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@@ -2609,8 +2609,9 @@ And you may ask yourself  "Am I right?  Am I wrong?"
 And you may say to yourself  "MY GOD!  WHAT HAVE I DONE?"
   -- The Talking Heads
 ~
-The nice thing about standards is that there are
-so many of them to choose from.
+The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from;
+furthermore, if you do not like any of them,
+you can just wait for next year's model.
   -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
 ~
 A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, will tell you.
@@ -43946,3 +43947,128 @@ i buy all my hats
 at interdimensional
 pancake restaurant
   -- fred t. hamster
+~
+Love is about finding something pleasant in everyone.  It can't be external
+appearance, or what the person is engaged in at the moment; it has to be just
+the fact that this is a sentient being who wants happiness and does not want
+suffering and who has been the best of friends at some time in the limitless
+past.  A Tibetan definition of love is that the person pleasantly comes to
+mind (yid du 'ong ba).  Rather than pushing people away, you experience a core
+similarity and closeness in them that makes you receptive to their basic
+being, regardless of the problem--regardless of how distorted their current
+attitudes and behavior are.  That's how strong spiritual love is.
+  -- Jeffrey Hopkins, from "A Truthful Heart: Buddhist Practices for
+     Connecting with Others", Shambhala Publications
+~
+this is not confirmed yet, but UVa is changing the name of its funding tokens.
+UVa is moving away from the PTAO payment codes (Project, Task, Award, and
+Organization) to a new acronym using "Cost center, Activity, Program, Spend
+category" or... CAPS!!!
+finally all my hard work in fallout new vegas will be paying off.
+~
+Rob's Meeting Mantra:
+
+Is what I am thinking necessary to say?
+Is it necessary for this to be said by ME?
+Is it necessary for me to say this RIGHT NOW?
+
+  -- Rob Diethorn
+~
+fred's chow mantra:
+  just eat when you're hungry,
+  and be sure you're hungry and not just sating an appetite,
+  because scheduled food times are irrelevant to your body,
+  and can lead to overfeeding unless you're malnourished;
+  so let the body decide when to eat,
+  and use your brain to decide what you feed it.
+    -- fred t. hamster
+~
+No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.
+  -- Voltaire
+~
+Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.
+  -- Thomas Szasz
+~
+Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
+  -- Winnie the Pooh
+~
+It is well for people who think,
+to change their minds occasionally
+in order to keep them clean.
+  -- Luther Burbank
+~
+Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think about.
+  -- Benjamin Lee Whorf
+~
+Misery is almost always the result of thinking.
+  -- Joseph Joubert
+~
+Most of the mistakes in thinking
+are inadequacies of perception
+rather than mistakes of logic.
+  -- Edward de Bono
+~
+Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.
+  -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+~
+What we think, we become. -- Shakyamuni Buddha
+~
+pseudo-code for our daily lives:
+
+repeat:
+    if (not one_thing) then { 
+        other_thing 
+    }
+:forever
+~
+U R brilliant,
+U need 2 keep working on that shine,
+U can't lord it over others,
+U R your own completeness as they are theirs.
+    -- fred t. hamster
+~
+and goddess said to me, she said like, "i am omni-sexual and pan-gender...
+bitches."  i apologize for her language, but that's what she said.
+    -- fred t. hamster
+~
+
+vape temperature mantra for cannabis
+(also a haiku if you don't pronounce the numbers...)
+
+  things are tastiest,
+  celsius degrees ranging 164 -> 228,
+  dank vaporizer.
+
+  get lightly toasted 164+,
+  proceed on to half baked at 180+,
+  way fully baked at 200+.
+
+  dude, know when it's cooked,
+  never go over 230 ever,
+  we vape you long time.
+    -- fred t. hamster
+~
+    I found I was able to get a lot of tension off my shoulders by almost
+"outing" myself in the press in that way, in very early circumstances.  So
+I wasn't going to get people crawling out the woodwork saying [seedy, muck-
+raking voice]: "I'll tell you something about David Bowie that you don't
+know..."  I wasn't going to have any of that.  I knew that at some point I
+was going to have to say something about my life.  And, again, Ziggy enabled
+me to make things more comfortable for myself.  There was an excitement that
+the age of exploration was really finally here.  Which is what I was going
+through.  It perfectly mirrored my lifestyle at the time.  It was exactly what
+was happening to me.  There was nothing that I wasn't willing to try, to
+explore and see if it was really part of my psyche or my nature.  I was
+terribly exploratory in every way, not just culturally but sexually and...
+God, there was nothing I would leave alone.  Like a--it's a terrible pun,
+but--like a dog with a bone, I suppose!  So I buried it!
+    The quote has taken on far more in retrospect than actually it was at the
+time.  I'm quite proud that I did it.  On the other hand I didn't want to
+carry a banner for any group of people, and I was as worried about that as
+the aftermath.  Being approached by organisations.  I didn't want that.  I
+didn't feel like part of a group.  I didn't like that aspect of it: this is
+going to start overshadowing my writing and everything else that I do.
+But there you go.
+  -- David Bowie, in Mojo, July 2002
+~
+