With a permanent livejournal account, and a twitter account, a whole slew of domain names of my own, and the technical savvy to pound out a blogging system from scratch in a couple of minutes, do I really need another one of these?
Apparently so.
‘Oh, yeah,’ moaned Gaspode. 'Yeah, you’ll bite me. Aaargh. Oh, yes, that’ll really worry me, that will. I mean, think about it. I’ve got so many dog diseases I’m only alive 'cos the little buggers are too busy fighting among 'emselves. I mean, I’ve even got Licky End, and you only get that if you’re a pregnant sheep. Go on. Bite me. Change my life. Every time there’s a full moon, suddenly I grow hair and yellow teeth and have to go around on all fours. Yes, I can see that making a big difference to my ongoing situation. Actually,’ he said, 'I’m definitely on a losing streak in the hair department, so maybe a, you know, not the whole bite, maybe just a nibble—’
Ya’ll talk about the Mom Friend and the Older Sibling Friend but I hear nothing about the Goblin Friend
- Eats food up off the floor screaming something about the five second rule
- Sweatpants count as a look
- Throws everything in a pile on the nearest surface as soon as they’re home
- “Haha that’s gross let me see”
- Hoards of some sort. Mugs, pens, notebooks, anything
- Sitting in a dark room for hours wrapped up in seven blankets in front of a laptop unblinking
- Makes weird noise effects to express emotions
- Laying on random surfaces
Feeling personally attacked here.
“Ankh-Morpork, alone of all the cities of the plains, had opened its gates to dwarfs and trolls (alloys are stronger, as Vetinari had said). It had worked. They made things. Often they made trouble, but mostly they made wealth. As a result, although Ankh-Morpork still had many enemies, those enemies had to finance their armies with borrowed money. Most of it was borrowed from Ankh-Morpork, at punitive interest. There hadn’t been any really big wars for years. Ankh-Morpork had made them unprofitable. Thousands of years ago the old empire had enforced the Pax Morporkia, which had said to the world: ‘Do not fight, or we will kill you.’ The Pax had arisen again, but this time it said: ‘If you fight, we’ll call in your mortagages. And incidentally, that’s MY pike you’re pointing at me. I paid for that shield you’re holding. And take my helmet off when you speak to me, you horrible little debtor.’”— Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
“Hope?” she gasped. “There is no hope!”
“There is always hope. And there must be hope. To abandon hope is to escape part of the punishment. One must hope in order for hope to be destroyed. One must trust in order to feel the anguish of betrayal. One must yearn, or one cannot feel the pain of rejection, and one must love in order to feel the agony of witnessing the loved one suffer excruciation. But above all one must hope. There must be hope or otherwise how can it be satisfyingly dashed? The certainty of hopelessness might become a comfort; the uncertainty, the not-knowing, that is what helps to bring on true despair. The tormented cannot be allowed to abandon themselves to their fate. That is insufficient.”
Surface Detail, Iain M. Banks
Well, the way I see it, logic is only a way of being ignorant by numbers.
“People kept on talking about the true king of Ankh-Morpork, but history taught a cruel lesson. It said–often in words of blood–that the true king was the one who got crowned.”— Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
“It seemed to be a chronic disease. It was as if even the most intelligent person had this little blank spot in their heads where someone had written: ‘Kings. What a good idea.’ Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees.”— Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay
“Igneous, despite giving the appearance of not being able to count beyond ten without ripping off someone else’s arm, and having an intimate involvement in the city’s complex hierarchy of crime, was known to pay his bills. If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.”— Terry Pratchett, Feet of Clay