How To Be a Self-made-man with no choice

There are the Horatio Algers of this world, who have built for themselves a high degree of success by hard work. Such examples are rare. There are others, however, who have no choice, and have to build their lives up from scratch. They just come from negativity and have nowhere to go but in the [...]

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New ways of going insane

“Excessive text messaging and email” is now proposed to be included as new mental illnesses in an update to the Diagnostics and Statistical Manual (DSM-IV). These are not the only silly classifications they have.
One proposed mental illness that I have heard from that seminal magazine, the Journal of Polymorphic Perversity, is “Consensual Validation Disorder”. That [...]

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These are the good old days

Worked myself nearly into delirium today, and decided to go home and do other things rather than being driven to distraction by work.
These are the good old days. Other people have them in the past, but I have them now. I see it
in the smiles and hugs I get;
in the smiles and hugs I return;
in [...]

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Remember, when the air was free?

One of the most reassuring things about gas stations is that sign many of them have, advertising “free air”. Yes, those were the days, the days when air was free… I now go to the same gas station, and they now have a coin-operated air pump, which now charges 50 cents for air. The first [...]

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Fortune Cookies III

More auto-generated fortunes:
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– C code, loosely based on Wm. Shakespeare
Experience, n.:
Something you don’t get until just after you need it.
– Olivier
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
– Redd [...]

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Fortune Cookie Generator

Anyone who had used a UNIX operating system might be aware of some of the fun things on it. Such as a command called “fortune”, which generates short aphorisms and quotations similar to ones found in fortune cookies. Except some of these are funny, witty, sarcastic, satirical, and so on. I use a Linux system, [...]

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Tribute to Matt Groening

For some reason I am lukewarm in my view of The Simpsons, although it is difficult to deny its effect on the masses: I think it is rivalling Bonanza and Gunsmoke as one of the longest-running series in television history,but not the longest.
Notwithstanding The Simpsons, I am more of a fan of Groening’s comic strip [...]

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Aphorisms III

{If you have read this already, my apologies for re-posting, as I have now added a number of new categories for this article}
(Some original, some not):
The day the opinions of other people don’t control you any more is the day you find self-acceptance.
It’s the start that stops most people. You’ve just got to get going.
The [...]

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Aphorisms II

{If you have read this already, my apologies for re-posting, as I have now added a number of new categories for this article}
It has occured to me from time to time that some people appear to adjust to leadership by taking their inner negativity and turning it into a “healthy cynicism” about those they lead. [...]

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Aphorisms

{If you have read this already, my apologies for re-posting, as I have now added a number of new categories for this article}
Some things I was typing while feeling somewhat inspired:
I am happy enough being around those I like. I don’t think that worrying about people I don’t like or who don’t like me would [...]

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