"I can't stand being apart any longer. You win. Whatever your demands are, I'll meet them."
"I want you to stop thinking of everything as a negotiation and relate to me as a human being."
"Okay, maybe not that one."
Monthly Archives: January 2018
Binge-Purge
$ history | grep freeciv
605 freeciv
606 sudo apt-get install freeciv
607 sudo apt-get remove freeciv
652 rm -rf ~/.freeciv/
706 sudo apt-get install freeciv
722 sudo apt-get remove freeciv
735 rm -rf ~/.freeciv/
752 sudo apt-get install freeciv
754 sudo apt-get remove freeciv
768 rm -rf ~/.freeciv/
785 history | grep freecivSome Shuffling Required
"I'm going to need about 600 bits of entropy for this. Can you go the store and pick up some playing cards for me? Let's see, six hundred divided by log-base-two fifty-two-factorial—yes, three packs should be enough."
(Later, opening them ...)
"What the—!?"
"Give Anything"
As a freshman on my high school's cross country team, our captain told me that to be a good runner, you needed to love pain.
I objected: a great runner could love to race, I said, and endure the pain only for the sake of competing and winning.
It's only fifteen years later (practically one foot in the grave), that I now see that I was wrong and he was right.
You can run out of habit or you can run because Coach would notice if you skip practice, but you cannot run because of the strictly instrumental effect that not-running would have on your goals. Our minds aren't built that way; what is separable conceptually is not separable architecturally.
Ultimately, to not sacrifice the gift, you have to love pain. You have to love life.