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…NCSA mosaic won the web, absolutely; in truth i think it gave a lot of us an excuse to upgrade from terminals and shell accounts…

…i remember going to our computer lab in the early nineties and seeing a flyer about this new protocol called the world wide web, thinking to myself in what way is that better than gopher?..

…hey, willem dafoe is an accomplished thespian; show some respect…

…how do people say it’s not realistic?..

…it’s clearly a recently-filmed parody…

take all your overgrown infants away somewhere
and build them a home, a little place of their own
the fletcher memorial home for incurable tyrants and kings
they could appear to themselves everyday on closed-circuit TV to make sure they’re still real
it’s the only connection they feel

“Comets are tough to predict—they’re light-years away, and therefore we know little about their composition, which affects brightness.”

…have magazines fallen so low in the age of the web?..

…we had spoons, they were broken; i text-message my mom a couple times per year on christmas and mother’s day…

…all that and you don’t even mention that he’s been an open russian asset for eight years?..

…the blunt truth is that he’s in too deep, as are most of the remaining republican party, and the only way to keep their heads at this point is to double-down on seizing the apparatus of state to dismiss their criminal culpability…

…ringworld, johnny mnemonic, and cube all taught me that monofilament is material to be feared…

…finesteride works, not a placebo…

…i parsed that as ‘once a month’ and pondered your ensuing lifestyle…

…overtime?..welcome to the world of exempt employees where anything less than 45 hours requires “voluntary” salary deductions…

fear leads to anger.
anger leads to hate.
hate leads to fascism, i guess.

…he’s performed that way since about 1996; his first few seasons were gold, though…

…if russia needs men and china needs women that sounds like a demographic imbalance poised to resolve itself…

I miss when rural farmers and miners were socialists

(modern rendition)

…playing some good-old-fashioned call of cthulhu (or old gods of appalachia) cultivates warm fuzzies for the labor movement something fierce…

…do you mean xitter?..

…i slipped down a wet flight of stairs fifteen years ago, in my late thirties, and took the typical six weeks to restore my mobility, six months for full recovery…

…after fifty, though, as i was leaning over one day, my spine decided to just let go and has repeated the exercise four times since: i’m pretty sure that’s when my factory warranty expired…

…why choose the lesser evil?..