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• Although we modern persons tend to take our electric lights, radios, mixers, etc.
  for granted, hundreds of years ago people did not have any of these things, which is just as well because there was no place to plug them in....
• After a few boring years, socially meaningful rock 'n' roll died out.
  It was replaced by disco, which offers no guidance to any form of life more advanced than the lichen family....
• We ought to be very grateful that we have tools. Millions of years ago people did not have them, and home projects were extremely difficult.
  For example, when a primitive person wanted to put up paneling, he had to drive the little paneling nails into the cave wall with his bare fist, so generally the paneling wound up getting spattered with primitive blood, which isn't really all that bad when you consider how ugly paneling is to begin with....
• We ought to be very grateful that we have tools. Millions of years ago people did not have them, and home projects were extremely difficult.
  For example, when a primitive person wanted to put up paneling, he had to drive the little paneling nails into the cave wall with his bare fist, so generally the paneling wound up getting spattered with primitive blood, which isn't really all that bad when you consider how ugly paneling is to begin with....
• The universe has fascinated mankind for many, many yea
  dating back to the very earliest episodes of Star Trek, when the brave crew of the Enterprise set out, wearing pajamas, to explore the boundless voids of space, which turned out to be as densely populated as Queens, New York....
• A lot of software developers are seduced by the old "80/20" rule.
  It seems to make a lot of sense: 80% of the people use 20% of the features....
• You can always tell the Christmas season is here when you start getting incredibly dense, tinfoil-and-ribbon- wrapped lumps in the mail.
  Fruitcakes make ideal gifts because the Postal Service has been unable to find a way to damage them....