## 9062546d-3ea4-4e0d-a3f7-1d199a31e25d - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Once a company is too big to fail, it becomes too big to jail, and then it becomes too big to care. - **Note:** None - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 17:52:43 --- ## Black, Eldritch/Krampus and the Thief of Christmas_ A Christmas Novel - Eldritch Black - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** Chapter 1_ _ _ _ _ - **Note:** Started 2025-11-27 - **Created On:** 11/27/2025 at 18:29:32 --- ## Block, Lawrence/Enough Rope - Lawrence Block - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The Tulsa Experience - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 20:13:54 --- ## Dickens, Charles/Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings, A - Charles Dickens - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 12/22/2025 at 01:14:38 --- ## Forte, Tiago/PARA Method_ Simplify, Organize, and Master Your Digital Life, The - Tiago Forte - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:45:56 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:46:33 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:47:03 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Allowing some messiness and randomness into the system creates opportunities for very different ideas to be connected and intermixed. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:47:36 --- ## Fulghum, Robert/Uh-Oh - Robert Fulghum - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** But don’t eat it all. Never ever eat all the meatloaf when it’s fresh. Put about a third of it away in the back of the fridge and forget about it. This is the best part. The part you are going to eat about 2:00 A.M. some dark, rainy night when you need sustaining. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 01:28:35 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Meatloaf Protest Song - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 01:28:55 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** HUDSON’S BAY START - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 01:30:49 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** So be it. Norman was declared the pig in the story of Cinderella - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 01:37:28 --- ## Fung, son MD/Obesity Code_ Unlocking the Secrets of Weight Loss (Why Intermittent ing Is the Key to Controlling Your Weight), The - Jason Fung MD - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** If we eat an extra 200 calories today, nothing prevents the body from burning that excess for heat. Or perhaps that extra 200 calories is excreted as stool. Or perhaps the liver uses the extra 200. We obsess about caloric input into the system, but output is far more important. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:49:01 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** We certainly don’t mind if energy is burned as heat or used to build new protein, but we do mind if it is deposited as fat. There are an almost infinite number of ways that the body can dissipate excess energy instead of storing it as body fat.__ - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:49:31 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** in 1944 and 1945, Dr. Ancel Keys performed the most complete experiment of starvation ever done—the Minnesota Starvation Experiment - **Note:** He didn't account for the types of calories eaten - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:51:01 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The men experienced profound physical and psychological changes. Among the most consistent findings was the constant feeling of cold experienced by the participants. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:52:41 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The body reacts in this way—by reducing energy expenditure—because the body is smart and doesn’t want to die. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:53:59 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** If we reduce daily calorie intake by 500 calories, we assume that 1 pound (0.45 kilograms) of fat per week is lost. Does that mean that in 200 weeks, we would lose 200 pounds (91 kilograms) and weigh zero pounds? Of course not. The body must, at some point, reduce its caloric expenditure to meet the lower caloric intake. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:55:02 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Assume that prior to dieting, a woman eats and burns 2000 calories per day. Following doctor’s orders, she adopts a calorie-restricted, portion-controlled, low-fat diet, reducing her intake by 500 calories per day. Quickly, her total energy expenditure also drops by 500 calories per day, if not a little more. She feels lousy, tired, cold, hungry, irritable and depressed, but sticks with it, thinking that things must eventually improve. Initially, she loses weight, but as her body’s caloric expenditure decreases to match her lowered intake, her weight plateaus. Her dietary compliance is good, but one year later, things have not improved. Her weight slowly creeps back up, even though she eats the same number of calories. Tired of feeling so lousy, she abandons the failed diet and resumes eating 2000 calories per day. Since her metabolism has slowed to an output of only 1500 calories per day, all her weight comes rushing back—as fat. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:56:53 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** total energy expenditure is not the same as exercise. The overwhelming majority of total energy expenditure is not exercise but the basal metabolic rate: - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:58:29 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Homeostatic mechanisms defend this body set weight against changes, both up and down. If weight drops below body set weight, compensatory mechanisms activate to raise it. If weight goes above body set weight, compensatory mechanisms activate to lower it. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 14:00:23 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** There appears to be a “set point” for body weight and fatness - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 14:00:13 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Glycogen is like your wallet. Money goes in and out constantly. The wallet is easily accessible, but can only hold a limited amount of money. Fat, however, is like the money in your bank account. It is harder to access that money, but there is an unlimited storage space for energy there in your account. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 14:03:16 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** before you can even begin to burn fat, you start feeling hungry and anxious because your glycogen is becoming depleted. If you continually refill your glycogen stores, you never need to use your fat stores for energy. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 14:03:56 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Stress contains neither calories nor carbohydrates, but can still lead to obesity. Long-term stress leads to long-term elevated cortisol levels, which leads to extra pounds.__ - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 14:04:52 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** As kids, we used to call this the second-stomach phenomenon: after the first stomach for regular food was full, we imagined that there was a second one for desserts. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 14:06:32 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Think about foods that people say they’re “addicted” to. Pasta, bread, cookies, chocolate, chips. Notice anything? All are highly refined carbohydrates. Does anybody ever say they are addicted to fish? Apples? Beef? Spinach? Not likely. Those are all delicious foods, but not addictive. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 14:06:50 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Birthdays, weddings and holiday celebrations—what do we eat? Cake. Ice cream. Pie. Not whey powder shakes and lean pork. Why? Because we want to indulge. The Atkins diet does not allow for this simple fact, and that doomed it to failure.__ - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 14:07:20 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The bottom line is that excess fructose is changed into fat in the liver. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 14:09:12 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Excessive fructose puts significant pressure on the liver since other organs cannot help. It is the difference between pressing down with a hammer and pressing down with a needlepoint: much less pressure is needed if it is all directed onto a single point. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 14:09:40 --- ## Gelb, Jeff & Garrett, Michael/Kiss and Kill_ Tales of Erotic Horror - Jeff Gelb (ed.) & Michael Garrett (ed.) - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** BONUS NOTCHES - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/24/2026 at 19:57:22 --- ## Gerrold, David/Alternate Gerrolds - David Gerrold - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** ... And Eight Rabid Pigs - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 20:12:33 --- ## Hartmann, Sadie/101 Horror Books to Read Before You_re Murdered - Sadie Hartmann - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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._ - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 14:11:08 --- ## Hendrix, Grady/Paperbacks From Hell_ The Twisted History of _70s and _80s Horror Fiction - Grady Hendrix - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The Gestapochauns live in the dark, battling their ancient rat enemies with teeny bullwhips. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 00:57:54 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Not so for McGill, who returned in 1982 to write an Omen novel not based on a film, Omen IV: Armageddon 2000, which opens with a scene of rectal childbirth. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 00:58:33 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The only book written by Mendal W. Johnson, who died two years after it was published, 1974’s Let’s Go Play at the Adams’ still elicits passionate loathing. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 00:59:22 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Edgar Allan Poe’s Hop-Frog (1849) was a dwarf forced to be a jester who burned eight courtiers to death. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 01:00:06 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** truly terrible RPG called Hobgoblin that may be only slightly less ridiculous than Mazes and Monsters. In a deeply unrealistic touch, Scott became wildly popular after introducing this RPG to Spencertown, - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 01:01:20 --- ## King, Stephen/Different Seasons - Stephen King - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** “Todd is a very apt pupil,” - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:16:16 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** “Stocks I picked up after the war under yet another name. Through a bank in the State of Maine, if you please. 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! - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:17:03 --- ## King, Stephen/It_ A Novel - Stephen King - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** Love and Desire/August 10th, 1958 - **Note:** "That" scene that was never in any movie adaptation - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 00:55:09 --- ## King, Stephen/Pet Sematary - Stephen King - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** unless there comes a campfire some night with friends when the wind is high and the talk turns to inexplicable events. Because on campfire nights when the wind is high, talk is cheap. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 05:41:10 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 05:42:46 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Content._Yes, he was. For the first time since they had moved to Maine, he felt that he was in his place, that he was home. Standing here by himself in the afterglow of the day, standing on the rim of winter, he felt unhappy and yet oddly exhilarated and strangely whole—whole in a way he had not been, or could not remember feeling that he had been, since childhood. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 05:43:30 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** 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:** THIS is why Jud Takes Louis to the Micmac burying ground. Without Norma, the story is fifferent and makes Jud look evil. - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:30:44 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** “Jud, what’s this all about? Why did you bring me here?”_“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:** Jud was repaying Louis. A favor that he never should have offered. But a repayment nonetheless. - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:33:23 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** “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.” - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:36:24 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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.” - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:38:01 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** “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 . . .” - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:39:17 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** “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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:40:20 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** “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!” - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:42:48 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:43:38 --- ## King, Stephen/Shining, The - Stephen King - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** He had seen how the lock worked. His daddy said it was a NACK. Some people had the NACK and some people didn’t. