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It's basically Pascal's Wager for the paranoid prankster.

There's a river flowing through the ocean

I THINK EVERYONE INVOLVED HERE IS CUTE.

Science should be exactly as cool as the headlines sound. Like the 'RUSSIANS CUT APART AND REASSEMBLE DOGS' thing.

And that's *another* crypto conference I've been kicked out of. C'mon, it's a great analogy!

Apparently Google assumes you're traveling during the ferry's normal operating hours. We lost two hours circling that damn lake (to say nothing of the Straw Man).

Okay, everyone, cross yourselves, then cross the streams.

If you think this is too hard on literary criticism, read the Wikipedia article on deconstruction.

In Connor's second thesis it is stated 'There is no fate but what we make for ourselves.' Does the routine destroy our creativity or do we lose creativity and fall into the routine? Anyway, who's up for a road trip!

I *do* hear that they're the most comfortable thing to wear on your feet since sliced bread.

The MythBusters are even more sinister.

If you read all vaguebooking/vaguetweeting with the assumption that they're saying everything they can without revealing classified military information, the internet gets way more exciting.

That's a gneiss butte.

SEMI-PROTECT THE CONSTITUTION

I'm just trying to explain, please don't be jealous! Man, why are all my relationships ruined by early 90's rappers?

Having a positive attitude is almost tautologically good for your mental health, and extreme stress can hurt your immune system, but that doesn't mean you should feel like shit for feeling like shit.

'Pick you up at eight?' 'Nine. I've got to re-mine the driveway.'

No two adjacent circles are the same color.

If you're interested in the subject, Lawrence Lessig's 'Free Culture' is pretty good

I really shouldn't abuse that power so heavily.

The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.

'How could you possibly think typing 'import skynet' was a good idea?'

You should talk to the girl down the hall; I think you'd like her. Lemme know if you find out why she's ordering all those colored plastic balls.

Umwelt is the idea that because their senses pick up on different things, different animals in the same ecosystem actually live in very different worlds. Everything about you shapes the world you inhabit--from your ideology to your glasses prescription to your web browser.

Feynman recounted another good one upperclassmen would use on freshmen physics students: When you look at words in a mirror, how come they're reversed left to right but not top to bottom? What's special about the horizontal axis?

For all we know, the odds are in our favor.

If at first you don't succeed, that's one data point.

'Broom first, then slippers.' 'How do I know you'll return the broom once you've secured your ticket?' 'I'll leave my little dog as collateral.' 'Great. Pleasure doing business!'

NO FATE BUT THE NARRATIVES WE IMPOSE ON LIFE'S RANDOM CHAOS TO DISTRACT OURSELVES FROM OUR EXISTENTIAL PLIGHT

'Yeah, that squid's a total asshole.' [scoot scoot]