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One man's brain plus one other will produce one half as many ideas as
one man would have produced alone. These two plus two more will
produce half again as many ideas. These four plus four more begin to
represent a creative meeting, and the ratio changes to one quarter as
many ...
-- Anthony Chevins
Board the windows, up your car insurance, and don't leave any booze in
plain sight. It's St. Patrick's day in Chicago again. The legend has
it that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. In fact, he was
arrested for drunk driving. The snakes left because people kept
throwing up on them.
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science
requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
-- Robert Heinlein
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
-- G. B. Shaw
Idaho state law makes it illegal for a man to give his sweetheart a box
of candy weighing less than fifty pounds.
With trembling hands he unfurled the ancient cracked parchment,
this was the place, it had to be. Uncertainly he began to mumble the
chant "rdbms, sql, third normal formal form, java, table, scalable".
Something moved... From outside they heard a scream and a thud.
The sales department had awoken.
Join in the new game that's sweeping the country. It's called
"Bureaucracy". Everybody stands in a circle. The first person to do
anything loses.
Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the
beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get
out, and such as are out wish to get in?
-- Ralph Emerson
Friday, 30 October 2026 Michael J. Chappell Contact me at:
mcsuper5@freeshell.org
