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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.
@@ -43922,4 +43923,108 @@ no friends, no spam, brain at peace
 must log back in now!
 
   -- fred t. hamster
+~
+Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the
+truth, for being correct, for being you.  Never apologize for being correct,
+or for being years ahead of your time.  If you're right and you know it,
+speak your mind.  Speak your mind.  Even if you are a minority of one, the
+truth is still the truth.
+  -- Mahatma Gandhi
+~
+    The sky is pure, open space, free from all obstructions.  The nature of
+our mind is similar: the afflictions, self-centered attitude, and other
+obscurations are not in its essential nature.  Just as clouds may temporarily
+obscure the open sky, anger, attachment, and confusion can temporarily obscure
+our mind.  When they do, the pure, open nature of the mind still remains; we
+just can't see it at the time.
+    By generating the wisdom realizing the emptiness of inherent existence, we
+will be able to eradicate obscurations from our mind forever and enjoy the
+sky-like spaciousness of a purified mind.
+  -- Thubten Chodron, from "Awaken Every Day: 365 Buddhist Reflections to
+     Invite Mindfulness and Joy", Shambhala Publications
+~
+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
+~