A place for me to post random nonsense so I can keep the Serious Business confined to my blog.
“My mother first diagnosed me with NADD. It was the late 80s and she was bringing me dinner in my bedroom (nerd). I was merrily typing away to friends in some primitive chat room on my IBM XT (super nerd), listening to some music (probably Flock of Seagulls — nerd++), and watching Back to the Future with the sound off (neeeeerrrrrrrd). She commented, “How can you focus on anything with all this stuff going on?” I responded, “Mom, I can’t focus without all this noise.”
— Rands in Repose
“I mean, let’s just come out and say it. Her [Hillary Clinton’s] key demographic is people with 12:00 flashing on their VCRs.”
— Senjutsu
“PHP arrays : PHP objects :: Selecting a book from a shelf : Selecting a book from your ass, which is welded shut.”
— Dean Allen
RACHEL PAPO : Serial No. 3817131
How to curse in sign language
“Many folks, me included, blogged for years simply because we didn’t yet understand that we were really just twitterers.”
— Jack Baty
“The morning after you get laid, you walk down the street and guys give you the high five. Little old ladies throw money at you, dogs howl out of respek, and women wink at you. Wall street executives screech their cars to a halt, get out, and run over to you, offering you consulting positions. If you look up at the clouds, every single cumulus formation in sight is in the shape of a thumbs up. Oh, and “Juke Box Hero” by 70s supergroup Foreigner constantly plays in the background.”
— Mikeman
…thats what I’ve been sayin (via m hoek)
…thats what I’ve been sayin (via m hoek)

“

The United States has less than 5 percent of the world’s population. But it has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners.

Indeed, the United States leads the world in producing prisoners, a reflection of a relatively recent and now entirely distinctive American approach to crime and punishment. Americans are locked up for crimes — from writing bad checks to using drugs — that would rarely produce prison sentences in other countries. And in particular they are kept incarcerated far longer than prisoners in other nations.

Criminologists and legal scholars in other industrialized nations say they are mystified and appalled by the number and length of American prison sentences.

”

Superpoke

At the desk working on the stationary ‘puter with my Mac next to me. It’s on battery, so the screen fades with inactivity. My reaction is to poke it immediately so it wakes up.

…I don’t think that’s how you’re supposed to do screen saving.