| #1101: | You don't want a flabby immune system, do you? Give it some exercise: Revel in dirt! |
| #1102: | California is a case study in dysfunctional democracy. Even the worst legislators are better than the people voting for laws themselves. |
| #1103: | The difference between studying history and living it is that when you live it you don't know how it will turn out. |
| #1104: | Let's have a moment of silence for the thousands of Americans who gave their lives for our entertainment. |
| #1105: | I'm still angry about how the actors in Gilligan's Island and other shows I once watched never made a cent for re-runs. - #entertainment |
| #1106: | I am protesting Frito Lay's human rights policies in [insert location here]. Those are blood chips! |
| #1107: | UFO evidence that seems clear at the beginning turns muddy upon closer examination. Damn humans keep getting in the way! |
| #1108: | Traveling light requires some real-world experience. You need to learn what you need and what you don't. |
| #1109: | This I guarantee: There are no vampires in Gilroy, California! |
| #1110: | Don't ask me to explain the human male. I'm a member by gender but not by culture. |
| #1111: | I've taken a lot of airline flights, but the times I've sat beside someone lively and interesting have been rare. There aren't many! |
| #1112: | "Pride goeth before a fall. I mean, for you *regular* people." RT @aedison |
| #1113: | Tattoos, piercings and extreme fashion are desperate attempts to make oneself seem unique without any actual accomplishment. |
| #1114: | No matter how you dress sex up -- with toys, fetishes, new positions, new preferences -- it is still just sex. |
| #1115: | My new blog entry: "Packratting" http://bit.ly/199B0h - The obsessive collection of objects of little or no practical value. - #homeless |
| #1116: | The world is full of "gonna doers" with big plans. To set yourself apart, you should "actually do" without a lot of fanfare. |
| #1117: | You don't need a hotel in Las Vegas! With a car, an air mattress and a sleeping bag, you can sleep in the open desert. Best sleep ever! |
| #1118: | "Really? You'd hammer in the morning, the evening, and all over this land? I see why no one will give you a hammer!" -- MRT @timcarvell |
| #1119: | New blog entry "Free Lodging in Las Vegas!" http://bit.ly/6G9Rk - Camp in the open desert! |
| #1120: | LA Times: "Tough Times in the Porn Industry" http://bit.ly/1j7igZ - The glory days are over, thanks to the internet. |
| #1121: | Monetary wealth should not be measured by income but by remaining income after commitments. |
| #1122: | The two-parent family may still be the norm, but consistent parenting between them is rare. |
| #1123: | Ah, milk! A beverage with actual nutritional value. If it's enough to sustain a calf, it's good enough for me! |
| #1124: | I'm a "Reformed Luddite" -- one who eschews modern technology that isn't overwhelmingly useful. Computers: yes. TV, indoor plumbing: no. |
| #1125: | What men want, I conclude from internet porn, is straight sex. No foreplay, no relationship, just pure insemination of anything pretty. |
| #1126: | Anyone who has suffered all their life may not be able to digest good fortune. They may require self-imposed misery to remain balanced. - #existentialism |
| #1127: | Each individual has the right and responsibility to regulate his own economy -- meaning his relations with the outside world. |
| #1128: | Relationships are damaging when they disrupt an individual's direct negotiation with outside reality. |
| #1129: | Without eternal vigilance, "protection" and "security" can easily devolve into dysfunction and imprisonment. |
| #1130: | Whenever possible, responsibilities should be pushed back on the person who owns them. |
| #1131: | So what do you think: Do Bill and Hillary have a functional relationship or a dysfunctional one? I say, "Whatever works for them." |
| #1132: | My Twitter feed is used for: 1) Timeless words of wisdom; 2) Interesting news articles and websites; 3) Announcement of my own new content. |
| #1133: | My Facebook page is used for: 1) Where I am/what I'm doing; 2) Announcement of new content; 3) Assembly of photo albums; 4) Faves & lists. |
| #1134: | My Facebook FAN page is used only for: 1) Announcement of new content; 2) Anything (relevant) my fans choose to post. http://bit.ly/1jBsF6 |
| #1135: | This application supposedly backs up your Facebook account (except Wall). Haven't tried it yet, but looks useful. http://socialsafe.net |
| #1136: | [Duplicate tweet deleted.] |
| #1137: | This Twitter backup service is useful: http://BackupMyTweets.com - I use it to get an HTML file that I manipulate on my own website. |
| #1138: | I have written my own software to archive and search my past tweets in interesting ways. http://www.kilroycafe.com/twitter/ |
| #1139: | Who needs local TV news? You could randomly rerun past stories (crimes, car crashes, etc) and most viewers would never know! |
| #1140: | Sadly, the concept of "nude" is usually more exciting in theory than in reality. |
| #1141: | In food, sex and all other passions, the greatest pleasure is in the first bite. It is a moment that can never be regained. |
| #1142: | You can praise the "common man" in the abstract, but in most cases you wouldn't want to be trapped in the same room with him. |
| #1143: | [Duplicate tweet deleted.] |
| #1144: | The lowest excuse for ones behavior is, "I obeyed the law." |
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| #1146: | Implied in every law is "may" -- that is, the option not to enforce it. Without this "implied may" our legal system would collapse. |
| #1147: | When the law says "shall" where "may" works better, sometimes you got to say, "Fuck it! Let 'em come after me!" and go with "may". |
| #1148: | The greatest sickness of prosecutors is to insist that if they CAN do something under the law, they MUST do it. They deny their discretion. |
| #1149: | True humanity lies in skirting the law. You don't openly defy it but subtly evade it to reach a morally acceptable conclusion. |
| #1150: | In law schools, I would add a required course: "Evasion of Law." It would teach how to skirt the law to achieve the best human outcome. |
| #1151: | [Duplicate tweet deleted.] |
