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This is a comment from a kuro5hin.org article about LASIK surgery:

I had LASIK done over a year ago, and the results have been great. Better than 20/20 with no side effects.

I was a tad nervous going in to the laser room. When they sat me down, I could see that the laser’s guidance system was running on windowsNT, then I started to wonder. I asked one of the techs, “you guys expect me to put my vision in the hands of the NT kernel?”

Needless to say, the techs were kind of annoyed with me questioning the software controls for the laser. When everything was finished, and I was stumbling out the room, one of the techs jokingly said, “Not bad for windows, kid!”

Got a spam email recently with the following subject:

  Message subject

And the following message body:

   %CHILL
   %DICK

   %CONTACT http://%URL/d/1.php

   %BYE
   %ASSHOLE w

Looks like those are meant to be substitutions done by the spammer’s scripting. It seems to reveal a little bit about what the scripter thinks of his target audience!

From the PostSecret project, where folks anonymously snail mail handwritten secrets via postcards to a blogger site:

There are many more interesting bits here:

PostSecret

From BBC NEWS | Health | Fidget off the fat, research says:

Best line: “They used technology embedded in pants to log even the smallest movements of 10 obese and 10 lean volunteers.”

A blog! A drop in the infinite ocean! But I repeat myself.

 "The actions taken by the New Hampshire Episcopalians are an
 affront to Christians everywhere.  I am just thankful that the
 church's founder, Henry VIII, and his wife Catherine of Aragon,
 his wife Anne Boleyn, his wife Jane Seymour, his wife Anne of
 Cleves, his wife Katherine Howard, and his wife Catherine Parr
 are no longer here to suffer through this assault on traditional
 Christian marriage."

 - From an editorial in the Los Angeles Times (August 16, 2003),
   in response to the Episcopal Church's making Gene Robinson of
   New Hampshire its first (openly) gay bishop.  Quoted in The
   Christian Century on September 20, 2003.

"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit."

 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)

On a recent business trip to Fort Belvoir, I stayed at a hotel in Manassas.  I ate at the Uno Restaurant and the charged appeared on the AMEX bill as follows:

10/26/2004	4.98
UNO RESTAURANT OF MAMANASSAS          VA 030042183 FOOD/BEV                10/25/04       FOOD/BEV
Reference: 00030042183

new favorite spam subject line for the day: 

“Get your mammies grammed”

Heard this on the way home today from my trip to DC:

The Magna Carta: Power to the Extremely Wealthy People

And then, darkness. For more than 1,000 years democracy disappeared from the European scene. The period instead saw the blossoming of an exciting array of alternate forms of government, such as monarchy, absolute monarchy, kingship, queenhood, and three different types of oppression (religious/ethnic/for giggles). As for individual liberty, “innocent until proven guilty” was rapidly supplanted by a more aggressive law-and-order approach better characterized as “guilty until proven flammable.”