Bornfamous

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I guess if you’ve got to be in a rock group it might as well be the Beatles.
- George Harrison,
Dead at 58

At last, I’ve found an anger management system that my ex can understand. In fact, I think he may have written it. Yes, I’m sure of it.

When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only about how to solve the problem. But when I’ve finished, if the solution isn’t beautiful, I know it’s wrong.
- Buckminster Fuller [via mary beth]

My witness is the empty sky.
- Jack Kerouac

Men are born soft and supple;
dead, they are stiff and hard.
Plants are born tender and pliant;
dead, they are brittle and dry.
Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible
is a disciple of death.
Whoever is soft and yielding
is a disciple of life.
The hard and stiff will be broken.
The soft and [...]

Well, as Gomer Pyle would say, “Surprise, surprise.”
I finally worked up the nerve to suggest having a recycled Christmas this year [after Robby complained that he's got two friends' birthdays in the next week and only $31 saved up - good timing, huh?]
He didn’t like the idea at first, until I said he [...]

If the latest virus is getting on your nerves, Matt has a good suggestion - for Eudora users, anyway:
I think I figured out a way to filter them directly to the trash without harming my normal mail. The messages all look identical to me in Eudora, they’re completely blank except for a multipart inline attachment [...]

I try not to do the meme thing because it bothers my good friend, BobtheCorgi, but Tracy is so funny and cool that I can’t help myself. I want to be just like her but I’ll never be as amusing as she is, dammit.
1. WHAT ARE A FEW OF YOUR FAVORITE CHRISTMAS [...]

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
- Matt Cartmill

Today, this day was a brimming cup,
today, this day was the immense wave,
today, it was all the earth.
’september 8th ‘ - Pablo Neruda
[via MartiniGrrl]

Sorry to keep messing with the colors of these blockquote class=”rounded”s. I can’t quite figure out something that coordinates and yet is easy to read. I’ll just keep fiddling ’till I get it right, k?

Can You Spell?
You scored 8 out of a possible 8
You win a gold star. You have mastered the strange permutations of English spelling and never fail to check a dictionary when in doubt. The other kids probably still beat you up after lunch. [via chunshek]
Took me four tries, but I did it withOUT checking a [...]

[edited at 10:36 am]
Hmm… wonder if I have the nerve to do a Recycled Christmas this year?
One Family’s Revolution Against the Shopping Mall
Everyone is invited to give presents to anyone else, but these rules must be followed: you can only give a gift that has been previously owned, nothing new; you can make a present, [...]

This is good news, indeed [via photodude]:
Afghan women to attend talks
Women will be among the delegates taking part in Monday’s talks on the formation of a post-Taleban government in Afghanistan.
Both the Northern Alliance and the former Afghan king are said to be including a number of women in their delegations at the United Nations-brokered [...]