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• When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today
  and all the stars were lined up in their proper places, you could easily count them from left to right, or top to bottom, and the larger and bluer ones were set apart, and the smaller yellowing types pushed off to the corners as bodies of a lower grade ....
• When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today
  and all the stars were lined up in their proper places, you could easily count them from left to right, or top to bottom, and the larger and bluer ones were set apart, and the smaller yellowing types pushed off to the corners as bodies of a lower grade ....
• ack n. The set of things a person has to do in the future.
  One speaks of the next project to be attacked as having risen to the top of the stack....
• All Gods were immortal. -- Stanislaw J. Lem, "Unkempt Though
• patch 1. n. A temporary addition to a piece of code, usually as a quick-and-dirty remedy to an existing bug or misfeature.
  A patch may or may not work, and may or may not eventually be incorporated permanently into the program....
• If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?
  -- Garrison Keillo...
• A group of soldiers being prepared for a practice landing on a tropical island were warned of the one danger the island held
  a poisonous snake that could be readily identified by its alternating orange and black bands....