# How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay_ Tips - Jenny Lawson ## Highlights: (Page: 141) - Someone on Twitter recently told me that "ADHD meds are as addictive as heroin" and I've never done heroin but if heroin addicts are always forgetting to take their heroin for days at a time then, yeah, it's totally like heroin. --- # How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay_ Tips - Jenny Lawson ## Highlights: (Page: 158) - I often think that if I just have the proper materials, I'll be a better writer, artist, person…that I'm only one new notebook away from being "fixed." --- # Cult of the Dead Cow_ How the Original Hac - Joseph Menn ## Highlights: (Page: 34) - Barlow's introduction to the rougher side of the internet came in late 1989, when he participated in a WELL group chat about the nature of hacking that was curated by Harper's magazine, which printed excerpts. Among those typing in facts and opinions over the course of a week were open-source software crusader Richard Stallman, 2600 editor Eric Corley (under his post-indictment handle, Emmanuel Goldstein), and Cliff Stoll, the Berkeley astronomer who had traced hackers working for Russia and chronicled the work in his book The Cuckoo's Egg. Most of the drama came from two brash young New York hackers identifying themselves as Acid Phreak and Phiber Optik. --- # Cult of the Dead Cow_ How the Original Hac - Joseph Menn ## Highlights: (Page: 35) - But this time, Neidorf had good lawyers, and they showed the court, the press, and the public the major flaws in the case, eventually including the devastating fact that the same information in the manual that BellSouth valued at $79,000 could be openly bought for $13. --- # Deliver Us From Evil - Allen Lee Harris ## Highlights: (Page: 217) - 'Insight is when you make something yourself, from scratch. Opinion is when you buy it at the store."' --- # Surfing on the Internet_ a nethead's adven - J C Herz ## Highlights: (Page: 5) - It reads like some wacked-out librarian has taken a few hits of crystal meth, decided that computer languages, television, fan clubs, and sex—in that order—are the essential human pursuits, and overhauled the Dewey decimal system accordingly. --- # Surfing on the Internet_ a nethead's adven - J C Herz ## Highlights: (Page: 175) - few things rattle the tech-sawy Net community more than all this talk of corporations and Uncle Sam "improving" the Internet. --- # Surfing on the Internet_ a nethead's adven - J C Herz ## Highlights: (Page: 175) - Having to use a "cleaner" Net sounds suspiciously like having to tidy up your room or else no car keys. Making the place idiot-proof just guarantees that more idiots will use it. Great. Now that would cure my Net habit. --- # Surfing on the Internet_ a nethead's adven - J C Herz ## Highlights: (Page: 227) - It's a classic pot-and-kettle situation. Usenet news worms look down on IRC junkies look down on MUD-heads look down on people who MUD more than them. --- # Surfing on the Internet_ a nethead's adven - J C Herz ## Highlights: (Page: 227) - Yes, I realize that it's an oxymoron to hash out my Net habit in an online forum. But at least the people here know what I'm talking about, --- # Surfing on the Internet_ a nethead's adven - J C Herz ## Highlights: (Page: 230) - "Please tell me all the clocks are wrong and it isn't really 4:30 AM and I haven't been on for 3 days straight........." --- # Surfing on the Internet_ a nethead's adven - J C Herz ## Highlights: (Page: 231) - Log off. Go to fridge and open it in hopes of seeing that something new and zany has spontaneously materialized. It hasn't. Go back to computer and log on in hopes that something new and zany has spontaneously materialized. It has. --- # Different Seasons - Stephen King ## Highlights: (Page: 126) - The banker who bought them for me went to jail for murdering his wife a year after I bought them... life is sometimes strange, boy, hein?" --- Note: Andy Dufresne! --- # Different Seasons - Stephen King ## Highlights: (Page: 156) - "Todd is a very apt pupil," --- Note: She said the title! --- # Lila_ An Inquiry Into Morals - Robert Pirsig ## Highlights: (Page: 27) - This "slip-world" was quite a world and he'd almost lost it once because he hadn't written any of it down and incidents came along that had destroyed his memory of it. Now he had reconstructed what seemed like most of it on these slips and he didn't want to lose it again. --- # Lila_ An Inquiry Into Morals - Robert Pirsig ## Highlights: (Page: 28) - Now the main purpose of the slips was not to help him remember anything. It was to help him to forget it. --- # Lila_ An Inquiry Into Morals - Robert Pirsig ## Highlights: (Page: 28) - There's an old analogy to a cup of tea. If you want to drink new tea you have to get rid of the old tea that's in your cup, otherwise your cup just overflows and you get a wet mess. Your head is like that cup. It has a limited capacity and if you want to learn something about the world you should keep your head empty in order to learn it. --- # Lila_ An Inquiry Into Morals - Robert Pirsig ## Highlights: (Page: 28) - When any distribution is locked into a rigid sequential format it develops Joes that dictate what new changes will be allowed and what will not, and that rigidity is deadly. --- # Lila_ An Inquiry Into Morals - Robert Pirsig ## Highlights: (Page: 30) - It was fascinating to watch this thing grow. No one that he knew had ever written a whole metaphysics before and there were no rules for doing it and no way of predicting how it would progress. --- # Lila_ An Inquiry Into Morals - Robert Pirsig ## Highlights: (Page: 30) - The first was UNASSIMILATED. --- # Lila_ An Inquiry Into Morals - Robert Pirsig ## Highlights: (Page: 30) - The next non-topical category was called PROGRAM. --- # Lila_ An Inquiry Into Morals - Robert Pirsig ## Highlights: (Page: 30) - The next slips were the CRIT slips. --- # Lila_ An Inquiry Into Morals - Robert Pirsig ## Highlights: (Page: 31) - The next to the last group was the TOUGH category. --- # Lila_ An Inquiry Into Morals - Robert Pirsig ## Highlights: (Page: 31) - The final category was JUNK. --- # The Nerdist Way_ How to Reach the Next Lev - Chris Hardwick ## Highlights: (Page: 26) - If your brain feels soupy, it may be because you've been carrying around too much crap in it so it's important to pull that out onto the paper and into the physical world. --- # The Nerdist Way_ How to Reach the Next Lev - Chris Hardwick ## Highlights: (Page: 30) - Chaotic Good, is synonymous with "the lovable rebel." The characters are drawn toward a greater good, but have little care