Month: August 2006
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They walk among us!
Some guy bought a new fridge for his house. To get rid of his old fridge, he put it in his front yard and hung a sign on it saying: “Free to good home. You want it, you take it.” For three days the fridge sat there without even one person looking twice at it. …
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Living
When you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.Lin Yutang, on a birthday card from Becca Nielsen
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To all the kids who were born…
In the 1930’s 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’sFirst, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.We had no childproof lids…
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Every now and then you meet a true genius
via email from Duane McDowell, Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:29:48 -0700
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Computers
A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about.Douglas Adams