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I put up a picture of Xueling recently, commenting that she was reading (well, "reading")my copy of Devil May Cry 3, and using it to show me that it was ok for people to eat pizza with their h...

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Expressions of fear are not just expressions of fear. They license us to act out the darkest aspects of human nature. Being afraid harms no one. Telling everyone there is something to be afraid o...

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Recently, Caffeine and I were arguing, and I pointed out that I'd seen her-- her current self-- long before it had surfaced. To which she responded that I didn't know her at all, that all the th...

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So... let's see. If you do just 20 kicks a week for a single kick, that's 1042 kicks a year. In ten years you'd be good enough to scare Bruce Lee.^ I started doing taekwondo in 1998. And I ...

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People look at me and they see a nerdy geek approaching the near slope of middle age^, and they're right. Their mistake lies when they see it and look no further. Because thirty odd years in ...

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I do a lot of writing to clarify my own thinking; sometimes something doesn't become real to me until I've written it out in my own words. And sometimes it takes someone else's words to crystall...

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True evil does not, despite Orwell, stomp its jackboot in your face forever. If it were, life would be much easier. No, true evil persuades you to put the jackboot on and kick your own face int...

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A flag cannot bring hope. It can, however, lend strength. Hope, you have to find by yourself.

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Apparently people are shocked that some of the members of Boko Haram went to Western universities, and the people who knew them are surprised that the apparent contradiction between their educati...

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You can escape from the box you have been put in by finding another box to jump into, but when's all said and done you are still a prisoner, and you are still stuck in a box. You can't escape be...

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AM: Why be kind, when the world is cruel? Me: Because if the world is cruel, then the only kindness that can exist is that which we create. AM: But the ability does not imply obligation. Me:...

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Me: You are not retarded. You are, in fact, extremely accelerated. I wish to point out, however, that unless you start working, you will be in a class where everyone is accelerating harder than y...

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"Autocorrect is my worst enema." Although technically this would be an autocucumber. Auto cowpat. Ducking autocar. Autocomplete.

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Every musical note there has ever been has already been played. That does not mean there are no new songs. ~~My status today.

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You don't get to write for yourself. You have to write for your audience. You do get to choose your audience, but if you then choose yourself as your only audience you might as well just pat yo...

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I, er. Did not expect to see that first thing in the morning. Edited to add: Apparently the real headline is "...braces for AFP offensive"

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Caffeine got asked (kind of out of the blue) to join in on this guy's videography project; apparently he's making an MTV and would like her in it. She agreed, scheduling to go as Inori from Guil...

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This pretty much describes my attitude to the way I do things nowadays: Ed Seedhouse: My life experience is that we are all stupid from time to time. The larger stupidity here was allowing (c...

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Do not, when caught by surprise with good news, celebrate in front of your colleagues by doing this: There are always devout people hiding there, sheep in wolves' clothing, and they will be up...

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(Or intelligent design proponents) If your argument is that intelligence and elegance can only come from greater intelligence and elegance... Well, I pity your children.

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It has been noted that when I take Fenfedrin, my brain's already low latent inhibitions appear to drop to zero. The last time I took it a couple of years ago, I woke up (it also makes you drowsy)...

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I used to jokingly suggest that fate was the easiest of women to tempt Experience has proven me wrong. Given glee with which fate is tempted by men and women alike, fate is clearly not a wom...

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I mentioned the fun we had a few entries back to Caffeine, and said I don't know why nobody expects me to #### them right back. Well... Actually I do know. See, there are people in the wor...

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Hilariously, the person who pre-emptively claimed that she/she was expecting me to delete his/her note and block him/her has: Deleted their note. Blocked me. To which my only comment is: ...

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Note left in my previous entry: You were being disrespectful in that school. Very disrespectful. If I was around an Odinist or a Buddhist or Agnostic or anybody with their own belief, I'd res...

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