for any political authority unless it gibes with their own agenda. --- # The Nerdist Way_ How to Reach the Next Lev - Chris Hardwick ## Highlights: (Page: 37) - It's human nature to attach reasoning to events in an attempt to understand an otherwise reasonless world, no matter how ridiculous. (AHEMreligionAHEM COUGHthoughnotjudgingyouifyouarereligiousCOUGH.) --- # The Nerdist Way_ How to Reach the Next Lev - Chris Hardwick ## Highlights: (Page: 38) - Look, good things happen and bad things happen. They're usually not connected in some kind of unholy marriage of crap. --- # The Nerdist Way_ How to Reach the Next Lev - Chris Hardwick ## Highlights: (Page: 63) - It's about feeling like you have options. Whenever you have at least one other option in life, you feel relaxed, safe, and cool because if the one thing doesn't work out, you're not going to die. --- # The Nerdist Way_ How to Reach the Next Lev - Chris Hardwick ## Highlights: (Page: 64) - It's kind of a cold economy of nature to reward those who don't seem to need it. --- # 1984 - George Orwell ## Highlights: (Page: 20) - The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. --- # 1984 - George Orwell ## Highlights: (Page: 21) - Better than before, moreover, he realized why it was that he hated her. He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless, because he wanted to go to bed with her and would never do so, because round her sweet supple waist, which seemed to ask you to encircle it with your arm, there was only the odious scarlet sash, aggressive symbol of chastity. --- # 1984 - George Orwell ## Highlights: (Page: 30) - be—he had dreamed that he was walking through a pitch-dark room. And someone sitting to one side of him had said as he passed: 'We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.' --- # 1984 - George Orwell ## Highlights: (Page: 31) - Asleep or awake, working or eating, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or in bed—no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. --- # 1984 - George Orwell ## Highlights: (Page: 38) - Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia. But that was merely a piece of furtive knowledge which he happened to possess because his memory was not satisfactorily under control. --- # 1984 - George Orwell ## Highlights: (Page: 38) - And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. --- # 1984 - George Orwell ## Highlights: (Page: 40) - Sometimes indeed, you could put your finger on a definite lie. It was not true, for example, as was claimed in the Party history books, that the Party had invented aeroplanes. He remembered aeroplanes since his earliest childhood. But you could prove nothing. There was never any evidence. --- # 1984 - George Orwell ## Highlights: (Page: 43) - Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. --- # 1984 - George Orwell ## Highlights: (Page: 44) - Very likely no boots had been produced at all. Likelier still, nobody knew how many had been produced, much less cared. All one knew was that every quarter astronomical numbers of boots were produced on paper, while perhaps half the population of Oceania went barefoot. --- # 1984 - George Orwell ## Highlights: (Page: 58) - It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grammes a week. --- # 1984 - George Orwell ## Highlights: (Page: 68) - If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, 85 per cent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated. --- # 1984 - George Orwell ## Highlights: (Page: 68) - But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. --- # 1984 - George Orwell ## Highlights: (Page: 77) - In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. --- # 1984 - George Orwell ## Highlights: (Page: 77) - The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. --- # 1984 - George Orwell ## Highlights: (Page: 77) - Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. --- # 1984 - George Orwell ## Highlights: (Page: 119) - If you kept the small rules you could break the big ones. --- # 1984 - George Orwell ## Highlights: (Page: 134) - 'I bet that picture's got bugs behind it,' said Julia. --- Note: If she only knew --- # 1984 - George Orwell ## Highlights: (Page: 164) - The speech had been proceeding for perhaps twenty minutes when a messenger hurried onto the platform and a scrap of paper was slipped into the speaker's hand. He unrolled and read it without pausing in his speech. Nothing altered in his voice or manner, or in the content of what he was saying, but suddenly the names were different. Without words said, a wave of understanding rippled through the crowd. Oceania was at war with Eastasia! The next moment there was a tremendous commotion. The banners and posters with which the square was decorated were all wrong! Quite half of them had the wrong faces on them. It was sabotage! The agents of Goldstein had been at work! There was a riotous interlude while posters were ripped from the walls, banners torn to shreds and trampled underfoot. --- # 1984 - George Orwell ## Highlights: (Page: 200) - 'We are the dead,' he said. 'We are the dead,' echoed Julia dutifully. 'You are the dead,' said an iron voice behind them. --- # 1984 - George Orwell ## Highlights: (Page: 236) - What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy? --- Note: I'd argue that the lunatic is not more intelligent only more stubborn --- # 1984 - George Orwell ## Highlights: (Page: 240) - If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.' --- # 1984 - George Orwell ## Highlights: (Page: 252) - To die hating them, that was freedom. --- # 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Mur - Sadie Hartmann ## Highlights: (Page: 351) - WE LIVE IN A WORLD THAT is trying to kill us. We are the weakest link. Take away our technology and our weapons and what do we have? Nothing. Our teeth aren't sharp, we don't have claws, and most of us can't outrun anything that has four legs. We can't even hide. Nobody is naturally camouflaged, and we're very noisy. --- # ADHD Is Awesome_ A Guide to (Mostly) Thriv - Penn Holderness ## Highlights: (Page: 29) - In fact, if you have ADHD, you may bebetterat focusing than your neurotypical friends, as long as you're actually interested in what you're doing. --- # ADHD Is Awesome_ A Guide to (Mostly) Thriv - Penn Holderness ## Highlights: (Page: 31) - Your parents aren't totally off the hook, though, because there is a hereditary component to ADHD's biological origins. Scientists have identified seven genes and a few dozen locations on the genome that seem to be involved with the disorder, which means ADHD tends to run in families. --- # ADHD Is Awesome_ A Guide