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Go here: http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 pick five quotes you like a whole lot, and post them.
Forcing the spread of a trend/meme/whatnot is sooooo myspace. pfft.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment. Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), ‘But the One on the Right,’ in New Yorker, 1929

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892), “Song of Myself”

I felt like poisoning a monk. Umberto Eco (1932 - ), on why he wrote the novel “The Name of the Rose.”

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. Arthur Rubinstein (1886 - 1982)

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. Frank Lloyd Wright (1869 - 1959)

http://www.adterrasperaspera.com/blog/2006/08/12/jack-thompson-in-drag/

Good article relating to the ongoing folderol of people going out of their way to keep responsibility for the raising of children off the shoulders of the parents.
It just goes to show you that the decline of Personal Responsibility has been happening for quite some time. In the evolution of society, particularly here in the states, a lot of powerful strides have been made. A lot of foolish preconceptions have been mostly shed. However, riding the coattails of that are things like what’s brought up in this article.

I won’t go off at length, I already put my initial reaction down as a comment at the article itself. Worth checking out.

I also recommend his article on the separation of church and code - which has apparently been deemed the troll of the century. You be the judge, but I think he’s got a very valid point.
http://www.adterrasperaspera.com/blog/2006/08/03/religion-and-linux/

Last night I dreamt I was touched by lightning, and harassed by boys that are in love with me.

The lightning dream was really cool. I was in some living room with huge windows. The sky was nearly black with clouds, but not raining. Then these MASSIVE (think 3-4x as wide as normal lightning you’ve seen) bolts of lightning start slamming down from the sky, over and over again, in a sort of pattern, moving closer. Others in the room were nervous, but I was fascinated. So I leaned over to watch stuff that was off to the right, and was just in time to see lightning hit the house next to the one I was in. (They were stacked nearly on top of each other, inner city style.) Rather than obliterate the house, all that electric power instead dispersed outward along the homes and rushed into where I and the other people were. I noted that both myself and the girl across from me (whoever it was) glowed/crackled briefly with electricity. It made me tingle and it felt strange, but it wasn’t like getting electrocuted; That hurts, I know, I’ve done it. Edit for Mogrothir’s sake: I have not, in fact, been electrocuted. I have however gotten some nasty electric shocks before. XD and those do definitely hurt.

Don’t remember much about the boys dream, other than I was running around a campus of sorts (lots of buildings intercut with park-like areas) and some guy who barely spoke english kept after me with something akin to “why you no love me?” That was just weird. XD

Okay. Gotta make today an early day! Hopefully I get to go out frame shopping with Ian’s mum later, for the sexy-ass art prints I have in my possession. Mmm… art. But this means I gotta hustle to work. I actualy woke up at a reasonable hour and didn’t immediately wanna pass back out forever and ever! YAY! *zooms* ciao lovelies!

I’ve been getting a lot done lately. It’s pretty rad. Work is taking a turn for the EXTREMELY positive, and I’m once again excited to be a part of this company. The air is a-buzz with positive change both on and off the clock.

If anyone else has been feeling really supernatural - for lack of a better term - please do drop me a line. I’m so curious. It seems like everyone I know has picked up on an extra special hum to every day life. I could be reading too much into things, but belief is what you make of it and I have a strong belief that persuing these currents is going to be hugely important to me.

With that, I give you Words to Know Volume 1.
I have no idea if there will be future volumes, but in this episode I will be sharing a bunch of Wikipedia articles on a few things I’ve been researching lately.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylozoism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homunculus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_magic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ereshkigal

Discussions and discoveries encouraged.