July 2009
48 posts
If you don’t dress up in a white suit and read Letters from the Earth in a hot...
– Chris Onstad, creator of Achewood, Vice Magazine
I have a hair-trigger cliché-meter that actually even goes off wrong at normal...
– Chris Onstad, creator of Achewood, Vice Magazine
Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are...
– Sea-change - The Tempest - Act I, Scene II (via furryrabbits)
This [evidence] goes directly to why most folks use IE6: they don’t have a...
– Mark Trammell, User Experience Architect at Digg, Much Ado About IE6
June 30: Oil Leak
strangerthaneviction:
My car has been leaking oil for a little while, and I have been trying to get it fixed.
Email from Gary concerning this:
GD: YOUR CAR IS STILL LEAKING OIL LIKE A SIEVE…. GET IT FIXED NOW….. STRONG LETTER TO FOLLOW, Gary
Strong letter that followed:
get your oil leak fixed NOW……MORON
June 17: The Arrest
strangerthaneviction:
Upon returning from work on Wednesday, I find 2 cop cars parked in the driveway. The police inform me that when James returned from the hospital, he discovered his TV, laptop, and iPhone were all missing. When asked about this, Gary claimed he had no idea where they were. The police then found the TV in Gary’s garage. He admitted to having stole the TV, but said he had...
There’s exactly one countervailing position, though it consists of several ideas...
– Joe Clark, “Who opposes ‘The Cranky Copyright Book’?” (via nickdouglas)
Some people think to see God with their eyes as they would se a cow, and they...
– Meister Eckhart (ca. 1260-ca. 1327/8), sermon 16b, “Quasi vas auri solidum” (Ecclus. 50.9), as translated in Franz Pfeiffer, The Works of Meister Eckhart (Kila [MT] : Kessinger, n.d.), pp. 52f. (Google Books link). (via nbr)
I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding Generations, as...
– Letter from
John Adams to
Abigail Adams,
3 July 1776 (via Adams Family Papers: An Electronic Archive)