It's my weblog and I'll cry if I want to
I am writing and posting this from the balcony while I eat lunch. Admittedly, there isn't much to recommend this except for hack value. I went to art school where I didn't exactly learn much about computers or computer science, but these days I would generally prefer to spend my time with the propeller heads than with the art stars. The latter still have what the former seem to have either lost or knowingly forfeited : an appreciation and celebration in the act of discovery and creation. In a word, hack value.
Stephane Dion, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs
"It seems to me that it would be bizarre, even unprecedented in the history of democracy to hold a referendum to determine if the result of another referendum is clear."
Don MacPhearson : Je me souviens
"Like Richard, the [Sun Life] building was a symbol, in its case of English domination of Montreal, a bastion like the one it physically resembles. In Richard's day, it also happened to house the offices of the National Hockey League, when that league was still dominated by English Canadians. So it was from the building that in 1955, the league's English-speaking president, Clarence Campbell, handed down the suspension that, perhaps even more than Richard's feats on the ice, earned him his place in Quebec history." The funny thing about history and Canadians is that one solitude knows too much and other too little...
Hank Stuever : A Phone Ringing in the Wilderness
"[W]e can learn that not every moment of elusive joy, not every small and beguilingly quirky thing, not every secret place, not every last bit of anything that's kinda cool needs to be mentioned in public. If you love something, if you run into that singular miracle in the middle of a hopeless nowhere, you don't go immediately to the global network and shout it from Mount Internet. You don't have to invite everyone."
They're called dictionaries for a reason...
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tangram is a "Chinese toy made by cutting a square of thin wood, or other suitable material, into seven pieces...being capable of combination in various ways, so as to form a great number of different figures." RTFM ...doh!