to (Mostly) Thriv - Penn Holderness ## Highlights: (Page: 35) - Many people don't get diagnosed until college when the deadlines, independence, and pressure lead to a greater presentation of symptoms. --- # ADHD Is Awesome_ A Guide to (Mostly) Thriv - Penn Holderness ## Highlights: (Page: 35) - ADHD pairs frequently with depression and anxiety, so teasing out what is ADHD and what is another disorder can be difficult. --- # ADHD Is Awesome_ A Guide to (Mostly) Thriv - Penn Holderness ## Highlights: (Page: 39) - Sitting in large auditoriums with one person talking at me for two hours with no back-and-forth of any kind was my idea of hell. --- # ADHD Is Awesome_ A Guide to (Mostly) Thriv - Penn Holderness ## Highlights: (Page: 66) - The ADHD inner CEO is simply not as loud and bossy as a neurotypical person's, and the loosey-goosey management style means a light touch when regulating attention, focus, emotions, impulse control, and movement. --- # ADHD Is Awesome_ A Guide to (Mostly) Thriv - Penn Holderness ## Highlights: (Page: 68) - Things that help charge your battery? Sleep, nutrition, connection, meditation, and exercise. --- # ADHD Is Awesome_ A Guide to (Mostly) Thriv - Penn Holderness ## Highlights: (Page: 70) - There are four main categories your brain has trouble regulating: impulses, activity, emotions, and attention. --- # ADHD Is Awesome_ A Guide to (Mostly) Thriv - Penn Holderness ## Highlights: (Page: 13) - We do not suffer from a deficit of attention. Just the opposite. We have an abundance of attention! Our challenge is to control it. --- # ADHD Is Awesome_ A Guide to (Mostly) Thriv - Penn Holderness ## Highlights: (Page: 74) - The ADHD brain is not terrible at paying attention. It's terrible at choosing what to pay attentionto. --- # ADHD Is Awesome_ A Guide to (Mostly) Thriv - Penn Holderness ## Highlights: (Page: 76) - if something is interesting, a person with ADHD can lock in and absorb information extremely efficiently. --- # ADHD Is Awesome_ A Guide to (Mostly) Thriv - Penn Holderness ## Highlights: (Page: 77) - We hate boredom. Hate it. Can't stand it. Can't tolerate it. The feeling of boredom is physically uncomfortable. --- # ADHD Is Awesome_ A Guide to (Mostly) Thriv - Penn Holderness ## Highlights: (Page: 79) - While the typical understanding of ADHD suggests that people who have it are overstimulated, the ADHD brain is actually chronically understimulated. --- # The PARA Method_ Simplify, Organize, and M - Tiago Forte ## Highlights: (Page: 92) - The only action I recommend avoiding at all costs is duplication: you never want to have two versions of a file or document, because then you never know which one is the most current. --- # The PARA Method_ Simplify, Organize, and M - Tiago Forte ## Highlights: (Page: 119) - Instead of spending a lot of effort organizing your digital information "just in case" you need it someday, wait until your needs become crystal clear and then organize your notes and files "just in time" for the project you're working on right now. --- # The PARA Method_ Simplify, Organize, and M - Tiago Forte ## Highlights: (Page: 119) - Highly precise systems require a lot of effort to maintain, which means most aspects of your digital world should remain loose and informal by default. --- # The PARA Method_ Simplify, Organize, and M - Tiago Forte ## Highlights: (Page: 119) - Allowing some messiness and randomness into the system creates opportunities for very different ideas to be connected and intermixed. --- # The PARA Method_ Simplify, Organize, and M - Tiago Forte ## Highlights: (Page: 125) - Collecting information is easy, and we've seen that filing it away isn't that hard either. But if you stop there, all this effort amounts to hoarding. Value doesn't come from the inputs; it comes from your outputs, bearing your signature and style. --- # The PARA Method_ Simplify, Organize, and M - Tiago Forte ## Highlights: (Page: 128) - Which projects are most active right now? Which tasks are most time-sensitive? What are the next steps you need to take to move them forward? What information do you need access to in order to do so? --- # The PARA Method_ Simplify, Organize, and M - Tiago Forte ## Highlights: (Page: 141) - Knowledge has been commoditized and made universally accessible, first through search engines and now through increasingly advanced artificial intelligence. Which means there is no advantage to knowing any particular piece of knowledge anymore. --- # The PARA Method_ Simplify, Organize, and M - Tiago Forte ## Highlights: (Page: 141) - We are now entering the era of the Wisdom Worker. --- # Pet Sematary - Stephen King ## Highlights: (Page: 104) - The next day Louis called the intensive care unit at the EMMC. Norma's condition was still listed as critical; that was standard operating procedure for the first twenty-four hours following a heart attack. Louis got a cheerier assessment from Weybridge, her doctor, however. "I wouldn't even call it a minor myocardial infarction," he said. "No scarring. She owes you a hell of a lot, Dr. Creed." --- Note: Louis saved Norma's life! --- # Pet Sematary - Stephen King ## Highlights: (Page: 122) - "Go on and bury your animal," he said. "I'm gonna have a smoke. I'd help you, but you got to do it yourself. Each buries his own. That's the way it was done then." --- # Pet Sematary - Stephen King ## Highlights: (Page: 122) - "Because you saved Norma's life," Jud said, and although he sounded sincere—and Louis was positive he believed himself sincere—he had a sudden, overpowering sense that the man was lying . . . or that he was being lied to and then passing the lie on to Louis. --- Note: Judd thought this was repayment for Louis saving Norma's life --- # Pet Sematary - Stephen King ## Highlights: (Page: 124) - Louis, who knew only that the Wendigo was supposed to be a spirit of the north country, said, "Do you think the ground's gone sour?" Jud smiled—or at least his lips slanted. "I think it's a dangerous place," he said softly, "but not for cats or dogs or pet hamsters. Go on and bury your animal, Louis." --- # Pet Sematary - Stephen King ## Highlights: (Page: 127) - "And the things that are in a man's heart—it don't do him much good to talk about those things, does it?" "Well—" "No," Jud said, as if Louis had simply agreed. "It don't." And in his calm voice that was so sure and so implacable, in that voice which somehow put the chill through Louis, he said: "They are secret things. Women are supposed to be the ones good at keeping secrets, and I guess they do keep a few, but any woman who knows anything at all would tell you she's never really seen into