Justified on Marital Relations
Raylan: What do you make of a man who divorces a woman, then gets her pregnant, then wonders if maybe they should move in together?
Boyd: Well, now, Raylan, you’re talkin’ to a man who’s sleeping with his dead brother’s widow and murderess, so if you’re looking for someone to cast stones at you on this matter I think you’ve picked the wrong sinner.
The First Lines of Nine Novels That Do Not Exist
The wind teased its way westward like fingers through hair.
I died yesterday; it was less permanent than one might expect.
The lightning tore out of the sky and for a moment connected Dewey Kimble to the clouds above his head. As he lay stunned and slightly ionized on the damp sidewalk, Kimble was struck again, this time by a revelation. He knew how to save the world.
Learning how to fly is exactly as awesome as you think it would be—until you swallow a bug at Mach 2.
Lenny Smitts was the greatest thief the world has ever known, as long as he never had to actually steal anything.
True hate is a learned skill. There is an art to it, roughly equivalent to the space between butcher and surgeon.
Karen stepped out of a car, five thousand miles from home. The grass smells different, she thought.
I hang off the drop clamp, watching the world beneath me. Its spin slows as we match orbit, a marble coming to rest on a black velvet cloth.
Once upon a time, we were righteous and strong and possibly even immortal. This, like all fairy tales, was a lie more important than the truth.
I protect the word “gamification” by placing quotes around it. The quotes stop me from sneaking in with my knife, flicking the dot off the middle i, cutting the c in half, flensing the g, gutting the f like a fish.
“Gamification” is a word and concept invented by idiocrats who confuse humane with manipulative.
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How the Internet Gets Inside Us
That the reality of machines can outpace the imagination of magic, and in so short a time, does tend to lend weight to the claim that the technological shifts in communication we’re living with are unprecedented. It isn’t just that we’ve lived one technological revolution among many; it’s that our technological revolution is the big social revolution that we live with.
[T]he way I look at it, we’ve only got two options: we can either buckle down and hit the books harder than we ever have in our entire lives, or else can can attempt to bring about the violent downfall of the institution of rule of law in the United States of America.
Medical History: Patient BW, DOB 2/16/1971
Patient: Wayne, Bruce
DOB: 2/16/1971
Occupation: Industrialist
Insurance: Self-pay
All-London drivers - also known as Green Badge drivers - need a detailed knowledge of London within a six mile radius of Charing Cross.
All-London drivers’ Knowledge is based on learning 320 routes (or runs). This will help them learn the 25,000 streets and 20,000 landmarks and places of interest in the six mile radius of Charing Cross.
It takes between two and four years to pass the All-London Knowledge. Once you are licensed you can work anywhere in the Greater London area.
Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offenses
Among his many skills, Mark Twain also possessed the ability to critique a work with such poetic savagery that his targets would be rendered illiterate:
A work of art? It has no invention; it has no order, system, sequence, or result; it has no lifelikeness, no thrill, no stir, no seeming of reality; its characters are confusedly drawn, and by their acts and words they prove that they are not the sort of people the author claims that they are; its humor is pathetic; its pathos is funny; its conversations are — oh! indescribable; its love-scenes odious; its English a crime against the language.
Zynga, n. The acrid odor that accompanies bald-faced moneygrubbing.
Have you seen the storefront they added to Words with Friends? I thought I smelled Zynga as it was downloading.
Said storefront allows you to purchase two special abilities, “Pile” and “Word-O-Meter.” Pile shows you how many of each letter is left unplayed, and Word-O-Meter compares a word to the highest-scoring word your rack could possibly create. Playing “Pile” costs 10 of Zynga’s in-game currency, while Word-O-Meter costs 32. The above image is the pricing screen, whose economics have no doubt been massaged for maximum attractiveness.
Congratulations. Zynga’s drive to monetize absolutely everything has descended to the point where they let you pay to cheat. At online Scrabble.
Its shameless audacity is almost lovely.
