Insomnia

I’m cur­rently suf­fer­ing from putting my insom­nia to good use (so far I’ve installed Tracks), so I’ll take the time to post some ran­dom thoughts: I was bit­ten by April Fools twice today. The sec­ond time because I was too exhausted to remem­ber that it was April Fools. A life with­out hope is not wasted or …

Sense

One of the best quotes evah: Personally, before I did this test, I was cer­tain that LightTPD would win the race. Obviously, large soft­ware which is per­ceived bloated not nec­es­sar­ily is. mod_php, LightTPD, FastCGI — What’s Fastest Put that on a Times Square ticker.

Formulaic

Irony = Hypocrisy + Self-awareness. Of course, this only applies to your own irony/hypocrisy, not that ascribed to you from oth­ers — i.e. the irony of a locally famous activist at a hip-hop show nod­ding along with every­one else isn’t actu­ally irony or hypocrisy because he hasn’t staked out a posi­tion either above every­one else or opposed …

Foolish Consistency

For what­ever rea­son I decided to go search­ing for the answer to a quote that was pretty pop­u­lar in USENET .sig­na­ture files when I was a kid (and still is, for all I know)… The other ter­ror that scares us from self-trust is our con­sis­tency; a rev­er­ence for our past act or word because the eyes …