Life is…
"But he was the kind of man to whom it comes naturally to pronounce the word negro with two gs."
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Terry Pratchett. Men at Arms
Works in progress
- restaurant guide with 100+ places still to be added
- book of birdsong quotes
- eBay tips
"The sword had the stopping-power of a sex-crazed rhinoceros on bad acid."
— Terry Pratchett
"The Guild of Fire Fighters had been outlawed by the Patrician the previous year after many complaints. The point was that, if you bought a contract from the Guild, your house would be protected against fire. Unfortunately, the general city ethos quickly came to the fore and fire fighters would tend to go to prospective clients’ houses in groups, making loud comments like “Very inflammable looking place, this” and “Probably go up like a firework with just one carelessly-dropped match, know what I mean?"
— Terry Pratchett. Guards! Guards!
"A book has been taken. A book has been taken? You summoned the Watch,” Carrot drew himself up proudly, “because someone’s taken a book? You think that’s worse than murder?” The Librarian gave him the kind of look other people would reserve for people who said things like “What’s so bad about genocide?"
— Terry Pratchett. Guards! Guards!
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“Not one of my ancestors has died in his bed in the last thousand years.”
“Really?”
” Quite a few have died in someone else’s, however.”
"— Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
Jeffrey Tucker on jobs
Dear Young Workers:
Even if it weren’t for the economic stagnation, you would already be facing a tough market. That’s because you are showing up at the job marketplace nearly empty-handed. Our society long ago decided it was better for you to sit in desks for 16 years than to gain any real work experience in the marketplace that is likely to hire you later.
I’m way too black to burn from sun rays.
Settlers of Catan for the first time.
Fuck everyone who rolls a 7 in Settlers.
ICDC has always been very interesting for me. This is like 2 months late and I should really be sleeping for the AP Econ tests
tomorrowtoday, but reading through random blogs reminded me of this.I sucked at ICDC. Seriously. I went 3 years out of 4 and finaled 1 out of those 3. I sucked pretty…
I sucked pretty hard too. I peaked my first year as far as competition goes, winning a brand new event as a freshmen. After that, I made top 20 but never anything higher. But I didn’t care. One of the only times I’ve ever cried with joy was last year’s ICDC, watching the team I had led do so well and all my freshmen kicking ass. It’s a family in the end: despite constant squabbles, bitching, and mutual irritation, it doesn’t matter in the end since you have someone to stand by you and cheer.
I’ll miss my team. But I have new teams to make and one day, I will come back with my friends and we’ll live it again in our memories.