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 11/28/2025 at 19:34:07 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 11/28/2025 at 19:35:13 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** “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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 05:45:55 --- ## Lawson, Jenny/How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay_ Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself - Jenny Lawson - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so let us all be thankful._ —Buddha - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/24/2026 at 20:00:01 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** And that’s why I’m making a motion to make solitary introvert breaks a normal thing. Perhaps it just hasn’t caught on before because it doesn’t have a catchy name like “smoke break,” so I suggest we call it “airplane mode.” As in, “I’m sorry. I’ve just placed myself in airplane mode. I’m not accepting any new information. I cannot receive any communications. I’m recharging only.” - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 15:51:52 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** If your habits seem weird as fuck to everyone else but you’re still getting your shit done and you’re happy with it, you win. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 16:04:19 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** y I had to cancel a business meeting because my brain fixated on how hard it would be to get ready, - **Note:** Just highlight the entire page... - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 16:26:18 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Don’t be afraid to ask for accommodations. Working on easy mode is still working. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 17:42:35 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** . I often get stuck in a fear cycle that causes an inertia that keeps me rooted to the ground and unable to move forward. Usually that’s because I’m thinking too far ahead. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 17:44:04 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** You don’t have to finish everything today to move forward and progress. You just have to take one more step than you did yesterday. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 17:45:25 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** I realized that I probably looked like sort of a peeping-Tom rando taking a video of their home. So I reassuringly yelled, “I KNOW THIS LOOKS WEIRD BUT I ASSURE YOU I WAS NOT TAKING PHOTOS THROUGH YOUR WINDOWS. I WAS JUST MAKING A VIDEO OF LIZARDS HAVING SEX IN YOUR TREE.” They said nothing and so I added, “For my sister” because I thought that might help._ It did not. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 19:21:10 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** All you need is sleep. When you sleep deeply, your mind cleans itself by sending fresh fluid into the brain and then flushing it out, along with all the toxins and wastes, like a washing machine for your noggin. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 21:55:07 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Zombie noise is the sound of horror movies often playing quietly in the background while I work - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/27/2026 at 01:15:31 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** maybe the reason I self-sabotage is because it lets me predict the outcome and that creates the illusion of self-control. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/27/2026 at 01:16:31 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** “the bracelet method.” - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 01:15:59 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The kid had a stack of plastic elastic bracelets they put on in the morning that were different colors for different actions and they could take off the bracelets as they did the actions - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 01:16:06 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 10:55:18 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** some of it was my brain telling me that doing something fun was somehow a waste of time - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 12:41:00 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Stop working while you still have some idea of what you want to do next. It makes you more eager to start again the next morning. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 12:44:21 --- ## Levy, Steven/Hackers_ Heroes of the Computer Revolution - 25th Anniversary Edition - Steven Levy - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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.” - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 00:45:50 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** LAC,_ __ _ DAC,_ __ _ DIPPY DAP,_ __ _ LIO,_ __ _ DIO_ __ _ JUMP!_ _ _ __ - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 00:46:28 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 00:47:03 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The Right Thing implied that to any problem, whether a programming dilemma, a hardware interface mismatch, or a question of software architecture, a solution existed that was just . . . it. The perfect algorithm. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 00:47:43 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 00:48:16 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The instant that John Harris ended his interesting conversation and saw that his software collection was gone, he knew his soul had been wounded. Nothing was more important to John than the floppy disks in that box, and he felt the void deeply. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 00:49:19 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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); - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 00:52:23 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** While someone might call a clever connection between relays a “mere hack,” it would be understood that, to qualify as a hack, the feat must be imbued with innovation, style, and technical virtuosity. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 00:52:51 --- ## Menn, Joseph/Cult of the Dead Cow_ How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World - Joseph Menn - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 03/29/2026 at 17:01:47 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Information is a virus. And we intend to infect all of you. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 03/29/2026 at 17:02:43 --- ## Moody, Glyn/Rebel Code_ Linux and the Open Source Revolution - Glyn Moody - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** If good software can be written and given away like this, who needs Microsoft or companies like it? - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 01:02:33 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Windows 3.1 shipped in June 1992, - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 01:03:32 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** advTHANKSance - **Note:** Thanks in Advance?