The New Bohemians Design Guide for a Balanced Home
We finished our first sensor sweep of the neutral zone. You did exactly what you had to do. You considered all your options, you tried every alternative.
Could someone survive inside a transporter buffer for 75 years? Fate. It protects fools, little children, and ships named âEnterprise.â
Did you come here for something in particular or just general Riker-bashing? And blowing into maximum warp speed, you appeared for an instant to be in two places at once. We have a saboteur aboard. We know youâre dealing in stolen ore. But I wanna talk about the assassination attempt on Lieutenant Worf. Could someone survive inside a transporter buffer for 75 years? Fate. It protects fools, little children, and ships named âEnterprise.â
The beauty of life
The Orbit invites comparisons. Described as congealed intestines, a melted roller coaster, a loop of string arrested in mid-fall, it seems we cannot talk about it without talking about other things. Instead of evaluation, we end up with similes. This tendency to describe what the structure is like betrays a sense of unease over what it is. The tower is, of course, strikingly redundantâan inept attempt to satisfy the vague sense that something is missing, another useless thingy to add to Stratfordâs menagerie of future relics. But its uselessness is to the point: Boris Johnson and Anish Kapoor have said that the tower is âmythic,â which both acknowledges its unreality and reveals that they want more than they know how to get.

If this picture of things begins to unnerve rather than inspire, we might start to hedge our bets, we might start to feel adrift and crave the certainty of a centre, the magic of a tower. Once the word âglobalâ starts to lose its meaning, the passing of the games may leave us feeling bereft.
Iâm afraid I still donât understand, sir. Flair is what marks the difference between artistry and mere competence. Computer, belay that order. Yesterday I did not know how to eat gagh. Mr. Worf, you sound like a man whoâs asking his friend if he can start dating his sister. Not if I weaken first. What? Weâre not at all alike! Iâll be sure to note that in my log.
There is a way out of every box, a solution to every puzzle, itâs just a matter of finding it.
Whatâs a knock-out like you doing in a computer-generated gin joint like this? But the probability of making a six is no greater than that of rolling a seven. I guess itâs better to be lucky than good. Yesterday I did not know how to eat gagh.
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Whatâs a knock-out like you doing in a computer-generated gin joint like this? Wouldnât that bring about chaos? What? Weâre not at all alike! Some days you get the bear, and some days the bear gets you. Iâd like to think that I havenât changed those things, sir.
Frustratingly, nothing is known about the author of this highly entertaining compendium. His portrait (which appears only in the second edition) is supplied, but he offers no biographical information about himself.
Triumph of creation
The second part treats fireworks âfor tryumph and recreation.â Its title-page is illustrated with a woodcut depicting a âgreen manâ wielding a fire club. With obscure and mythical origins, green men dressed in foliage and garlands traditionally led processions of fireworkers from medieval times. The customary greeting amongst the firework fraternity is still âstay green.â
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There was a time when I could read the whole of Usenetânot just because I was a student looking for an excuse to avoid my assignments, but because Usenet was once tractable, readable by a single determined person. Today, I canât even keep up with a single high-traffic message-board. I canât read all my emails. I canât read every item posted to every site I like. I certainly canât plough through the entire edit-history of every Wikipedia entry I read. Iâve come to grips with thisâwith acquiring information on a probabilistic basis, instead of the old, deterministic, cover-to-cover approach I learned in the offline world.
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