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I absolutely love going out to lunch. It is great to get out of the office and not be bothered. Peace and quiet for a little while is priceless. Really the only excess expense I allow myself.
--Beau
WHEN GADGETS GO WRONG, Or, I've reached a pathetic new low:

At home, I have a device (a promotional freebie) specifically for cutting open CD plastic-wrap without damaging the case. Since I buy so few CDs, I've used it perhaps twice, and to me it's a novel-enough gadget that I want to use it more. So I've got a new CD here and, though I really want to listen to it now, at work, and rip it to mp3s for my Creative Micro N200 player, I'm conflicted because I want to take it home to open the plastic.
--LAN3
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2006.03.22
Geek Quote of the Moment
Quantum Mechanics: The Dreams of Which Stuff is Made
(You have to know a bit about how weird and uncertain things get at the quantum level, relative to our mundane reality, to get the joke of it.)

Dialog of the Moment
"I'm curious, is it strictly apathy, or do you really not have a goal in life?"
"I found that if you have a goal, that you might not reach it. But if you don't have one, then you are never disappointed. And I gotta tell ya... it feels phenomenal."
"Well I guess that makes sense, in a really sad way."
Link of the Moment
--An absolutely lovely idea... artist Seyed Alavi has this aerial river view woven into an airport walkway's rug. I wonder if it can give you a sense of vertigo? (via boingboing)


Tools Update of the Moment
In the endless excitement that is my tools page, I updated yesterday's new entry htmlescape so that it has an option to try and replicate whitespace in the input as HTML output, which is useful for preserving the structure of HTML sourcecode, assuming you don't want to just slap <pre> tags around it all.