to reality." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu (--Loren Haarsma, 1992) | #0039:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If it was so, it might be; | Stewart Stremler and if it were so, it would be; | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic." -- Tweedledee (Lewis Carroll) #0040:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The best things in life are free. | Stewart Stremler There is no such thing as a free lunch. | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ===> Lunch is not one of the best things in life. | #0041:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "... Another victim of applied metaphysics." | Stewart Stremler --Hobbes (_Calvin_and_Hobbes_) | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #0042:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Halcyonity is relative." | Stewart Stremler --Dad (_Calvin_and_Hobbes_) | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #0043:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "There's nothing worse than an inscrutable omen." | Stewart Stremler --Calvin (_Calvin_and_Hobbes_) | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #0044:
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= "You have paid the price for your lack of vision."| Stewart Stremler --the Emperor (_Return_of_the_Jedi_) | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- #0045:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, | Stewart Stremler and I'm happy to say I finally won out." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu --Elwin P. Dowde (_Harvey_) | #0046:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Oh what a rogue and peasant slave am I." | Stewart Stremler (--Hamlet) | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #0047:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "You won't succeed. Your type never does." | Stewart Stremler --Seymore (_Little_Shop_of_Horrors_) | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- #0048:
_______________________ ------------------------------------------------------/ "We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life."/ Stewart Stremler (--C3P0) / stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ___________________________________________________/-------------------------- #0049:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I teleported home one night with Ron and Sid and Meg; | Stewart Stremler Ron stole Meggie's heart away, and I got Sidney's leg."| stremler @ (_The_Restaurant_at_the_End_of_the_Universe_) | rohan.sdsu.edu #0050:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "[Think before you act.] Life is hard, | Stewart Stremler but it's a lot harder when you're stupid." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu --Redd Fox | #0051:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anarchy does not mean "without rules"; Anarchy | Stewart Stremler means "without government" -- which would be | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu just fine, if everyone wasn't greedy and stupid.| #0052:
--------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- "God creates dinosaur. God destroys dinosaur. God creates Man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaur. Dinosaur eats Man. Woman inherits the Earth." -_Jurassic Park_ #0053:
Barney the Dinosaur sings! You faint... Barney sings! Barney sings! --More-- You Die... --More-- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu #0054:
______________________________________________________________________________ Never trust any complicated cocktail | Stewart Stremler that remains perfectly clear until the | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu last ingredient goes in, and then | De Chelonian Mobile immediately clouds. - Terry Pratchett | ( The Turtle Moves ) #0055:
stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu Stewart Stremler ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Q: How many Microsoft programmers does it take to change a light bulb? A: None - they redefine darkness to be an industry standard. #0056:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Oh, I'm totally outrageous--I just never | Stewart Stremler seem to inspire any outrage. :-) | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Larry Wall | #0057:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Nobody likes my great ideas in action." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0058:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I regret I wasn't born with opposible toes." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0059:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If you're so important, how come you sing | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu the soprano part of our anthem?" | --+-- -Hobbes (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0060:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Of all the luck, my parents had to be humans." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0061:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Your self-esteem is enhanced by remaining | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu an ignoramus?" -Hobbes (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0062:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I thought the question was rhetorical." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Hobbes (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0063:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "It's a crass culture, Hobbes. Shoddy and quick | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu is all anybody knows." -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0064:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "These discussions never go where they're | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu supposed to." -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0065:
"I WON! I DID IT! I WON! I WON! I'm the champion! || stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu I'm the best there is! I'm on the top of the || heap! HA HA HA....Is this all there is?" || Voice: call 411 & ask. -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) || Stewart Stremler #0066:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Frankly, I'd like to have the issue resolved | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu before I expend any more energy on this." | -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0067:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Surely you concede that I deserve it." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0068:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Another trenchant comment by a jealous lesser | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu intellect." -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0069:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Childhood is so disillusioning." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0070:
---------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-------------------------- Calvin: "Mainstream commercial Nihilism can't be trusted?" Mom: "'Fraid not, kiddo." -Calvin & Mom (_Calvin & Hobbes_) #0071:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm not dumb. I just have a command of | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu thoroughly useless information." | -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0072:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I think my excuses need to be less extemporaneous" Stewart Stremler -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu #0073:
My tiger is deep His keen eyes are glinting! stremler In somnolent sleep He dreams of a sprinting @rohan Dreaming of chases remembered! Sambar who'll soon be dismembered! .sdsu -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) .edu #0074:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Who ees thees Kahlveen?" | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0075:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "You just can't talk to animals about these things." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | #0076:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The way Calvin's brain is wired, you can | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu almost hear the fuses blowing." | (_The Days are Just Packed_) -Susie (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0077:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "So much for THAT policy." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0078:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "My only flaw is a preternatural intolerance | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu for pesky kids." -Dad (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0079:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Say, who the heck is Paul Gauguin anyway?" | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0080:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "An orifice is an amusing thing...." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Hobbes (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0081:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The Universe has an Attitude!" | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0082:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It's a lot more fun to blame things than to | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu fix them." -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0083:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- " I am sorrow. " -Isabeau (_LadyHawke_) | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu | Stewart Stremler #0084:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm not sure I can stand so much bliss." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Hobbes (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0085:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Careful! We don't want to learn anything | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu from this!" -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0086:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Oh, don't be so modest. You deserved a | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu Pulitzer." -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0087:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People just don't know a great idea when | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu they hear one." -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0088:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Those librarians are a sharp bunch." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0089:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I think `Tyrannosaur' should be changed to | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu `Monstrous Killer Death Lizard.'" | -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0090:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Somehow whenever I ask a question, I end up | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu with a lot of them to answer." | -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0091:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Childhood is for spoiling adulthood." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0092:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Science kind of takes the fun out of the | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu portent business." -Hobbes (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0093:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The problem with tigers is that they have no | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu setting between `OFF' and `HIGH'." | -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0094:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I tell you, Hobbes, it's great to have a friend | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu who appreciates an ernest discussion of ideas." | -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0095:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Whed you're oder, you dake your sinuses fo | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu granded." -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0096:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Can there yet remain some villany thou hast | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu not committed?" -Mom (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0097:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If your knees aren't green by the end of the | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu day, you ought to seriously re-examine your | life." -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0098:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Why does the Universe give you a sign AFTER | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu you do it?" -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0099:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Life is so, so sweet." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0100:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "My penitent sinner shtick needs work." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0101:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Virtual Reality has nothing on Calvin." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Susie (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0102:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Endorsing products is the American way to express | Stewart Stremler individuality." -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu #0103:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The strength to change what I can, the inability | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu to accept what I can't, and the incapacity to | Stewart Stremler tell the difference." -What Calvin prays for. (_Calvin & Hobbes_) #0104:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Maybe we can declare THIS the `Calvin' decade." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0105:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I hate it when I can't gird my loins with | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu funny animals." -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0106:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I've got a new entry for our list of words that | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu get a reaction." -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0107:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "This gets easier when the numbers are big." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0108:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Whenever I hear about people trying to discover | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu the `child within,' I want to scream." | -Mom (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0109:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "On the off chance I decide to do something | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu responsible with my life, I'll need to establish | Stewart Stremler a fictitious childhood." -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) #0110:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm a simple man with complex tastes." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0111:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Act Casual." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0112:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It's not denial. I'm just very selective | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu about the reality I accept." | -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0113:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Good poetry gives me goosebumps." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0114:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Some things don't need the thought people | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu give them." -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0115:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Mom knows everything." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0116:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "My brain wishes my ego had call waiting." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0117:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It's a high price to pay, but nuzzling tiger | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu tummies is one of the great pleasures in life."| -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0118:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It must be depressing to go through life with | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu no purpose." -Calvin (_Calvin & Hobbes_) | Stewart Stremler #0119:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Wisdom is beyond price, my son. Be grateful | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu that you have it." -Imperious (_LadyHawke_) | Stewart Stremler #0120:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I told the truth, Lord! How can I learn any | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu moral lessons if you keep confusing me like | Stewart Stremler this?" -Phillipe (_LadyHawke_) | #0121:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I believe in miracles, Marquet. It's part of | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu my job." -The Bishop of Aquila (_LadyHawke_)| Stewart Stremler #0122:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I should have known better. Every happy moment | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu in my life has come from lying." | Stewart Stremler -Phillipe (_LadyHawke_) | #0123:
"We have come full circle, Lord. I would like || stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu to think that there is some higher meaning in || Stewart Stremler all of this. It would reflect well on you." || -Phillipe (_LadyHawke_) |||||||||||||||||||||||||||| #0124:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Murdered by Pirates is Good." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Boy (_The Princess Bride_) | Stewart Stremler #0125:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "You keep using that word. I do not think it means | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu what you think it means." -Inigo | Stewart Stremler (_The Princess Bride_) | #0126:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People in masks can't be trusted." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Fezzik (_The Princess Bride_) | Stewart Stremler #0127:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "You seem a decent fellow. I hate to kill you." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Inigo (_The Princess Bride_) | Stewart Stremler #0128:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "You seem a decent fellow. I hate to die." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -The Man in Black (_The Princess Bride_) | Stewart Stremler #0129:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Get used to disappointment." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -The Man In Black (_The Princess Bride_) | Stewart Stremler #0130:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I know something you don't know. . . ." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Inigo (_The Princess Bride_) | Stewart Stremler #0131:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Inconceivable!" | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Vizzini (_The Princess Bride_) | Stewart Stremler #0132:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "My way's not very sportsmanlike." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Fezzik (_The Princess Bride_) | Stewart Stremler #0133:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I always think everything is a trap, which | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu is why I'm still alive." | Stewart Stremler -Prince Humperdink (_The Princess Bride_) | #0134:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "There's nothing to explain. You're trying to | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu kidnap what I've rightfully stolen." | Stewart Stremler -Vizzini (_The Princess Bride_) | #0135:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Truly, you have a dizzying intellect." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -The Man In Black (_The Princess Bride_) | Stewart Stremler #0136:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Never get involved in a land war in Asia." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Vizzini (_The Princess Bride_) | Stewart Stremler #0137:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Iocane. I'd bet my life on it." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Prince Humperdink (_The Princess Bride_) | Stewart Stremler #0138:
-Stewart Stremler------------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu- "I can't afford to make exceptions. I mean, once word leaks out that a pirate has gone soft people begin to disobey you and then it's nothing but work, work, work all the time." -Dread Pirate Roberts (_The Princess Bride_) #0139:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Life *is* Pain, your Highness. Anyone who | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu says differently is selling something." | Stewart Stremler -The Man In Black (_The Princess Bride_) | #0140:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Death cannot stop True Love. All it can do | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu is delay it for awhile." | Stewart Stremler -The Man In Black (_The Princess Bride_) | #0141:
-Stewart Stremler------------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu- "We'll never survive." "Nonsense. You're only saying that because no-one ever has." -Buttercup and Westley in the Fire Swamp (_The Princess Bride_) #0142:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Noone would ever surrender to the Dread Pirate | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu Westley." -Westley (_The Princess Bride_) | Stewart Stremler #0143:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Nobody withstands the *MACHINE*." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -The Albino (_The Princess Bride_) | Stewart Stremler #0144:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Well, now. That was an adventure!" | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Man In Black (_The Princess Bride_) | Stewart Stremler #0145:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We are men of action. Lies do not become us." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Man In Black (_The Princess Bride_) | Stewart Stremler #0146:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Yes, you're very smart. Shut up." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -Grandfather (_The Princess Bride_) | Stewart Stremler #0147:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Please consider me as an alternative to | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu suicide." -Humperdink (_The Princess Bride_) | Stewart Stremler #0148:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "There's a shortage of perfect breasts in the | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu world. It would be a pity to damage yours." | Stewart Stremler -Westley (_The Princess Bride_) | #0149:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "She kissed me!" | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -The King (_The Princess Bride_) | Stewart Stremler #0150:
---------------------------------------------------\ "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed \ stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu my father. Prepare to die." -_The Princess Bride_ \ Stewart Stremler \----------------------- #0151:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "You've got an overdevelped sense of vengeance. | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu It's going to get you into trouble one of | Stewart Stremler these days." -Count Rugen _The Princess Bride_ | #0152:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Have you ever considered piracy? You'd make | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts." | Stewart Stremler -Man In Black (_The Princess Bride_) | #0153:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- innocent keystroke / stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu WHAM CRASH segmentation fault \ Stewart Stremler save my files.. please? / #0154:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Hello. My name is Deuce. This is my / stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu pet ambassador Kosh, and this is my \ Stewart Stremler other pet ambassador Kosh..." / #0155:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I AM NOT A MAN! I AM A FREE NUMBER! | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu | Stewart Stremler Wait a minute.... | #0156:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Law of Probable Dispersal: | Stewart Stremler Whatever it is that hits the fan | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu will not be evenly distributed. | #0157:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------------Stewart Stremler-- If I took some seriously hard drugs and invented the most implausible discworld physics I could think of I'd still be outdone by a couple of sober physicists and mathematicians. -Terry Pratchett #0158:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------------Stewart Stremler-- Thankfully, I no longer require sleep, and have transcended to a higher state of consciousness...ommmmmm.... -J. Michael Straczynski #0159:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------------Stewart Stremler-- Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care. -Terry Pratchett #0160:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------------Stewart Stremler-- Having now answered politely, I return to my closet to stick very long needles into my eyes.... -J. Michael Straczynski #0161:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------------Stewart Stremler-- "Most of what I've learned over the years has come from signatures." ---Larry Wall #0162:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------------Stewart Stremler-- "People are going to think Kibo and I are married, the way we keep getting mentioned in the same sentence." --Larry Wall #0163:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------------Stewart Stremler-- "He's as funny as a vegetable that has grown into a rude and amusing shape." -Private Baldrick (_Black Adder Goes Forth_) #0164:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------------Stewart Stremler-- "When I was shorter I was Steve McQueen." -Tom Ballard (_Waiting For God_) #0165:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------------Stewart Stremler-- An honest epitaph: "Here lies Edmund Blackadder, and he's bloody annoyed." #0166:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------------Stewart Stremler-- You don't need to cut off every limb if you cut off the head. -J. Michael Straczynski #0167:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu------------------------------Stewart Stremler-- Tis fitting, for the fall from grace permeates throughout the history of mankind. Satan's sin was to recurse, as God did, instead of merely iterating, after the fashion of mortals. - Dave Fischer #0168:
stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^ You are in a twisty little maze of standards, all conflicting. ^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^ Stewart Stremler #0169:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu __________________________________ _____________________________________ Ash nazg durbatuluk \ / One token ring to rule them all, Ash nazg gimbatul || One grep to find them, Ash nazg thrakatuluk || One sendmail to bring them all, Arg burzum ischi krimpatul / \ And in C darkness ypbind them. #0170:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Sorry" on alt.fan.warlord is like | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu "operating system" in comp.sys.ibm.pc. | -Sven Guckes | Stewart Stremler #0171:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "X is actually EMACS on acid." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu | - (c) 1994 Stephen Kelley | Stewart Stremler #0172:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Please note the pleasantly aligned | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu notched protuberances." | -from a set of assembly instructions | Stewart Stremler #0173:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Want some rye? | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu 'course ya do." -Boos | (_Return To Zork_) | Stewart Stremler #0174:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Braccae tuae aperiuntur. | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu (Your fly is open.) | Stewart Stremler #0175:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The entire concept of daylight savings time is like trying to make yourself taller by cutting off your head and standing on it." -- Usenet Oracle #0176:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- [NT] *looks* like Microsoft but it *feels* like DEC (back when they put effort into such things, that is). -Jim Frost (in a.f.c) #0177:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Intel: Where quality is Job Number 0.999972561 #0178:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you really thought it was worth dying for, why would you need to be drafted? - Chita Cazares #0179:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Most people have the attention span of a ferret on a double expresso. - Dennis Miller #0180:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can't retire sysadmins, you must shoot them. -Michael Reipe #0181:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visualize Whirled Peas #0182:
--Stewart Stremler----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The various repetive stress injuries from handwriting are known under the name "Scriveners Cramp", which gives you some idea as to how long medicine has known about them. -Jeff DelPapa #0183:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The purpose of life is not to avoid pain. The purpose of life is to find meaning." -Unknown #0184:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- In Computer Science, we stand on each other's feet. -Brian Reid #0185:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Actually zero and Pi both contain the same number of digits. But zero has been initialized properly. -Scott Forbes (1994) #0186:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- perl There's More Than One Way To Do It #0187:
--Stewart Stremler----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It's safe to assume that if there is any similarity between anything in one of my books and anything in a book written by someone else some time later, I nicked it from that guy :-) -Terry Pratchett #0188:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ char*a="char*a=%c%s%c;main(){printf(a,34,a,34);}";main(){printf(a,34,a,34);} -Leonid A. Broukhis #0189:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Reserved words are for COBOL weenies. --Charlie Gibbs (1995) #0190:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Why can't all the netcops be this friendly? --Paul Gunning (1995) #0191:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Why on earth am I even HAVING this boneheaded conversation? -J. Micheal Straczynski #0192:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I don't have much understanding" - Charles Herbig, 1995 #0193:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What would you see in a room-sized mirrored klien bottle? -(Kenneth Freeman, 1995) #0194:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ It's the difference between monomania and polymorphous perversity. -Kenneth Freeman (1995) #0195:
Stewart Stremler---------------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu Flicker shouldn't be a problem, now that most people under the age of 30 have been conditioned to accept slow frame rates from watching hours of Saturday-morning cartoons and automobile ads, most of which are done at 6 frames per second. :-p -Charlie Gibbs (1995) #0196:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I have a rock. Can I get a beta?" --Jeff Gerstmann (1995) #0197:
