Pertinacious Metanoia

“That is the only fact that matters right now. It is unseemly for us, the untouched, to rush to assign self-serving interpretations to their nightmare, to dip our fingers in the blood and draw posters promoting our pet causes. It’s obscene.”

“A Japanese temple-building company founded in the year 578 is going out of business.”

Transparent squeeze bottles in case I ever need them if I’m doing serious repeated travel.

“The moral of the story is that if you sue a computer company, and your claim is not facially ridiculous, they will give you a new computer with extreme haste. It costs them more to send a lawyer to court than it does to send a computer to you.”

“Good job, Intuit. That was your software’s day. You make a tax program, it needs to work on tax day. That’s like showing up to the Olympics drunk.”

“Many people will use this terrible tragedy as an excuse to put through a political agenda other than my own. [...] Those people who have different political views from me ought to be ashamed of themselves for thinking of cheap partisan point-scoring.”

Fuckin’ creepy asshole cultists.

“At a recent recruiting session, an Agency staffer told wannabe spooks that ‘illegal file sharing’ was one of the things that would keep them from getting the security clearances needed to work at the NSA. (Spending time in the Peace Corps was another).”