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Hindsight
       -Guy Kawasaki

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
        -Bertrand Russell

Wear sunscreen
       -Mary Schmich

Man was given an imagination to compensate for what he isn't; a sense of humour to console him for what he is.
        - Francis Bacon

Leisure
       -W.H. Davies

Not all those that wander are lost.
       -J.R.R. Tolkein

Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
       -Jean de La Bruyère

The average person thinks he isn't.
       -Father Larry Lorenzoni

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
       -Pablo Picasso

Become who you are.
       -Nietzshe

Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you.
       -Frank Tyger

Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
       -Anon









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a sew for dinnner?
I love bets. I love betting. Not on horses, or on our men in white - but on simple, sometimes silly things... obscure bits of trivia and feats and dares that'd never make it onto Australian TV shows.

A kindly room mate in college, who was at the recieving (and often paying) end of these bets, invented something we called "notional Cokes". We printed a poster with lots of tiny Coca Cola bottles, and he'd buy me a real Coke for every five "notional Cokes" I won. I think that lasted about two months - before he stopped betting.

Won a trivial bet over the weekend - over how sew is pronounced. Unfortunately - for my friend - sew has more in common with sow than with few or even dew - but the payoff is dinner at Fusion 9! It's going to be a few weeks before I'll be able to collect... I'm off to the Emerald city - also known as Latte Land. It's home to Boeing, Microsoft, Amazon, and even better, Starbucks!
5:47 AM Monday, November 24, 2003

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