Veed, Liniah, and The Muffin™
Veed, Liniah, and The Muffin™
As some of you may recall, Veed and I attended the 2002 gathering in Wisconsin. We drove out from PA in my car. Before we left we got some muffins. We ate some on the way, but had one left over, which was left in my car. As you also may recall, it was very hot that summer. My car did not have properly functioning A/C. The Muffin™ remained in the car the whole trip....and actually probably remained in the car until I sold it when I moved to Denmark. It looked the same. No mold. Didn't rot. Then The Muffin™ moved into my closet. Oh, sure, it got hard as a rock, but other than that it didn't change. If you looked at it you wouldn't know that it was a several-years-old-hard-as-a-rock muffin. The Muffin™ is still in my closet to this very day. Tonight I was checking it out because I was packing the rest of the contents of the closet for my move on Sat. It has just a very tiny touch of mold on it now! After 6 years, The Muffin™ is getting moldy. (And people wonder why I like organic food...) So, there you have it, folks. And I just asked Veed if we should keep The Muffin™. He said "Uh, sure. If nothing else, you can keep it in the car :) " So, there we have it! The Muffin™ will take up new residence in my new car...and shall travel with me to pick up Veed at the airport when he arrives to live here!
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You know in some cultures how two people plant a tree when they're married, to represent permanence?
There is then a need to guard against a temptation to overstate the economic evils of our own age, and to ignore the existence of similar, or worse, evils in earlier ages. Even though some exaggeration may, for the time, stimulate others, as well as ourselves, to a more intense resolve that the present evils should no longer exist, but it is not less wrong and generally it is much more foolish to palter with truth for good than for a selfish cause. The pessimistic descriptions of our own age, combined with the romantic exaggeration of the happiness of past ages must tend to setting aside the methods of progress, the work of which, if slow, is yet solid, and lead to the hasty adoption of others of greater promise, but which resemble the potent medicines of a charlatan, and while quickly effecting a little good sow the seeds of widespread and lasting decay. This impatient insincerity is an evil only less great than the moral torpor which can endure, that we with our modern resources and knowledge should look contentedly at the continued destruction of all that is worth having. There is an evil and an extreme impatience as well as an extreme patience with social ills.
Has your gourd been rattled? Earl got it right to the episode, and probably to the timestamp (presumably from memory) a long time ago.
There is then a need to guard against a temptation to overstate the economic evils of our own age, and to ignore the existence of similar, or worse, evils in earlier ages. Even though some exaggeration may, for the time, stimulate others, as well as ourselves, to a more intense resolve that the present evils should no longer exist, but it is not less wrong and generally it is much more foolish to palter with truth for good than for a selfish cause. The pessimistic descriptions of our own age, combined with the romantic exaggeration of the happiness of past ages must tend to setting aside the methods of progress, the work of which, if slow, is yet solid, and lead to the hasty adoption of others of greater promise, but which resemble the potent medicines of a charlatan, and while quickly effecting a little good sow the seeds of widespread and lasting decay. This impatient insincerity is an evil only less great than the moral torpor which can endure, that we with our modern resources and knowledge should look contentedly at the continued destruction of all that is worth having. There is an evil and an extreme impatience as well as an extreme patience with social ills.
Earl didn't win anything. I should have been more specific that it was for anybody but Earl. He only gets prizes for genuinely hard quotes like, in his case, throwaway lines from behind the scenes clips of Sports Night.
There is then a need to guard against a temptation to overstate the economic evils of our own age, and to ignore the existence of similar, or worse, evils in earlier ages. Even though some exaggeration may, for the time, stimulate others, as well as ourselves, to a more intense resolve that the present evils should no longer exist, but it is not less wrong and generally it is much more foolish to palter with truth for good than for a selfish cause. The pessimistic descriptions of our own age, combined with the romantic exaggeration of the happiness of past ages must tend to setting aside the methods of progress, the work of which, if slow, is yet solid, and lead to the hasty adoption of others of greater promise, but which resemble the potent medicines of a charlatan, and while quickly effecting a little good sow the seeds of widespread and lasting decay. This impatient insincerity is an evil only less great than the moral torpor which can endure, that we with our modern resources and knowledge should look contentedly at the continued destruction of all that is worth having. There is an evil and an extreme impatience as well as an extreme patience with social ills.
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