the very best things in the entire universe

- The sentence "I refuse to let something boring happen".

- Friends who will listen to you rant when you need it. Esther eponis, j00 roX0r, ch|Xl37.

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(defclass intellectual (speaker) ())

(defmethod speak :before ((i intellectual) string)
(princ "Perhaps "))

(defmethod speak :after ((i intellectual) string)
(princ " in some sense"))

We can create a subclass of speakers that always have the last (and the first) word:
> (speak (make-instance 'intellectual)
"I'm hungry")
Perhaps I'm hungry in some sense
NIL

-- Paul Graham's ANSI Common LISP

- Sometimes, you just have to remember that stuff is fun, or at least has that capacity. And needless suckage is, well... needless. Choose to happen to things.

- The answer to all the deep teleological questions that one might ask comes out to be "to bring about crisises of belief" and "to demonstrate that Esther eponis is not only cold but also heartless".

- I'm likely Very Likely Wrong about everything, and deep down inside, my mind is probably an illusion brought about by a complex interplay of chemicals in the brain "experienced" by some nonexistant experience-agent, but you know what? *sings* "I choose free will!"

wonders of technology!

Ever had a need to know what nCr((5 + 14 - 1), 14) was, when you didn't have a calculator handy?

google is getting obscenely useful.... Yowza.

Also: ever wanted a fairly inexpensive ogg-compatible mp3-player that needs no car kit to talk to your car stereo? I think the plural of "neuros" is going to have to be "neuroses" -- perhaps a bad naming choice, but I'm impressed: clicka clicka ...