any man's heart. The soil of a man's heart is stonier, Louis—like the soil up there in the old Micmac burying ground. Bedrock's close. A man grows what he can . . . and he tends it." --- # Pet Sematary - Stephen King ## Highlights: (Page: 150) - "Lester did it and Stanny did it for the same reason I did it. You do it because it gets hold of you. You do it because that burial place is a secret place, and you want to share the secret, and when you find a reason that seems good enough, why . . ." --- # Pet Sematary - Stephen King ## Highlights: (Page: 151) - "That place . . . all at once it gets hold of you . . . and you make up the sweetest-smelling reasons in the world . . . but I could have been wrong, Louis. That's all I'm saying. Lester could have been wrong. Stanny B. could have been wrong. Hell, I ain't God either. But bringing the dead back to life . . . that's about as close to playing God as you can get, ain't it?" --- # Pet Sematary - Stephen King ## Highlights: (Page: 199) - Louis and his son laughed together. Gage reached out his free hand, groping, and Louis took it in his own. They stood together that way in the middle of Mrs. Vinton's field, looking up at the Vulture. --- # Pet Sematary - Stephen King ## Highlights: (Page: 199) - It was a moment with his son that Louis never forgot. As he had gone up and into the kite as a child himself, he now found himself going into Gage, his son. He felt himself shrink until he was within Gage's tiny house, looking out of the windows that were his eyes—looking out at a world that was so huge and bright, a world where Mrs. Vinton's field was nearly as big as the Bonneville Salt Flats, where the kite soared miles above him, the string drumming in his fist like a live thing as the wind blew around him, tumbling his hair. "Kite flyne!" Gage cried out to his father, and Louis put his arm around Gage's shoulders and kissed the boy's cheek, in which the wind had bloomed a wild rose. "I love you, Gage," he said—it was between the two of them, and that was all right. And Gage, who now had less than two months to live, laughed shrilly and joyously. "Kite flyne! Kite flyne, Daddy!" --- # Pet Sematary - Stephen King ## Highlights: (Page: 196) - Days which seem genuinely good—good all the way through—are rare enough anyway, he thought. It might be that there was less than a month of really good ones in any natural man's life in the best of circumstances. It came to seem to Louis that God, in His infinite wisdom, seemed much more generous when it came to doling out pain. --- # Pet Sematary - Stephen King ## Highlights: (Page: 223) - Keep him alive, Ellie, if that's what you want, he thought and kissed her. The shrinks would probably say it's as unhealthy as hell, but I'm for it. Because I know the day will come—maybe as soon as this Friday—when you forget to carry the picture and I'll see it lying on your bed in this empty room while you ride your bike around the driveway or walk in the field behind the house or go over to Kathy McGown's house to make clothes with her Sew Perfect. Gage won't be with you, and that's when Gage drops off whatever Hot One Hundred there is that exists in little girls' hearts and starts to become Something That happened in 1984. A blast from the past. --- # Beating Cancer With Nutrition_ Clinically - Patrick Quillin ## Highlights: (Page: 11) - Focus on the parts of your body that are working properly, not on the cancer. --- # Beating Cancer With Nutrition_ Clinically - Patrick Quillin ## Highlights: (Page: 12) - People beat cancer all the time. But fear of death is not a reason to live. --- # Beating Cancer With Nutrition_ Clinically - Patrick Quillin ## Highlights: (Page: 13) - Do not rely on any "magic bullet" nutrient to beat your cancer. There are no such things. Your body needs the 50 recognized essential nutrients plus a couple of hundred other valuable nutrients that can only be found in a wholesome diet that is supplemented with the right nutrients. --- # Beating Cancer With Nutrition_ Clinically - Patrick Quillin ## Highlights: (Page: 13) - Cancer is a sugar-feeder. The scientists call it an "obligate glucose metabolizer". You can slow cancer growth by lowering the amount of fuel available to the tumor cells. --- # Beating Cancer With Nutrition_ Clinically - Patrick Quillin ## Highlights: (Page: 14) - Cancer generates chemicals that lower appetite while increasing calorie needs. The net effect is that many cancer patients begin to lose weight. You cannot fight a life-threatening disease while malnourished. --- # Beating Cancer With Nutrition_ Clinically - Patrick Quillin ## Highlights: (Page: 16) - Eat foods in as close to their natural state as is possible. Eat as much colorful vegetables as your colon can tolerate. If a food will not rot or sprout, then throw it out. Shop the perimeter (outside aisles) of the grocery store. --- # Beating Cancer With Nutrition_ Clinically - Patrick Quillin ## Highlights: (Page: 19) - The right fats in your diet will feed the precious pathways for beneficial prostaglandins, which are crucial to beating cancer. Healthy fats line the cell membranes and help to lower blood glucose by making insulin more effective. Healthy fats make the immune cells more likely to recognize and destroy cancer cells. --- # Beating Cancer With Nutrition_ Clinically - Patrick Quillin ## Highlights: (Page: 62) - What if the first thing I do every morning when I arrive at my office is to slam my thumb in the desk drawer. --- Note: Treat the cause, not the symptom --- # Beating Cancer With Nutrition_ Clinically - Patrick Quillin ## Highlights: (Page: 66) - Norman Cousins' book, ANATOMY OF AN ILLNESS, --- # Beating Cancer With Nutrition_ Clinically - Patrick Quillin ## Highlights: (Page: 66) - Since the mind can create cancer, it should seem a logical leap that the mind can help to prevent and even subdue cancer. --- # Beating Cancer With Nutrition_ Clinically - Patrick Quillin ## Highlights: (Page: 67) - Kenneth Pelletier, MD, PhD, wrote his groundbreaking book, MIND AS HEALER, MIND AS SLAYER, to show that certain personalities are more prone to certain diseases. --- # Beating Cancer With Nutrition_ Clinically - Patrick Quillin ## Highlights: (Page: 69) - Humans evolved as active creatures. Inactivity is an abnormal, under-oxygenated metabolic state--so is cancer. --- # Beating Cancer With Nutrition_ Clinically - Patrick Quillin ## Highlights: (Page: 130) - The human body is incredibly resilient, which sometimes works to our disadvantage. No one dies on the first cigarette inhaled, or the first drunken evening, or the first decade of unhealthy eating. --- # Beating