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January 21st, 2007

Random musings to get you through the day

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"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
~ Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." ~ Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
~ Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

"If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster."
~ Isaac Asimov

"Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse."
~ Winston Churchill (1874–1965)

"Don’t talk to me about naval tradition. It’s nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash."
~ Winston Churchill (1874–1965)

"Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer."
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

"Either that wallpaper goes, or I do."
~ Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), (last words)

"A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
~ Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

"It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true."
~ Gore Vidal (b. 1925)

"Laughing at someone else is an excellent way of learning how to laugh at oneself; and questioning what seem to be the absurd beliefs of another group is a good way of recognizing the potential absurdity of many of one’s own cherished beliefs."
~ Gore Vidal (b. 1925)

"A classic — something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."
~ Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
~ Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."
~ Alfred Hitchcock (1899–1980)

"A martyr’s disciples suffer more than the martyr."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."
~ Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)



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January 21st, 2007

tech whine

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So i got my new broadband up and running finally. The old one switched off on monday and the new one was supposed to take over, no such luck, it finally showed up on thursday. Then when i got the new modem set up and configured all the new software, it asked "do you want to import your bookmarks and contacts?" that sounded like a good idea, so i clicked yes, only to watch as they all disappeared into the ether.

I got to spend most of friday hanging on the phone with the tech line, after much whining and begging on my part we finally got it fixed and i got all my bookmarks back. And i do mean all, including some i haven't seen for years; from fandoms i don't play in any more.

I couldn't resist taking a look at some of my old x-files faves, and spent some time trawling through the basement and reading some of xanthes fic. I'd forgotten how much i liked the old M/Sk stuff, Skinner made such a lovely Dom.

Anyway off to catch up with some lj reading, and see if i can finish at least one chapter to post today.
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