Sean's Mental Walkabout

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On April 23, 2009 · Comments Off

“Trust me, if NYC gets nuked, NO ONE locally is driving to sterling forest to save a soup company”

- I’ll leave the context and author as an exercise to the reader

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On April 4, 2009 · 1 Comments

“Hitler…all he had to peddle was hate. Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise.”

- Jubal Harshaw in Stranger in a Strange Land, by Robert Anson Heinlein.

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Until one is committed, there is hesitancy

On March 2, 2009 · Comments Off

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets: “Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”

—W. H. Murray [thx SM]

via the Signal vs. Noise blog (yes, you should go and subscribe to that immediately)

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On January 16, 2008 · Comments Off

I recently made the switch from OS X to Ubuntu after realizing that all Steve Jobs wants is for you to shut up and buy a new iPod; don’t you dare criticize his taste or the way he treats third-party developers like dirt.

– David Siegel

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On January 14, 2008 · Comments Off

XMPP4R is written in Ruby. If you don’t know this language yet, continue to ignore it. Learning it will make you realize what you missed until now, and you might run into severe problems (depression, etc).

–XMPP/Jabber Library for Ruby

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