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Gert Clark: Wes and I met a dance in New York. My father's secretary was a volunteer for the USO. It was a USO dance for midshipmen and West Point cadets.

Wes Clark: I looked over at the door and in came a couple of young ladies, and one of them was very pretty.

Theodore P. Hill [Wes' roommate at West Point]: Everybody loved Gert, she had a wonderful figure, she had, just a very outgoing personality, very smart, and there was was a lot of competition for Gert.

Friend of D

d: “why does it bother me when i find out that people that i really like are friends with people that i don't like at all?” It's probably more common than d thinks.

So-Called Nerds

Xan Brooks: “The trouble is that there is a great deal of movement between these tribes, and a great juggling of different enthusiasms. Could it be that a nerd is defined not so much by his specialist genre than by the nature and intensity of his interest?”

Tolerance and Thought Processes

Joe on the "wall of tolerance": “why should the views of some be "tolerated" differently from the views of others? What I fear, and this is a fear felt by many with the advocacy of "hate crime" laws, is that such attempted control of actions leads to controls of thought. Physically assaulting a person is an evil thing and the person who commits such an act must be punished. But no one should have their thought process questioned when they decide who's beliefs should be tolerated and who's shouldn't.

Self-Entitlement Without Responsibility

Barbara Kay: “The first generation for whom divorce is the social norm, kidults make friends their family, preferring group camaraderie to committed love. They have brains, but choose to watch TV and play video games, when not obsessing over their appearance and social trivia. Oblivious to the outside world, theirs is a demographic "with no history and no social purpose."”

Pompous, Vague, and Meaningless

Jay: “Should I use Dante's Italian? Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso. Or should I use their English counterparts? Inferno, Purgatory, Paradise. Or should I use the common names for the ideas? Hell, Purgatory, Heaven. I feel like I'm being very pompous when I use the Italian, vague when I use the English, and meaningless when I use the common.”

A Nimbus of Martyrdom

George F. Will: “It might have been easier if Hussein had died resisting capture -- although that would have allowed the mythmakers, who are legion in that region, to envelop his memory with a nimbus of martyrdom. The fact that he was captured with a pistol he would not use even on himself makes it unlikely that he can seem bravely defiant in his trial.”

A Trail Of Clothing In The Hallway

Simon Blackburn: “Love receives the world's applause. Lust is furtive, ashamed, embarrassed. Love pursues the good of the other with self-control, reason and patience. Lust pursues its own gratification, headlong, impatient of any control, immune to reason. Love thrives on candlelight and conversation. Lust is equally happy in a doorway or in a taxi, and its conversation is made of animal grunts and cries. Love is individual: there is only the unique Other.

Nope, Straight

This is the conversation that a fairly inebriated punk guy and punk girl (who were boyfriend/girlfriend) had while I was sitting waiting for my bus. I was waiting for the 160, which usually has the strangest people on it for some reason. The couple ended up taking a different bus, as you'll see.

A Cheaper Playoffs

Dave Pollard: “This year's projections (the 2004 Stanley Cup is still half a year away) suggest that a playoff position (about 84 points by the end of the year, the yellow line on the chart) will cost $40M in team salary, about $2M less than last year.”

Could Sound Like A Chinese Name

Clive Thompson: “NASA, [...] had become too reliant on presenting complex information via PowerPoint, instead of by means of traditional ink-and-paper technical reports. When NASA engineers assessed possible wing damage during the mission, they presented the findings in a confusing PowerPoint slide -- so crammed with nested bullet points and irregular short forms that it was nearly impossible to untangle.”

Sucka

idlyadam: ack. I didn't know that hitting escape closed the window. :)
sillygwailo: bahaha sucka
sillygwailo: oh wait, you log conversations though don't you?
idlyadam: yup
sillygwailo: hmm.
sillygwailo: you're still a sucka.

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