"actually, within thinking much about it I said, "so you're pulling a Palin?" to a cow-orker today to rib him about quitting something."
- Christian Crumlish
if i seem quiet, it's because i'm at the grindstone, building out the new pattern library design
"the U.S. tax code, wherein employees are not taxed on the value of the health care benefit provided by their employer but the employer is able to write off the expense from their corporate expenses. That's the subsidy. In the end it is absorbed by the insurance companies, though, not the employers or the employees. (not a real citation, I know)"
- Christian Crumlish
xian on Why is it that people who set themselves up as moral paragons seem to have the hardest time living up to their own standards - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"bingo... now if only we could get society to be suspicious of moralists"
- Christian Crumlish
xian on Palin thinks that if she were President, the "Department of Law" would protect her from "baseless ethical allegations." Really. You know, the "Department of Law". Surely you've heard of it. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
xian on Palin thinks that if she were President, the "Department of Law" would protect her from "baseless ethical allegations." Really. You know, the "Department of Law". Surely you've heard of it. - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"also, given how conversational this mode of writing is, i'm starting to think my shifting noun-verb number-agreement collective-vs.plural ambiguity upthrad creates a stereoscopic jitter and with the right kind of 3-D glasses on your ears you can get a reading experience that literally (not literally) "pops" off the page"
- Christian Crumlish