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May 2, 2008 8:26 PM

Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far. A collection of personal maxims, essays, videos, photographs, artwork, etc., submitted by netizens, depicting their answers to these questions: What have you learned in your life so far? What is it that you are fairly sure about? What is it that you believe in by now?
posted by amyms (16 comments total)

One thing I have learned in my life: When you build a cool website, make sure you load test it.
posted by anomie at 8:34 PM on May 2 [1 favorite]

Ack! It was working fine in preview. I guess it can't handle the popularity of becoming a MeFi post. I've emailed the Matt, Jess and Cortex.
posted by amyms at 8:38 PM on May 2

without the "the" lol... I was going to say "the admins" but I wanted to make it clear that I emailed OUR admins, not the FPP site's admins.
posted by amyms at 8:40 PM on May 2

I love things like this. Is there maybe a google cache?
posted by Octoparrot at 8:44 PM on May 2

Here's the cached version. Is it navigable?
posted by amyms at 8:49 PM on May 2

"Life is, in general, pretty boring, so make the most of the parts that aren't."
posted by The Card Cheat at 8:55 PM on May 2

Sorry folks, I haven't heard back from the admins yet. Maybe we can coordinate ourselves so that we only try to access the site in an orderly fashion, since their servers obviously weren't designed for mass interest.

Or, we could while away the time posting our own maxims. I appropriated a Fran Lebowitz quote as my personal maxim when I was first learning to deal with insomnia: "Life is what happens when you can't get to sleep."
posted by amyms at 9:13 PM on May 2

too close to six word pith!
posted by subgear at 9:19 PM on May 2

I've learned that the quickest way to kill off what sounds like a lovely little fledgling website is to FPP it and overwhelm its server.
posted by squasha at 9:20 PM on May 2

I like the idea of posting our own maxims, though...I have devoted much of my life to travel and I try hard to maintain the "take nothing but photos, leave nothing but footprints" idea.
posted by squasha at 9:23 PM on May 2

It won't get better if you pick it. Words to live by.
posted by Jilder at 9:43 PM on May 2

Consciousness is the time between naps. You share a similarity with all other living things, anti-entropy via chemical reactions... order from chaos, welcome to life.
posted by zengargoyle at 9:47 PM on May 2

It's astonishing in this world how things don't turn out at all the way you expect them to.
-Agatha Christie
posted by wv kay in ga at 9:58 PM on May 2

Thanks so much to those of you who have played along while I wait to hear something from the admins... I figured they would need to delete it if there was no alternative way to make the site viewable. But now I'm getting a little worried, it's been almost two hours and they haven't responded. Either they've all been kidnapped, or they're all asleep, or they all have hot dates, or...?
posted by amyms at 10:05 PM on May 2

The two things I've definitely learned so far:

1. Society, for all of it's faults, is proof that the whole can be greater than the sum of it's parts.

2. There are a lot of different types of drunks, and you never know which type you'll be dealing with until they're there.
posted by Navelgazer at 10:12 PM on May 2

There are a lot of different types of drunks, and you never know which type you'll be dealing with until they're there.

Quoted for truth.

Reminds me of the adage: "If you sober up a cattle rustler, you've still got a cattle rustler"... People reveal their true selves whether drunk or sober, but sometimes their drunkenness makes it more clear.
posted by amyms at 11:23 PM on May 2