The "Bait-and-Switch". I mean, come on: Who doesn't love THAT one?
Television
As of recent times, my TV would probably be astounded if I asked it to show me anything but Simpsons DVDs.
It would be even more amazed if I managed to stay awake for a whole episode.
Books
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and all its marvelous sequels.
Heroes
Can you read my mind?
Can you picture the things I'm thinking of?
Chapman University
Orange,California
Graduated: 2003
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Computer Science
Clubs: I was ACM President for a couple hours.
Sealth High School
Seattle,Washington
Graduated: 1997
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: ...Valedictorian?
Clubs: 1997 Honor Choir FTW.
Everything depends on the element you take for granted.
If the removal of your force of will from a system causes immediate and complete stagnation, the system was never sustainable.
It is extremely safe to trust people: Trust each individual to continue to behave exactly as they have.
Some of the things that hurt the most to lose, are the things we never had.
Most people are trying to do what looks like the right thing, with the data they have.
While it may be wildly erroneous in the present tense, conventional wisdom always started somewhere.
For those with genuine understanding, anger is a rare and precious luxury.
Stability can be a form of torture.
It is insidiously easy to become far more attached to the idea of love, than to the solid, present, real object of one's affections.
We lie to ourselves in order to remain comfortable, especially when we aren't.
The intentions of others are often imagined; Very little that will ever happen, will have been deliberate.
Logic changes nothing; Its only function is to describe, and it can describe everything if you have both data and patience in sufficient quantities. We fail by having neither.
There is no such thing as thinking too much, so long as you can multitask.
Timing is everything.
Lag does not denote indifference any more than haste denotes true compassion.
Behaving as if you may lose someone at any time is a universally self-fulfilling prophecy.
As long as you are still alive, giving up is always merely temporary.
Acknowledging that giving up is only temporary completely negates the usefulness of having done it.
Taking the long view too often can make you forget to see to the little things, which are still your responsibility.
Living too much in the moment can make you forget that it's the greedy algorithms that generate most regrets.
You cannot choose what you believe any more than you can choose who you love. Neither means you have bought anything.
Yesterday's undisputed fact may already be today's hilarious lie.
You never know if people act differently around you, because you're never not around to see the difference.
People's opinions of others have inertia on a planetary scale.
There are far worse things than mental or physical pain. (See K4's 8th law)
When faced with diametrically opposed presentations of the truth, reality is often exactly in the middle.
Most malice can be traced back to a single misinterpretation.
Regardless of weather or not we can explain how they work, instincts are very real. They are far better trusted than ignored.
Most people are waiting for something.
Few people have any clue what it is that they're waiting for.
Explicitly forbidding something is a great way to make it inevitable.
The only difference between "Strong" and "Weak" people is the ability and inclination to defer debilitating emotional reactions until such time as nobody is around to see it.
Optimism might make you cute, but pessimism makes you safe.
Foresight is handy, but worthless if you can't also think on your feet. Or, midair.
Intelligence starts with willingness to admit when something isn't working. Doubly so when the thing that isn't working has your name on it.
The more words you use to explain something, the more likely it is that you will be completely misunderstood.
The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few (or the one).
If you really live by number 37, you damn well better take care of yourself. Otherwise, there won't be anybody left who thinks that way.
Stealing laws from Spock doesn't make them in any way less true.
Real love is, among other things, inconvenient, messy, complicated, and completely unavoidable. Even under the best of circumstances, there is never a "good" time.
There will never be a better time, to get real.
Who I'd like to meet: Some nice attractive youngish man, who carries me away FROM the anxiety attack, instead of the more popular "towards".
HAPPY BIRFDAY KAYFORE! We were all talking about you at our last practice, giving you credit/bame for being out First Fan. Happy happy joy joy, hope to see you again some day. ~:D
K4! ITS BEEN A LONG TIME. I AM STILL SMALL AND HUNGER FOR MORE CUBE! q: what did you make ur rebel life support box out of? HEHE. i have td! errr im a td!
Hope you are doing alright over there.. Guess you can tell who virtually likes you by the percentage of pixel displacement over here huh? Take super care.
I was just waiting for a good reason to stop playing those games for good. Now they've provided a good solid out!
"Your income accrues for up to 7 days while you are inactive. Any income you would have earned after 7 days was not credited to your account. Come back and play often to ensure this doesn't happen again."
I was sorta happy ticking it like once every 3 months.
"Excuse me miss, can you tell me where the-" "A-YARRIBA YARRIBA!!!" *stare* "Uh, I was just asking directions to-" "A-YARRIBA YARRIBA!!!" Hahahahaha!!! I remember the original airing of that too, it's been emblazoned in my subconscious for quite some time. I was so excited to stumble across it this morning! :-)