Cancer With Nutrition_ Clinically - Patrick Quillin ## Highlights: (Page: 132) - There is some evidence that tumors are not as flexible as healthy host tissue in using fuel. A low carbohydrate parenteral formula may have the ability to slow down tumor growth by selectively starving the cancer cells.9 --- # Beating Cancer With Nutrition_ Clinically - Patrick Quillin ## Highlights: (Page: 116) - When the doctor says "We think we got it all", what he or she is really saying is "We have destroyed all DETECTABLE cancer cells, and now it is up to your immune system to find and destroy the cancer cells that inevitably remain in your body." --- # Halloween_ Magic, Mystery, and the Macabre - Paula Guran ## Highlights: (Page: 3) - Until fairly recently, we humans were much closer to nature and our lives far more dependent on the annual cycle of the seasons. For most of the northern hemisphere, autumn meant crops had to be harvested and stored, livestock slaughtered or secured for winter months. --- # Time Management for System Administrators_ - Thomas A. Limoncelli ## Highlights: (Page: 8) - However, you will see some important themes: Keep all your time-management stuff in one place. Use your brain for what you are working on right now, and use external storage for everything else. Develop routines for things that happen periodically. Pre-compute decisions by developing habits and mantras. Maintain focus during project time. Improve your social life by applying these tools outside of work, too. --- # Time Management for System Administrators_ - Thomas A. Limoncelli ## Highlights: (Page: 23) - We lack quality mentoring. SAs need to learn the fundamentals of to do list management, calendar management, and life-goal management just like anyone else. However, our normal career path usually doesn't lend itself to learn these things. --- # Time Management for System Administrators_ - Thomas A. Limoncelli ## Highlights: (Page: 25) - There are six principles that I base all my techniques on. I don't claim that any of these are my own invention, but I certainly put my own spin on them. You will see these principles throughout the book: One "database" for time management information (use one organizer). Conserve your brain power for what's important (conserve RAM). Develop routines and stick with them (reuse code libraries; don't reinvent the wheel). Develop habits and mantras (replace runtime calculations with precomputed decisions). Maintain focus during "project time" (be like a kernel semaphore). Manage your social life with the same tools you use for your work life (social life isn't an optional feature). --- # Time Management for System Administrators_ - Thomas A. Limoncelli ## Highlights: (Page: 27) - Don't take it personally, but your brain isn't as good at recalling things as a piece of paper or a computer. Don't use your brain to track tasks or appointments. Use your organizer, a request-tracking database, a Wiki, or anything other than your brain. --- # Hackers_ Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Steven Levy ## Highlights: (Page: 37) - When a piece of equipment wasn't working, it was "losing"; when a piece of equipment was ruined, it was "munged" (mashed until no good); the two desks in the corner of the room were not called the office, but the "orifice"; one who insisted on studying for courses was a "tool"; garbage was called "cruft"; and a project undertaken or a product built not solely to fulfill some constructive goal, but with some wild pleasure taken in mere involvement, was called a "hack." --- # Hackers_ Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Steven Levy ## Highlights: (Page: 38) - it would be understood that, to qualify as a hack, the feat must be imbued with innovation, style, and technical virtuosity. --- # Hackers_ Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Steven Levy ## Highlights: (Page: 51) - Marge Saunders would drive to the Safeway every Saturday morning in the Volkswagen and upon her return ask her husband, "Would you like to help me bring in the groceries?" Bob Saunders would reply, "No." Stunned, Marge would drag in the groceries herself. After the same thing occurred a few times, she exploded, hurling curses at him and demanding to know why he said no to her question. "That's a stupid question to ask," he said. "Of course I won't like to help you bring in the groceries. If you ask me if I'll help you bring them in, that's another matter." --- # Hackers_ Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Steven Levy ## Highlights: (Page: 66) - To rub it in, the PDP-1 hackers developed a little demonstration based on the mnemonics of the instruction set of this bold new machine, which included such exotic instructions as DAC (Deposit Accumulator), LIO (Load Input-Output), DPY (Deplay), and JMP. The PDP-1 group would stand in a line and shout in unison: LAC,DAC,DIPPY DAP,LIO,DIOJUMP! When they chanted that last word—"Jump!"—they would all jump to the right. --- # Hackers_ Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Steven Levy ## Highlights: (Page: 84) - Then someone like Marvin Minsky might happen along and say, "Here is a robot arm. I am leaving this robot arm by the machine." Immediately, nothing in the world is as essential as making the proper interface between the machine and the robot arm, and putting the robot arm under your control, and figuring a way to create a system where the robot arm knows what the hell it is doing. --- # Hackers_ Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Steven Levy ## Highlights: (Page: 328) - On Fridays at noon, On-Line would enact a ritual entitled "Breaking Out the Steel." "Steel" was the clear but potent Steel's peppermint schnapps which was On-Line Systems' beverage of choice. In the company vernacular, a lot of steel would get you "sledged." --- # Hackers_ Heroes of the Computer Revolution - Steven Levy ## Highlights: (Page: 329) - One day not long afterward, Ken walked into the office and said, "Who wants to come over my house and take pictures in the hot tub naked?" --- # Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_ - Robert Pirsig ## Highlights: (Page: 21) - When one of them finally came over he barely listened to the piston slap before saying, "Oh yeah. Tappets.'' Tappets? I should have known then what was coming. --- # Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_ - Robert Pirsig ## Highlights: (Page: 36) - you pick up certain feelings about an individual machine that are unique for that one individual machine and no other. --- # Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_ - Robert Pirsig ## Highlights: (Page: 44) - As far as I know those handlebars are still loose. And I believe now that he was actually offended at the time. I had had the nerve to propose repair of his new eighteen-hundred dollar BMW, the pride of a half-century of German mechanical finesse, with a piece of old beer can! Ach, du lieber! --- # Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_ - Robert Pirsig ## Highlights: (Page: 44) - This comes up all the time in mechanical work. A hang-up. You just sit and stare and think, and search randomly for new information, and go away and come back again, and after a while the unseen factors start to emerge. --- # Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_ - Robert Pirsig ## Highlights: (Page: 113) - A light switch in DeWeese's studio didn't work and he asked Phaedrus if he knew what was wrong with it. He had a slightly embarrassed, slightly puzzled smile on his face, like the smile of an art patron talking to a painter. The patron is embarrassed to reveal how little he knows but is smiling with the expectation of learning more. Unlike the Sutherlands, who hate technology, DeWeese was so far removed from it he didn't feel it any particular menace. DeWeese was actually a technology buff, a patron of the technologies. He didn't understand them, but he knew what he liked, and he always enjoyed learning more. He had the illusion the trouble was in the wire near the bulb because immediately upon toggling the switch the light went out. If the trouble had been in the switch, he felt, there would have been a lapse of time before the trouble showed up in the bulb. Phaedrus did not argue with this, but went across the street to the hardware store, bought a switch and in a few minutes had it installed. It worked immediately, of course, leaving DeWeese puzzled and frustrated. "How did you know the trouble was in the switch?'' he asked. "Because it worked intermittently when I jiggled the switch.'' "Well…couldn't it jiggle the wire?'' "No.'' Phaedrus' cocksure attitude angered DeWeese and he started to argue. "How do you know all that?'' he said. "It's obvious.'' "Well then, why didn't I see it?'' "You have to have some familiarity.'' "Then it's not obvious, is it?'' --- Note: Some people have a "knack". --- # Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_ - Robert Pirsig ## Highlights: (Page: 157) - The idea that the majority of students attend a university for an education independent of the degree and grades is a little hypocrisy everyone is happier not to expose. --- Note: Gradeless University --- # Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_ - Robert Pirsig ## Highlights: (Page: 154) - He was furious. "You're not looking!'' he said. A memory came back of his own dismissal from the University for having too much to say. For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. The more you look the more you see. --- # The Shining - Stephen King ## Highlights: (Page: 106) - By the time he was two and a half he had been unlocking the protective gate his father had installed at the top of the stairs in the Stovington house. He had seen how the lock worked. His daddy said it was a NACK. Some people had the NACK and some people didn't. --- # The Shining - Stephen King ## Highlights: (Page: 185) - Daddy said that Mr. Ullman should replace the old-fashioned hoses right along with the old-fashioned boiler, but Mr. Ullman would probably do neither because he was a CHEAP PRICK. Danny knew that this was one of the worst epithets his father could summon. --- # The Shining - Stephen King ## Highlights: (Page: 191) - He had claimed that Excedrin was the only nonprescription drug ever invented that could stop a hangover dead in its tracks. Absolutely the only one. He had begun to think of his morning-after thumpers as Excedrin Headache Number Vat 69. --- # The Shining - Stephen King ## Highlights: (Page: 211) - But despite Daddy's careful explanations, Danny was scared. There didn't seem to be any difference at all between LOSING YOUR MARBLES and HAVING A BREAKDOWN, and whether you called it a BUGHOUSE or a SANNY-TARIUM, there were still bars on the windows and they wouldn't let you out if you wanted to go. --- # The Shining - Stephen King ## Highlights: (Page: 211) - Sometimes when he fell down or bumped his head or had a bellyache, he would begin to cry and the memory would flash over him, accompanied by the fear that he would not be able to stop crying, that he would just go on and on, weeping and wailing, until his daddy went to the phone, dialed it, and said: "Hello? This is Jack Torrance at 149 Mapleline Way. My son here can't stop crying. Please send THE MEN IN THE WHITE COATS to take him to the SANNY-TARIUM. That's right, he's LOST HIS MARBLES. Thank you." And the gray truck with no windows would come rolling up to his door, they would load him in, still weeping hysterically, and take him away. When would he see his mommy and daddy again? NO ONE KNOWS. --- # The Shining - Stephen King ## Highlights: (Page: 267) - "I'm sorry," Jack said. "But I have to, you know. I'm the goddam caretaker. It's what I'm paid for." --- Note: The first time Jack admits that the hotel takes precedence over his family --- # It_ A Novel - Stephen King ## Highlights: (Page: 748) - Love and Desire/August 10th, 1958 --- Note: "that scene" that has never been included in any film adaptations --- # Everything's Eventual_ 14 Dark Tales - Stephen King ## Highlights: (Page: 51) - And what would Alfie say to the farmer's wife? That he just dropped by for dinner? Would he advise her to save Russian Jews, collect valuable prizes? Would he begin by saying, "Ma'am, according to at least one source I've read recently, all that you love will be carried away"? --- # Everything's Eventual_ 14 Dark Tales - Stephen King ## Highlights: (Page: 52) - From the room to the left of the one where he intended to kill himself, Alfie could hear the early news, but it would sound better in that farmhouse over yonder, he was sure of that. --- # Everything's Eventual_ 14 Dark Tales - Stephen King ## Highlights: (Page: 155) - DINKY'S DAYBOARD. That's another fringe benefit. I write down whatever I want during the week, and I get everything I ask for --- # Wild Blood - Nancy A. Collins ## Highlights: (Page: 13) - Chapter Three --- Note: This chapter is its own short story in Shock Rock vol 1, entitled "VARGR RULE" --- # Just for Fun_ The Story of an Accidental R - Linus Torvalds ## Highlights: (Page: 72) - Hello everybody out there using minix-I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386 (486) AT clones. --- Note: The infamous USENET post that started it all --- # Just for Fun_ The Story of an Accidental R - Linus Torvalds ## Highlights: (Page: 177) - technology drives nothing. It is society that changes technology, not the other way around. Technology just sets the boundaries for what we can do, and how cheaply we can do it. --- # Just for Fun_ The Story of an Accidental R - Linus Torvalds ## Highlights: (Page: 177) - We don't communicate more these days because we have the means to do so—we communicate more these days because people are blabbermouths, and they want to communicate; and if the means aren't there, they will be created. --- # Just for Fun_ The Story of an Accidental R - Linus Torvalds ## Highlights: (Page: 177) - So survival is motivational factor #1. --- # Just for Fun_ The Story of an Accidental R - Linus Torvalds ## Highlights: (Page: 178) - So chalk up "social relations" as motivational factor #2. --- # Just for Fun_ The Story of an Accidental R - Linus Torvalds ## Highlights: (Page: 178) - The third and final motivational factor is "entertainment." --- # Let's Pretend This Never Happened - Jenny Lawson ## Highlights: (Page: 121) - I smile gratefully at him and pretend that's all I needed to hear and that this is just a silly phase that will pass one day. I know there's nothing to panic about. And that's exactly what makes it so much worse. --- # Let's Pretend This Never Happened - Jenny Lawson ## Highlights: (Page: 155) - It was about this time that I decided I needed to take action, so I found some Pepto-Bismol and took a full dose. I considered taking more, but at this point I was concerned that I might have to call 911 for help and I didn't want to have to explain why I'd taken three times the recommended amount of laxatives and three times the recommended amount of antidiarrhea medicine, because even to me that sounded like some sort of poorly planned suicide attempt. --- # Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson ## Highlights: (Page: 66) - Even if a drug is working for a while, it might stop working and you'll have to start all over again with something new, which can be incredibly frustrating and disheartening. And then you have to deal with the side effects of the new drug, which can include "feeling excessively stabby" when coupled with some asshole telling you that "your medication not working is just proof that you don't really need medication at all." --- # Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson ## Highlights: (Page: 68) - Brains are like toddlers. They are wonderful and should be treasured, but that doesn't mean you should trust them to take care of you in an avalanche or process serotonin effectively. --- # Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson ## Highlights: (Page: 91) - I've also found not-so-healthy ways, like when I heard about "microdermabrasion," which I suspect is Latin for "I want to pull off your skin and turn it into a jacket." My dermatologist sent me an e-mail about it, saying something about how my new skin was suffocating underneath layers of my old, dead skin, and I suddenly felt like I was wearing a mask of dust mites and dirt. I needed to have this done immediately and I couldn't go alone. --- # Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson ## Highlights: (Page: 112) - You know when you're walking to the trash can at the zoo and you're holding something important in one hand, and you have something you have to throw away in the other hand, and you're sort of distracted because you just realized the universal truth that everything in the world either is or isn't pandas and you're trying to decide if that's an important epiphany or not and it's so distracting that it's not until you're halfway back to the lemur house that you realize you're still holding the garbage in your hand and that you seem to have thrown your car keys in the trash? --- Note: This entire chapter is gold --- # Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson ## Highlights: (Page: 127) - And God shook his head and muttered, "Jesus, that fucking snake is like TMZ." And then Adam was like, "Who's Jesus?" and God said, "No one yet. It's just an idea I'm throwing around." --- # Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson ## Highlights: (Page: 129) - Sometimes being crazy is a demon. And sometimes the demon is me. --- # Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson ## Highlights: (Page: 130) - And I visit quiet sidewalks and loud parties and dark movies, and a small demon looks out at the world with me. Sometimes it sleeps. Sometimes it plays. Sometimes it laughs with me. Sometimes it tries to kill me. But it's always with me. --- # Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson ## Highlights: (Page: 192) - (Side note: I had writer's block so I got very drunk and when I sobered up I found that I'd written an essay on parsley, wasabi, cream cheese, and soup. I assure you, I was just as bewildered as you, but I decided to leave it in because at this point drunk me writes much better than sober me. She is such an asshole.) --- # Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson ## Highlights: (Page: 227) - Even when everything's going your way you can still be sad. Or anxious. Or uncomfortably numb. Because you can't always control your brain or your emotions even when things are perfect. --- # Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson ## Highlights: (Page: 227) - You learn to appreciate the fact that what drives you is very different from what you're told should make you happy. You learn that it's okay to prefer your personal idea of heaven (live-tweeting zombie movies from under a blanket of kittens) rather than someone else's idea that fame/fortune/parties are the pinnacle we should all reach for. And there's something surprisingly freeing about that. --- # Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson ## Highlights: (Page: 228) - The Spoon Theory was created by a friend of mine, Christine Miserandino, to explain the limits you have when you live with chronic illness. --- # Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson ## Highlights: (Page: 241) - "Whenever I go to wash my hands, if the automatic sink doesn't work I immediately assume that I've died in the bathroom stall and that it's my ghost trying to wash my hands." --- # Furiously Happy - Jenny Lawson ## Highlights: (Page: 241) - "But seriously, it should be spelled 'hampster.' We're all saying it that way anyway." --- # Broken (in the best possible way) - Jenny Lawson ## Highlights: (Page: 96) - Awkwarding Brings Us Together --- Note: An entire chapter of contributions of awkward interactions in