Quotes, photos, jokes, culture, history. San Francisco Bay Area. I edit for a living, and in my spare time I judge. :-) Pro-LGBTQ+, pro-BLM, life-long liberal.
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Last Notes npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve @npub1nn8…8sed Edward Abbey is a joy to read. I had 37 quotes by him in my database--now 38. 👍🏽 npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve "It's good to write programs occasionally, as long as you don't run them." npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve "When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you." npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve "This stammer got me a home in Beverly Hills, and I'm not about to screw with it now." npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve "The world is eaten up by boredom. It is like dust. You go about and never notice, you breathe it in. It is sifted so fine, it doesn't even grit on your teeth. But stand still for an instant and there it is, coating your face and hands." npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve "Civilization is hideously fragile; there's not much between us and the horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish." npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve "Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment." npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve "The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices... And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone." npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve "My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters." npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve "You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead." npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve @npub1lrv…tth9 I've been marking them as junk mail since 2016. Sorry I ever donated, and never will again. npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve "Rock'n'roll all goes back to R & B, but to me it's not very relevant. Kraftwerk is much more relevant." npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve "Religion to me has always been the wound, not the bandage." npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve "There's nothing that's more unfair or unjust than people using their power to try to make other people feel small, to tell them who they are or what they are capable of, to say their identity doesn't belong." npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve "Always suspect any job men willingly vacate for women." npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve "Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly." npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve "It is a curious thing that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste." npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve "When I sing, trouble can sit right on my shoulder and I don't even notice." npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve "'I think therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches." npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve Pentacle, pentagon, and pentagram. The five-pointed and five-sided figures go way back (like 3500 BC). I just like playing with it. npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve "If people would know how little brain is ruling the world, they would die of fear." npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve "In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game." npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve @npub1nn8…8sed Also this effervescent cover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HJtj7SR_iI npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve "Then trust me, there's nothing like drinking npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve @npub1nn8…8sed I saw enough lol npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve @npub1nn8…8sed Link didn't work but I backed up the URL to the user Skin_Crawl and was really sorry I did. npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve @npub1nn8…8sed win-win! npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve "How many people here have telekinetic powers? Raise my hand." npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve Peter Marshall: "If you're going to make a parachute jump, you should be at least how high?" npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve "Population, when unchecked, increases in geometrical progression of such a nature as to double itself every twenty-five years." npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve "What, after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean." npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve @npub1nn8…8sed They sound neglected to me...Maybe call one of these departments and ask the best way to proceed? Good on you for wanting to help and choosing to act. npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve @npub1nn8…8sed That's Dame Edith Sitwell. "Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?" npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve @npub1nn8…8sed Aw now, do I look THAT old? Well part of it was in an AMC Gremlin... npub1p8uz76xha5dlmpg85wlld2hn2aw4jn4jwdfeufvww82w7mppgd3su39489 a steve @npub1nn8…8sed I hitchhiked across the USA when I was 13.