--Stewart Stremler-----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- In addition to being universally popular, I have recently acquired the power to turn water into Heinekin. The world is my oyster. -Joel K. Furr (1995) #0198:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Vorlons do not scamper terribly well, but no one has yet told them this. -J.M. Straczynski (1995) #0199:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Does anyone have any suggestions for how you tell Ken Thompson from Bill Gates, in the general case? -Peter Seebach (1995) #0200:
-Stewart Stremler------------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu- And for those apologists who try to say that the English language is just evolving, I'll repeat my warning that there is a difference between evolution and decay. -Charlie Gibbs (1995) #0201:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft isn't the answer, but the question. The answer is NO. #0202:
--Stewart Stremler----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Just as "self-warlording" means posting your own stupid .sig to alt.fan.warlord, posting your spam to a.c-e.n-a can be thought of as "self-abuse." --Alan L. Bostick (1995) #0203:
--------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--------------------------- I have it on the best of authority that There Is No Cabal. They told me so themselves. -- Gym Quirk (Taki Kogoma) #0204:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ It is well known that I have read EVERYTHING IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE. including books not yet written. -Terry Pratchett #0205:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Transition of Usenet predicted. #0206:
==========================stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu============================= "You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered." -- Lyndon Johnson #0207:
--Stewart Stremler----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I, Karnak the Libertarian, hazard a prediction: the net will _always_ be in a transitional state. There is not and never will be an equilibrium position. All solutions are interim. -Bruce Baugh (1995) #0208:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's a sorry day when IBM looks like a liberator. --Orson Scott Card #0209:
---------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--------------------------- MS-DOS : a Microsoft-based program loader/nonreentrant interrupt handler (sometimes humorously also referred to as an "operating system"). -Ralph Babel, The Amiga Guru Book #0210:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- X is an admission that the CLI concept is not convenient for light use. -Jeff Medcalf #0211:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. You're heavily armed." -Chad Irby #0212:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You need an object-oriented language to get really weirdly shaped scopes. -Arnt Gulbrandsen (1995) #0213:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Never use a big word when a diminutive one will do. -Charlie Gibbs #0214:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Two things transcend all human understanding: the concept of god, and PTEN publicity. -jms #0215:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Be of good cheer; the jumpgate blast destroyed the pursuing vessel. -jms (straczynski) #0216:
-Stewart Stremler------------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu- One of the very first things a person should learn about netiquette is that you NEVER tread on another man's "toilets in a tunnel" anecdotal example. Never. I'll supply the nails. -Brian Welby Poore #0217:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- $you{'love'} =~ /^Perl/ && &honk; #0218:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Bother," said Pooh, as he bounced off the Starfury. -Walt Mazur #0219:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eighty percent of air pollution comes from plants and trees. -- Ronald Reagan, famous movie star #0220:
----stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu------------------------Stewart Stremler------- The other definition of UNIX is "whatever Dennis Ritchie has on his desk". -- Peter da Silva #0221:
--Stewart Stremler-------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Space combat resembles running around naked in a hedge maze fighting with crossbows. -- Erik Cornilsen #0222:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are in a maze of twisty little web pages, all pointless. #0223:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "UNIX is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has alot of things going on in the background." -Unknown #0224:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 80x25 is the way God intended man to read netnews and email. -- Paul Tomblin #0225:
Think about it. I now have an SGI Indigo^2 on my desk. # s t r e m l e r Then: 450 users, 1Mb # @ Now: 1 user, 256Mb. # r o h a n . This is progress. -- Paul Tomblin # s d s u . e d u #0226:
---Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- Well, you see, I'm not actually mailbombing, I'm distributing free software. I'd probably be in violation of the General Public Virus if I didn't uuencode it. -- Paul Tomblin #0227:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- But fear not. Because not only do we not know what he's talking about, it obvious that we shouldn't care, either. -- Paul Tomblin #0228:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You mean, we can have archaic and edit, too? --Paul S. Sawyer #0229:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- In addition, some things deserve prompt action, which a committee can NOT provide. I prefer the current tactic: a semi-responsible individual steps forward, and takes action. If the masses disapprove, they pound him into oblivion, and the process repeats itself. -Arthur Bernard Byrne (1995) #0230:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Go not unto Usenet for advice, for the denizens will say both yes, and no, and maybe, and I don't know, and fuck off, and...." --Unknown net.wit #0231:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- If I set here and stare at nothing long enough, people might think I'm an engineer working on something. -- S.R. McElroy #0232:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- design, n.: What you regret not doing later on. #0233:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. --Adlai Stevenson #0234:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Linux perceiveth of The Dos, the Dos perceiveth not of the Linux." -jamie dyer #0235:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I'm glad I chose to be right-handed, white, and hetero. Good Choices." -Bob Breed #0236:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cursing was invented as a compromise between fighting and running away. #0237:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's inevitable that even among us weirdos there'll be oddballs. -- Lee Ann Goldstein #0238:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lord knows, you upset the Scots, you're likely to get kilt. -- jms #0239:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's okay to have something cute on the show (kids, bears) as long as something terrible happens to them by the end.... -- jms #0240:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't you see? These burgers were cooked from the flesh of young children. -- Joao de Souza #0241:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The purpose of JCL is to give you something to debug once your programs are running." -- Charlie Gibbs #0242:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Shouldn't there be a shorter word for "monosyllabic"? -- Charlie_Gibbs #0243:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "'Orientate' is an example of the trend toward polysyllabificationizing." -- Charlie_Gibbs #0244:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Suffice it to say that I have better things to do with my life than masturbate electronically. -Joel K. Furr #0245:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- They ought to discuss these things with us before filming. -- janused #0246:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Now if we had a WHEELBARROW, then we'd | Stewart Stremler have something." | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu --The Man In Black (Cary Elwes) _The Princess Bride_ #0247:
--------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------Stewart Stremler-------- We all know how the rain in Spain etc, but did you know that the Precipitation in Portugal pelts primarily on the plateau? --brians@southcom.com.au #0248:
stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu Stewart Stremler ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Cats .... sit on one side of a door, waiting for the quantum tunnelling effect to get them on the other side. -- Dr Alan Solomon #0249:
stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu Stewart Stremler ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The Internet is better than TV: you can brainwash it back." #0250:
----stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------------Stewart Stremler---- I'm pretty sure that was written into the Constitution, "We the People have the Right to Gloat about kicking the Affef of thofe fiffy Britf" or something like that. -- Kevin Podsiadlik #0251:
stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu Stewart Stremler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The only acceptable substitute for coffee is a) Jolt Cola or b) Chinese food. -- Joe Thompson #0252:
stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu Stewart Stremler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Clearly, public relations is not your forte. -- Jerry Ellison (1997) #0253:
stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu Stewart Stremler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. [Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.] #0254:
stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu Stewart Stremler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ X is the second worst windowing system in the world - all the rest are tied for first. -- Paul Tomblin (1997) #0255:
----stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------------S.J.Stremler---- If the story is independent of science and technology, you're just writing a western with funny costumes, and there's no justification for taking up shelf space in the SF section of the bookstore. -Gharlane #0256:
stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu Stewart Stremler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't be silly. Even Kzinti wouldn't put relish on chocolate. -- Paul Tomblin #0257:
stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu Stewart Stremler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "My name is sendmail.cf. You killed my process. Prepare to vi." -- Paul Tomblin #0258:
stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu Stewart Stremler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- But I _did_ have a rolling chair, so I could break them [18 linux machines] all in a short period of time. -- Justin Dossey (1997) #0259:
----stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--------------------------Stewart Stremler------- When I was in the White House, I said, "I'm a Ford, not a Lincoln." Well, what's in the White House nowadays is neither a Lincoln nor a Ford. It's a convertible Dodge. -- [Former] President Gerald Ford #0260:
----stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu------------------------Stewart Stremler----------- A computer scientist is someone who, when told to "Go to Hell," sees the "go to," rather than the destination, as harmful. -- Dr. Roger M. Firestone #0261:
stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu Stewart Stremler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Don't worry about it; having seen you in action, our expectations are hardly insurmountable. -Gharlane #0262:
stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu Stewart Stremler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I'm sorry if the correct way of doing things offends you. -- /usr/games/fortune #0263:
----stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--------------------------------Stewart Stremler---- Isn't it cruel that "dyslexia" is so hard to spell? A dyslexic will often write the letters in a word in the wrong order. So, if he wants to write about his dyslexia, it might come out as "Ever since I was a child I've had daily sex." #0264:
----stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--------------------------------Stewart Stremler---- BeOS continues to work if you disable one processor. There even comes a tool with BeOS which lets you disable one or *both* processors. That's what I call orthogonal. -- Felix von Leitner (1997) #0265:
----stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu------------------------------Stewart Stremler---- The correct answer to any question which begins "Can you..." is not "No" or "Yes"[0], but "Why?". [0] Well OK, "No" is a pretty good answer too. -- Peter Gutmann #0266:
----stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--------------------------Stewart Stremler-------- Don't know about that, but IBM has the rights to the Big Blue Room, which is why I only venture out into it when no one can see me. -- Michael Parson (1997) #0267:
stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu Stewart Stremler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Distinguish vision from hype. -- Patrick Foley (1997) #0268:
stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu Stewart Stremler ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Of course, by 2258, Kibology may be the only really formalized surviving Terran religion. -- Gharlane (1996) #0269:
------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--------------------------Stewart Stremler------ ...Imagine Neuromancer written by a sysadmin: "Inside the NIS master of the large sun cluster, Case looked around. It was an old, poorly administered SunOS box. He checked the permissions on /usr/openwin/bin/loadmodule. Bingo, 4755." -- Mark Haselden (1996) #0270:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's the sort of naughty idea you _should_ have thought of. -Peter da Silva #0271:
---Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- IT IS NOT THE READER'S RESPONSIBLITY TO COMPENSATE FOR LIMITED CAPACITY FOR EXPRESSION ON THE PART OF THE WRITER. -Gharlane (1997) #0272:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A lot of animals grin ... right before they bite you." -John McBride, 7/7/97 #0273:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Truly, such instantiations give new meaning to the term "side effects." -- William Root (1997) #0274:
---Stewart Stremler-------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- Sure, [MicroSoft] Windows has lots of eye candy, but that's just fancy toys for the kiddies - remember that Manhattan was sold for a handful of pretty beads. --Charlie Gibbs (1997) #0275:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To me, the difference between "mainframe", "mini", and "micro" is one of attitude. -- Charlie Gibbs #0276:
---Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- On the other hand, my programs tend to be both robust and portable. And by "portable" I don't mean the newfangled definition of "runs on any version of [MicroSoft] Windows". :-p --Charlie Gibbs (1997) #0277:
---Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- I'm concerned only about keeping Usenet the sort of mess it is rather than turning it into the sort of mess the web is. -- Patrick Foley (1997) #0278:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm sorry to say, however, that September isn't quite over: it's only the 1379th day. -- Simon Slavin 6/11/1997 #0279:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- How many PCs have hot-swappable CPUs? -- (in a thread titled "Why Mainframes?") Alan Shutko (1997) #0280:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- C++ is the best example of second-system effect since OS/360. --/usr/games/fortune #0281:
---Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- The reason that every major university maintains a department of mathematics is that it is cheaper than institutionalizing all those people. -- /usr/games/fortune #0282:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- No extensible language will be universal. -- T. Cheatham (/usr/bin/fortune) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu #0283:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If Tom Paine were around today, he'd run Linux. -- Malcolm Ray (1997) #0284:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- OW OW OW OW OW. Stop hitting me. -- Paul Tomblin (1997) #0285:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Heh, stereotype - thy name is Paul Hogan. -(Stix) [somewhere in Oz - 1997] #0286:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- A slipping gear can let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit. -- US Army PS magazine, August 1993 #0287:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Can you answer this questions with a negative? #0288:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "In English, every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages." -/usr/bin/fortune #0289:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I actually think they're pretty cool, but not as cool as you think they are. -- Peter Seebach (1998) #0290:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I just wish people would quit fighting over whether to use the left or the right oar when the boat is sinking. -- jms (1997) #0291:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "I went to this computer conference down in Texas over the weekend. Those computer guys are different. I mean, they told all these jokes, and they *WEREN'T EVEN FUNNY!* -- Some Math Professor (according to Keith G. Murphy) #0292:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- ...I got a sweater for Xmas. I wanted a screamer or moaner. - from a FidoNet tagline #0293:
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ex ovo omnia. [Out of Egg, All.] -- William Harvey (1578 - 1657) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stewart J. Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu #0294:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- An Emacs reference mug is what I want. It would hold ten gallons of coffee. -- Steve VanDevender #0295:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- But I gladly accept the sainthood. -- Kibo (1997) #0296:
--Stewart Stremler----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I still use :x - I wear my idiosyncracies proudly. -- Charlie Gibbs (1998) #0297:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- In short if C had been properly designed, it would not have been C, but might have been Algol 68. -- Ben Fowler (1997) #0298:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- C -- most of the power of assembler, and almost as easy to code! --Anonymous #0299:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Tomato sauce is particularly bad, I think "Bug surprise sauce" would be a better name for it. -- Peter Gutmann (1997) #0300:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The desktop metaphor needs to be modified for these people: obscured objects should cause ugly lumps and creases in the obscuring windows. -- Malcolm Ray (1997) #0301:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- A behaviorist is someone who pulls habits out of rats. -- Matt Crawford #0302:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- [regarding "coordinated" with an 'umlaut' over the second "o"] That's not an umlaut, it's a dieresis. It LOOKS exactly like an umlaut, but it's not. -- Lawrence Watt-Evans (1998) #0303:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- AOL (n): An organization set up to give Internetters someone to make ethnic jokes about. -- (adapted from Arthur D. Hlavaty) #0304:
--Stewart Stremler------------Spellbound-------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I have a spelling checker I've run this poem threw it It came with my PC; I'm sure your pleased too no. It plainly marks four my revue It's letter perfect in it's weigh. Mistakes I cannot sea. My checker tolled me sew. -Pennye Harper #0305:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Ignorance _is_ bliss, if you're the one exploiting the ignorant. -- Charlie Gibbs (1997) #0306:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The hardware makes it [the NeXT computer] a PC, the software makes it a Workstation, the unit sales make it a Mainframe. - Unknown #0307:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Real Users never know what they want, but they always know when your programmer doesn't deliver it. -- Anonymous #0308:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It's been said that we deserve Microsoft. I'm inclined to agree. --Charlie Gibbs (1997) #0309:
--Stewart Stremler----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The UNIX Guru's View of Sex: ---------------------------------------------- # unzip ; strip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount ; sleep #0310:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Obviously hjkl stand for heft, jown, kup and light. -- (William Hamblen) [1998] #0311:
stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu Stewart Stremler ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do all threads on afc devolve to vi sooner or later? -- (William Hamblen) [1998] #0312:
Stewart Stremler stremler @ rohan . sdsu . edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Monty Python Roguelike. I see a great need. -- Robyn A. McNamara (1998) #0313:
--Stewart Stremler----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- So the Ether bunny goes hippety hopity down the garden path, waylaying innocent fieldmice and anesthetising them, so he can sell their teeth to the tooth fairy to support his milk-and-cookies habit. --Unknown #0314:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- if (you.canRead(this)) you.canGet(new job(!problem)); (Seen as grafitti ... at JavaOne.) #0315:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are obviously politically insane. -- Karl Wahlberg (1998) #0316:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Nine-track tapes and seven-track tapes Take hold of the tape And tapes without any tracks; And pull off the strip, Stretchy tapes and snarley tapes And then you'll be sure And tapes mixed up on the racks -- Your tape drive will skip. -- Uncle Colonel's Cursory Rhymes #0317:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sendmail may be safely run set-user-id to root. -- Eric Allman, "Sendmail Installation Guide" #0318:
--Stewart Stremler----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- All we know is the phenomenon: we spend our time sending messages to each other, talking and trying to listen at the same time, exchanging information. This seems to be our most urgent biological function; it is what we do with our lives." -- Lewis Thomas, "The Lives of a Cell" #0319:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Interfere? Of course we should interfere! Always do what you're best at, that's what I say. -- Doctor Who #0320:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. -- Albert Einstein #0321:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- That's the beauty of Ethernet: it's with you through thick and thin. -- Jack Strangio #0322:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- AFP Code 1.1a AC$ d- s+:<+:- a31<21 U++(+) R-- F++ h+ P--- OSU+:++ !C MPK pp--- L>+++ c--- B+>+++ Cn PT---/++ Pu* 5+++ !X MT? e+++ r++++ y+++ end #0323:
----Stewart Stremler------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---- Back in my day, all we had were 0's. We painted them different colors to tell them apart. Once this started bogging the processes down, we switched to naming them. I still miss Bob. -- skritch (a.k.a MCL) on a.f.c (1998) #0324:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--------------------------Stewart Stremler-- The PROPER way to handle HTML postings is to cancel the article, then hire a hitman to kill the poster, his wife and kids, and fuck his dog and smash his computer into little bits. Anything more is just extremism. --Paul Tomblin #0325:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-------------------------Stewart Stremler-- A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. -- Ben Franklin #0326:
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- To say an important thing badly is to | Stewart Stremler discredit the important thing you wish | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu to say. | It's my own opinion. #0327:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-----------------------------------Stewart Stremler-- We have an interest in every American citizen being educated and intelligent, and yet our Republic has survived quite well, thank you, with idiots who can't work a logical syllogism to save their lives. -- Jefferson Swycaffer (1995) #0328:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-----------------------------------Stewart Stremler-- Basic is a high level languish. APL is a high level anguish. -- /usr/games/fortune #0329:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-----------------------------------Stewart Stremler-- "Brain may play role in male sexual behavior" -- NC State BULLETIN, v.LXVIII, No.19, 1/17/97 #0330:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-----------------------------------Stewart Stremler-- Growing things from "quick hack" to large project is how you get things like Majordomo. -- Peter da Silva (1998) #0331:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-----------------------------------Stewart Stremler-- That is *so* cogno-intellectual. -- Peter da Silva (1999) #0332:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-----------------------------------Stewart Stremler-- Verbogeny is one of the pleasurettes of a creatific thinkerizer. -- Peter da Silva (1998) #0333:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu------------------------------------Stewart Stremler-- Debugging hackerish code on the H800 was the moral equivalent of cryptanalysis. -- Earl (William E. Boebert) #0334:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-----------------------------------Stewart Stremler-- I lately lost a preposition; Correctness is my vade mecum, It hid, I thought, beneath my chair And straggling phrases I abhor, And angrily I cried, "Perdition! And yet I wondered, "What should he come Up from out of under there." Up from out of under for?" -- Morris Bishop #0335:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-----------------------------------Stewart Stremler-- Hear, hear! To some people, "long-range planning" means anything beyond the current quarter. -- Charlie Gibbs (1998) #0336:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-----------------------------------Stewart Stremler-- However, to "lazy and short-sighted" you can add "in pursuit of fashion". -- Charlie Gibbs (1998) #0337:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-----------------------------------Stewart Stremler-- I think some people would give up on sex because it's been around unchanged for so long. -- Charlie Gibbs (1998) #0338:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-----------------------------------Stewart Stremler-- I've always called it "programmer's K" vs. "salesman's K". Where else but in the magical world of marketing could you add 32K to 32K and get 65K? -- Charlie Gibbs (1998) #0339:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-----------------------------------Stewart Stremler-- What "Visual Programming" really means is that you're not allowed to keep your hands on the keyboard. -- Charlie Gibbs (1998) #0340:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-----------------------------------Stewart Stremler-- Fortunately I never had to use Holleriths in anger. -- Paul Tomblin (1999) #0341:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-----------------------------------Stewart Stremler-- You all really need to work on organizing your internet, it's really a mess! -- Anonymous #0342:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and B is for biff, which reads all your mail. -- THE ABC'S OF UNIX #0343:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- C is for cc, as hackers recall, while D is for dd, the command that does all. -- THE ABC'S OF UNIX #0344:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- E is for emacs, which rebinds your keys, and F is for fsck, which rebuilds your trees. -- THE ABC'S OF UNIX #0345:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- G is for grep, a clever detective, while H is for halt, which may seem defective. -- THE ABC'S OF UNIX #0346:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I is for indent, which rarely amuses, and J is for join, which nobody uses. -- THE ABC'S OF UNIX #0347:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- K is for kill, which makes you the boss, while L is for lex, which is missing from DOS. -- THE ABC'S OF UNIX #0348:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- M is for more, from which less was begot, and N is for nice, which it really is not. -- THE ABC'S OF UNIX #0349:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- O is for od, which prints out things nice, while P is for passwd, which reads in strings twice. -- THE ABC'S OF UNIX #0350:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Q is for quota, a Berkeley-type fable, and R is for ranlib, for sorting ar table. -- THE ABC'S OF UNIX #0351:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- S is for spell, which attempts to belittle, while T is for true, which does very little. -- THE ABC'S OF UNIX #0352:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- U is for uniq, which is used after sort, and V is for vi, which is hard to abort. -- THE ABC'S OF UNIX #0353:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- W is for whoami, which tells you your name, while X is, well, X, of dubious fame. -- THE ABC'S OF UNIX #0354:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Y is for yes, which makes an impression, and Z is for zcat, which handles compression. -- THE ABC'S OF UNIX #0355:
---Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- No, California is from the latin "cali", as in calorimeter, meaning heat, and "fornia", the root word of fornicate, meaning sex. So California is the land of hot sex. -- Paul Tomblin (1998) #0356:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I'm set till the heat death of the universe, even if you aren't. -- Paul Tomblin (1999) #0357:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- No, I contend that the goverment lies for different reasons than industry, and between the two sets of lies is often found the truth. -- Paul Tomblin (1998) #0358:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- In a world where everybody did what needed to be done just for the pride of it or a sense of personal obligation, communism would work. And Linus Torvalds would be god. -- Paul Tomblin (1998) #0359:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "when I'm not on-line"? What does that mean? -- Paul Tomblin (1997) #0360:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Jesus told us to be fishers of men, not hunters. --Paul Tomblin (1998) #0361:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Life is like sendmail: It's complicated and hard to understand, but it sure beats the alternative. -- Paul Tomblin (1997) #0362:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Modern optimization is *deep* magic. -- Peter Seebach (1999) #0363:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Anyone who thinks it's hard to herd cats doesn't own a laser pointer. -- Peter Seebach (1999) #0364:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Really, we should be doing everything [in] base e. --Peter Seebach (1999) #0365:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- ...I was quite solidly indoctrinated in the idea that there was nothing special about computers, they were just little boxes that obeyed you. -- Peter Seebach (1998) #0366:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "This UI has been brought to you by the letters 'S' and 'K', and the runlevel 3." --Greg Andrews (1999) #0367:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- ....You could do anything in vi in one keystroke, if you could just remember *which* keystroke. -- Kevin Michael Vail (1999) #0368:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I can just see it now: "Warning: Overuse of eye of newt can lead to irreparable damage to spell's target. [Fix] [Die Horribly]" in the middle of a really good LARTing spell. -- David Gibson (1999) #0369:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "...and as she finally reached orgasm, she screamed 'the mail server will be down for three hours tonight! Yes! Oh, yes!'" -- J.D. Falk (1997) #0370:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Come, come... without a monster or two, it's hardly a quest -- merely a gaggle of friends wandering about." --Owl (_Pooh's Great Adventure) #0371:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "So raise your hand if you think that it was a Russian water tentacle?" --Lindsey Brinkman (_Abyss_) #0372:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The problem with these international affairs is that they attract foriegners. --from _Those Magnificant Men & Their Flying Machines_ #0373:
--Stewart Stremler----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments to feed on the substance of their people, for insurance companies to cheat the young and rob the old. -- Lewis Lapham #0374:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You're all a hallucination now, 'cos I've deleted you all. Hah. -- Thorfinn (1999) #0375:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- My alarm went off ..... I shut it off and rejoined the dream. I saw people running about in a panic. It felt good. -- Jeremy Worrells (1999) #0376:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If he once again pushes up his sleeves in order to compute for 3 days and 3 nights in a row, he will spend a quarter of an hour before to think which principles of computation shall be most appropriate. -- Voltaire #0377:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Piddle, twiddle, and resolve, Not one damn thing do we solve. -1776 #0378:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Integrity has no need for rules. #0379:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense. -- E.W. Dijkstra #0380:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. -- Rob Stampfli #0381:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child." -Senator Dan Quayle (10/10/88) #0382:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is `to be prepared'." -Dan Quayle (12/6/89) #0383:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." --Dan Quayle (5/22/89) #0384:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "We laugh at honor, but are surprised to find traitors in our midst..." --C. S. Lewis #0385:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Trust the computer industry to shorten "Year 2000" to Y2K. It was this kind of thinking that caused the problem in the first place. -- Charles Bryant #0386:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It makes it ever so difficult to see the world entirely in black and white, and myself as infallible. -- Lawrence Watt-Evans (1999) #0387:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Ah. That would explain Usenet, then. -- Jenny With the Axe (1998) #0388:
---Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- The Universe stops expanding this week--keew siht gnidnapxe spots esrevinU ehT --Raymond Broersma #0389:
---Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- But every now and then I remember this crap and it hurts. Especially since I am obsessive about cleaning out disk space, and here I am wasting brain space on stuff like FORTRAN and JCL. -- Paul Tomblin (1999) #0390:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I guess I'll just have to do all my thinking with my little head. -- Paul Tomblin (1999) #0391:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Q: What is the definition of a tachyon? A: It's a gluon that's not completely dry. -- Joe Smith #0392:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Stop thinking what you're thinking. -- Joe Thompson (1999) #0393:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Who'da thunk I'd look back on the S:N ratio in September fondly? -- Colin Plumb #0394:
--Stewart Stremler-------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You know, I love living in a world where someone can say "Shelves have gotten smarter" and mean it. -- Lawrence Watt-Evans (1998) #0395:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "Just a few months ago, we were arguing about whether children should be taught about sex by their parents or by the schools, when our innovative President found a third solution." -- Clint Bolick (1998) #0396:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Unfortunately, I've just started building my sendmail.cf with M4 macros, and "EHLO. My $name is sendmail.mc. Prepare to make." just doesn't have the same ring to it. -- Paul Tomblin (1997) #0397:
---Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- God is a hacker, and you know how hackers are about getting the documentation polished. -- Peter Seebach (1999) #0398:
---Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- Emacs has also evolved to break more standards in more ways than any other non-Microsoft program I can think of; it's held together with spit, duct tape, and collusion against defenseless compiler vendors. -- Peter Seebach (1999) #0399:
---Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- With so many "textbook cases" of single points of failure, you'd think that we'd stop building systems to demonstrate the concept. -- Matt Curtin (1998) #0400:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Oh, and dialling in to a shell account counts as hardcore these days. -- Peter da Silva (1998) #0401:
---Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- The light falls on the stage, the characters live, the action is meaningful, the audience (me) throws peanuts and leaps up and down and demands more. Higher praise for "style" there cannot be. -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden (1999) #0402:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You clearly lack the imperialist instinct here .... We want them just because they're pretty and we'd like to own them. We don't need an economic reason. -- Lawrence Watt-Evans (1998) #0403:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Open source cyberspace jacks. Definitely an idea whose time has come. -- Peter da Silva (1999) #0404:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I imagine non-existence would get really exhausting after a while, but I can't prove it. -- Rev. Peter da Silva, ULC. (October 2000) #0405:
---Stewart Stremler-------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- Well, I think an award has to go to the people who chapioned 'rec.fucking' way back when. Without them, alt.sex.* might not have gotten started, and the internet would be half its current size. -- Peter Seebach (1999) #0406:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- To sum up: The knife you use to slice your bread cannot have as much impact on me as the software you use to sell the bread to me. -- Joe Thompson (1998) #0407:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You can't Focus a politician, but I bet you could Focus a terrorist just fine. Now there's a killer app... -- Douglas Muir(1999) #0408:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- FEED C0ED BABE #0409:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- We'll be rats in the wainscoting, unnoticed but thriving on scraps of bandwidth that nobody will miss. --Charlie Gibbs (1998) #0410:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- One consolation is that since an average luser's transaction will soon be umpteen megabytes, those of us who still use text will be able to sneak an entire day's volume of netnews into the equivalent space. --Charlie Gibbs #0411:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "IRC? What's that? I once heard some computer whiz talk about some ancient thing called Eff Tee Pee. Is it anything like that?" --Charlie Gibbs (1998) #0412:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Our only hope is that the general literacy level falls fast enough that the newsgroups are left to those of us who still have the ability and desire to deal with text. -- Charlie Gibbs (1998) #0413:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If you have Emacs, what do you need an OS for? -- Alistair J. R. Young (1998) #0414:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The masses will hopefully migrate to that great Romper Room known as the World Wide Web. -- Charlie Gibbs (1998) #0415:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I've wondered about acoustic hoods. If they work for line printers, they ought to work for babies. -- Malcolm Ray (1999) #0416:
---Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- Ah, the wonders of exploratory construction. -- Lars Balker Rasmussen (1999) #0417:
---Stewart Stremler----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- If you'd said that NFS makes it nearly impossible to do database semantics, I'd certainly agree with you. Reason #372 why it's the Nightmare File System. -- Eric Smith (1999) #0418:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Let me tell you about physics babes. On second thought, I'd better not. -- Paul Tomblin (1999) #0419:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Civil Engineers have been heavy drinkers since the first pyramid fell down because they built it too steep. -- Paul Tomblin (1999) #0420:
Stewart Stremler stremler @ rohan . sdsu . edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- My egress was rapid, if not graceful. -- Micheal H. McCabe (1999) #0421:
Stewart Stremler stremler @ rohan . sdsu . edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fire bad. Trees pretty. --Buffy #0422:
Stewart Stremler stremler @ rohan . sdsu . edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you love someone, set them free. If they don't come back, then call them up when you're drunk. -- Unknown (seen on Slashdot) #0423:
Stewart Stremler stremler @ rohan . sdsu . edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men. --Thoreau #0424:
Stewart Stremler stremler @ rohan . sdsu . edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A coding theorist is someone who doesn't think Alice is crazy. -- John Gordon (1984) http://www.conceptlabs.co.uk/alicebob.html #0425:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Whatever did I learn the binomial formulas | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu for if not this?" -- Kai Henningsen (in a.s.r) | Stewart Stremler #0426:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't trust reality. After all, it's only a collective hunch. ~ Signal 11 (/.) #0427:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I'd just like to point out that you may have invented some pretty weird games, but Americans invented Calvinball. -- (c) 1999 Peter Seebach #0428:
--Stewart Stremler-------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Sorry, your solar system has a class Z address, so you can't have more than three gas giants. -- Peter da Silva (1999) #0429:
---Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- Well, if you're a Transcendent Power, you probably write people all the time, 'cos a human-equivalent intelligence is just about right for a routine autonomous subsystem. -- Peter da Silva (1999) #0430:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I wish people would stop arguing with me when they're agreeing with me. -- Paul Tomblin (1999) #0431:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Well, I asked the servalist at the restaurant for a coke. She asked the drinkalist for it, and removalisted it to my table. I feel much better, almost as if I'd gone to a medicalist. -- Paul Tomblin (1999) #0432:
-- Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cool! So you *can* learn history from Monty Python films. -Malcolm Ray (1999) #0433:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If something has not yet gone wrong then it would ultimately have been beneficial for it to go wrong. -- /usr/bin/fortune #0434:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "This is what happens when meterologists find out about the Internet." -- Chris Liller (October 1999) #0435:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Things are good. I have become one with the stress. And the lack of sleep helps keep me sedate. --Cori Holman (2000) #0436:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Having internal trust boundaries is a Good Thing when you're dealing with a rich software ecosystem. -- Peter da Silva (1999) #0437:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I mourn Smalltalk. -- Peter da Silva (1999) #0438:
Reclaimer spare that tree! / /\ | Stewart Stremler Take not a single bit. / / \ | stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu It used to point to me, \_____________/ \ | Don't send me UCE or UBE Now I'm protecting it. -- The Great Quux \| or munge email addresses #0439:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Purple computers are faster. Does it have blue LEDs? -- Rev. Peter da Silva, ULC. #0440:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "The pointed barbs of ignorance you aim at me are blunted by my shield of knowledge." - Alex Measday #0441:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Does it hurt to be so cynical? -- Jason Shelton ( 8/22/2000 ) #0442:
Stewart Stremler you | And the dragon will come stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu are | when he hears the drum, ____________________ here -> * | at a minute or two to two today, \___________________||/////////|) | at a minute or two to two. #0443:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "You just said something stupid. I want to hear you say that again." -- A. Spydell (12/2000) #0444:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "I've already forgotten what you said." -- A. Spydell (12/2000) #0445:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "*I* am a troublemaker? YOU are the one spinning me up!" -- A. Spydell (12/2000) #0446:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "I've got an answer for everything -- keep going, man." -- A. Spydell (12/2000) #0447:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "Due to the new requirement for 24-hour access to the PTW/STS VOBS by engineers working at all hours, backups will now be run between the newly created hours of bleen and dorch." -- Mike Stoddard #0448:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Well, there's your problem, right there. -- David P. Murphy in the SDM (2001) #0449:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Enlightenment strikes. Englightenment misses. Enlightenment strikes. Englightenment hits. --more-- Your system dies. -- Paul Tomblin in ASR (2001) #0450:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You seem to be using some variant of the word 'wrong' with which I am unfamiliar. -- Nigel Williams #0451:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Linux is not a desktop OS for people whose VCRs are still flashing "12:00". -- Paul Tomblin in ASR #0452:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "Screams erupted at a nearby hotel, where Microsoft founder Bill Gates was addressing an education and technology conference." -- MSNBC 2/28/01 #0453:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "So you're enjoying this?" -- LorRaine Duffy #0454:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "Depending on how much time I have, size does matter!" -- LorRaine Duffy #0455:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "I *live* temptation island!" -- LorRaine Duffy #0456:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "I can't afford the whole group!" -- LorRaine Duffy #0457:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "I think you have figure envy." -- A. Spydell #0458:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "I've got to say that again, because it didn't make sense." -A. Spydell (2001) #0459:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "I have, actually, no pithy comment for that." -A. Spydell (2001) #0460:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If you aren't going to like the answer, don't ask the question. -- David P. Murphy in ASR #0461:
"hey, how did i become the arbiter of who goes to hell!?" -- Lan Barnes ======================================================================== Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu #0462:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you think I take *anything* on Usenet seriously, you haven't been paying attention. -- Terry Austin (June 2001) #0463:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is not your fault. You have been led astray by guerilla annotators. I understand... -- Terry Pratchett (June 2001) #0464:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ah, now we see the scheduling problems inherent in the system! -- J.D. Baldwin (in asr - 2001 ) #0465:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm glad that you're beginning to understand the shortcomings of analogies and will bear that in mind in the future. -- Peter da Silva (2001) #0466:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trust me on this. I'm an expert on trolls, as you know. -- Terry Austin (in rasfw - 2001) #0467:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- How about the concept that before the words "Let there be Light", there were the words "Let there be Choice." -- Harvey White #0468:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I had a point when I started this post, I'm not sure what it was though. -- Mike Patterson (in asr - 2001) #0469:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are of course completely correct. I blame the weevils in my brain. -- Philip Armstrong (in asr - 2001) #0470:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Words fail me. Thank goodness I can make gestures. -- Mark Hughes (in asr - 2001) #0471:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This line just begs to be taken out of context. -- Lionel in ASR (September 1999) #0472:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I like quoting out of context. -- Abigail in ASR (February 2000) #0473:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Doesn't everybody hate C++? -- Kai Henningsen (August 2000) #0474:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- My hatred of C++ makes my dislike for Perl seem like a warm and friendly glow by comparison. -- Rev. Peter da Silva, ULC. (August 2000) #0475:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I thought Perth was Larry Wall's new postfix-based string processing language. -- Peter da Silva (August 2000) #0476:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- There's so much connector evil out there that RCA jacks don't come in the top 40. -- Rev. Peter da Silva, ULC. (August 2000) #0477:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hence my vast and undiluted cynicism about the whole affair. -- Rev. Peter da Silva, ULC. (August 2000) #0478:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You underestimate the fibertropism of backhoes. -- Rev. Peter da Silva, ULC. (August 2000) #0479:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- When all you have is a Swiss Army Knife, every problem looks like email. -- Peter da Silva (October 1999) #0480:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I imagine it must be like the first time I saw an IMAX movie, and then for the rest of the say I was walking around grooving on how realistic reality was. -- Rev. Peter da Silva, ULC. (August 2000) #0481:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- It has rice in it: it's practically a health food. -- Malcolm Ray (July 2000) #0482:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- That wasn't a mailbomb, that was UI. -- Peter da Silva (August 2000) #0483:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mages ain't artillery, they's industrial plant. -- Peter da Silva (August 2000) #0484:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sure. A yard of ale has a definite measurable effect on me. -- Peter da Silva (January 2000) #0485:
Well, I've been to Woolongong. -- Peter da Silva (January 2000) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu #0486:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I knew it! I knew it! Whiskey is fermented bog water! -- Rev. Peter da Silva, ULC. (November 2000) #0487:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hm. I'm part Manx part Scot. Do I get to declare war against myself? -- Peter da Silva (December 1999) #0488:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I thought VBscript was invented to destroy Exchange servers. -- Peter da Silva ( May 2000 ) #0489:

You seem tense. -- Peter da Silva (January 2000) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu

#0490:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't think you've been a sysadmin long enough. -- Rev. Peter da Silva, ULC. (November 2000) #0491:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is more fun than figuring out the syntax of time travel. -- Peter da Silva (December 1999) #0492:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You're just bitter because you've got such dinky postage-stamp sized states. -- Peter da Silva (October 1999) #0493:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Badgers have the attitude down a lot better. Skunks have clearly achieved recovery. -- Rev. Peter da Silva, ULC. (August 2000) #0494:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- That explains why this shoggoth I summoned is only 3mm tall. -- Peter da Silva (June 1999) #0495:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Most people's names are Welsh in ROT13. -- Peter da Silva (March 2000) #0496:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The event horizon as a security hack. -- Peter da Silva (May 1999) #0497:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quasars were the physics labs of the Elder Races. -- Peter da Silva (October 1999) #0498:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jesus was an incorrigable punster. -- Peter da Silva (February 2000) #0499:
Rant first, pity later. -- Rev. Peter da Silva, ULC. (October 2000) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu #0500:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- People who quote .sigs should be staked out beneath a dropbear gum. -- Peter da Silva (April 1999) #0501:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- And of course this will trigger yet another completely incompatible new version of Perl. -- Rev. Peter da Silva, ULC. (August 2000) #0502:
You broke my parser. -- Peter da Silva (November 1999) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu #0503:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This morning I got in my car and parsed the gearshift as "PoRN.DLL". -- Peter da Silva (March 2000) #0504:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I want APL on my Palm. That'll show those wussy HP users what's what. -- Rev. Peter da Silva, ULC. (October 2000) #0505:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I think the US Government has been going about this all wrong. It's not the DoJ that needs to investigate Microsoft; this is a job for the DEA. -- Anthony DeBoer (1998) #0506:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Net agrees with you. Bastard. -- Rev. Peter da Silva, ULC. (November 2000) #0507:
Nobody's naked in woad. -- Peter da Silva (April 1999) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu #0508:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Address munging and filtering are part of the spam problem, not solutions to it. -- Peter da Silva (September 1999) #0509:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ROM monitors were the first steps down the road to Install Wizards. The road to hell is paved with convenient shortcuts. -- Peter da Silva (February 2000) #0510:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- There's a difference between "local" and "national" in the UK? -- Peter da Silva (February 2000) #0511:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- They're metapsychological, obviously, not metaphysical. -- Rev. Peter da Silva, ULC. (October 2000) #0512:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Knuth teaches you what rocks and sand are. Kernighan teach you how to build a garden. -- Rev. Peter da Silva, ULC. (October 2000) #0513:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'd claim an Ion Sucker but I don't think I'd survive the experience. -- Rev. Peter da Silva, ULC. (November 2000) #0514:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Search engines to me are a sign that the hypertext model is broken. -- Peter da Silva (January 2000) #0515:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- PS, your web browser sucks -- Peter da Silva (October 1999) #0516:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- My biggest problem was when I screwed up the device driver for my eyelids I couldn't open my eyes to debug them. -- Peter da Silva (August 1999) #0517:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oh well. Hands up everyone suprised that C++ got it wrong. -- Peter da Silva (February 1999) #0518:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- You're just bitter because you don't have your own collective noun. -- Peter da Silva (October 1999) #0519:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- We can tell you're from Armorica because of your Armoricanisms. -- Peter da Silva (August 1999) #0520:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The software manages to be amusing. What more is required? -- Peter da Silva (March 2000) #0521:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Cynical" is a term invented by optimists to describe realists. --Gregory Benford #0522:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A master's degree is the union card of the academic world. --Gregory Benford #0523:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- There is always some neighbor who is always in to your business. In your neighborhood, it's probably you. -A. Spydell ( June, 2001 ) #0524:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I would say that we are at _least_ one paradigm shift from the Truth, and probably many, many more. -- Jordan S. Bassior (June 2001) #0525:
---Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- Obviously, they need to learn about efficient use of bandwidth. 300bps should be just about right. 1200bps, if they really cry. But definitely not 2400bps. 2400bps would be far too kind. -- Dan Birchall (June 2001) #0526:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Even alt.* is questionable. -- Jamie Bowden (June 2001) #0527:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Happy Birthday! Oh wait, that's me, not you. -- Jamie Bowden (June 2001) #0528:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- You'd be amazed at how an ice-covered wicket favors the home team, however. -- Patrick R. Wade (June 2001) #0529:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------- In this newsgroup, the use of the past tense is more appropriate. -- Gene Wirchenko (in afc, June 2001) #0530:
Stewart Stremler--------------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu If the only tool in your toolbox is a pipe, everything looks like a filter. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz [June 2001] #0531:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ridiculous! You plagiarized J K Rowling. *I* always do:-) -- Terry Pratchett (June 2001) #0532:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is a beautiful example of a solution for which there is no tractable problem. -- Chris Henrich (June 2001) #0533:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Looks like I need more recreation. -- Axly Suregrip (June 2001) #0534:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I build all my zone files from a modified host-format file. If god had intended us to edit zone files directly he wouldn't have written awk. -- Peter da Silva (October 1999) #0535:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Obviously what happened is you were being ridden by some terrible Caribbean spirit that had been reading too much cyberpunk. -- Rev. Peter da Silva, ULC. (October 2000) #0536:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The Dancing Bear proved very helpful to me during the interregnum. -- Peter da Silva (February 2000) #0537:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Cognitive dissonance is never out of style. -- Peter da Silva (April 1999) #0538:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- But vi isn't broken just because it doesn't work like wordstar. The command philosophy of vi is very nice once you learn it. Even if 2afoo ^[ produces foo foo. -- Peter da Silva (November 2000) #0539:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Whether it's a monkey scrambling through the tropical canopy or a farmer cutting down a crabapple tree, it's a primate selecting for larger shinier fruit either way. -- Peter da Silva (March 2000) #0540:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Kids nowadays, give them all the memory in the world, they think they're virtuous because they don't use all of it at once. -- Peter da Silva (February 2000) #0541:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Regardless of *why* the situation exists, the situation exists, and it's bad for everyone. If you count wasted many-years, Bill Gates is a mass murderer millions of times over. -- Peter da Silva (October 1999) #0542:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It's just a matter of how you organize it. RAM chip or opal, it's still a diffraction grating made of regularly structured silicon dioxide. -- Peter da Silva (March 2000) #0543:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I don't think I was channeling ptomblin. That would be weird. -- Rev. Peter da Silva, ULC. (October 2000) #0544:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- This is also one reason I dislike Python. Indentation is part of the documentation of the program, and as such it shouldn't be parsed by the compiler. -- Peter da Silva (September 1999) #0545:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I don't remember that. When I pummel my brain... something of that nature seems to be buried in there, but... no... those neurons have been recycled. -- Peter da Silva (February 2000) #0546:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Of course since then I've had to deal with Solaris, which does know the dependencies but doesn't actually bother applying them. Bastards. -- Peter da Silva (February 2000) #0547:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Well, the trailing edge *is* usually sharper. -- Rev. Peter da Silva, ULC. (October 2000) #0548:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- This is assuming they were boring and predictable and used 8-bit bytes; my guess is that such an implementor would scoff at such a well-worn path. -- Peter Seebach (June 1999) #0549:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I'm quite the master of awful analogies. -- Peter Seebach (August 1999) #0550:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I think my Windoze programming experiences have made me a much better Microsoft-basher. -- Charlie Gibbs (March 2000) #0551:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- And the coal dust made a good substitute for toner in a pinch. -- Charlie Gibbs (December 2000) #0552:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Wow, a subconscious hack. You've just made my day. -- Charlie Gibbs (January 2001) #0553:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- What a delightful term! I think I'll be borrowing it a lot. -- Charlie Gibbs (December 2000) #0554:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It's ironic that the average user has more computing power on his desk than a mainframe shop of 20 years ago could dream of, but still has trouble writing a letter. -- Charlie Gibbs (September 1997) #0555:
---Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- Rather than labeling things with words that can only be understood by people who speak that language, they use cryptic little symbols that can't be understood by anybody. But at least we're all equal then. -- Charlie Gibbs #0556:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Hieroglyphics assault us in many places other than computers, from road signs to those "tortoise and hare" markings I've seen on lawn mowers. It's all a part of the Political Correctness movement. -- Charlie Gibbs #0557:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I like to think that if Windoze was all there was to computing back when I started, I would have chosen another career. The alternative is just too disgusting. -- Charlie Gibbs (1997) #0558:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Most people don't know the difference between "ease of learning" and "ease of use". -- Charlie Gibbs (September 1997) #0559:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- But by then, Microsoft (and whatever consultant recommended them) have your money and are long gone. They've gotten what they're after - this time, at least. (They'll be back for your soul later.) -- Charlie Gibbs (1997) #0560:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- ....but the pictures are so pretty that they don't notice. -- Charlie Gibbs (September 1997) #0561:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- An excellent analogy, and one I've filed for future use. -- Charlie Gibbs (September 1997) #0562:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Darn it....you've started a background process in my brain that I can't kill. -- Steve VanDevender (March 2000) #0563:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- ....but I prefer to think control of a market leads to complacency. --Rob Nicholson (December 1999) #0564:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You know, I'm expecting The Elder Ones to pop up any minute now after seeing that text. --Simo Tuominen (March 2000) #0565:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Embrace your inner cynicism. --Jeff Gostin (June 1999) #0566:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I'm trying to limit my extremism to every other day. -- Chris "Saundo" Saunderson (October 2000) #0567:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it." -- George Bernard Shaw #0568:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You're obviously not using your computer for the proper things. You're probably wasting your time doing useful work instead. Take two MP3s and call me in the morning. -- Charlie Gibbs (Nov. 2000) #0569:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Do not trust users. Do not trust the sysadmins. Do you trust yourself? -- Steve VanDevender (March 2000) #0570:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------ I could go on. And I will. --Justin Warren (October 2000) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ #0571:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If the invisible unicorns tell you they're pink, you should believe them. -- David Scheidt (October 2000) #0572:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You're so vain, you probably think this troll is about you. -- Adam J. Thornton (March 2000) #0573:
---Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- The only *honest* way to pass a test is to take it without having seen any of the class material beforehand, and figure it all out from first principles. --David Rifkind (October 1999) #0574:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- OTOH, if I could see in the X-ray/gamma-ray end of the spectrum, things no doubt would be very pretty. -- Mike Andrews (March 2000) #0575:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- They don't have many Fjords in North West Wales. They'd spell them Ffuwrhds if they did. -- Paul Martin (July 2000) #0576:
--Stewart Stremler-------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Knuth is definitely the bastard something from hell. I just admire him from a distance, it's safer. -- Peter da Silva (September 1999) #0577:
--Stewart Stremler------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You feel _so_ much more like a fighter pilot when you realize there's a high-explosive safety system $SMALLNUM centimetres from your gonads. -- Anthony DeBoer (August 2000) #0578:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- ...the two things That Are Not Done are to cross into .us with a full tank or into .ca with an empty tank. -- Anthony DeBoer (May 2000) #0579:
--Stewart Stremler-------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I dread the day that the AMS will supply a set of triangular fonts for use with TeX; we shall all have to study Chinese. --Ariel Scolnicov #0580:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- An engineer can write FORTRAN code in any language. -- Peter da Silva (September 1999) #0581:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Unix is the democracy of OS's; it's awful, but everything else is worse. -- Peter Seebach (December 1999) #0582:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Apparently I am not very good at being tricky. --John Hughes (October 2000) #0583:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ================================================================================ Usenet is a co-operative venture, backed by nasty people - follow the standards. -- Chris Rovers (December 2000) #0584:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "Vitriol, it's vitriol" he spat acidly. -- Paul R. Joslin (July 2000) #0585:
Big whirls have little whirls Stewart which feed on their velocity Stremler Little whirls have lesser whirls, stremler@ and so on to viscosity. -- Lewis F. Richardson rohan.sdsu.edu #0586:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Now I'm trying to picture Wide Area Border Collies. Thanks. -- Paul Tomblin (September 1999) #0587:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Wake me when you have some facts. -- Paul Tomblin (June 1999) #0588:
--Stewart Stremler-------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I think you're just suffering from Notepad nvi. With a little vim and vigor, you can overcome that. -- Paul Tomblin (August 1999) #0589:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I think we should just adopt a policy: "USENET IS FULL. GO AWAY!" -- Paul Tomblin (March 2000) #0590:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I had a UPS delivered by UPS the other day. -- Paul Tomblin (August 1999) #0591:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I'm hoping Unix will no longer be the dominant operating system by the year 1141709097. -- Paul Tomblin (August 1999) #0592:
Kids these days - no sense of history! "notes" was sort of a competitor to Usenet, but which sucked more. And interestingly enough, back in those days the product which sucked more faded away, rather than becoming the industry standard. -- Paul Tomblin (March 2000) #0593:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Fortunately I don't go to Star Wars movies for good writing. -- Paul Tomblin (June 1999) #0594:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Damn. The sad thing is that I thought I was spelling it wrong. -- Paul Tomblin (February 2000) #0595:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I think you'd be hard pressed to find a noble scots clan who *didn't* start out as a roving band of thieves. -- Paul Tomblin (January 2000) #0596:
---Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---- Man, did I ever read *that* wrong the first time. --Paul Tomblin (July 1999) #0597:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- That's why I made my swap partition a ramdisk. -- Paul Tomblin (December 1999) #0598:
--Stewart Stremler-----------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the same manner that fish follow migrating caribou. -- Paul Tomblin (October 1999) #0599:
---Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- Now you're being rational. Stop that at once! -- Paul Tomblin (January 2000) #0600:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You're flaming Peter Gutmann? You're new here, aren't you? -- Paul Tomblin (June 1999) #0601:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Your frost moose is clearly satan. -- Paul Tomblin (November 2000) #0602:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I'd just like to state publically and for the record that I'm enough of an egotist that anybody may quote me in any way they want. I'd prefer not too out of context or mangled, but I take what I can get. --Paul Tomblin (1999) #0603:
---Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- Peter da Silva: That's what the term "moderator" refers to. Paul Tomblin: It's named after the guy who slows down the torrent of (October 1999) news to a news group in order to drag out flame wars. #0604:
---Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- All in all, you're acting like a luser, for luserish reasons. And then you wonder why anybody here would care? -- Paul Tomblin (March 2000) #0605:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You know that my wilderness survival kit consists of a metre of fibre cable. If I ever get stranded in the wilderness, I'll bury the fibre then wait for the backhoe to come to dig it up. -- Paul Tomblin (December 1999) #0606:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Edmund Roche-Kelly: You do not achieve immortality through /etc/system. Paul Tomblin: Of course not, you achieve it through /usr/share/games/fortunes. (in asr, March 2000) #0607:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- And back when I did PLI (god help me) on IBM Mainframes (god help me), I remember looking at the symbol dump and seeing IBMBEER and IBMBEEF. I have no idea what it means, though. -- Paul Tomblin (June 2000) #0608:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I just replaced a whole bunch of calls, in Perl programs, to back-ticked `date +"%....` with calls to POSIX::strftime. I feel happy. -Paul Tomblin #0609:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Just *what* can you contaminate fecal material with? -- Paul Tomblin (December 1999) #0610:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Don't be silly. Everybody knows Jesus's brother was named Bob. -- Paul Tomblin (April 2000) #0611:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Don't argue bible interpretation unless you can access the original source documents rather than bad english translations. -- Paul Tomblin #0612:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Oh, a state machine. How quaint. -- Paul Tomblin (February 2000) #0613:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- forth isn't a language, it's a religion. -- Paul Tomblin (March 2000) #0614:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hey, you're that Anonymous Coward guy, aren't you!? -- Jamie Bowden (June 2001) #0615:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ============================================================================ Bleah. Ick. Bad thoughts in my brain now. Bastard. -- David P. Murphy (June 2001) #0616:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hey, Ghostbusters was pretty good. Even if Cthulhu did turn out to be a giant marshmallow man. -- Sean O'Hara (June 2001) #0617:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Welcome to post-literate society. -- Mark Hughes (2001) #0618:
---Stewart Stremler------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- Why does it seem impossible to correct people without introducing an error of one's own? It's almost enough to make one give up correcting people, and that would never do. -- Joe Slater (June 2001) #0619:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- They also say that in space no one can hear you scream but then you can hear the wooshing sound of a spaceship going by. So I don't know if you should listen to what they say. -- Joe Bay (June 2001) #0620:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ______________________________________________________________________ / Here, for instance, while all the expected words are present, very \ / few of them are in alphabetical order. --Adrian Ogden (July, 2001) \ #0621:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Accessibility invites crap. It's not necessarily bad, though. -- Peter Seebach (December 1999) #0622:
--Stewart-Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- ...so we can get back to the vitally important business of proving that no one has ever written a strictly conforming C program. --Peter Seebach (October 1999) #0623:
s t r e m l e r @ r o h a n . s d s u . e d u ------------------------------------------------------------------ Who says we only flame newbies? We flame anything that moves and isn't properly charred yet. -- Peter Seebach (June 1999) #0624:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The goal is to make sure that all 10 digits are relevant to common, everyday, tasks like reorganizing your music stuff. -- Peter Seebach (December 1999) #0625:
-stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--------------------------------------stewart-stremler- Seebach's meta-exception: If someone mentions Quirk's Exception, in relation to any attempt to refer to Godwin's law, the thread is killed. -- Peter Seebach (September 1999) #0626:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu --------------------------------------------------------------------------- It's amazing how much you lose when you add the simple phrase "me too". -- Peter Seebach (July 1999) #0627:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- You have to be pretty damn sneaky to turn the entire globe into a copper sphere without anyone noticing. -- Peter Seebach (August 1999) #0628:
s t r e m l e r @ r o h a n . s d s u . e d u ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A bit of study has revealed that gun control is relevant to all newsgroups; presumably, this is because we shoot spammers. --Peter Seebach (August 1999) #0629:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ I've been to 127.0.0.1 before. That dude is into some sick shit. --Tracy Reed (August 2001) #0630:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- "The people inovlved in the crypto debate are all intelligent, honorable and pro-escrow, but they never possess more than two of these qualities at once." --Neil Cukier #0631:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- My cross-cultural vocab is expanding like crazy! -- Wade Curry in #kernel-panic #0632:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- - The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. - - -- Edmund Burke - #0633:
---------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu------------------------------ The terrifying breakdown of social cohesion in the American city, in spite of intense institutionalized police surveillance equipped with every sophisticated aid to public control, illustrates that social behaviour depends upon mutual responsibility rather than upon the policeman. -Colin Ward, Anarchy in Action #0634:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu----------------------------- - We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not - - compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect. - - -- Ambrose Bierce, Epigrams - #0635:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- - It's such pleasure to write down splendid words -- - - almost as though one were inventing them. - - -- Ruper Hart-Davis - #0636:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- You are a veritable font of wonderfully unrelated information. --Lan Barnes (November, 2001) #0637:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- Must I winky _everything_? --Lan Barnes (November, 2001) #0638:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- - Even the rocket scientists can't figure out how to install debian. :) - - -- Tracy Reed (12/12/01) - #0639:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- Hmmm. So... historians are uncertain of Heisenberg's principles. -- Azog (January 09 2002, on /.) #0640:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- We really should plan our disasters better. --Erick X Starren #0641:
--------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu------------------------------ I'm afraid I seem to have strayed somewhat from my original brief. But in a nutshell: sex is more fun than logic--one cannot prove this, but it 'is' in the same sense that Mount Everest 'is', or that Alma Cogan 'isn't'. -M. Python #0642:
--------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu------------------------------ That's the new textbook answer, though no one knew it before. --in #java #0643:
--------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu------------------------------ Well, I never made any claim to timeliness. -- Charles Herbig #0644:
--------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu------------------------------ "Your self-confidence is warranted." -Jones Soda Cap #0645:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- Who needs super powers? I've got a glowing wristwatch! --Greg Andrews (March 2000) #0646:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- Want! Whoah. More pretty blinkenlights. Fancy. And a shell, too. -- Will England (December 2000) #0647:
-------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu----------------------------- If USENET is anarchy, IRC is a paranoid schizophrenic after 6 days on speed. -- Chris "Saundo" Saunderson #0648:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- In other words, I think I'm agreeing with you but I'm not sure why you made this point. Did you just want to torment the theory people? -- Derek Peschel (May 1999) #0649:
-------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- It's people like you what causes unrest. -- Rik Steenwinkel (December 2000) #0650:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- Has anyone got a reference cynic? I think I need to recalibrate myself. -- James Riden (April 2002) #0651:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- Ack! I'm in a maze of twisted little quotes, all different. -- Graham Reed (December 2000) #0652:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- I was most disappointed when I realized that I hadn't actually been granted special dispensation for skin removal. -- Mike Sphar (November 2000) #0653:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- The computer *is* the game. --Tom Christiansen #0654:
Full names may contain any printing ASCII characters from space through tilde, except that they may not contain "(", ")", "<", or ">". Additional restrictions may be placed on full names by the mail standard, in particular, the characters ",", ":", "@", "!", "/", "=", and ";" are inadvisable in full names. --RFC1036 #0655:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- But what shall it profit a man, if he own a whole domain but the MXer is toast? -- Anthony DeBoer (November 2000) #0656:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- Now *there's* a concept that could rock Usenet to its very foundations! -- Paul Tomblin (November 2000) #0657:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- "So, you'll put down your suit, and I'll put down my tie, and we'll sell each other hardware like civilised people." --Roger Burton West (November 2000) #0658:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- And if you really want to find out what someone's made of, have him work through Loelliger's "Threaded Interpreted Languages". -- Peter da Silva (September 1999) #0659:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- The whole thing is like killing my imaginary playmates. No, I can't just use someone else's imaginary playmates, thank you very much. -- Rebecca Ore (November 2000) #0660:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- My imaginary playmates, mine. They've been hanging out in my head for years waiting for me to get my ass back in gear. -- Rebecca Ore (November 2000) #0661:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't think this is the rant anyone here wanted. -- Rebecca Ore (11/00) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- #0662:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- Freud never could figure out what women wanted, which is really simple: love, work, and a rack of their own. -- Rebecca Ore (November 2000) #0663:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- We may have long hair for a reason, you know. Portable cordage. -- Rebecca Ore (May 2000) #0664:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- I think you might be wrong, perhaps. Except if you pay me. -- Nix (ASR November 2000) #0665:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- I just want something that can get me to the land of the mole people. -- Mike Sphar (December 2000) #0666:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- You need to upgrade your goat. -- Rik Steenwinkel (December 2000) #0667:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- It's downright hilarious with my reading skills. -- Jeff Vinocur (December 1999) #0668:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- I think I shall have to start a rumor that I am, indeed, mad at everyone. -- Dan Birchall (September 2000) #0669:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- Your lusers are apparently much smarter than my lusers. -- David P. Murphy (October 2000) #0670:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- In fact, the only think I can think of that can both affect and effect people is sex. -- Charlie Gibbs (March 20001) #0671:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- It takes altogether too long to compose a reply if I have to stop laughing first. -- Charlie Gibbs (July 2001) #0672:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- Yes, this is stupid. It's publishing. -- Lawrence Watt-Evans (November 2001) #0673:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- You see, it's really true: all UI's will become Emacs with the passage of time... -- Charles Shannon Hendrix (January 2002) #0674:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- You type very well for having only one hand. Of course, this is usenet. I'm sure it happens a lot. --Carl Schelin (July 2001) #0675:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- You going to have to teach the rest of us how to type with your fingers crossed. --Jerry Leslie (December 2001) #0676:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- I _knew_ that sheet of teeny-tiny labels would come in handy. -- Mike Andrews (July 2001) #0677:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- With a talent like yours, you must have another story. /BAH (July 2001) #0678:
-------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- Apparently the snails in Wales are more picky than the ones in Sweden, then. -- Jenny With the Axe, and the Temper (July 2001) #0679:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- Yeah, if we could get rid of the small children, we'd have no problem with dogs. -- Peter Seebach (Copyright 2001, all wrongs reversed.) #0680:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- Yes, indeed. Typing commands as root should be a Zen exercise, with a meditative moment before hitting "Return". --Dale Worley (February 2002) #0681:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- Deep down, I'm pretty superficial. -- Ava Gardner #0682:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- Isn't that the way usenet works. For any $oddity, there are at least two people who will admit to it. -- Joe Moore (April 2002) #0683:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- The opposite of "batch" isn't necessarily "interactive". Sometimes it's "manual". -- Charlie Gibbs (March 2002) #0684:
-------------------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--------- - If anything can go wrong, it will. - Nature sides with the hidden flaw. - Things when left alone can only go from bad to worse. #0685:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- That's the sneaky thing about Malthus - every time you think you've beaten him, he pops up again somewhere else. -- Charlie Gibbs (April 2001) #0686:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- Damn, I need to rant, not whimper. Someone bring me a user. -- Wayne Pascoe (April 2002) #0687:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- ...why should we care about silly things like counting votes when we're in a war to preserve democracy. -- Paul Tomblin (April 2002) #0688:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- If you drank a coffee every time Fluffy posted to nanae in your name you would die of caffeine poisoning. --Andrew Dalgleish (June 2001) #0689:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- Pornography is by definition purely subjective, what you call pornographic, I may consider boring. --Rob Adams (April 2002) #0690:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- If you're going to live in conditions that require a full time life support system, you might as well get the low gravity to go with it. To hell with Mars, we have unfinished business on the Moon! -- Peter da Silva (May 1999) #0691:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- Don't worry, it's not just you. Lots of people don't get the joke. --Mark W. Schumann (July 2001) #0692:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- Fortunately, I never change so I'm no more lame now than I was then. --Ross Ridge (December 2001) #0693:
It was possible to divide the world into three sets of people -- the ones who knew what would happen beforehand, the ones who stared at the result for a moment and then got it, and the people who needed it explained to them. --James Burbidge (January 2002, regarding "cal 09 1752") #0694:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- Yes, I too dream of the day when nethack finally achieves world domination :0) -- Mr Bungle (anon@anon.com.au) July 2001 #0695:
-------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- Why is it always the case that someone else says perfectly what I'm trying to say poorly? --J. B. Rainsberger (July 2001) #0696:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I have never inflicted my, erm, special, sense of humour on anyone. --Kevin Golding (July 2001) #0697:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- And thus you mark yourself forever as a mooching mystic. -- Pete McCutchen (June 2001) #0698:
Fortunately, Tolkien got to me first, and though I allowed myself to see the world through Rand's eyes for a bit, Tolkien's is the more adult worldview, and from his perspective Rand is a screaming Orc in one of Sauron's pits. --Robert Whelan (June 2001) #0699:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I'm not a luser-laser, I'm a luser-laser's mate; I'm only lasing lusers 'cause the luser-laser's late. --Tanuki the Raccoon-dog (March 2001) #0700:
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--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I believe that his [Vinge's] books are considered amusing juvenile humour out in the high beyond. --Samael (March 1999 in rasfw) #0702:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- And when I do say something relevant, I always seem to get dinged as "redundant" by people who wouldn't know redundant if it bit them in the ass twice. -- Ron Parker (July 2001) #0703:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You may now add "Professional joke-killer" to your business card; I suggest "All straight lines slaughtered quietly" as a slogan. -- David P. Murphy (July 2001) #0704:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- In today's climate, you can get promoted for saving $10 million, even if you are building a skyscraper and that money was for the foundation. --Charles Shannon Hendrix (March 2002) #0705:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- And I administer machines for the army. I know stupid. --Nir Soffer (April 1999) #0706:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- But hey, what possible harm could a few typos do when you're inscribing magical runes? -- William December Starr (December 2001) #0707:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Actually, HTML is very useful. As a flag to say "you don't need to read this email". -- Paul Tomblin (August 2001) #0708:
-------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- ...I used to be one of those macho C programmers who thought he could do no wrong, and mocked people who used padded-wall languages. Damn, I was stupid back then. -- Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes (March 2002) #0709:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- And our insanity is better than yours, of course. --Maarten Wiltink (June 2001) #0710:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- I'm not paranoid. The word simply isn't strong enough. -- Mike Andrews (May 2001) #0711:
-------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- Remember - if all you have is an axe, every problem looks like hours of fun. -- Frossie (August 1999 in ASR) #0712:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I blame the teachers, and I blame the politicians for picking the teachers, and I blame the parents for voting them in, and top of the list I put the bastard who invented the caps-lock key. -- Chris Hacking (September 2001) #0713:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- God help anyone who gives me grief between here and bed. -- Bob Dowling (July 2001) #0714:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- Can I quote you out of context? Please? -- Charles Herbig (December 2001) #0715:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- This is what my brain cells do. -- Adam J. Thornton (October 2000) #0716:
-------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- Harpsichord? No wonder nothing worked. Nobody told me harpsichords had be part of the incantation. -- /BAH (December 2001 in AFC) #0717:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- Get out of my brain. Now. -- Victoria Swann [Lurking Girl] (November 2000) #0718:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Now I know what "GNU is Not Unix" really means. -- Dimitri Maziuk (April 2002) #0719:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- We could always bobble Redmond... -- Dave Weingart (March 1999) #0720:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- With enough thrust pigs fly just fine. -- Anonymous (May 1999) #0721:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- #define SIGHEIL 40 /* fascist process has taken control of cpu */ #0722:
---Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- *ring* Thank you for calling the Incontinence Hotline! Can you hold? #0723:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- Carpe Diem: Seize the Day! Carpe Beerum: Seize the Beer! Beerum Carpe: Get the Fish Drunk! #0724:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- I predict my death occuring at the end of my life. -- Rik Steenwinkel (October 2001) #0725:
------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------- If brute force doesn't work, you're not applying enough of it. -- Jan Ingvoldstad (December 2000) #0726:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "If you fast forward through commercials, you're aiding terrorists." --Lan Barnes, logically extending the attitudes of Disney #0727:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- A subtle and excellent point. -- Shane Stezelberger (July 2001) #0728:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- As movies, Harry Potter isn't only not in the same league as FotR, it isn't even playing the same sport. --David Chapman (December 2001) #0729:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "Mr. President, we've determined that survival of the planet is not economically feasible. Push the button now and have some fun while you can." -- Charlie Gibbs (February 2002) #0730:
---Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- Ah! But does a half-dead cat have Buddha Nature? --Justin Chandler Sort of. --Nathan Wagner (April 2000) #0731:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I have an interlocking septet of flamed trellises that you may be interested in buying. --Sebastian Kuzminsky (March 1999) #0732:
If these questions really did become infrequently asked that would mean that people have _studied_, and in studying, they would have learned that C has common pitfalls, and in so doing would have put the pitfalls as far away from themselves as possible. --Dann Corbit (March 1998) #0733:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Well there's your problem. To discharge the static, touch *metal*, not wood. --Carl Schelin (April 2000) #0734:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I don't want them sorted in any order. I want them in *my* order. Being "highly configurable" is no blessing when all the configuration options suck. -- Paul Tomblin (March 2001) #0735:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I'm going to have to sell that damn time machine, it's getting me into too much trouble. -- Terry Pratchett (July 2001) #0736:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- On May 15 2000, Alan J Rosenthal told a joke: "When a Canadian scientist moves to America, the average intelligence of *both* countries goes up." #0737:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Hey, we're all philosophers here, right? --Charlie Gibbs (January 2002) #0738:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- That's like the old flow-control commands (XON/XOFF) where: Ctrl-S was 'Stop' and Ctrl-Q was 'Qontinue' :-) -Unknown #0739:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It's most dicsoncerting to have several pairs of eyes watching you from a bowl of milk. --Tanuki the Raccoon-dog (May 1999) #0740:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Nothing means love like a large intestine on your pillow. -- Ryan Tucker (May 1999) #0741:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You are truly a master of the mixed metaphor. -- Charlie Gibbs (December 2001) #0742:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The most depressing thing about getting older is being around long enough to watch knowledge die. -- Charlie Gibbs (November 2001) #0743:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It even provides an informative url. Neato." -- Tracy Reed (May 2002) #0744:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Hey, are offic ebuildings occupied by cow orkers?" -Carl Lowenstein (2002) #0745:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- See, I am an optimist. But the Buddha does not care. -- Bob La Quey (July 2002) #0746:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "#kernel-panic is my slashdot" --John H. "jaqque" Robinson, IV #0747:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Nah, go ahead. Insult me." - Jack Burton (_Big Trouble in Little China_) #0748:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "No pathetic excuses!" -Lo Pan (_Big Trouble in Little China_) #0749:
---Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- "A brave man likes the feel of rain on his face." "A wise man has enough sense to get in out of the rain." -Wang Chi and Egg Shen (_Big Trouble in Little China_) #0750:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Oh God no! What was that? Don't tell me!" -Jack Burton (_Big Trouble in Little China_) #0751:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Time for the medicine!" -Egg Shen (_Big Trouble in Little China_) #0752:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Goodbye, Mr. Burton." -Lo Pan (_Big Trouble in Little China_) #0753:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It's all in the reflexes." -Jack Burton (_Big Trouble in Little China_) #0754:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It's painfully obvious Voltaire never posted on Usenet. --Toni Lassila (2002) #0755:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I have to be _helpful_ now? -- Dylan O'Donnell (2002) #0756:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I must admit I was deeply unhappy when I first heard about Javascript, I thought "Thin end of the wedge" and I was right. :( --Rupert Pigott (May 2002) #0757:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Poison ivy is an herbicide development stimulator. -- Rebecca Ore (September 2000) #0758:
--Stewart Stremler------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- There's a reason why you find muscle car people at the drag strip and Porsche people at the autocross. -- J.D. Forinash (May 2002) #0759:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems. --John W. Gardner #0760:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won. --Gascoigne, Caroline #0761:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "I use this often, must be bad programming." --Jaron Omega (2002) #0762:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "Emacs is a nice operating system, but Linux has a better editor." -Neil Schneider #0763:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The enemy isn't conservatism. The enemy isn't liberalism. The enemy is bullshit. - Lars-Erik Nelson #0764:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "You are a big boy now. You are allowed to see such things." -Tracy Reed #0765:
--stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu---------------------------------Stewart Stremler-- "I think whenever I use profanity it's appropriate. I think whenever anybody else does, it underlines the essential weakness of his argument." -- Lan Barnes #0766:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "There is no lilo, there is only grub." --Gus Wirth #0767:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Yeah, I know, it's a silly metaphor -- hey, I'm a writer, we get to do these things." -- Eric Flint #0768:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- And did we really need to quote 50 lines of text for a one line reply? Somehow, I think not. --Nick Bastin #0769:
-Stewart Stremler-----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Before this universe there was another one... a happy universe filled with bunnies. But that one got destroyed in a great cataclysm brought about by a major plot point. Pay attention, there will be a test later. --Anonymous #0770:
-Stewart Stremler-----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It would be wasteful to die with soft arteries . . -- Richard E. Hawkins #0771:
-Stewart Stremler-----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- God, I love these easy questions. -- Lan Barnes #0772:
--Stewart Stremler-----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "Microsoft Windows is a video game for managers." -- Charlie Gibbs #0773:
--Stewart Stremler-----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- A database is a black hole into which you put your data. If you're lucky, you'll get it back again. If you're very lucky, you'll get it back in a form you can use." -- Charlie Gibbs #0774:
--Stewart Stremler-----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Now I know my brain's faulty. That almost made sense. -- Charles Herbig #0775:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Advocacy leads to disagreement; disagreement leads to Holy Wars; Holy Wars lead to suffering. Advocacy is the first step on the road to the kill-file. -- Joe Zeff (October 2002) #0776:
--Stewart Stremler----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The only way you can force people to stop fighting is to kill them. People can decide to stop fighting themselves, but you can't force it on them. -- Paul Tomblin (September 2002) #0777:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Your objection is no more relevant than an objection to Swift's "A Modest Proposal" on the grounds that Swift neglected to include recipes. --Dan Goodman (December 2002) #0778:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Things can't be incredulous. You can be. -- Paul Tomblin (September 2002) #0779:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Sucks to be you, then. Be a VMS bigot, like me. -- David P. Murphy (August 2002) #0780:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Parsed as "Those who the Gods wish to destroy, they first sendmail." Works, too. -- Paul Tomblin (March 2000) #0781:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You know, any possible claim you had to understanding this group is deeply undermined by your top-posting. --Simon Slavin (October 2002) #0782:
...because nothing helps an army more than having regiments run by incompetent rich diletantes. Look how well it worked for the British, who seem to have won most of their wars in spite of rather than because of their upper class officers. -- Paul Tomblin /// Stewart Stremler - stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu \\\ #0783:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I admire that typo so much that I'm willing to believe it was intentional. -- David P. Murphy (November 2002) #0784:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- One could almost describe many of you as "religion lusers". -- Paul Tomblin (1 Oct 1999) #0785:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The problem with wireless networking is that there are few cables around with which to strangle the lusers. --Toni Lassila (November 2002) #0786:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- //FT05001 DD DSN=TCEC.PTSD.DATA(F5),DISP=SHR //FT06001 DD SYSOUT=A Arggghhhh! WHY DO I STILL REMEMEBER THIS SHIT? -- Paul Tomblin (2/28/00) #0787:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Soon you will wake up. -- Tanuki (September 2002) #0789:
--Stewart Stremler-------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- That's because you are not sufficiently cynical. The Universe will get you in the end. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (August 2002) #0790:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Now you see, last time I used the word 'pedanticism', I was corrected to 'pedantry'. Which is ironic... -- Paul Kelleher (August 2002) #0791:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It's probably just as well, though. You might not like what I might say about your source code, should I ever run into it. We're a picky lot, here in comp.lang.c. -- Richard Heathfield (December 2002) #0792:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Unless, of course, you just laugh and tell them to sod off. Which is recovery. --Bram Smits (September 2000) #0793:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Wow, sucks to be you, your PHBs have told you to make vi setuid root. --Dave Brown (July 2002) #0794:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Although the spinoffs shouldn't be aside; the serendipity factor is unreliable in the short run, but close to a sure bet in the long run. -- Joel Rosenberg (December 2002) #0795:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends. -- Abraham Lincoln #0796:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Military glory -- that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood. -- Abraham Lincoln #0797:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I do not like this punishment of withholding pay: it falls so very hard on poor families. -- Abraham Lincoln #0798:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- As I would not be a slave so I would not be a master. -- Abraham Lincoln #0799:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nothing valuable was ever lost by taking time. -- Abraham Lincoln #0800:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- These capitalists generally act harmoniously, and in concert, to fleece the people. -- Abraham Lincoln #0801:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank God, we have a system of labor where there can be a strike. -- Abraham Lincoln #0802:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. -- Abraham Lincoln #0803:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I cannot claim that I am free from error in all opinions that I advance. -- Abraham Lincoln #0804:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The better part of one's life consists of friendships. -- Abraham Lincoln #0805:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I don't know why my grandfather was; I am more concerned to know what his grandson will be. -- Abraham Lincoln #0806:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. -- Abraham Lincoln #0807:
---Stewart Stremler-----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- If by mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revo- lution -- certainly it would if such a right were a vital one. --Abraham Lincoln #0808:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Would you have voted what you felt to be a lie? -- Abraham Lincoln #0809:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent. -- Abraham Lincoln #0810:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am determined to borrow no trouble. -- Abraham Lincoln #0811:
--Stewart Stremler----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I have learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax handle. -- Abraham Lincoln #0812:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some things that are legally right are not necessarily morally right. -- Abraham Lincoln #0813:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some men seem to think that as long as they keep out of jail they have a sure chance of getting into heaven. -- Abraham Lincoln #0814:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- In grave emergencies, moderation is generally safer than radicalism. -- Abraham Lincoln #0815:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "Eennie, meenie, miny, moe.. Which end points toward the foe?" (#3 in the Top 10 things you don't want to hear your mage say in battle.) --Jacob Mandelson #0816:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "Oh, oh, oh, oh! That wand of cold balls -didn't- do what I expected." (#8 in the Top 10 things you don't want to hear your mage say in battle.) --Jacob Mandelson #0817:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "Suddenly I've lost all confidence." -- Lan Barnes #0818:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "Please be more clear so I can tell how you're offending me." -- Lan Barnes #0819:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- if you know vi, then all editing becomes easy. if you know emacs, then all editing becomes lisp. -- John H. Robinson, IV (February 2003) #0820:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Arrogance is only actionable when you're not completely in the right. And that would never happen to us, would it? -- Paul Tomblin (02/2003) #0821:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Yikes. I didn't realise I had stature. When did that happen? -- Kirrily 'Skud' Robert (Nov. 2000) #0822:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Forcing people to smile at us at gunpoint is no guarantee of peace. -- Rebecca Ore (March 2003) #0823:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If terror against terrorists would be enough, Israel wouldn't be having problems now. -- Rebecca Ore (March 2003) #0824:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Nixon was president in your timeline? -- Lawrence Watt-Evans (December 2002) #0825:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Misparsed that as "subjunctive". Man that hurt. -- Charles "RevChas" Herbig (November 2002) #0826:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Yes. I am quite aware that I'm not the most dexterous person in the world. Alas, NHINRL, and it isn't all that easy to exercise my DEX. --Richard Bos (Feb 2003) #0827:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Why, you must think we're as naive as we think you must think we think you are. -- Roland Hutchinson (Feb 2003) #0828:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You can quit emacs? -- James Riden #0829:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- A well-timed Usenet post can easily embiggen the English lexicon... -- Omri Schwarz (Apr 2003) #0830:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Even the stubborn fsckhead realizes he can't out-stubborn procmail, and he finally does the right thing. --Steve VanDevender (September 2002) #0831:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The Black Leather Pants of Evil don't hurt, either. -- John Schilling (12/02) #0832:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You're expecting a government agency to be consistent? --Joe Morris (December 2002) #0833:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- ...In other words, you get spam, you just filter it out. That's like solving crime by living in a gated community. -- Peter da Silva (August 1999) #0834:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- File me under "cynical optimist", then. -- David P. Murphy (October 2002) #0835:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Brin has jumped the shark. He's gotten boring and repetitive. He's griping that LotR is precisely what it was intended to be. --Terry Austin (December 2002) #0836:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Obviously sitting on a volcano 2300 miles out in the ocean is just insufficiently remote to avoid such things. --Dan Birchall (July 2002) #0837:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I have, on occasion, called in bored. -- Matt McLeod (December 2000) #0838:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Very few animals look the same after being turned on a lathe. -- Anthony de Boer #0839:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Hark the microkernels king Monolithic's not his thing. -- Paul Martin (December 2002) #0840:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I'm not clueless about it, I'm cynical about it. -- Rebecca Ore (March 2003) #0841:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- summer's essence drowns in gloomy eve of winter wind blows bricktext in --Alan J Rosenthal (May 2002) #0842:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You're just jealous because the voices aren't talking to _you_. -- Charlie Gibbs (Jan 2003) #0843:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I already had a headache before I tried to read that; now it's much worse. Thanks. --Chris Hedley (June 2002) #0844:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I can see why boustrophedonic writing didn't catch on. --Chris Hedley (June 2002) #0845:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Great. Now I even can't parse "loose" any more when it's applied correctly. - Christian Bauernfeind (November 2000) #0846:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I'm irritated by all the evil heterosexual males! Almost every book or movie has a villain who's a heterosexual male. Once or twice, that might have been coincidence, but by now I'm seeing definite bigotry. -Mark Hughes #0847:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- That fifteen year jump in 'Wyrd Sisters' was *so* useful in so many ways. -- Red Drag Diva (April 2000) #0848:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Additionally, it's the web *browser* which is the security problem, not HTML. It's like saying petrol causes people to get run over. :) --Rupert Pigott (May 2002) #0849:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- ....mostly I use my superior judgement to avoid situations that would require my superior skill. -- Paul Tomblin (May 2001) #0850:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- True, and I'd never thought of that. I blame it on a lack of imagination. Somebody nicked mine when I was a kid. :-) -- Darshan Shaligram (July 2002) #0851:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Wealth is a superfluity of things we don't need. -- Abraham Lincoln #0852:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. -- Abraham Lincoln #0853:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Those who fairly carry an election can fairly supress a rebellion. -- Abraham Lincoln #0854:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Killing the dog does not cure the bite. -- Abraham Lincoln #0855:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty. -- Abraham Lincoln #0856:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Damn, did I miss the strident ranting again? --- David Cook #0857:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Kipling was someone I read a lot of before I discovered Heinlein. -- Rebecca Ore (March 2003) #0858:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I tried long division. Once. -- Charlie Gibbs (March 2003) #0859:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You shouldn't anthropomorphize computers. They don't like it. -- Charlie Gibbs (November 2002) #0860:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The reason I try so hard to Do The Right Thing is that I know that if I don't, I'm just going to have to fix it later. -- Charlie Gibbs (July 2002) #0861:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- No woman is so liberated that the man isn't expected to kill the mouse, mow the lawn, and warm the sheets :) -- Richard E. Hawkins (09/2002) #0862:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Wow, that's like a whole year's salary Canadian, isn't it? -- Robert Uhl (August 2002) #0863:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- What range does 802.11b have when the base station is underwater? -- Alan W. Frame (November 2002) #0864:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You mean when someone refers to a ship as "she", there's actually a woo-woo built into it somewhere? --Alan J Rosenthal #0865:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You'd owe my employer a keyboard, but then I'd have to tell them I was reading usenet. -- Richard in the sdm (November 2002) #0866:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Ooooh. "Develops the appropriate methodologies." That's *nasty*. -- Red Drag Diva (May 2002) #0867:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I don't know about you, but learning that - metaphysically speaking - threw a huge fscking rock into the calm pool of my Tao. -- Adam Steed (February 2003) #0868:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- My wife would kill me if she knew how much I just laughed at that. -Dayv! (July 2002 in rgrn) #0869:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Is that supposed to be some type of excuse? -- Ignasi Palou-Rivera (May 2002) #0870:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Oh, so *that's* why they're called firewalls. -- Jay Mottern (September 2000) #0871:
---Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- Which just goes to prove my theory: If you ever want to know the answer to a question, post an almost-right answer to USENET, and wait for the flames (or, in this case, pedants-- thanks, James) to start pouring in. --Eric The Read #0872:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- How can he be "fail" to be "convincing" that they will happen when they are *ACTUALLY* *HAPPENING*, here in the real world? -- Mark Atwood (December 2002) #0873:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Running emacs in order to use gnus. Isn't that a little like firing up the truck in order to heat up a sandwich? --Jeff Stehman (November 2002) #0874:
"If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German, and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew." --Albert Einstein, 1929 #0875:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I'm all ears. Apart from the bits that aren't. -- Ben in the sdm (November 2000) #0876:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Shades of opinion may be sincerely entertained by honest and truthful men. -- Abraham Lincoln #0877:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I am charged with making too many mistakes on the side of mercy. -- Abraham Lincoln #0878:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The country and the nation belong to the people who inhabit it. -- Abraham Lincoln #0879:
--Stewart Stremler-------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- We dare not disregard the lessons of experience. -- Abraham Lincoln #0880:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Towering genius disdains a beaten path. -- Abraham Lincoln #0881:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- True, but I'm very very happy for you anyway, living in a place where such things have never happened and never will. Congratulations. --David P. Murphy (September 2002) #0882:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Good design can overcome many limitations. -- Charlie Gibbs (March 2001) #0883:
--Stewart Stremler-------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If you forbid any independent checking of results, your measured error rate will always be exceptionally low. -- J.D. Baldwin (May 2002) #0884:
---Stewart Stremler----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- ...I couldn't let such a mere technicality stand in the way of a truly bad pun. -- Charlie Gibbs (February 2002) #0885:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- My God, man! You've got to get out more often! -- David P. Murphy (November 2001) #0886:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- ....I'm trying to fight down the gnawing suspicion that you're the kind of guy who goes around ruining jokes by piping up, "And then what happened?" right after the punchline. -- David P. Murphy (March 2003) #0887:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- They were obviously the result of secret Nazi experiments in the Amazon. -- Peter da Silva (November 2002) #0888:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Heh, heh. Everything I say is false. Parse that! :-) -- Charlie Gibbs (December 2002) #0889:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You do seem quick to jump on one particular interpretation of a phrase, to the exclusion of all others. -- Charlie Gibbs (December 2002) #0890:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Or did you simply have a sudden compulsion to add a pointless anecdote? -- David P. Murphy (February 2003) #0891:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Or, as they say, CP/M was a great improvement on its successors. -- Charlie Gibbs (April 2002) #0892:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- These funny English guys with black hats will be the death of me. -- Claudine in afp (July 2001) #0893:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- There. Historical accuracy _plus_ Microsoft bashing. Order has been restored to the universe. -- Charlie Gibbs (January 2002) #0894:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- With a talent like yours, you must have another story. -- /BAH (July 2001) #0895:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Well, of course it died. It never got fed real meat. -- /BAH (July 2001) #0896:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Hmmm, system usage is 2.69, I really should have 'nice'd that 'dd'. -- Stephen Cope (December 2000) #0897:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Sometimes it's easy to see who is paying attention to the *important* things in life and who isn't. -- David P. Murphy (February 2003) #0898:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I'm insulted that you think I could be that predictable. -- David P. Murphy (April 2003) #0899:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "How can you have any Guinness if you don't eat your curry?" -- David P. Murphy (February 2003) #0900:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- *I* am illiterate in at least two hundred languages. -- David P. Murphy (April 2003) #0901:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "Some folks just beg to be quoted out of context." -- David P. Murphy #0902:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Given arbitrary-precision integers i,j,k, does the following program halt? for(i=j=k=1;--j||k;k=j?i%j?k:k-j:(j=i+=2)); #0903:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Did someone say something? I must have missed it. -- Paul G. Allen #0904:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Self-moderation usually works just fine here. That and short attention spans. Besides, where else do you get such a high entertainment value? -- D. J. Allen #0905:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is as well to add something for the risk that you run, and if you do that, you will have enough to pay for something better. -- John Ruskin #0906:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The way to fight a woman is with your hat. Grab it and run. --John Barrymore #0907:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. --Frank Zappa #0908:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Golf is a good walk spoiled. --Mark Twain #0909:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. --George Carlin #0910:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- All I ever really wanted from life was to tell computers what to do! -Jefferson Swycaffer #0911:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I think you faked the whole question just so you could say that! -- Lan Barnes #0912:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Weirdly, this is never called irony, even though every other bloody thing that anyone ever says is. -- Zoe Williams #0913:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- if anyone saiud anything, i missed it. i blame the internet. -- jaqque #0914:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- All science is either physics or stamp collecting. -- E. Rutherford #0915:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Computers are really good at taking in lots of data and fitting a curve to it. They don't get tired after four or five points. -Carl Lowenstein #0916:
If I don't drive around the park,/I'm sure to make my mark. \ stremler @ cs . If I'm in bed each night by ten,/I may get back my looks again.\ sdsu . edu If I abstain from fun and such,/I'll probably amount to much; \________ But I shall stay the way I am,/Because I do not give a damn. -D. Parker \____ #0917:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I never run in fear from a beer. -- Charles Herbig #0918:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- When are you not grumpy? -Bob La Quey #0919:
--Stewart Stremler-------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It's really hard to help you when you aren't paying attention. -pr3d4t0r #0920:
--Stewart Stremler-------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Originality consists in thinking for yourself, and not in thinking unlike other people. --Sir J. Fitzjames Stephen #0921:
--Stewart Stremler-------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- But I guess saying things like that classifies me as one of those unpatriotic liberals who puts decency before the flag. -Lan Barnes #0922:
--Stewart Stremler-----------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I liked tabs as well, then I got a good editor. -- Dmitry Maksyoma #0923:
--Stewart Stremler-----------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The last temptation is the highest treason: To do the right thing for the wrong reason. --T..S. Eliot #0924:
--Stewart Stremler-----------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "bad entropy and good entropy look a lot alike" -- jaqque #0925:
--Stewart Stremler-----------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You are, of course, right. To which I say, nya nya nyanner and :-P -- Lan Barnes #0926:
--Stewart Stremler-----------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- ASNR (initialism): Aspirated Spontaneous Nasal Reflux -- Chris Mauricio #0927:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad. --Salvador Dali #0928:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Always be smarter than the people who hire you. -- Lena Horne #0929:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Writing *that* down woke up some long dormant brain cells. --Elliott Roper (June 2003) #0930:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If your wife or girlfriend asks for "toilet water", make sure you understand the difference. -- Paul Tomblin (August 2003) #0931:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "Some folks you don't have to satirize, you just quote 'em." -- Tom Paxton #0932:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- VNC is not X, and while some people are all enthusiastic about VNC, my experience with it suggests they're all on crack. A real local X server on your PC is a different beast altogether. -- Peter da Silva (July 2003) #0933:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- My dream holiday would be a) a ticket to Amsterdam b) immunity from prosecution and c) a baseball bat :-) -- Terry Pratchett (July 2001) #0934:
--Stewart Stremler-------------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them. -- Terry Pratchett (2001) #0935:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Congratulations, you just failed the Turing Test. --Dave Brown (Feb 2003) #0936:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- i'm not hard of hearing, i just am a visual learner (in #kernel-panic, August 2003) #0937:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Imitation is the sincerest form of television. --Fred Allen #0938:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The "P." is for "Pedantic". -- David P. Murphy #0939:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- We are in the era of the thermonuclear bomb that can obliterate cities and can be delivered across continents. With such weapons, war has become, not just tragic, but preposterous. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower (August 23, 1956) #0940:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The average person thinks he isn't. --Father Larry Lorenzoni #0941:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Since I don't have a cat, I suppose I'd have to settle for lighting a fire. -- David P. Murphy (June 2003) #0942:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Wagner's music is better than it sounds. --Mark Twain #0943:
--Stewart Stremler-------------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- So, it's not okay to call a blackboard a blackboard, because it's *not always* black, but calling the chalk chalk is okay even though it's *never* chalk? Nice set of double standards you've got there... --Jasper Janssen (09/2002) #0944:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Why be different in just one sense? -- David P. Murphy #0945:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. --Tim Leary #0946:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket. -- George Orwell #0947:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. --Bertrand Russell #0948:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it. --Steven Wright #0949:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If we'd only stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. --Edith Wharton #0950:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific. -- Lily Tomlin #0951:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You wanted to be a sysadmin. "Oh!" said God, "a challenge!" -- David P. Murphy (July 2001) #0952:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It's damned inconvenient having democracies as allies. They're so unpredictable. -Mike Schilling (April 2003) #0953:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- There is nothing quite so good as a burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating. -- Alfred Hitchcock #0954:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. --Jean-Paul Sartre #0955:
--Stewart Stremler-------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I mean, if I had a bookshop, I wouldn't let any *customers* in, that would just spoil it. -- David P. Murphy (12/2002) #0956:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If the writing stuff is called chalk without being chalk, the writing surface can be called blackboard without being black. -- Olivier Galibert (September 2002) #0957:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Not tonight dear; I'm writing a footnote. -- Richard E. Hawkins (10/2002) #0958:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- This is a sickness in American film; this bizarre implied "ever after" immortality that comes with all happy endings. Remember how sad you were when Mad Max died at the end of Braveheart? --Jay Pinkerton #0959:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs. -- Mike Andrews #0960:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- This meme seems to be spreading, so I'm doing my bit to fight it. -- Charlie Gibbs (October 2000) #0961:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I'm not even sure there _is_ any logic behind it. IYAM, vi is better than emacs only because there's less of it. -- Richard Bos (2003) #0962:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Now you are arguing with yourself again. --Torbjorn Pettersson (2003) #0963:
--Stewart Stremler-------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- There's this special biologist word we use for "stable". It's "dead". -- Jack Cohen #0964:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- But seriously, I've got root, so it's his problem. -- Nick Manka #0965:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Don't tease me, you know what I do for a living. --Martin Blank (_Grosse Pointe Blank_) #0966:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I just find it amusing that you come from somewhere. --Marcella (_Grosse Pointe Blank_) #0967:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Okay. Keep it up. Don't kill anybody. --Dr. Oatman (_Grosse Pointe Blank_) #0968:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If you love something, set it free. If it comes back to you, it's, well -- broken. --Debi Newberry (_Grosse Pointe Blank_) #0969:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Thank you for profiting on my childhood. --Martin Blank (_Grosse Pointe Blank_) #0970:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- This is me breathing. --Martin Blank (_Grosse Pointe Blank_) #0971:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It's not me! Why does everyone think it's personal? --Martin Blank (_Grosse Pointe Blank_) #0972:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- When the revolution comes, we'll need a longer wall. -- Tom De Mulder #0973:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Software planning seems to be based on denying plausibility. -- Graham Reed #0974:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Venn is das nurstuck git und slotermeyer? Ja! Beigerhund das oder die Flipperwalkdt gersput! -- Monty Python's Flying Circus "The Funniest Joke in the World" #0975:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- When I do it, it's development. When you do it, it's coding. When he does it, it's mindless hacking. -- Paul Tomblin #0976:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It's possible there had been armed autonomous droids at some point in the past, and one can almost imagine past issues of that galaxy's Risks Digest. -- Anthony DeBoer, on SW: TPM #0977:
Camels and llamas and hashes and scalars \_\_ stremler @ rohan . sdsu . edu Cute little modules talking to mailers \_\_ Stewart Stremler Regexes munging my humungous strings \_\_____________________________ These are a few of my favourite things. -- Malcolm Ray, making Perl sing #0978:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I never really understood how there could be things that would drive you insane just because you knew them until I ran into Windows. -- Peter da Silva #0979:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I notice that "talent" is a favorite word of people who don't create anything themselves. -- Kevin Pease #0980:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Every fleeting thought you've ever had in your life, no matter how bizarre, is someone's lifelong obsession. And he has a website. -- Skif's Internet Theorem #0981:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. -- Brian W. Kernighan #0982:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that's not why we're doing it. -- Richard Feynman #0983:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Legacy (adj): an uncomplimentary computer-industry epithet that means 'it works'. -- Anthony DeBoer #0984:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Or, to put it another way, if you see a long line of rats streaming off of a ship, the correct assumption is *not* "gosh, I bet that's a real nice boat now that those rats are gone". -- Mike Sphar #0985:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- But of course. God Wrote the world in Fortran. For six columns you shall label, and on the seventh you shall code . . . -- Richard E. Hawkins (October 2002) #0986:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- And management says I'm not a team player. They're just looking at the wrong team. -- Graham Reed (October 2003) #0987:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You do have a talent for reassuring people ... --Suresh Ramasubramanian (June 2002) #0988:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If Alan Turing was alive today, the homosexuality would be OK but he'd be in trouble for codebreaking. -- Martin Bacon #0989:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself. --Stephen Fry, _Paperweight_, 1992 #0990:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The great artists are those who impose their personal vision upon humanity. -- Maupassant, preface to _Pierre et Jean_, 1887 #0991:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Get that smirk of your face. What did the cats do to you? --Maarten Wiltink (August 2001) #0992:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- There's something just a tad contradictory in there. -- David P. Murphy (October 2002) #0993:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Being a FORTRAN-77 programmer (for pay) gave me more respect for the syntactic simplicity and elegance of every other language I've worked with. That's gotta be worth something. -- Dan Birchall (November 2002) #0994:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Anthony DeBoer: Is it just me, or does anyone else here find it vaguely unsettling that you get your theology from Star Trek? Paul Tomblin: Yeah, he should get it from B5 like us normal people. #0995:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- That will happen about 5 days after all the people of the world agree on which is the "correct" religion. -- Paul Tomblin #0996:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Please don't ever invite me over for dinner. -- J.D. Baldwin (August 2001) #0997:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I concede that using TABs in a restricted way is not evil. --Larry Weiss (July 2003) #0998:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Why do you think DC is the murder capitol of the U.S.? Gotta keep all those monuments serviced, and the pentagram at the center of the Pentagon needs a dozen virgins a week just to contain Cthulhu. --Mark Hughes (2002) #0999:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Beware visionaries who can't even see the past. -- Peter da Silva (November 2002) #1000:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I would say that Perl would be a really good language if you want to teach people the same kind of bad lessons they learn from BASIC. -- Peter da Silva (July 2003) #1001:
--Stewart Stremler----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- That's the problem with trains of thought, they're not very maneuverable. You try backing them up and the next thing you know you've run over the neighbor's dog. :) -- Peter da Silva (November 2002) #1002:
--Stewart Stremler----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny. -Thomas Jefferson #1003:
--Stewart Stremler----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "You're wrong, and I can live with that." -- "snipe" in #kernel-panic #1004:
--Stewart Stremler-----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The problem is, there are so many things you can't say. If you said them all you'd have no time left for your real work. You'd have to turn into Noam Chomsky. -Paul Graham #1005:
--Stewart Stremler-----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "Just because something isn't funny does not make it intellectual humor." --snipe in #kernel-panic #1006:
--Stewart Stremler-----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I've always seen IRC as sort of a masochists club for sadists. --jdmarshall in #java #1007:
--Stewart Stremler-----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- My laptop looks like it has mange. -Paul Tomblin #1008:
--Stewart Stremler-----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- MVC as interpreted by most webapp frameworks is the problem, not the solution. -Anonymous #1009:
--Stewart Stremler-----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Only in the last resort should you inflict bodily harm on the project manager. Like cats, they cannot be trained by negative reinforcement. -Anonymous #1010:
And we also reserve the right to answer the question you should have asked instead of the one you actually asked. -- Andrew Lentvorski (Fall 2007) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu #1011:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- What you gains in convenience you loses in compost. --Nanny Ogg #1012:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I don't trust all this occult, you never know who had it last. --Nanny Ogg #1013:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Nothing flusters people so much as an unexpected king. --Nanny Ogg #1014:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Ant is not a silver bullet. It is just another rusty bullet in the armory of development tools available at your disposal. --Steve Loughran #1015:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- But lets face it, if bad guys could aim, there would be no action movies. --Anonymous #1016:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Best practices are a hazard because they ask us to substitute slogans for thinking. --Anonymous #1017:
--Stewart Stremler-------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- As we automate successive parts of the software development puzzle, we find that the complexity and difficulty don't go away, but simply move around like a bubble under a carpet. --Anonymous #1018:
--Stewart Stremler-----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- One of the problems with the buzzword approach to software development is that when you limit your vocabulary to buzzwords you correspondingly limit your solution space to whatever can be described by those buzzwords. --Anonymous #1019:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I learned that the largest cross platform compatible subset of C++ is C. --Michael Feathers #1020:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I think the last time I appeared in front of a large crowd was when I was born, and I'm hoping this will be slightly less traumatic for me. --Nick Bradbury #1021:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Will calling our customers criminals increase consumer loyalty? --Lawrence Lessig #1022:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- My productivity went way down because I was forced to live on the cutting edge. --Anonymous #1023:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The best defensive strategy is the courage to attack yourself. --Al Ries & Jack Trout #1024:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I have a set of alarm bells that go off when people say, "Always do this." --Anonymous #1025:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- They that can give up general purpose computers for the sake of a little eye candy deserve neither computers nor eye candy. --Anonymous #1026:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- There is no such thing as a parasite-free complex ecology. --Kathryn Myronuk #1027:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Software development occurs in the heads of the people on the team. --Anonymous #1028:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- When in doubt, refactor. #1029:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Now go away and do something that really messes up your life. --Anonymous #1030:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You wouldn't want 100% server utilization. So, don't try to use human resources 100%. --Christian Sepulveda #1031:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Life on earth may be expensive, but it does include an annual free trip around the sun. --Unknown #1032:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Finally, Lisp continues to be the Latin of computing. --Bill de hO'ra #1033:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If the documentation is great then you can live with any foibles of the software. -- Ian Fairman #1034:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- To a large extent, maintenance is unavoidable, and attempts to create software that never requires maintenance only results in software guaranteed never to work. --Michael J. Rettig with Martin Fowler #1035:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Liar. I've seen your password. It's eight asterisks. -Unknown #1036:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Patterns are useful starting points, but they are not destinations. --Martin Fowler #1037:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Software development is meant to be fun. If it isn't, the process is wrong. --Pete McBreen #1038:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Whenever you do a performance optimization, however, you must measure both before and after, otherwise, you may just be making your code harder to read. --Unknown #1039:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Modern art is what happened when painters stopped looking at girls. --Unknown #1040:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Censor's note: you really didn't want to read this part we cut. #1041:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I like the present order: not surprisingly, perhaps, as I chose it. --Anonymous #1042:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It costs NASA less to send a probe to Mars than it would cost Hollywood to make a movie about it. --Bob MacDonald #1043:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Patterns, Enterprises and Architectures, oh my! But the most important words on the cover are "Martin Fowler". --Bill de hO'ra #1044:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- All models are false, but some models are useful. --Anonymous #1045:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Oracle is so complex and difficult that you are guaranteed never to be without a job once you learn it. --John Lim #1046:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Practice without feedback just reinforces errors. --Unknown #1047:
---Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- The best processes in the world will not save a project from failure if the people involved do not have the necessary skills to execute the process; conversely, really good developers can make any process work. -Jim Highsmith #1048:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Subclassing is typically not the safest way to extend a class that you do not own. --Unknown #1049:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Sometimes we call this the curse of the popular, denial of service, or in vulgar tongue, the slashdot effect. --Bill de hO'ra #1050:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Some people, when confronted with a web application, think "I know, I'll use a framework." Now they have two problems. --Bill de hO'ra (paraphrasing Zawinski) #1051:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- There seems to be only one conclusion possible : Only children and fools know the whole truth. --Unknown #1052:
--Stewart Stremler----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Is it too much to ask for competant people? If they aren't, we need to find new ones. If they lack experience, we need to educate them. Process+Monkeys is NOT the answer. --Simon Harris #1053:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Standards are so good that everyone should have his own. #1054:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I simply discovered more sheer intelligence per square inch in your program than I had any expectation of finding. --Unknown #1055:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Whatever the reason, I find it particularly annoying when someone uses a tool incorrectly and it is praised for being creative and original. --Unknown #1056:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The real value of all agile processes is a pragmatism that encourages flexibility and adjustments, rather than prescriptions and ceremony. --Christian Sepulveda #1057:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I think in any kind of design, you must drive for simplicity all the time. If you don't, complexity will nail you. Dealing with complexity is hard enough. --James Gosling #1058:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The 60/60 rule: 60 percent of software's dollar is spent on maintenance, and 60 percent of that maintenance is enhancement. Enhancing old software is, therefore, a big deal. --Robert L. Glass #1059:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- As with all links to the Wiki though, be warned: click too many links and hours of your life will inexplicably vanish... --Simon Willison #1060:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Science and art were originally two faces of the same human creativity. --Bronowski #1061:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Nevermind the vitamins and minerals, what you really wanted on your plate was lots. -- Nanny Ogg #1062:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If you can see what the plate is made of, the portions are too small. --Nanny Ogg #1063:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- In fact good manners started to happen as soon as all the mammoths were killed off and there was no piece of food big enough for everyone to eat all tha the same time. -- Nanny Ogg #1064:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- God bless the human elbow / God bless it where it bends If it bent too short / We'd be dry I fear If it bent too long / We'd be drinking in our ear -Poxy Boggards #1065:
--Stewart Stremler-----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- My particular bete noir is the Sequence Diagram. If you can find me two people (real UML users not UML tutors) who can produce the same diagram from the same set facts, I'll prove to you that one of them was copying. -Vincent O'Sullivan #1066:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- A large proportion of the computers in this world manipulate money, so it's always puzzled me that money isn't actually a first class data type in any mainstream programming language. --Martin Fowler #1067:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Our lack of popularity in high school was led us to think and thinking has lead us to this. --Gary Panter #1068:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- When C++ is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb. -- Steven M. Haflich #1069:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Experience has shown that allowing vendors to guide technology implementations is like getting the fox to guard the henhouse. --Richard Adhikari #1070:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- One of the critical components of successful software projects is competent people. --Mike Konrad et al #1071:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The "Rise of the Machines" already happened, a century ago. We call them "corporations". --Nathan Myers #1072:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "In the ongoing battle between objects made of aluminum going hundreds of miles per hour and the ground going zero, the ground has yet to lose." -Anonymous #1073:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The propeller is just a big fan in front of the plane used to keep the pilot cool. When it stops, you can actually watch the pilot start sweating. --Unknown #1074:
--Stewart Stremler-----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead. -Tom Stoppard #1075:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "Omit needless words." - Strunk and White #1076:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Progress (n.): The process through which Usenet has evolved from smart people in front of dumb terminals to dumb people in front of smart terminals. -- obs(@)burnout.demon.co.uk #1077:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind." - Rudyard Kipling #1078:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If I am correct, your only solution is to kill Aunt Tilly. I'm sorry, but she shoulda known. --Lan Barnes #1079:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I spy with my little eye something beginning with ([a-zA-Z0-9].*) -- http://bash.org/?428535 #1080:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Black is the queen of colors. --Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) #1081:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I guess it's an indication of how bad things really are when the converted begin to waver. --Lan Barnes #1082:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Big iron is basically all about transactions per second, not seconds per transaction. -- Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. #1083:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It's *never* wrong to despair. -- J.D. Baldwin (November 2004) #1084:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- sitting on a desk, about all that matters is weight -- wesolows (in #sparc) #1085:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It's always a good idea to keep the pointy end going forward as much as possible. --Unknown #1086:
--Stewart Stremler-------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I cannot but admire such cynicism. -- David P. Murphy (December 2004) #1087:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Your cynicism is underdeveloped. -- Paul Martin (January 2004) #1088:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- the real danger facing America is what we're allowing ourselves to become --Unknown #1089:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Google really is a command line interface (CLI) to the web. --Unknown #1090:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- But for many other things you shouldn't plan for a hierarchy, because you're not going to need one. --Unknown #1091:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Always negotiate the price of products. Never negotiate the price of services. The services you get for half price are not the same services you get for full price. --Unknown #1092:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Any solution that works tends to persist far longer than you might plan or desire. --Unknown #1093:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Performance difference due to programmer variability is greater than that due to language variability. --Unknown #1094:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You can tell when you're working with "Enterprise Software Solutions" because the vendor freebies are red t-shirts. -- Anthony de Boer (2004) #1095:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It's not because business is war, but because war is business. --Unknown #1096:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It's interrupting my beer; thus, it is not to be tolerated. Desist! -- Mark C. Langston (December 2003) #1097:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I just lost a bet with myself. I was sure the first question would involved shaved parts. -- Jack Twilley (Novemeber 2003) #1098:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Microsoft using .wtf as an extention struck me as disturbingly appropriate. -- David Cameron Staples (September 2004) #1099:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Our head is round so that our thinking can change directions. -- Francis Picabia #1100:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- [Multitasking]: slicing time and attention is not like slicing a potato, but more like slicing a plum... you're bound to lose some juice. -Unknown #1101:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism." --Theodore Roosevelt, 1915 #1102:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "Any time we deny any citizen the full exercise of his constitutional rights, we are weakening our own claim to them." --Dwight David Eisenhower, 1963 #1103:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- After all, if you aren't familiar with source code control systems, you really shouldn't be developing enterprise applications. -Unknown #1104:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Does anyone find it amusing that realism is being used along with a description of a totally made-up creature? -- Seraphim (December 2004 in rgrn) #1105:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Surely you are familiar with the Greek myth that the way you could tell Athena was nearby was from the bad smell of Medusa's head on her shield. -- John McCarthy (December 2003) #1106:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Probe not too deeply into the physics of Nethack, for they are both silly and sensible. -- Martin Read (January 2005) #1107:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Apparently there are still a lot of people out there who either had no idea that women have breasts and are shocked to find out, or else they are very upset over the fact. -Unknown #1108:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "Always give your best, never get discouraged, never be petty; always remember, others may hate you. Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself." --Richard Nixon, 1974 #1109:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we." --George W Bush, 2004 #1110:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Like the ski resort full of girls hunting for husbands and husbands hunting for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem. -- Alan Lindsay Mackay, before 1991 #1111:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Crap, is it an Agenda now? I was just getting used to calling it a Lifestyle. --Mike Schilling (December 2004) #1112:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Use this advice to prod your thinking, but don't use it as a replacement for your thinking. In the end you have to make, and live with, the decisions yourself. --Unknown #1113:
---Stewart Stremler-----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- These impressive results have encouraged us to experiment with an even more extreme method of code production, which we call Purr Programming. The practice is similar in form to Pair Programming except that one of the pair is a domestic cat. --Unknown #1114:
The A cups have the B cups, ||| stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu To check for straps behind them, ||| Stewart Stremler The B cups have the C cups, |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| And so, ad infinitum. -- Kevin (January 2004 in asr) ||| #1115:
I don't like brassieres, Ronald Mc-D, \\ stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu I want employees "floating free". \\ Stewart Stremler I would not like them here or there. \\________________________ I would not like them anywhere. -- Kevin (January 2004 in asr) #1116:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Fortunately, on Usenet nobody can hear you giggle. -- Eric Jarvis #1117:
From dpm@myths.com Mon Jan 3 12:56:47 2005 --Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You're trying to trick me into being intelligent. It won't work. -- David P. Murphy (January 2005) #1118:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- *Anything* written in more than one line of Perl is a trick, a kludge, laziness or ignorance. -- David P. Murphy (January 2005) #1119:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "An honorable defeat is better than a dishonorable victory." --Millard Fillmore, 1844 #1120:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present." --Lyndon Johnson, 1964 #1121:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Stop me before I quote again. -- David P. Murphy (May 2003) #1122:
Hardware, n.: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu #1123:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Guard against the prestige of great names; see that your judgements are your own; and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing. --John Dalberg Acton #1124:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- We do not easily suspect evil of those whom we love the most. --Peter Abelard #1125:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Change is good. You go first. --Scott Adams #1126:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Other things may change us, but we start and end with family. --Anthony Brandt #1127:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. -- Neils Bohr #1128:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical. -Niels Bohr #1129:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I am not a glutton -- I am an explorer of food. -- Erma Bombeck #1130:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use XML." Now they have two problems. -- Jamie Zawinski #1131:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Keep looking around. There's always something you've missed. --Unknown #1132:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- In other words, you can talk all the bullshit you want about democracy, but when you're blowing up children, you're a fascist. --Unknown #1133:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I can't do all the googling for everyone. -- Lan Barnes #1134:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- RS: He had Dave Hodges as his defence attorney. TP: A cunning plan to ensure that a plea of insanity would be accepted without question. -- Robert Sneddon & Terry Pratchett (July 2003) #1135:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Tiny storage is my friend. --Hemos (on /.) #1136:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I know how men in exile feed on dreams. --Aeschylus #1137:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Wit is educated insolence. --Aristotle #1138:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The wise learn many things from their enemies. --Aristophanes #1139:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You cannot teach a crab to walk straight. -- Aristophanes #1140:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- By words the mind is winged. -Aristophanes (448BC - 385BC) #1141:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You cannot get ahead while you are getting even. -- Dick Armey #1142:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible. - Frank L. Gaines #1143:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty. --Mahatma Gandhi #1144:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Be the change you want to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi #1145:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. - Gandhi #1146:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Even peace may be purchased at too high a price. --Benjamin Franklin #1147:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason. --Benjamin Franklin #1148:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- All the Constitution guarantees is the pursuit of happiness. You have to catch up with it by yourself. --Benjamin Franklin #1149:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. --Benjamin Franklin #1150:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. -Benjamin Franklin #1151:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. --Benjamin Franklin #1152:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. --Benjamin Franklin #1153:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the instruction afterward. --Benjamin Franklin #1154:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Beer is proof that God loves us. --Benjamin Franklin #1155:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- To the discontented man no chair is easy. -- Benjamin Franklin #1156:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Anger is never without a reason but seldom a good one. -- Benjamin Franklin #1157:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- There are two passions which have a powerful influence on the affairs of men. These are ambition and avarice. --Benjamin Franklin #1158:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. - Benjamin Franklin #1159:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins. - Benjamin Franklin #1160:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. -- Benjamin Franklin #1161:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. --G. K. Chesterton #1162:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance. - G.K. Chesterton #1163:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. -- Gilbert Keith Chesterton #1164:
--Stewart Stremler-------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Blasphemy itself could not survive religion; if anyone doubts that let him try to blaspheme Odin. --G. K. Chesterton #1165:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change. --G.K. Chesterton #1166:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I prefer old age to the alternative. -- Maurice Chevalier #1167:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils. --Aeschylus (525-456 BC) #1168:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Words are the physicians of a mind diseased. -- Aeschylus #1169:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. --Aesop (c. 550 BC) #1170:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If all men were just, there would be no need of valor. --Agesilaus (444-400 BC) #1171:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Arguments with furniture are rarely productive. -- Kehlog Albran #1172:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The mere brute pleasure of reading - the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing. -G.K. Chesterton #1173:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Materialists and madmen never have doubts. --G. K. Chesterton #1174:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Love means to love what is unlovable or it is no love at all. -G.K. Chesterton #1175:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- In truth, there are only two kinds of people; those who accept dogma and know it, and those who accept dogma and don't know it. --G K Chesterton #1176:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. - GK Chesterton #1177:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- A liberated woman is one who rises up and says to her menfolk, 'I will not be dictated to,' and proceeds to become a stenographer. - Chesterton #1178:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Those that set in motion the forces of evil cannot always control them afterwards. --Charles W. Chesnutt #1179:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. --Paul Anderson #1180:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The opposite of bravery is not cowardice, but conformity. -- Robert Anthony #1181:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory. --Diderot #1182:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. --Benjamin Disraeli #1183:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I'd prefer to see the squabble of democracy to the efficiency of dictators. --Lawrence Wilkerson #1184:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans. - Woody Allen #1185:
If you're in trouble, he will save the day \\ Stewart Stremler He's brave and he's fearless, come what may \\ stremler @ rohan.sdsu.edu Without him, the mission would go astray \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ He's Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer (Rimmer Munchkin Song/Rimmer Experience) #1186:
Without him, life would be much grimmer \\ Stewart Stremler He's handsome, trim, and no one's slimmer \\ stremler @ rohan.sdsu.edu He will never need a Zimmer \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ He's Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer (Rimmer Munchkin Song/Rimmer Experience) #1187:
More reliable than a garden Strimmer || Stewart Stremler He's never been mistaken for Yul Brynner || stremler @ rohan.sdsu.edu He's not bald and his head doesn't glimmer ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| -from the Rimmer Munchkin Song / Rimmer Experience (Red Dwarf VII:Blue) #1188:
Master of the wit and the repartee \\ Stewart Stremler His command of space directives is uncanny \\ stremler @ rohan.sdsu.edu How come he's such a genius? Don't ask me \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Ask Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer (Rimmer Munchkin Song/Rimmer Experience) #1189:
He's also a fantastic swimmer || Stewart Stremler And if you play your cards right, || stremler @ rohan.sdsu.edu then he just might come round for dinner |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| -from the Rimmer Munchkin Song/Rimmer Experience (Red Dwarf VII:Blue) #1190:
He's Arnold, Arnold, Arnold Rimmer \\ stremler @ rohan.sdsu.edu No rhymes left now apart from quimmer \\___________ Stewart We hope they fade us out before we get to schwimmer \\ Stremler Fade out you stupid plimmer (Rimmer Munchkin Song Extended Edition) #1191:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Remember, when it comes to commercial TV, the program is not the product. YOU are the product, and the advertiser is the customer. -- Mark W. Schumann (June 2003) #1192:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Surely if God had wanted us to use four spaces per indent, she would have specced the default tab stops of the VT100 that way. -- Roland Hutchinson (July 2003) #1193:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Those Al Qaida suicide grannies are terrifying. -- Ken Walton (January 2004) #1194:
--Stewart Stremler-----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibility for what they know. --Brooks Atkinson #1195:
--Stewart Stremler----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. --Roger Babson #1196:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't. - Richard Bach #1197:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any. -- Fred Astaire #1198:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. - Herbert Henry Asquith #1199:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- There is no better measure of a person than what he does when he is absolutely free to choose. --Wilma Askinas #1200:
--Stewart Stremler----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly. --- Isaac Asimov #1201:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- There's no disaster that can't become a blessing, and no blessing that can't become a disaster. -- Richard Bach #1202:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them. --James Baldwin #1203:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Nostalgia is a seductive liar. - George W. Ball #1204:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God. - William Barclay #1205:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The Internet is run by a guy named Heisenberg, and his principles are uncertain. -Kevin G. Barkes #1206:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If I were younger, I'd know more. -- James Barrie #1207:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Every man has a right to his own opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. -- Bernard M. Baruch. #1208:
--Stewart Stremler-------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth. --Jacques Barzun #1209:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The world isn't interested in the storms you encountered, but whether or not you brought in the ship. - Raul Armesto #1210:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common -- discontent. -- Matthew Arnold #1211:
--Stewart Stremler-------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The state is the great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everybody else. -- Frederic Bastiat #1212:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. -- Charles Baudelaire #1213:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I am unable to understand how a man of honor can take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. --Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) #1214:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You may know God, but not comprehend Him. - Richard Baxter #1215:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. -- Pierre De Beaumarchais #1216:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs, jolted by every pebble in the road. --Henry Ward Beecher #1217:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. --Henry Ward Beecher #1218:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. --Henry Ward Beecher #1219:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Where is human nature so weak as in a bookstore? --Henry Ward Beecher #1220:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men that public opinion. --Henry Ward Beecher #1221:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex. --S. N. Behrman #1222:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Ignorance of death is destroying us. Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything. --Saul Bellow #1223:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- So little done, so much to do. --- Alexander Graham Bell #1224:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment. - Robert Benchley #1225:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key. - Alan Bennett #1226:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Mark my words, when a society has to resort to the lavatory for its humour, the writing is on the wall. - Alan Bennett #1227:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It is well, when one is judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality. -- Arnold Bennett #1228:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I don't like authority. At least I don't like other people's authority. - A. C. Benson #1229:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Happiness is good health and a bad memory. --Ingrid Bergman. #1230:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It is impossible that a man who is false to his friends and neighbours should be true to the public. -- Bishop Berkeley #1231:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered. - George Best #1232:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Thank goodness the US learned from its mistakes, and would never again commit to war on the basis of uncorroborated intelligence. -- David Mitchell (January 2005) #1233:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- My mountain bike was about 10 pounds of angry cromoly. -- Paul Tomblin (January 2004) #1234:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- After getting out of office, Reagan and Bush gave speeches for thousands of dollars a shot, while Jimmy Carter swung a hammer for Habitat for Humanity and brokered peace deals. -- Paul Tomblin (August 1999) #1235:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If you consider the health, safety or comfort of the occupants for even a second, then you're not a serious sailor. -- Paul Tomblin (February 2004) #1236:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- As a touch typist, all my fingers are equally nimble, and being able to move the cursor using all home row keys is a major gain. -- Paul Tomblin (October 2003) #1237:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- My /mp3s directory also has a band named "tmp", and another named "lost+found". -- Paul Tomblin (March 2005) #1238:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Viri are already undead, that's why they are so hard to beat. -- Walter Bushell (March 2005) #1239:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Ironic, then, that genes are much more nearly indestructable than spiders. And yet genocide is so much more frowned upon than arachnicide. Go figure. -- Wayne Throop (August 2005) #1240:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The solution is simple. Don't care. --Wayne Throop (December 2004) #1241:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The psychology of gratuitous suffixism can be most wonderful strange. --Wayne Throop (January 2005) #1242:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Guns don't kill people, soldier ants kill people. --Eidolos in #nethack (May 2006) #1243:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It is easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code. -- ascribed to Bill Harlan #1244:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example. -- Fred Hoyle #1245:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. -- Elbert Hubbard #1246:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names. --Elbert Hubbard #1247:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- We are all under sentence of death, but with a sort of indefinite reprieve. --Victor Hugo (1802-1885) #1248:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes. --Robert Hutchins #1249:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old. --Ed Howe #1250:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Live truth instead of professing it. - Elbert Hubbard #1251:
--Stewart Stremler-------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine. -- Horace #1252:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet. -- Kin Hubbard #1253:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "It's always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission." --- Admiral Grace Hopper #1254:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- But they who bleed remember far better. --Victor Hugo #1255:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes #1256:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Virtue has a veil, vice a mask. - Victor Hugo #1257:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- To reform a man, you must begin with his grandmother. --Victor Hugo #1258:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. -- John Andrew Holmes #1259:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbour. --Eric Hoffer #1260:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I thought it was generally accepted that Nethack adventurers do not, in fact, wear anything below the waist? That's obviously why we use text-mode. Anything more wouldn't be job-safe. --Svein Ove Aas (December 2004) #1261:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- In either case, I've been in stunned bunny mode ever since discovering it. -- Geoff Lane (June 2005) #1262:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you. --Alex Haley #1263:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. - Edward F. Halifax #1264:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was. - Joseph Hall #1265:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem. - Fitz-Greene Halleck #1266:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- We will find a way or make one. - Hannibal #1267:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- There is no way of proving your point to someone whose income or position depends on believing the contrary. -Sidney J. Harris #1268:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers. --Sydney J. Harris #1269:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong." --Sydney J. Harris #1270:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing? --Stephen Hawking #1271:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Dependence on computers is apparently making a significant fraction of the population incurably stupid. -- Fritz Whittington (March 2003) #1272:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- That's the trouble with Real Life(TM): no graduate students. --Mike Schilling (January 2005) #1273:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Do you have a book listing the expiration dates of words in the English language? -Rich A. (January 2005) #1274:
--Stewart Stremler-------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- But if it's no longer fashionable, what's the sense of downloading it? You _obviously_ don't understand what computers are all about. (Ouch. It hurts to put my tongue that far into my cheek.) --Charlie Gibbs [2001] #1275:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Why is it that all these improvements just make things worse? -- Charlie Gibbs (May 2001) #1276:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Note that Vernor Vinge is a Computer Science professor. Recursion is his natural form of expression. s-expression. Whatever. -- Mark 'Kamikaze' Hughes (December 2004) #1277:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I have no real problems and I don't remember complaining. -- Lan Barnes (August 2003) #1278:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I'm leaving my cats at home, not because I don't love them, but because they don't love you. -- Lan Barnes (September 2003) #1279:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Being able to read minds would be of limited value without the ability to also write minds, considering all the blank media out there. -- Anthony de Boer (November 2005) #1280:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Today is turning out to be a joyous, terrific and exciting day! I can't wait to see what the rest of the day has in store. -- Eiwe Lingefors (August 2003) #1281:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- That't gotta be one of the most meaningless discalaimers /I've/ ever read. I've got a cousin that's not a racist either. After all, he lives in Mississippi. -- DJA. #1282:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I agree. And the sooner people stop expecting me to act rationally, the happier I'll be. -- Darin Johnson (December 2004) #1283:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Growth merely for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. --Edward Abbey #1284:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. --Douglas Adams #1285:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. --Franklin P. Adams #1286:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. --Henry Brooks Adams #1287:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops. -- Henry Brooks Adams #1288:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. -- Joey Adams #1289:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men. - Samuel Adams #1290:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own. -- John Quincy Adams #1291:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. - Samuel Adams (1722-1803) #1292:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. -Scott Adams #1293:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- No vices are so incurable as those which men are apt to glory in. --Joseph Addison #1294:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. --Konrad Adenauer (1876-1976) #1295:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I *still* think it's weird that the word "uterus" is gramatically masculine. Those wacky Romans, go figure them. -- David Goldfarb (March 2005) #1296:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Programming languages don't pay as well as cults do. --David Parsons (February 2004) #1297:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "Thunder is good. Thunder is impressive. But it is lightning that does the work." --Mark Twain #1298:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I have a level of respect for pool tables, because they are expensive, and also because I've moved one and they are heavy. -- Jeff Ramsey (February 2004) #1299:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It's been said that every computing innovation has to be invented three times: once on mainframes, once on minis, and a third time on micros. -- Charlie Gibbs (October 2003) #1300:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Any sufficiently advanced continent is indistinguishable from Diskworld. -- John Dean (2004) #1301:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I feel like a man who found a big fork just before it rained meatballs. -- Terry Pratchett (August 2005) #1302:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Being a fantasy writer is like being allowed to sit around a big bubbling pot, a stew made up of everything that's gone before. -- Terry Pratchett #1303:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- There should be only two lines are the airport desks: 'Has Got a Clue' and 'Thick as Two Planks'. -- Terry Pratchett (January 2004) #1304:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It was Peterloo that I had in mind, as discussed here some time ago. But as a general rule, when things look bad there's always some dickhead who can make them worse. -- Terry Pratchett (August 2003) #1305:
---Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- This is good enough for the industry, which believes that books with children as the main protagonist are de facto books for children. For similar reasons, Moby Dick is very popular among whales. -- Terry Pratchett (June 2003) #1306:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- This is one of those truly audacious understatements that I so admire. --Lawrence Watt-Evans (September 2005) #1307:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- A world without relocatable code is a darker, sadder world. --Peter Berger (May 2003) #1308:
--Stewart Stremler-------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Good software doesn't make assumptions about the specific implementation details of the VM system in order to work. --Peter Berger (May 2003) #1309:
GW: Did you note my logical punctuation of putting the commas after / Stewart the quotation marks instead of inside? ___/ Stremler CG: I do that too. Otherwise my internal compiler nags at me. / stremler @ -- Gene Wirchenko & Charlie Gibbs (June 2003) / rohan.sdsu.edu #1310:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I find your unwarranted optimism ... disturbing. -- Alexander Schreiber (March 2005) #1311:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Fortunately, being an American, I am impervious to your attempt to use irony and turnabout to make a point. -- Sea Wasp (May 2006) #1312:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- PFD: I, for one, welcome our new feline overlords... CMJ: Ummm, "new"? You must be previously unfamiliar with cats. --Paul F. Dietz & Christopher M. Jones (August 2003) #1313:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Don't forget that these are true blue, Gold-fearing Merkins, and we all know that Merkins are _never_ invaders. It's all just preparation for the liberation of Mexico. --Richard Bos (April 2003) #1314:
---Stewart Stremler--------------9/2002---------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- It [Exec-1100] provided device independence by creating a storage hierarchy that duplicated much of the unpleasantness of device dependence, and added its own quirks to make up for the bits it managed to avoid duplicating. -Peter da Silva #1315:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Nothing mocks common sense like physiology. --Lan Barnes (May 2006) #1316:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- But I guess the whole idea of politics is to redefine reality to suit your purposes. -- Charlie Gibbs (August 2003) #1317:
--Stewart Stremler----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The 1st PC I ever bought was a ZX80 (Z80, 2x2114, 18xTTL glue). It was less functional than anything I had built, but at least there was software available. Which sucked, of course. --Andrew Dalgleish (November 2001) #1318:
--Stewart Stremler--------------11/2001--------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Yes, it's very hard to learn to press escape for filename completion rather than the oh-so-much-cleverer tab key in bash. Stallman has it all wrong as to why free software is better. It's because of the tab key. -A. J. Rosenthal #1319:
---Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- DJH: Same problem. When we have nonhuman rulers, will they be good and wise? LWE: I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. --Dorothy J Heydt & Lawrence Watt-Evans (June 2005) #1320:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It's not my fault he can't spell his name conveniently. -- Charles Herbig (May 2003) #1321:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You know, I think if it were up to my wife, someone else would have to save the Republic. --Randy the Random (January 2005) #1322:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- [My experiences with the police] have been wildly mixed, good, bad, and indifferent. Almost as if cops are, you know, _human beings_, and as variable as any other occupational group. --Lawrence Watt-Evans (May 2005) #1323:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Oh, I'll comment on anything when I'm in the right mood. --Lawrence Watt-Evans (August 2006) #1324:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Well, yeah -- the stuff people play in public almost invariably _is_ awful. Because people with taste don't inflict their music on unwilling listeners. --Lawrence Watt-Evans (September 2006) #1325:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Oh, hell, the best curmudgeons do it on natural talent, not practice. --Lawrence Watt-Evans (September 2005) #1326:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- So... writing properly is just a matter of not using chapters, yes? -- Terry Pratchett (December 2004) #1327:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "Smart Quotes": So you can look really dumb. -- Graham Reed (November 2005) #1328:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Hah. I bet I could write something that would be rejected faster than yours. --Mike Schilling [to Lawrence Watt-Evans] (July 2003) #1329:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You're flying inverted, Paul, and it's confusing your wingmen. -- Joe Thompson (June 1999) #1330:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. -- Francis Bacon #1331:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- That's it! I've figured it out! Dubya was raised on a typo: "Where there's a will, there's a war." -- Charlie Gibbs (February 2003) #1332:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You can substitute sheep for goats in the SCSI ritual? -- Steve VanDevender (June 2003) #1333:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Critics are like eunuchs in a harem. They're there every night, they see it done every night, they see how it should be done every night, but they can't do it themselves. --Brendan Behan #1334:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes. He sees it edited by a definite set of customs and institutions and ways of thinking. - Ruth Benedict #1335:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The quantum of wantum remains constant. - Samuel Beckett #1336:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Blessed is he who expects no gratitude, for he shall not be disappointed. --W. C. Bennett #1337:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- In America today, the only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry directed at religious people. - William Bennett #1338:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual. -Jeremy Bentham #1339:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate. -- Ambrose Bierce. #1340:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Revolution is an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. -- Ambrose Bierce #1341:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The covers of this book are too far apart. --Ambrose Bierce #1342:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. --Josh Billings #1343:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- As scarce as the truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. -- Josh Billings #1344:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If there is ever another war in Europe, it will come out of some damned silly thing in the Balkans. --Otto von Bismarck #1345:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. -Otto von Bismarck #1346:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable . . . the art of the next best. --Otto von Bismarck #1347:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer. - Sir William Blackstone #1348:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Sorry, there's a surcharge in rec.arts.sf.science for Star Control 2 references. -- Erik Max Francis (August 2003) #1349:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I think he's an imperialistic exploiter of social insects. -- Lan Barnes (September 2003) #1350:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- A Pun. I have heard of those. -- Bradford Holden (March 2005) #1351:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Some days you're the pigeon; some days you're the statue. -- Roger Anderson #1352:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes. - Antisthenes #1353:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It is no wonder that people are so horrible when they start their life as children. --Kingsley Amis #1354:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The flesh is a worse enemy than the devil himself. -- Isaac Ambrose #1355:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Every new generation is a fresh invasion of savages. --Hervey Allen #1356:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I like long walks - especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. --Fred Allen #1357:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Courage is fear that has said its prayers. - Dorothy Bernard #1358:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. --John Betjeman #1359:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Of joys departed, not to return, how painful the remembrance. -- Robert Blair #1360:
Most programming projects that fail have already failed \\ stremler @ rohan before most of the programmers have signed on, but through \\ dot sdsu dot edu lack of courage or due diligence, many programmers sign on \\___________ anyway. It's like doctors agreeing to do surgery on corpses. -Anonymous \\___ #1361:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Presumably hardcore C is the opposite of softcore C, the latter being a watered-down version in which they only pretend to dereference and you're not allowed to see their pointers or anything. -- Anthony de Boer (2005) #1362:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine. --Thomas Aquinas #1363:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. - Marcus Aurelius Antonius #1364:
In every age its [liberty's] progress has been beset by its | Stewart Stremler natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of | stremler conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for| @ power, and the poor man's craving for food. --Lord Acton | rohan.sdsu.edu #1365:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. - Chester A. Arthur (1830-1886) US president. [Responding to a visitor asking him about his expensive tastes.] #1366:
The lessons of history? There are four: The bee fertilizes the flower it robs; whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power; the mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small; when it is dark enough, you can see the stars. --Charles A. Beard ||| stremler at rohan dot sdsu dot edu ||| #1367:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The smallest feline is a masterpiece. -Leonardo da Vinci #1368:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. -Albert Schweitzer #1369:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Time spent with cats is never wasted. -Coulette #1370:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul. -Jean Cocteau #1371:
