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How are we to survive? Solemnity is not the answer, any more than witless and irresponsible frivolity is. I think our best chance lies in humor, which in this case means a wry acceptance of our predicament. We don’t have to like it but we can at least recognize its ...
The Lizard Lounge is now open for another wacky Friday evening. If you have an LGF account, log in and then click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post to enter LGF Spy in Lounge Mode. This is a private thread; comments ...
Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal. — Arthur C. Clarke
Which statement seems more true: (1) I have a brain. (2) I am a brain. — Douglas Hofstadter
The Lizard Lounge is now open for a crazy Tuesday evening. If you have an LGF account, log in and then click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post to enter LGF Spy in Lounge Mode. Comments for this thread, in LGF ...
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it. — James A. Michener
If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research, would it? — Albert Einstein
Here’s an open thread while I read about using the Apache mod_expires module to set cache expiration times for specific resources, to improve page loading speed.
I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his ...
The Lounge is open early today, because I’m tweaking the code again and some of this stuff has to be tested in the wild. If you have an LGF account, log in and then click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post ...
For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have, Not universal love But to be loved alone. — W. H. Auden
The Lizard Lounge is now open for the last Friday in June. If you have an LGF account, log in and then click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post to enter LGF Spy in Lounge Mode. (Comments for this thread, in ...
In times long past, this planet was the home of a mighty, noble race of beings who called themselves the Krell. Ethically and technologically they were a million years ahead of humankind, for in unlocking the meaning of nature they had conquered even their baser selves, and when in the ...
Here’s a private Lounge thread for the evening. If you have an LGF account, log in and then click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post to enter LGF Spy in Lounge Mode. (Comments for this thread, in LGF Spy and on ...
Facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world’s data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts do not go away while scientists debate rival theories for explaining them. Einstein’s theory of gravitation replaced Newton’s, but apples ...
It’s 5:00 somewhere in the world, so it’s time for the Lizard Lounge thread for this Wednesday evening. If you’ve got the credentials (an LGF account will do), log in and then click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post to enter ...
Why don’t you quit cryin’ and get me some bourbon? — Dix Handley, The Asphalt Jungle
Here’s the Lizard Lounge thread for a Groovesday evening. If you’ve got the credentials (an LGF account will do), log in and then click the green magnifying glass in the row of icons at bottom right of this post to enter LGF Spy in Lounge Mode. (Comments for this thread, ...
Thank you for allowing me to use colors as rich and deep as you please. — Maxfield Parrish
I’ll bet my badge that we haven’t seen the last of those weirdies. — Lieutenant John Harper, Plan 9 From Outer Space
The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths. — Christopher Hitchens
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be. — Jonathan Harker
The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death: Such waltzing was not easy. — Theodore Roethke, “My Papa’s Waltz”
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. — Douglas Adams