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"It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists. You have given the gift of laughter to our people. May we never grow so somber or self-important that we fail to appreciate the humor in our lives"

Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th President of the USA, responding to the Smothers Brothers letter apologizing to him for their satire.

Great Lines

Carter: "Teal'c how do Jaffa couples handle their problems?"
Teal'c: "On Chulak if a dispute is unresolved it neccessitates a
pledge break. It must be requested by one and accepted by the other."
Daniel: "And if that doesn't work?"
Teal'c: "A weapon is required."

Quando omni flunkus moritati (when all else fails play dead)

You know things are bad when Christiane Amanpour is reporting from your neighborhood.

My PGP Key

Good Programming Practices

"An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be"

I write software as though the guy who is going to maintain it is a psycho serial murderer who knows my home address.

The building of a Kludge...is not work for amateurs. There is a certain, indefinable, masochistic finesse that must go into true Kludge building.

We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs. -- Mike Andrews

And a revised version of Twas the Night Before Christmas as written by a US Government entity.

Somewhat stylized view from within a Roman arena; a group of around seven gladiators are picked out by the sunlight saluting the Emperor, their weapons and shields held aloft. The stalls for the immense audience stretch into the distance. On the ground a small number of the dead from previous combats lie where they fell in the sand.

Ave Caesar! Morituri te salutant, by Jean-Leon Gerome (1859)

Nimoy inducted into Space Technology Hall of Fame. Unfortunately Aviation Week removed the article.