Miscellaney:
Best recently-overheard self-given title by a programmer: "Master of dread, ambassador of darkness, banisher of confusion, and herder of cats..."
"Compulsory" listing of areas of interest: physical sciences, psychology, space, computer science, photography, sci-fi, computer systems administration, (and a few others)
Interesting quote:
Thing that got me was not her list of things she hated, since she was obviously crazy as a Cyborg, but fact that always somebody agreed with her prohibitions. Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws--always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up. Because not one of those people said: "Please pass this so that I won't be able to do something I know I should stop." Nyet, tovarishchee, was always something they hated to see neighbors doing. Stop them "for their own good"--not because speaker claimed to be harmed by it.
Manuel Garcia O'Kelly, in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (by Robert A. Heinlein)
Interesting quote:
Morality is your agreement with yourself to abide by your own rules.
Jubal Harshaw in Stranger in a Strange Land(also by Robert A. Heinlein)
My best-guess at my Geek Code (lines 1-3 are interpretted as standard Geek Code, line 4 using Phil Stracchino's weapons extension, lines 5-8 using the Perl Geek Code extension, links listed above):
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.12+weapons+Perl
GCS d-(+) s: a C++ UL++(++++) US(++++) P++(++++) L+++>++++ E->++
W+(+++) N+>+++ w@-- V PS+ PE Y+>++ PGP>+++ t+>+++ 5+>+++
X+>+++ R tv b+>++++ DI++(+++) D+>++ G>+++ e++>++++ h r->+++
!ma>++ k(-)>++ F3(+)>5++ X->+++
P+(++)>+++$ c-->++ P6->++ R+(++)>+++ M>+++ O>+++ MA!>++ E>+++
PU->++++ BD->+++ C>++ D+@++>+++ S@++>+++ WP+++ MO>++
PP>+++ n->+++ CO?>++ PO>+ o>+++ G>+++ A->++ Ee->++
Ev->+++ En Et uL++>+++ uS>+++ w-
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
