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“Biblios”
By Guy Laramee
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The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That’s maybe the most important thing.
It’s to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it. I think that’s very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you’ll want to change life and make it better, cause it’s kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.
” — Steve Jobs[video]
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“In the process they have embarrassed themselves and left a public record blogged about on the Internet that will shadow their every future relationship.” —
Shelley Smith, attorney for Kimberly Garrity, whose children sued her for ‘bad parenting’.
Source: The Toronto Star - “Judge blasts kids for suing mom over birthday card”
I kinda really want one of these.
This made me feel all warm and fuzzy inside.
I went to Sri Lanka and took some pictures. Click the picture to see my favourites.
The problem with only looking up your favourite authors every so often is that you might suddenly find out they’ve passed away.
I discovered Diana Wynne Jones (by way of “The Lives of Christopher Chant”) when I was around eleven or twelve. I’ve since read almost every single one of her books since then. (It was, I think, her ability to combine wit and humour and interesting characters in the most practically fantastic of worlds that kept taking me back.) It saddens me to think I’ll never be able to hear more about Christopher and the Goddess and Howl and Sophie the myriad other characters she brought to live.
Rest in peace, Diana. And thank you.
P.S. Neil Gaiman has written a few nice words about her as well.