_~groan~ - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 01:04:19 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Linux now has a logo thanks to the artistic talents of Larry Ewing, - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 01:06:12 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Stallman wanted an operating system that could be easily transferred from one type of hardware to another. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 01:06:47 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Stallman wanted an operating system that could be easily transferred from one type of hardware to another. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 01:06:58 --- ## Orwell, George/1984 - George Orwell - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 14:14:35 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 14:15:25 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 14:16:24 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 14:17:08 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 14:17:46 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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; - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 14:18:51 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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 - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 14:19:41 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 14:20:46 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** If there is hope, wrote Winston, it lies in the proles - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 14:21:21 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 14:21:39 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 14:22:29 --- - **Type:** note - **Highlighted Text:** ‘I bet that picture’s got bugs behind it,’ said Julia. ‘I’ll take it down and give it a good clean some day. - **Note:** If they only knew... - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 14:23:18 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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! - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 14:24:34 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** ‘We are the dead,’ he said._‘We are the dead,’ echoed Julia dutifully._‘You are the dead,’ said an iron voice behind them. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 14:25:08 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 14:25:54 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.’ - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 14:26:30 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** To die hating them, that was freedom. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 14:26:52 --- ## Pirsig, Robert/Lila_ An Inquiry Into Morals - Robert Pirsig - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:21:27 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** Now the main purpose of the slips was not to help him remember anything. It was to help him to forget it. That sounded contradictory but the purpose was to keep his head empty, to put all his ideas of the past four years on that pilot berth where he didn’t have to think of them. That was what he wanted. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:22:18 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:22:40 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:23:26 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The next non-topical category was called PROGRAM. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:25:08 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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 - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:24:18 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** In addition to the topic categories, five other categories had emerged. Phædrus felt these were of great importance: - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:26:35 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The final category was JUNK. These were slips that seemed of high value when he wrote them down but which now seemed awful. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:27:29 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The next to the last group was the TOUGH category. This contained slips that seemed to say something of importance but didn’t fit into any topic he could think of. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:27:25 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The next slips were the CRIT slips. These were for days when he woke up in a foul mood and could find nothing but fault everywhere. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:27:19 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The first was UNASSIMILATED. This contained new ideas that interrupted what he was doing. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:25:01 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The next non-topical category was called PROGRAM. PROGRAM slips were instructions for what to do with the rest of the slips. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 13:27:59 --- ## Pirsig, Robert/Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_ An Inquiry Into Values - Robert Pirsig - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** "Oh yeah. Tappets.''_ - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 00:39:49 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** What I have here is my list of valuable things to take on your next motorcycle trip across the Dakotas. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 00:40:25 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** 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! - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 00:40:52 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** A light switch in DeWeese's studio didn't work and he asked Phaedrus if he knew what was wrong with it. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 00:41:31 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** "Narrow it down to the front of one building on the main street of Bozeman. The Opera House. Start with the upper left-hand brick.'' - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 00:42:26 --- ## Thoreau, Henry David/Walden, or, Life in the woods_ and, _On the duty of civil disobedience_ - Henry David Thoreau - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 00:44:20 --- - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/28/2026 at 00:44:50 --- ## Torvalds, Linus & Diamond, David/Just for Fun_ The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary - Linus Torvalds & David Diamond - **Type:** highlight - **Highlighted Text:** There are three things that have meaning for life. They are the motivational factors for everything in your life––for anything that you do or any living thing does: The first is survival, the second is social order, and the third is entertainment. Everything in life progresses in that order. And there is nothing after entertainment. - **Note:** - **Created On:** 04/25/2026 at 05:36:29 ---