--Stewart Stremler----------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Confront a child, a puppy, and a kitten with a sudden danger; the child will turn instinctively for assistance, the puppy will grovel in abject submission, the kitten will brace its tiny body for a frantic resistance. -Saki #1372:
--Stewart Stremler-------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an axe-murderer. -Paula Poundstone #1373:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- No matter how much cats fight, there always seems to be plenty of kittens. -Abraham Lincoln #1374:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast. -Anonymous #1375:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If you are worthy of its affection, a cat will be your friend, but never your slave. --Theophile Gautier #1376:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want. --Joseph Wood Krutch #1377:
--Stewart Stremler-------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. -Mark Twain #1378:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. A dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish. --James Gorman #1379:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. -Hippolyte Taine #1380:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- In a cat's eye, all things belong to cats. -English Proverb #1381:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- One cat just leads to another. -Ernest Hemingway #1382:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- A cat stretches from one end of my childhood to the other. -Blaga Dimitrova #1383:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- All you have to remember is Rule 1: when in doubt, wash. -Paul Gallico #1384:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Well, you gotta keep it under 80 characters *somehow*. -- Derick Siddoway (July 2003) #1385:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I feel old. --Adam Trace Spragg (May 2003) #1386:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Not *my* fault the rest of ya'll aren't spying on me. --John H. Robinson, IV (March 2007) #1387:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I'd laugh, if I didn't want to cry. -- Richard P. Grant (July 2003) #1388:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If I qualify every generalisation I make on Usenet, I'll never reach the end of my first sentence. -- @lec \251awley (January 2005) #1389:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Never mistake motion for action. --Ernest Hemingway #1390:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. -Ernest Hemingway #1391:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Life is made up of sobs, sniffles and smiles, with sniffles predominating. - O. Henry #1392:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence. --Will Henry #1393:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Skill and confidence are an unconquered army. -- George Herbert #1394:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Storms make oaks take deeper root. --George Herbert (1593-1633) #1395:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The greatest waste in the world is the difference between what we are and what we could become. --Ben Herbster #1396:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- There are inalienable obligations as well as inalienable rights. --Abraham Joshua Herschel #1397:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Behind almost every great man there stands either a good parent or a good teacher. - Gilbert Highet #1398:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. -- Thomas Hobbes #1399:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- In the long run, free trade benefits everyone; in the short run it is bound to produce much pain. -- Henry Hobhouse #1400:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. -- Eric Hoffer #1401:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. --Eric Hoffer #1402:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep. -Aldous Huxley #1403:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes. --Thomas Henry Huxley #1404:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Age is not important unless you're a cheese. - Helen Hayes #1405:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- By despising all that has preceded us, we teach others to despise ourselves. -- William Hazlitt #1406:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope, and few are reduced so low as that. --William Hazlitt #1407:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- But what experience and history teach is this- that peoples and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. -- Georg Hegel #1408:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion. - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel #1409:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- No state has an inherent right to survive through conscript troops and in the long run no state ever has. - Robert Heinlein #1410:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny. --Robert Heinlein #1411:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual", find out how he feels about astrology. --Robert Heinlein #1412:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. -- Robert Heinlein #1413:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Heavy blizzards start as a gentle and persistent snow. - Mark Helprin #1414:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. - Leslie Poles Hartley #1415:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Women are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern. - Sarah Moore Grimke #1416:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- White Castle: The American equivalent of haggis. -- John VanSickle (December 2005) #1417:
---Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- People who respect excellence don't deride others as elitist. ... Whenever I hear someone use the term "elitist" negatively, I hear them shouting: "I am terrified of excellence." -- bradkittenbrink [608877] on /. (March 2007) #1418:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Try not to die of the shock. Thousands manage the trick of agreeing with me every single year. --"Kent Paul Dolan" aka Xanthian (December 2004) #1419:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If you put enough alcohol in anything, at least some people will like it. -- Terry Austin (August 2005) #1420:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Alpha was a success. It was just not a large enough success to save the mother ship. -Morten Reistad (September 2005) #1421:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages. --Horace Greeley #1422:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it. --Horace Greely #1423:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Bromidic though it may sound, some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn. - Katharine Graham #1424:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Judas heard all Christ's sermons. -- Thomas Goodwin #1425:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity. -Olivia Goldsmith #1426:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. - Oliver Goldsmith #1427:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- A man's errors are what make him amiable. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe #1428:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world, all rests on perseverance. -Goethe #1429:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The solution of every problem is another problem. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe #1430:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world. --- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe #1431:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- When ideas fail, words come in very handy. --Goethe #1432:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. -- Goethe #1433:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe #1434:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long range. -- Goethe #1435:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Justice delayed is justice denied. --William Ewart Gladstone #1436:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. -- Gladstone #1437:
---Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu--- Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right. - William E. Gladstone #1438:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Whoever controls the media -- the images -- controls the culture. --Allen Ginsberg #1439:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I have shown more wit than every other poster on this thread put together. You haven't been paying attention. -Greg Singh (January 2005) #1440:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I had a space exactly that size in my memory, now I know what goes there. -- "Don Quixote" in a.f.c. (June 2003) #1441:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I got so tired waiting for H. Beam Piper to write a sequel to Lord Kalvan that I bought a Ouija board. --Charlie Stross (January 2006) #1442:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The subordinate personalities of the Trinity are defense mechanisms which arose to cope with the trauma of the Big Bang. --Wayne Throop (May 2006) #1443:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Whereas I have a regrettable weakness for cheap straight lines, regardless of accuracy. --Lawrence Watt-Evans (August 2005) #1444:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "People come along with movie deals and say, 'We can make you rich.' And I say, 'I'm already rich. Can you make me happy?'" - attributed to Terry Pratchett #1445:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Look, consistency is vasty overrated. What you need is more explosions, a teenage wizard, and characters with some form of brass undergarment. It's all right here in the group archives. --Bruce Murphy (January 2005) #1446:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Supercomputer: Turns CPU-bound problem into I/O-bound problem. -- Ken Batcher (as quoted by Geoff Lane) #1447:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- A tangled cable is a happy cable. -- Roger Burton West (August 2005) #1448:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Microscopic bobbles are a perfect lubricant. And shiny! -- Jim Battista (October 2004) #1449:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Writing fiction set a hundred or a thousand years hence is a lot easier than picking five years or twenty. -- Charlie Stross (July 2005) #1450:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- As the Slashdot distributed brain engine has observed, the ultimate test of any piece of equipment is to build a Beowulf cluster of it. --Peter Seebach (September 2004) #1451:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- ...oh, is THAT what those are! I thought they were, like, coded messages being sent on Skrode maintenance protocols, or something. -- Danny Sichel (August 2003) #1452:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- How do you authors come up with clever comebacks to people who ask where you get story ideas? -- Joseph Nebus (October 2006) #1453:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Of course, radioactive spiders are good for society. -- Ken from Chicago (July 2004) #1454:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. -- John Gilmour #1455:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Comedians and politicians each tell the audience what it wants to hear. The difference is that the audience laughs at the comedian and the politician laughs at the audience. -- Alexis A. Gilliland #1456:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Well, sure, the government lies, and newspapers lie, but in a democracy they aren't the same lies. -- Alexis Gilliland #1457:
You may have tangible wealth untold, /// Stewart Stremler Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. \\\/// stremler @ rohan . sdsu . edu Richer than I you can never be, \XX/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I had a Mother who read to me. --"The Reading Mother" by Strickland Gillilan #1458:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character. --- Vince Gill #1459:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I think I've scratched the surface after twenty years of marriage. Women want chocolate and conversation. - Mel Gibson #1460:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults. --Edmund Gibson #1461:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers. - Kahlil Gibran #1462:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Be yourself, who else is better qualified? -- Frank J. Giblin #1463:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. --Edward Gibbon #1464:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The #1 lesson I learned on my one and only trip to the Caribbean is that society will not actually collapse if you walk down a public street with a beer in your hand. Who woulda thunk? -- J.D. Baldwin (August 2003) #1465:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Though, to be fair, some people use their problem-solving powers for evil. --Wayne Throop (September 2005) #1466:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Peter Jackson's movies admirably revealed the power of the printed word. -- "Phlip" (August 2006) #1467:
A little learning is a dangerous thing; \\\ Stewart Stremler Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: \\\ stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, \\\_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ And drinking largely sobers us again. --Alexander Pope (_Essay on Criticism_) #1468:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I'll just have to call on my near-supernatural powers of forgetfulness until the book arrives. --Stacie Hanes (September 2003) #1469:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Well, if this is poetry, it is very easy to write. --William Morris (1834-1896) (As quoted in J. W. Mackail's _Life of William Morris_ [1899]) #1470:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Anytime you let a committee loose on something, you get a dilution of the original idea. -Niel Gaiman #1471:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- When everybody is pedantic, you get very nice interoperability. --Andrew Lentvorski #1472:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- ...trying to use [mark-up "languages"] for config files or relational data strikes me a little like everyone using Excel for everything (not that _that_ would ever happen). -- Lan Barnes (July 2007) #1473:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I'm more and more convinced that TV companies think that Max Headroom is a model to copy rather than a warning. -- geoff lane [93738] on /. (July 2007) #1474:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I'm starting to think of de Icaza as Microsoft's pet ferret. --Andrew Lentvorski (May 2007) #1475:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- In my case, it appears I've lived everywhere, know everyone, and have done everything. _Fascinating_ ---Mike Andrews (July 2002) #1476:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I like it when I do a 300 line refactoring and introduce 3 new classes and my tests don't break. Clearly I don't have enough tests ;-) -- Todd "Toad" Lipcon (in ##java 07/07/07) #1477:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything. - John Kenneth Galbraith #1478:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. --John Kenneth Galbraith #1479:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. --Galileo Galilei #1480:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Wine is sunlight held together by water. - Galileo #1481:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I'll defend to the death your right to say that, but I never said I'd listen to it! - Tom Galloway #1482:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten. -- Indira Gandhi #1483:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Almost anything you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. --Mohandas K. Gandhi #1484:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. --Mohandas Gandhi #1485:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You are the fire hose to my campfire. -- Gregory Ruiz-Ade #1486:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Humans are like goats. We'll eat any damned thing. Just ask the people who make PowerBars. --Tim Cameron #1487:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "You make a strong and vividly illustrated case." --_The Whiteboard_, by Doc N. #1488:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I just talk to myself because the rest of you don't provide adequate conversation. -- from the webcomic _Digger_ by Ursula Vernon #1489:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Slip your punditry under the door, greased by a bit of silliness. Worlds open up. -berkeley breathed #1490:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe." -- Susan Sontag #1491:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- My strategy has worked. I've long known I'd never be half the cartoonist Bill Watterson is, so instead I'll show him up by printing on /shinier paper/. --Howard Taylor #1492:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Functional programming doesn't need a cheerleader. It needs a problem to which it is an actual solution. --Andrew Lentvorski (October 2007) #1493:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I will take the risk that kernel-panic is less likely to cause a mutational Internet meme than my friend. --Andrew Lentvorski (2007) #1494:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make ourselves its slave. -- Napoleon Bonaparte #1495:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. --Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) #1496:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- In politics, stupidity is not a handicap. -- Napoleon Bonaparte #1497:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- And gain is gain, however small. - Robert Browning #1498:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. -- Napoleon Bonaparte #1499:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "Let's be bad guys." --Jayne (_Serenity_) #1500:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "My turn." --River Tam (_Serenity_) #1501:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Vengeance and nuclear weapons are a bad combination. --Charlie Stross (April 2007) #1502:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I blame aliens. Everybody knows that all major engineering works which predate detailed written history were built by aliens. --John Schilling #1503:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Then I discovered that my older brother had the book, and the world was saved. --Andrew Maizels (December 2004) #1504:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Some of us are just _born_ to do long, tedious game abuses. --"Kent Paul Dolan" (January 2005) #1505:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- [Regarding RAH's _Number of the Beast_] It's the book that taught me I didn't have to finish every book I began. --James Nicoll (March 2005) #1506:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If you think about it, C++ looks very much like the sort of language made up by drunk people. -- Steve VanDevender (October 2003) #1507:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success." - Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce) _Tomorrow Never Dies_ (1997) #1508:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "Intuitive improvisation is the secret of genius." - Max Zorin (Christopher Walken) _A View to a Kill_ (1985) #1509:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "First there was the dream, now there is reality." - Hugo Drax (Michael Lonsdale) _Moonraker_ (1979) #1510:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "The key to a great story is not who, or what, or when, but why." - Elliot Carver (Jonathan Pryce) _Tomorrow Never Dies_ (1997) #1511:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "I like a girl in a bikini, no concealed weapons." - Francisco Scaramanga (Christopher Lee) _The Man with the Golden Gun_ (1974) #1512:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- XML is like violence, if it doesn't solve the problem, just use more. --"itior" (bash.org #546813) #1513:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Either you have a Peace Authority or you have private nukes, or you have a lone controller, mask, cape and all, who flits about destroying/confiscating the evil weapons. --Robrt Pearlman (December 2002) #1514:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I await a solution to this problem. --Robrt Pearlman (December 2002) #1515:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Which leads to The Rule of Babe Armor: the less it covers, the more it protects. The men are distracted. The women don't want to damage the outfit. Think of it as "The little red armor to die for." -- Joe Bednorz #1516:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Right; as I have said dozens of times in this newsgroup, assert is for validating code, not data. -- Richard Heathfield (February 2007) #1517:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- PV=nkT ; k=1.38e-21 J/K I like my atoms to all be individuals. -- Gerd Busker (May 2003) #1518:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It is certainly is a golden rule that thou shalt not piss off a bit god after he's been reasonable with you. --/BAH (April 2003) --Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- When a duo of bit gods decide to do mischief, not only is it hilarious..well, after the bits settle down...but their bit hosing is thorough. --/BAH (April 2003) #1519:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It is certainly is a golden rule that thou shalt not piss off a bit god after he's been reasonable with you. --/BAH (April 2003) --Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- When a duo of bit gods decide to do mischief, not only is it hilarious..well, after the bits settle down...but their bit hosing is thorough. --/BAH (April 2003) #1520:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The unspoken, right brain constraint here is that the complexity introduced by a solution to a design problem must be somehow proportional to the problem's importance. --Guido van Rossum #1521:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- There will be a qualitative difference in sophistication between Thuuggie McJackboots and N.S.A. McSmoothie. --Lan Barnes (Feb 2008) #1522:
Stewart Stremler stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Go forth, read, and let us know. -- Andrew Lentvorski (April 2008) #1523:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I've always wanted to work for the Mafia. Can I send you a resume? -- Lan Barnes #1524:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Anna Kournikova would probably break the internet if she ever posed nude -- popcrunch.com #1525:
--Stewart Stremler-------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If I had my way no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust under the United States. --H. L. Mencken #1526:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other. -- Florence King #1527:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious." ~P.G. Wodehouse, A Mixed Threesome, 1922 #1528:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Just yesterday, I cast a moderately successful Hypnotic Pattern on one of the neighbourhood cats, since I was on my way into the garden to plant two stick of material component anyway. --Maarten Wiltink #1529:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- He [the cat] seemed affected for almost half a second, which isn't bad given the average cat's attention span. I mean magic resistance. --Maarten Wiltink (July 2003) #1530:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- ANY time a banjo is taken out of its case, the potential for obscenity increases. -- Carl Dershem (2006) #1531:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The "War on Terror" is like any other vague slogan or name: make up something that means nothing and you can use it to mean anything. -- Charlie Gibbs (2003) #1532:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- They're COBOL programmers. An illusion of consciousness is quite enough. -- Richard Bos (2006) #1533:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- While we're all telling each other what to do, how about I just suggest that you bite me, fanboy. --Alun Jones (2003) #1534:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "I do not regularly lick my God shield." One finds the most WONDERFUL sentences on Usenet. --Danny Sichel quoting Bryan Derksen (2004) #1535:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Indeed. To read Swift is to sojourn with a well ordered mind. --Matt Hughes (August 2005) #1536:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Ignorance is bliss. Ignore the good and the bad. Bliss is almost always easier to obtain than knowledge. -Bob LeQuey #1537:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey." -- John Ruskin (as quoted by Charlie Gibbs) #1538:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Whereas the textfiles vi or emacs produce can be opened and read by other versions thereof, with no problem, or even (gasp) by _each other_... -- David DeLaney (2008) #1539:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Okay that was entirely too temperate and reasonable. Both of you! Out of Usenet! Now! --William George Ferguson (2007) #1540:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The backspace has many names, but only one nature. --Wayne Throop (2007) #1541:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- We do, of course, have an excellent word for "twice a month": fortnightly. -- Paul Martin (2008) #1542:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Your shift key is apparently broken. -- Chuck F / CBFalconer (2007) #1543:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I was being deliberately stupid. That's my excuse and I'm sticking to it. -- James Campbell Andrew (2004) #1544:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- "For progress to occur, it is essential to have a forum where changing ones opinion is seen as making progress toward a better solution, rather than as losing face." -- Bjaerne Stroustrup, "C++ report" #1545:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Precisely. I find the Unix platform superior to the Emacs platform. -- Aaron Denney (2008) #1546:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Or 'The Bladder Testing Edition' as I insist on calling it. -- James Campbell Andrew (2002) #1547:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Question authority... and the authorities will question you. -- Charlie Gibbs (2005) #1548:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- HTML is a four-letter word. -- BAH Revisionist Microsoftism will change that to HTM. -- Eugene Miya You mean like the way they took the experts out of JPEG? -- Charlie Gibbs #1549:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- We stole it fair and square, so we're filing off the serial numbers. Nyah. --David DeLaney (2008) #1550:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. -- Bill Cosby #1551:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- There's no labor a man can do that's undignified, if he does it right. - Bill Cosby #1552:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is. --Geoffrey Cottrell #1553:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Comforts corrode our consciences -- Steve Constable #1554:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions. --Stephen Covey #1555:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet. - Cyril Connolly #1556:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. --Confucius #1557:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Act with kindness, but do not expect gratitude. --Confucius #1558:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think. --Barry Commoner #1559:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- And the sea shall grant all men new hope, as sleep brings dreams of home. - Christopher Columbus #1560:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but live for it. --Caleb C. Colton #1561:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth. --Charles Caleb Colton #1562:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. --Charles Caleb Colton #1563:
--Stewart Stremler---------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design. -- Colton #1564:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Abandon all hopes of utopia -- there are people involved.-- Clayton Cramer #1565:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, employ someone to do it, or forbid your children from doing it. --Monta Crane #1566:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The young always have the same problem , how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. -- Quentin Crisp #1567:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace--in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. --Croesus of Lydia #1568:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I would have been glad to have lived under my woodside, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government. --Oliver Cromwell #1569:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Necessity hath no law. --Oliver Cromwell #1570:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Our generation was right about civil rights; we were right about Vietnam; we were right about poverty. Unfortunately, we were wrong about drugs. -- David Crosby #1571:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Friends are those rare people who ask how you are and then wait to hear the answer. -- Ed Cunningham #1572:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons. --Will Cuppy #1573:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. --George Curtis #1574:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. -- Clarence Darrow #1575:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it. - Salvadore Dali #1576:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- He who allows oppression shares the crime. --Erasmus Darwin #1577:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past. -Robertson Davies #1578:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- ...you can never be happy and dress yourself solely in the glass of other men's approval. -- Nicholas Flood Davis #1579:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures. --Humphrey Davy (1778-1829) #1580:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. --Christopher Dawson #1581:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- You can not focus on the future when your vision is blurred by regret. -- Alex Decker #1582:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The truth will make you free, but first it will make you miserable. -- Tom DeMarco #1583:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- To do all the talking and not be willing to listen is a form of greed. -- Democritus of Abdera #1584:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong. -- Democritus #1585:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.-- Democritus #1586:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe. -- Demosthenes #1587:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things. -- Rene Descartes #1588:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has. --Descartes #1589:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words. -Phillip K. Dick #1590:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanism of friendship. --Colette #1591:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge #1592:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own. -Harold Coffin #1593:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frame, an engender of effeminacy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age. --William Cobbett #1594:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice. --Grover Cleveland #1595:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- For every credibility gap, there is a gullibility fill. --R. Clopton #1596:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- The courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart. - Henry Clay #1597:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't. -- Frank A. Clark #1598:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find it out. -Frank A. Clark #1599:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Don't ask a man what kind of computer he uses. If it's a Macintosh, he'll tell you. If not, why embarass him? --Tom Clancy #1600:
--Stewart Stremler--------------------------------stremler@rohan.sdsu.edu-- Don't confuse programmer laziness with "can't be done." --Andrew Lentvorski

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