January 2010
9 posts
“Every gambler knows that the secret to surviving is knowing what to throw away...”
– Kenny Rogers, “The Gambler”
December 2009
8 posts
“Beware of practicing your piety before others in order to be seen by them; for...”
– Matthew 6:1-6 I may no longer really practice the faith I was born and raised in, and I may be as big a hypocrite as the worst of them, but these passages are what makes me certain there are a lot of so-called Christians who have never bothered reading the Gospels.
“BACKDOOR BEAUTY? ….That’s the name of a horse I used to own....”
– Dr. Gonzo, “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”
“You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic...”
– Tyler Durden, “Fight Club” by Chuck Palahniuk
“Just think how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of them...”
– George Carlin
1.875 petabytes in two teaspoons
A single sperm has 37.5 MB 750 MB of DNA information in it1. That means that a normal ejaculation [about 250 million sperm2] represents a data transfer of 1,587.5 TB 1,875 TB
via inothernews < tuberculosisj < velvetrobots < meltinyourmouth < isthisdigg
1 There are about 3 billion base pairs in a haploid set of chromosomes (22 + X or Y). Since each base pair can...
“They try to separate the government from the people and undermine the...”
– Gen. Stanley McChrystal I tuned into this on the radio, and without context, and without knowing who the speaker was, I wasn’t sure if he was talking about the Republican party, or Afghan insurgents.
“Now, if we can’t grow our economy, then it is going to be that much harder...”
– Pres. Obama (via Atrios)