“Humans are mortal. They seem to need a sense of continuity to give their lives meaning.” — Data, ST:TNG If you have a few thousand dollars to spare, you can buy a pair of small hand weights made by the fashion designer Louis Vuitton. I know this because someone…

“I know you’ve taken it in the teeth out there, but the first guy through the wall, he always gets bloody. Always. It’s the threat of not just the way of doing business, but in their minds it’s threatening the game. But really what it’s threatening is their livelihoods, it’s…

“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” —John 8:32 Before we talk about digital lending, controlled or otherwise, let me first elaborate on what I mean by “All-In” here. The term is used in poker, if you’re not familiar with it, for when a…

“Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.” —Daniel 5:27 It’s dangerous to go alone. We can’t do everything ourselves. I don’t deal directly with server back ups, for example, no sooner than does our Business Officer store the money for my library’s budget in dollar bills under…

“No, no, mix them all up. I’m sick of state’s rights.” —George Henry Thomas, to a chaplain inquiring with the Union Major General about arranging the graves at Chattanooga National Cemetery by home states My daughter’s at the point in the process of applying to colleges when we’re finding out…

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.” —Robert J. Hanlon There’s a point at which special effects, robotics, and the like advance beyond what is obviously a clumsy attempt at mimicking for example the appearance and mannerisms of a live human to become a good enough…

“You don’t grasp the beauty of the destruction of words.” —Syme in 1984 Whether or not the Electoral College and the United States Senate were designed to placate those in slave states, it’s difficult to look at the de facto malapportionment of power in our democracy these days and wonder…

“Just avoid holding it in that way.” —Steve Jobs, responding to a customer reporting a signal loss on their iPhone 4 when it was gripped near the top The video game company Blizzard Entertainment recently announced that its bungled launch of the updated version of Diablo II was partially due…

CURLY: One thing, just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don’t mean shit. MITCH: That’s great, but what’s the one thing? CURLY: That’s what you’ve gotta figure out. —City Slickers One’s core beliefs are never quite the same as other people’s. At the very least, your “pursuit…