public --- # Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Maca - H. P. Lovecraft ## Highlights: (Page: 3) - "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown." --- # Ready Player One - Ernest Cline ## Highlights: (Page: 139) - Wade Owen Watts. Born August twelfth, 2024. --- # Ready Player One - Ernest Cline ## Highlights: (Page: 197) - It was also time to elect the president and VP of the OASIS User Council, but that was a no-brainer. Like most gunters, I voted to reelect Cory Doctorow and Wil Wheaton (again). There were no term limits, and those two geezers had been doing a kick-ass job of protecting user rights for over a decade. --- # I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depres - Erma Bombeck ## Highlights: (Page: 35) - "Your son can't seem to keep his mouth shut," she said. "He talks incessantly during class, shouts out the answers before there are questions, and is known to his classmates as 'Elastic Mouth.' " --- # Holidays on Ice - David Sedaris ## Highlights: (Page: 12) - Tonight I saw a woman slap and shake her sobbing daughter, yelling, "Goddamn it, Rachel, get on that man's lap and smile or I'll give you something to cry about." --- # Holidays on Ice - David Sedaris ## Highlights: (Page: 9) - She held up a calendar and said, "Ladies, you know what this is. Use it. I have scraped enough blood out from the crotches of elf knickers to last me the rest of my life. --- # A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writ - Charles Dickens ## Highlights: (Page: 58) - The mention of Marley's funeral brings me back to the point I started from. There is no doubt that Marley was dead. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. --- # A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writ - Charles Dickens ## Highlights: (Page: 61) - "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas,' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. --- # A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writ - Charles Dickens ## Highlights: (Page: 64) - "If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. --- # A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writ - Charles Dickens ## Highlights: (Page: 66) - "A poor excuse for picking a man's pocket every twenty-fifth of December!" --- # A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writ - Charles Dickens ## Highlights: (Page: 67) - And then let any man explain to me, if he can, how it happened that Scrooge, having his key in the lock of the door, saw in the knocker, without its undergoing any intermediate process of change: not a knocker, but Marley's face. --- # A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writ - Charles Dickens ## Highlights: (Page: 71) - You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are! --- # A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writ - Charles Dickens ## Highlights: (Page: 91) - May you be happy in the life you have chosen! --- # A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writ - Charles Dickens ## Highlights: (Page: 93) - "That they are what they are, do not blame me!" --- # A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writ - Charles Dickens ## Highlights: (Page: 96) - "Come in!" exclaimed the Ghost. "Come in! and know me better, man!" --- # A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writ - Charles Dickens ## Highlights: (Page: 104) - He told me, coming home, that he hoped the people saw him in the church, because he was a cripple, and it might be pleasant to them to remember upon Christmas Day, who made lame beggars walk and blind men see. --- # A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writ - Charles Dickens ## Highlights: (Page: 106) - "I see a vacant seat," replied the Ghost, "in the poor chimney corner, and a crutch without an owner, carefully preserved. If these shadows remain unaltered by the Future, the child will die." --- # A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writ - Charles Dickens ## Highlights: (Page: 106) - What then? If he be like to die, he had better do it, and decrease the surplus population." Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief. --- # A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writ - Charles Dickens ## Highlights: (Page: 107) - "I'll drink his health for your sake and the Day's," said Mrs. Cratchit, "not for his. Long life to him! A merry Christmas and a happy new year!—he'll be very merry and very happy, I have no doubt!" --- # A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writ - Charles Dickens ## Highlights: (Page: 107) - Scrooge was the Ogre of the family. The mention of his name cast a dark shadow on the party, which was not dispelled for full five minutes. --- # A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writ - Charles Dickens ## Highlights: (Page: 114) - "I have found it out! I know what it is, Fred! I know what it is!" "What is it?" cried Fred. "It's your Uncle Scro-o-o-o-oge!" --- # A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writ - Charles Dickens ## Highlights: (Page: 117) - This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased. --- # A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writ - Charles Dickens ## Highlights: (Page: 135) - "What's to-day, my fine fellow?" said Scrooge. "To-day!" replied the boy. "Why, CHRISTMAS DAY." "It's Christmas Day!" said Scrooge to himself. "I haven't missed it. The Spirits have done it all in one night. They can do anything they like. Of course they can. Of course they can. Hallo, my fine fellow!" --- # A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writ - Charles Dickens ## Highlights: (Page: 137) - If you please," said Scrooge. "Not a farthing less. A great many back-payments are included in it, I assure you. --- # A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writ - Charles Dickens ## Highlights: (Page: 139) - Scrooge was better than his word. He did it all, and infinitely more; and to Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, he was a second father. He became as good a friend, as good a master, and as good a man, as the good old city knew, or any other good old city, town, or borough, in the good old world. --- # A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writ - Charles Dickens ## Highlights: (Page: 140) - He had no further intercourse with Spirits, but lived upon the Total Abstinence Principle, ever afterwards; and it was always said of him, that he knew how to keep Christmas well, if any man alive possessed the knowledge. May that be truly said of us, and all of us! And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One! ---