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pjthompsonIt's amusing to see how many people walk by my cubicle and laugh at it. Though one lady said she has fond memories of Valentine's Day when she was a child.
"So do I," I said. "This is a tribute to the adult version."
She nodded and considered. "Works for me."
Blessings to all the lovers out there, though. You can't argue with love.
Quote of the day:
"I never read a book before reviewing it—it prejudices a man so.
—Sydney Smith
Random images of the day:
The tree got fooled by the unseasonably warm weather and has started sending out new leaves. A crow sat on one of the tree's lower branches diligently finishing off a sandwich someone had thrown away. The sandwich looked bigger than the crow until I realized it was mostly wrapper.
A white truck sat in the left hand turn lane waiting for the light. The bed was filled with those four-foot high orange lane markers road crews use. They'd been thrown in haphazard at all kinds of angles so the truck looked as if it had an orange, spiky hairdo.
Writing talk of the day: So I gave the local betas the chapter I've been agonizing over for the past couple of weeks. One of them got back to me and said the premise I'd struggled with is sound, but the execution of explaining it is off.
This is very good news. Fixing faulty execution is so much easier than coming up for a fix of a plot hole sitting in your story like a smoking crater.
Political commentary of the day: The British will now require their citizens to carry identification cards, complete with fingerprints and retinal scans. I keep hearing in my head a Nazi from one of those forties WWII movies, "May I zee your paperz?"
Who knew Tony Blair and the Labor party would be the ones to put the jack boot in?
Thank God for the Constitution and the Bills of Rights, unless George W. Bush flushes them further down the toilet than he already has.
P.S. The terrorists have won, since the one thing they most wanted to destroy was the example of liberty Western democracies offered to those they wanted to force into Fascist theocracies.
"So do I," I said. "This is a tribute to the adult version."
She nodded and considered. "Works for me."
Blessings to all the lovers out there, though. You can't argue with love.
Quote of the day:
"I never read a book before reviewing it—it prejudices a man so.
—Sydney Smith
Random images of the day:
The tree got fooled by the unseasonably warm weather and has started sending out new leaves. A crow sat on one of the tree's lower branches diligently finishing off a sandwich someone had thrown away. The sandwich looked bigger than the crow until I realized it was mostly wrapper.
A white truck sat in the left hand turn lane waiting for the light. The bed was filled with those four-foot high orange lane markers road crews use. They'd been thrown in haphazard at all kinds of angles so the truck looked as if it had an orange, spiky hairdo.
Writing talk of the day: So I gave the local betas the chapter I've been agonizing over for the past couple of weeks. One of them got back to me and said the premise I'd struggled with is sound, but the execution of explaining it is off.
This is very good news. Fixing faulty execution is so much easier than coming up for a fix of a plot hole sitting in your story like a smoking crater.
Political commentary of the day: The British will now require their citizens to carry identification cards, complete with fingerprints and retinal scans. I keep hearing in my head a Nazi from one of those forties WWII movies, "May I zee your paperz?"
Who knew Tony Blair and the Labor party would be the ones to put the jack boot in?
Thank God for the Constitution and the Bills of Rights, unless George W. Bush flushes them further down the toilet than he already has.
P.S. The terrorists have won, since the one thing they most wanted to destroy was the example of liberty Western democracies offered to those they wanted to force into Fascist theocracies.
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Date: 2006-02-14 11:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-14 12:17 pm (UTC)http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5205316
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Date: 2006-02-14 12:22 pm (UTC)This act seems very strange to me. But then, the Patriot Act also seemed very strange. What's that quote from Ben Franklin... something about those willing to give up freedom to gain safety deserve neither freedom nor safety.
This is odd and unsettling.
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Date: 2006-02-14 12:31 pm (UTC)House of Lords, which is usually conservative--but every once in awhile does something unexpected. Maybe they'll quash it? We can only hope.
What's that quote from Ben Franklin... something about those willing to give up freedom to gain safety deserve neither freedom nor safety.
Good paraphrase. Here's what my quote file has:
""They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
And here's another one just because I ran across it:
"In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top."
--Benjamin Franklin
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Date: 2006-02-14 06:40 pm (UTC)Yeah, and it's kind of amazing that the people who are doing it are the ones proclaiming they're protecting those liberties. Well, that's not amazing... it's amazing that other people believe it when they say that.
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Date: 2006-02-15 09:56 am (UTC)