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I can resist anything but temptation.
The sooner you make your first 5000 mistakes, the sooner you will be
able to correct them.
-- Nicolaides
Acquaintance, n.:
A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well
enough to lend to.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
To err is human, to forgive, beyond the scope of the Operating System
To iterate is human, to recurse, divine.
-- Robert Heller
Es brilig war. Die schlichte Toven
Wirrten und wimmelten in Waben;
Und aller-m"umsige Burggoven
Dir mohmen R"ath ausgraben.
-- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass"
One monk said to the other, "The fish has flopped out of the net! How
will it live?" The other said, "When you have gotten out of the net,
I'll tell you."
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
-- Ogden Nash
Monday, 16 February 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org