| #1152: | No one knows how the Google search engine works - how it ranks pages, detects spam, etc. As in war, such info must always be kept secret. |
| #1153: | The internet has "democratized" porn, made it accessible to children but also diluted its destructive power. Now kids say, "So what?" |
| #1154: | Flooding the internet with porn is like legalizing drugs. It's still not healthy but it cuts out the criminal middle man. - #law |
| #1155: | The most common error in law is confusing "may" and "shall". Just because the law CAN be used for something doesn't MUST it must be. |
| #1156: | I've just been followed by @Sex_Cams_, obviously impressed by my philosophy. I won't block her but will see how long she lasts. |
| #1157: | Most of my website programming is done in Perl, a fast and easy language available on most Unix-based servers. My host: http://pair.com |
| #1158: | Life can be described as "negotiation with reality". You arrive on this planet with a set of needs and start bargaining to fill them. - #existentialism |
| #1159: | If you're obsessive, it's easy enough to avoid stepping on cracks on the sidewalk, but when you come to a brick walkway you're screwed! |
| #1160: | My list of Best Existential Films: http://bit.ly/RFrU9 (Sept. 08) |
| #1161: | Wal-Mart, like the Roman Empire, is learned to assimilate local cultures rather than simply conquering them. WSJ: http://bit.ly/JZ942 |
| #1162: | In any art, there is real creativity and fake creativity -- which is mimicking the sound and fury of creativity without saying anything. |
| #1163: | Any art that doesn't teach you something about life isn't really art but noise and isn't worth the effort to take in. |
| #1164: | Real artists are rare. They are far outnumbered by pseudo-artists who know a medium but have nothing to say in it. |
| #1165: | The most difficult people on the planet are those who feel they must obey every rule under every circumstance. |
| #1166: | Over and over in life you run into the same problem: not enough time! Success is usually a matter of time management. |
| #1167: | To you TV watchers: How can you let so much of your life slip away? |
| #1168: | Consciousness is a mystery, but it is no mystery that it's finite. You can't keep subdividing it and get the same quality from it. |
| #1169: | Materialism is when you describe your identity in terms of the products you have acquired. You value yourself by object acquisition. |
| #1170: | Most of the value of flying First Class, to those who do, is being able to say that you flew First Class. |
| #1171: | Materialism is when you describe your identity in terms of the products you have acquired. You value yourself by object attachment. |
| #1172: | Materialistic people are willing to endure great inconvenience for the appearance of luxury. |
| #1173: | People are so desperate to be unique that they'll fake it any way they can. They'll try to buy it, join it or tattoo it on their skin. |
| #1174: | In defiance of library rules, I take off my shoes, hide them under the desk and compute in my socks alone. |
| #1175: | Young people in love think they have things all worked out, but time will teach them otherwise. |
| #1176: | It is remarkable how quickly the magic of love can slip away and you're stuck in the endless grind of paying bills and fulfilling promises. |
| #1177: | To keep your love alive, you have to keep things light and uncommitted. No promises, no material commitments. Just enjoy the moment. |
| #1178: | You can't prove love by killing free will. |
| #1179: | The best creative position is the blank slate -- no demands, no commitments. You should get back there whenever you can! |
| #1180: | Why must people be referred to as "persons" on transit signs? ("Yield this seat to elderly persons.") It seems dehumanizing. - #linguistics |
| #1181: | Some new photos from my visit to Frankfurt, Germany in May: http://bit.ly/orur2 |
| #1182: | I don't normally pick up hitchhikers, but these two looked young and harmless. PHOTO: http://bit.ly/RFDkQ |
| #1183: | Glenn Campbell is an ethereal being maintaining a physical presence on Earth only to... http://bit.ly/8jSEI #fb (Facebook Status Update) |
| #1184: | My assembled wisdom on Love and Romance: http://bit.ly/3Rkx97 (from my Twitter archive) |
| #1185: | My assembled wisdom on Law: http://bit.ly/yiJyg (from my Twitter archive) |
| #1186: | Traveling the West, the most visible recent change are the huge windmills everywhere. NY Times hints at size: http://bit.ly/1C9at (7/22) |
| #1187: | My new photos from BEATLES concert in Athens, Greece http://bit.ly/1ryEj (or at least a concert of Beatles music) |
| #1188: | Southern California has only two seasons: fire season and flood season. - #places |
| #1189: | "Eat like a horse" makes no sense, because horses eat only hay. Likewise, "sweat like a pig" since pigs don't sweat! |
| #1190: | Those who make the humor can be some of the saddest people on Earth. |
| #1191: | People who have lived all their lives under the protection of a stable system are dull, boring and have little to say. |
| #1192: | The release party is where people with an obvious bias gather together to tell you how simply MARVELOUS your work is. |
| #1193: | Promotion can initially get an artistic product noticed, but only quality can make it last. - #creativity |
| #1194: | "Quality" is how well a product actually accomplishes, over a period of time, what it presents itself as doing. - #creativity |
| #1195: | "It's all about the music, man!" Yes, the internal quality of the art. It's amazing how few "artists" have figured that out. |
| #1196: | Good songs are 3 minutes long. Longer, and they sound repetitive. Shorter, and the listener feels cheated. |
| #1197: | Art, in the real world, is the realm of narcissists, most of whom can't see beyond their own needs to the needs of the art itself. |
| #1198: | It is the nature of youth to experiment with excess. If it doesn't kill them, they'll learn moderation. |
| #1199: | Wildlife photography is so much easier when the wildlife stands still for you. My photos: http://bit.ly/WwM7I (Denver Nat. History Museum) |
| #1200: | Wow! A whole website on sleeping in airports: http://sleepinginairports.com - Also see my own article on the subject: http://bit.ly/X5wQf |