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Drama on EVE Online
Some comment on the articles about an EVE banker who embezzled billions of in-game currency:
The word “drama” popped into my head immediately upon reading the headline. I think that drama is the only thing holding this game together.
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Raiding Gutenberg
Hahahahahahah…
Criminals, alcoholics, and persons disproportionate in size should not marry. In the last-mentioned, lack of mutual physical adaptability may produce much unhappiness, especially on the part of the wife.
– “Sex” by Henry Stanton, 1922.
There’s actually a whole section on ‘who should not marry’.
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Language
Huh.
with Singapore, I think, a majority of families either speak only dialect at home, or only chinese at home, or only english at home, and that’s perhaps why we see this strong correlation between the languages spoken by both parents, especially within the context of a nuclear family, and their proficiency across both english and [...]
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Slap their little bitch cheeks
Wahlao, idiots from TJ. I’m very sad for my JC:
25/01/2009 12:09 huey: cherlyn was telling me about the temasek IP programme students
25/01/2009 12:09 huey: one day, the teachers were setting up chairs for functions and asked the IP students to help
25/01/2009 12:09 huey: they said…
25/01/2009 12:10 ashke: too good to set up chairs?
25/01/2009 12:10 huey: [...]
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In the deepest grove
“Passion isn’t a path through the woods. Passion is the woods. It’s the deepest, wildest part of the forest; the grove where the fairies still dance and obscene old vipers snooze in the boughs. Everybody but the most dried up and dysfunctional is drawn to the grove and enchanted by its mysteries, but then they [...]
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Hehh
“Arguments about the merits of religions are often battled out with reference to history, by comparing the sins of theists and atheists. (I see your Crusades and raise you Stalin!)” — Source
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Hmm…
Advice I got for today: “Do something that interests you or do something that makes gobs and gobs of money.”
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Religious animal
The End of Art by Roger Kimball
Man is the sort of creature whose nature is to delight in art and aesthetic experience; I believe that he is also, by nature, a religious animal—a creature who becomes who he really is only by acknowledging something that transcends him.
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DFW’s speech
A transcript of David Foster Wallace’s 2005 commencement speech. Btw, he was found dead, having hanged himself yesterday.
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Huh