“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.” -- Marcus Aurelius

"Were I not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes" -- Alexander the Great

"Were I not Diogenes, I should wish to be Diogenes" -- Diogenes' reply to Alexander

"There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down." -- Paul Erdos

"If you're going through hell, keep going." -- Winston Churchill

It's my birthday and all I got was covid :(

Nobody wants to hire anymore.

I learned all 50 states and their capitals!

I had a job interview scheduled yesterday and the manager/interviewer wasn't there. A sign on their door said they were closing early at 7:00pm due to staff shortages.

Slava Ukraini!

“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” -- Martin Luther King Jr.

"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it." -- Mark Twain

How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?

Charles Bukowski, Factotum

The philosopher Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king. Said Aristippus, "If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils."

Said Diogenes, "Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king."

My 3 year old son learned the Greek alphabet. It was impressive at first, but now it just sounds like he's naming covid variants.

postmarketOS revolutionizes smartphone hacking

The Abolition of Work

Laziness Does Not Exist

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one." -- Marcus Aurelius

Igniterroremophobia

Had a good, next-to-last night in Tbilisi. Hair of the dog time!