What's the deal with your nickname? How did you get it? If your nickname is self-explanatory, then tell everyone when you first started using the internet, and what was the first thing that made you say "wow, this isn't just a place for freaks after all?" Was it a website? Was it an email from a long-lost friend? Go on, spill it.
I use and recommend Firefox, Plutor's excellent
greasemonkey scripts, matthewr's
MeFi Navigator and the
Sxipper addon.
and because I dislike sketchy profiles.
I never much used computers, or the intertubes, until I returned to university after 13 years of construction work and a biking accident that destroyed my right knee.
an incredible surgeon rebuilt it almost better than new, and neither he or
the hospital charged me a cent. And that's another reason I love America.
I live in various places as an cliched ESL teacher. my favorites have been Hong Kong &
Xiamen, China,
Kiev, the island of
Grenada and the
Czech/
Austrian border. sadly, I can't play piano. my dream is to make love and eat good sweet corn simultaneously. sweat is very sexy, pigs are very cool, and jimmy carter is
reprehensible.
my silly, virtually meaningless liberal arts degrees are in English Lit (ba) Creative Writing (Fiction and Poetry) (bfa) and another in Theology (Christian major/ Buddhism minor) but that sounds feeble and desperate and needy and cocky and who the
deirymo cares, really, when nothing there really matters
but
what really matters are children, old dogs, watermelon wine, faster horses, younger women, older women, women, more beer money, how well you go through the fire, all music of all cultures in all time and the fact that I can cook. like an italian delta negro chinese mama-san.
I'm pretty much simple minded and transparent, though quite anti-social. feel free to drop me a mail or find me on IM.
that will suffice.
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I don't read the blogs much. I don't like the tone-the rather in-your-face road-rage quality of a lot of exchange on the Internet. I don't like the threads that come out of any given piece of journalism. It seems that when people know they can't be held accountable, when they don't have eye contact, it seems to bring out a rather nasty, truculent, aggressive edge...."
~
Ian McEwan
"
Don’t threaten me with love, baby; let’s just go walking in the rain"
~ Billie Holiday
"The only brotherhood they belonged to was the one which asked the enduring question: how do I get through the next twenty minutes?"
~William Kennedy
How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.
~Barry Lopez
The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.
~C. S. Lewis
If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
~Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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"I have an habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am leading a posthumous existence."
~John Keats
"I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say.
Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence."
~Johnny Depp
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
~Oscar Wilde
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