Infodump

I'm just going to clean out my Quick Note file. (See next post for explanation of Quick Note.) Lots of bits of random stuff, and no context, OK?

1. I spent 23 years of my life to get a girlfriend. I deleted all my pr0n for her. Now she is gone. Life is truly a misery.

Three words for you...
Off. Site. Backup.

Women come, women go, but pr0n is forever.

2. This is why scientists have to conform:

In 1680 Samuel Butler wrote in Hudibras as follows:-

What makes all doctrines plain and clear?
About two hundred pounds a year.
And that which was proved true before,
Prove false again? Two hundred more.

Different church, different religion, same mindset.

3. Searchable SOTUdatabase at AskSam!
http://www.asksam.com/ebooks/StateOfTheUnion/

More searchable databases:
In addition to the State of the Union, the following
are also available in searchable askSam databases:

The Transcripts from the 2004 Presidential Debates
http://www.asksam.com/debate1/ 

Selected Speeches from the 2004 Political Conventions

http://www.asksam.com/Convention2004/ 

"Agenda for America" by President Bush

http://www.asksam.com/AgendaForAmerica/ 

"Our Plan for America" by Senators Kerry and Edwards
http://www.asksam.com/ourplan/ 

The Patriot Act

http://www.asksam.com/files/downloads/patriot%20act.ask 

The 9-11 Commission Report
http://www.asksam.com/911/ 

The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act

http://www.asksam.com/ebooks/IntelReformAct/ 

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act


http://www.asksam.com/ebooks/Sarbanes/ 

askSam Systems

4. Liberal humanitarianism is all about teaching someone to fish, and being compassionate and giving him a meal while he's learning. Except the person doing the teaching only works office hours, Monday through Friday, and with a whole lot of other people besides you. He may or may not know how to fish. The kind of fish you try to catch, the rod you use, how you cook it and where, are all determined by the government and may have no relationship to the facts on the ground. You will also be given a free home and food until the program teaching you to fish is terminated, and all on my dime.

5. Thomas Jefferson, “Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.”

6. Some great movies are coming out of Korea these days: Yoon-Hyun Chang's Tell Me Something is a spiffy serial-killer flick; Chan-wook Park's Joint Security Area is one of the best movies about the military ever made; Joon-ho Bong's Barking Dogs Never Bite is a shockingly sick and funny black comedy; Gee-woong Nam's Teenage Hooker Became Killing Machine in Daehakroh is a Looney Tunes vision by way of David Lynch; Ki-duk Kim's disturbing The Isle is a tale of obsessive love involving mutilation and fishhooks, and Kim Ji-woon's A Tale of Two Sisters is simply a masterpiece. See any one of these movies rather than Phone. Taken from the IMDB.com website forums. I've seen Phone and really love it; same for The Isle. Hopefully, Midtown Video is getting Chan Wook Parks's Old Boy later this year. It's a masterpiece of strangeness, violence and revenge.

7. From the Commonly Confused Words quiz, I got:
English Genius
You scored 100% Beginner, 100% Intermediate, 100% Advanced, and 77% Expert!

Hat tip to Abby for the link.

8. Whew! I feel better now:

I am 12% Metrosexual.

I need some advice. I need to STOP BUYING MY CLOTHS AT WAL-MART!!!! I will never land a decent woman unless I shave this nasty facial hair, and spend more then $5 on a haircut.

Take the
Metrosexual Test
@ FualiDotCom

Thanks to Chris for this one.

9. The value of complaints is a fantasy perpetuated by people who have a surplus. From the Channel 101 forums. Sites and concepts like this are the future of entertainment, once we have America wired for broadband.

10. This: IMAP://imap.mail.fedex.com?fetch showed up in my referrer logs. Any idea what it is? I've never seen this before, at least not in referrer logs. Weird....