Monday, September 28, 2015

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Quotation of the Day for September 28, 2015



"Dubai's undeclared mission is to make itself indistinguishable from its airport."

- Joseph O'Neill, in his novel The Dog.

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Sep. 27, 2015

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Friday, September 18, 2015

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"Hanging around the Vicious household with the two lovebirds was not for the fainthearted, and we left young Sidney, his spiked hair grotesquely thick with Vicks VapoRub, to Nancy, who seemed greedily relieved to have her sex slave back so they could resume the all-consuming pastime of perching on the can, constipated or retching, smack's flowers of romance."

- Chrissie Hynde, musician, recalling the heroin habits of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen, in her memoir, Reckless: My Life As A Pretender.

Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk
Sep. 10, 2015

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Thursday, September 17, 2015

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"Finally, what I found particularly interesting was the manner in which the manuscript ends: with a curse. At the end of the colophon (folio 3v), it warns of misfortune, in the form of therimorphic transformation, that will befall anyone who attempts to steal the manuscript. The colophon reads:

"duhksena likhitam grahantam jah ccaure niyate jadi sukari tasya ma ca pita tasya ca gardhavah


"'If whatever thief steals this manuscript, written with such effort, then his mother turns into a pig and his father a donkey.'

"My first, rather humorous, response to reading this proclamation, which serves as a kind of preventative curse, was to reflect upon the nature of digital manuscripts: Does the curse apply to the dissemination of photographic images of the manuscript as electronic files? Would the Creative Commons Agreement protect me from the prophetic force of the incantation? I concluded, and reassured the superstitious side of my brain, that my parents are resting firm in their anthropomorphic bodies yet still: the intent and power of the curse likely applies to the physical manuscript, which remains safely in Comilla, even as digital copies can be consulted from anywhere in the world."

- Benjamin J. Fleming, Cataloger of Indic Manuscripts at the Kislak Center and Visiting Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania.

[https://pennrare.wordpress.com/2015/08/06/catalogs-colophons-and-curses-from-the-ramamala-library-in-bangladesh/]

Submitted by: Bob Bruhin
Sep. 9, 2015

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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

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"You can't build a statistical regression for a boner, but you can certainly use it as a tool to understand, quantitatively, what works for the masses," he said. "You can learn a lot about what generates money, and how, and where."

- Adam Grayson, CFO of Evil Angel, a producer of adult entertainment, on the importance of analytics to his business.

[http://motherboard.vice.com]

Submitted by: Rob Wood
Sep. 11, 2015

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Tuesday, September 15, 2015

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"I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers.

"Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure."

- Oliver Sacks, on learning he had terminal cancer, writing in the New York Times.

[http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/19/opinion/oliver-sacks-on-learning-he-has-terminal-cancer.html]

Submitted by: John Ritz
Aug. 31, 2015

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Monday, September 14, 2015

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"Humans look just like livestock now. We achieve a state of buttery plumpness before we've even reached sexual maturity. We experience powerful cravings for food that is slowly making us sick. We are like parasitic wasps dropped out of airplanes: programmed to eat the wrong food. We aren't born calorie zombies, but that's what we have become."

- Mark Schatzker, in his book The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor.

Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk
Sep. 10, 2015

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Sunday, September 13, 2015

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"America has been trending stupid for a long time. Now the stupid wants out of its cage, and Trump is urging it on. There are a lot of ways this can go wrong, no matter who wins in 2016."

- Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone, August 21, 2015.

Submitted by: Dorene Smith
Aug. 25, 2015

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Saturday, September 12, 2015

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"Why shouldn't anybody who can meet these [standards] be accepted? And the answer is, there is no reason."

- Adm. Jon Greenert, chief of USN Naval Operations, telling Defense News that the elite Navy SEALS will also allow women as long as they pass its grueling training course.

Submitted by: Sid Sidner
Aug. 19, 2015

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Friday, September 11, 2015

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"They just told me to play what I felt. Hey, I'm a jazz musician, that's what I do. So I listened again and recorded my first solo. We listened back and they said it was great. I recorded a second take and that's the one they used. I was gone in a half-hour. The next thing I know I'm hearing myself in every airport bathroom in the world."

- Pete Christlieb, about recording his sax solo on the Steely Dan song, Deacon Blues.

[http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-steely-dan-created-deacon-blues-1441727645]

Submitted by: Terry Labach
Sep. 9, 2015

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Thursday, September 10, 2015

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"I have been speaking of the vast regions and varied peoples to whom I owe my duty but there has also sprung from our island home a theme of social and political thought which constitutes our message to the world and through the changing generations has found acceptance both within and far beyond my Realms.

"Parliamentary institutions, with their free speech and respect for the rights of minorities, and the inspiration of a broad tolerance in thought and expression - all this we conceive to be a precious part of our way of life and outlook.

"During recent centuries, this message has been sustained and invigorated by the immense contribution, in language, literature, and action, of the nations of our Commonwealth overseas. It gives expression, as I pray it always will, to living principles, as sacred to the Crown and Monarchy as to its many Parliaments and Peoples. I ask you now to cherish them - and practise them too; then we can go forward together in peace, seeking justice and freedom for all men."

- Queen Elizabeth II, from her Coronation Day speech, June 2, 1953. The Queen has just become the longest-reigning monarch in Britain's history.

[http://www.royal.gov.uk/ImagesandBroadcasts/Historic%20speeches%20and%20broadcasts/CoronationDayspeech2June1953.aspx]

Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk
Sep. 9, 2015

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Wednesday, September 9, 2015

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"Though she tries to fashion herself as a modern-day civil rights leader (her attorney has compared her to Dr. King), she's no Rosa Parks. Instead, she's the bus driver maintaining the status quo of injustice while forcing all the passengers to go where she takes them, not where they want to go."

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, in his essay Kim Davis Is Not a Patriot, published in Time.

[http://time.com/4024556/kareem-abdul-jabbar-kim-davis/]

Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk
Sep. 8, 2015

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Saturday, September 5, 2015

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"A decade of fear-mongering has brought power and wealth to those who have been most skillful at hyping the terrorist threat. Fear sells. Fear has convinced the White House and Congress to pour hundreds of billions of dollars -- more money than anyone knows what to do with -- into counterterrorism and homeland security programs, often with little management or oversight, and often to the detriment of the Americans they are supposed to protect. Fear is hard to question. It is central to the financial well-being of countless federal bureaucrats, contractors, subcontractors, consultants, analysts, and pundits. Fear generates funds."

- James Risen, journalist, in his 2014 book Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War.

Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk
Sep. 4, 2015

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