Have you ever made love in a data center, Jasper?

Yes famine-based war crimes do sharpen the appetite don’t they

I learned recently that “corned beef for St Patrick’s Day” was a direct result of Irish people getting packed into tenements next to Jewish people. It was too expensive a delicacy for them to have had it in Ireland, but the Jewish deli tradition gave them access to it in NY.

NIXON: "Tiny Desk" concert? What a load of bourgeois codswallop. HALDEMAN: Indeed, Mr. President. NIXON: A concert ought to take place in a goddamn auditorium. HALDEMAN: I agree, Mr. President. It is ... repulsive.

they all use gentoo?

how many times do you think you typed "perldoc -f" in 1998 alone

I'm sorry but you don't know Sue Simmons. You don't know Phil Rizzuto for the Money Store. You don't know the SBLI jingle. I don't even live there and I'm more a New Yorker than you are. You're a dude from Ohio who lives on Union Avenue. You don't know shouting PIX at an Intellivision.

♬♬ Are you really Dr Who? Are you real or just Kameleon? ♬♬

This can be what it’s like playing in a band, and the way it makes adult friendships easier is to me a top reason to be part of your local music scene

I have been reading a book of Tolkien’s letters. He’s such an odd character; at once very much of his time and very much not of it, which I think comes from being sort of doubly old-fashioned, both now and also for most of his life. But here’s an entertaining one from the mid-1960s.