Old Sig Fragments
In the early days of the internet, before the web was a gleam in Tim's eye and teradytals roamed the skies free of cell phone towers in West Texas, email contained tiny little quotes at the bottom. These were called 'sigs'. Here were some of mine:
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OK, you got an email from me.
What are your other two wishes?
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Mitch Fincher mitch@fincher.org, https://www.fincher.org
I'm not saying I'm old, but when I was young, this part of Texas was also known as
'Middle Earth', but by the time I was 10 or so, most of the Elves had already left.
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Mitch Fincher mitch@fincher.org, https://www.fincher.org
"The King with half the East at heel is marched from lands of morning;
His fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air,
And he that stays will die for naught, and home there's no returning.
The Spartans on the sea-wet rock sat down and combed their hair."
A.E. Housman
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"Best Wordle Words: AROSE, UNTIL, DUCHY, BLIMP, GAWKY."
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"Evil appears as good in the minds of those whom god leads to destruction". - Sophocles from Antigone
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Mitch Fincher mitch@fincher.org, https://www.fincher.org
You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. -Navajo Proverb
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Mitch Fincher mitch@fincher.org, https://www.fincher.org
"Striving to better, oft we mar what's well"
-William Shakespeare, "King Lear "
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Mitch Fincher mitch@fincher.org, https://www.fincher.org
"The greatest of all weaknesses is the fear of appearing weak."
- J.B. Bossuet
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Mitch Fincher mitch@fincher.org, https://www.fincher.org
"Optimism is true moral courage" - Ernest Shackleton
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Mitch Fincher mitch@fincher.org, https://www.fincher.org
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure
thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by
exertion of the imagination.
Fred Brooks, _The Mythical Man-Month
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"...the idea of the perfectibility of human nature,
of an attainable Utopia, is the most dangerous idea of all."
-Bill Emmott in "The Economist", September 11, 1999
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Mitch Fincher mitch@fincher.org, https://www.fincher.org
"Do not withhold good from those who deserve it,
when it is in your power to act." Proverbs 3.27
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Mitch Fincher mitch@fincher.org, www.fincher.org
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned
man who is proud of his large cell. -Simone Weil
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Mitch Fincher mitch@fincher.org, www.fincher.org
"No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else."
- Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun.
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Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the
fragile blossom that opens in the snow. -Alice M. Swaim
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"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,
"it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less."
- Lewis Carrol, "Through the Looking Glass"
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Mitch Fincher mitch@fincher.org, www.fincher.org
"...when an old man dies, a library burns down."
Robert R. McCammon _Boy's Life_
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"I like a man who grins when he fights."
-Winston Churchill
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"I normally think of something when I hear myself say it."
-Click or Clack on CarTalk
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"Closing time, time for you to go out to the places you will be from."
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Mitch Fincher mitch@fincher.org, www.fincher.org
"A person's a person, no matter how small!"
Dr. Seuss _Horton Hears a Who_
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Mitch Fincher mitch@fincher.org, www.fincher.org
"In the Internet business, if you sleep for 8 hours,
you wake up 8 hours behind."
-Dave Evans
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Mitch Fincher mitch@fincher.org, www.fincher.org
You can never pay too much for really good software.
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"The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens
us... and our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast,
terrible in-between." -The late Centauri Emperor, Babylon 5
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"Santa, bruised and bloodied from his encounter with a mountain
peak, surveyed the damage: his sled a write-off, the presents
hopelessly scattered, and fifty days hike to the North Pole, but at
least he had a lot of venison."
mitch@issi.com
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"We dream of the mating season
Feel the coming tidal wave
We want to run but cannot move
Cause we're embedded in concrete"
- "Rhythm Of Time", Front 242
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"You mean I can send mail to myself??"
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"Wasn't it a millionaire who said, 'Imagine no possessions'?" - P. McManus
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"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the
shoulder of Orion. I've watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tanhauser
Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain."
-BladeRunner
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"Il est mort, Jean Luc..."
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'For every thousand people hacking at the leaves of evil,
there is one striking at the root'
- Thoreau
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"And all the science I don't understand,
Its just my job five days a week."
-Elton John, *Rocket Man*
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"We feel that even when *all possible* scientific questions have been
answered, the problems of life remain completely untouched."
(Ludwig Wittgenstein, "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus," 6.52)
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Mitch Fincher | Real men don't set their Phasers
mitch@issi.com | on stun...
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"The opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of my employer,
although they should be."
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"Information wants to be free."
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Mitch Fincher mitch@lgc.com
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE:
The compassion of the IRS, the efficiency of the Post Office, with the
price of a Pentagon procurement.
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"One test result is worth one thousand expert opinions" - Wernher Von Braun
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Mitch Fincher mitch@lgc.com "Every \item command in
Landmark Graphics Corp. ph: 512/292-2236 item_list must have an
Systems Incorporated fax: 512/292-2220 optional argument".
Austin Texas 78745 -Leslie Lamport, LaTeX
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"Given jet engines and lawn mowers, it's just a matter of
time till someone puts the two together."
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You know you are a red-neck when:
- Your momma keeps a spit cup on the ironing board
- Your two year old has more teeth than you do
- You have an above ground swimming pool in the back yard
you use for fishing
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"Whatever will build in this life is composed of a thousand bricks."
-Jim Huddleston
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"Being a software engineer means always having to say you're sorry."
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If you make people think they're thinking,
they'll love you;
but if you really make them think,
they'll hate you.
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("there is a difference, you know, between DEL and DIR...")
."Laugh-a while you can-a, monkey boy." ___Emilio Lizardo/Jon Warfin
I had a .sig, but it was recalled.
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"Did the Corinthians ever write back?"
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Just remember. Wherever you go, there you are.
--Buckaroo Banzai
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If my employer thinks my opinions are of no consequence, why should you?
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"Black holes are where God divided by zero!" - Gerald J. Jurrens N2GJ
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"If the truth were self-evident, eloquence would be unnecessary."
-Cicero, De Oritare
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"The only really happy folk are married women and single men."
- H.L. Mencken
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"I think people worry too much...and this really concerns me."
mitch@lgc.com
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"Three Rings for the Elven Kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne.
In the Land of Mordor, where the Shadows Lie."
- "Lord of the Rings," J.R.R. Tolkien
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"The Creation of the Universe was made possible by a grant from Texas
Instruments." - PBS
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(the_wind)fate;
casting fate to the wind.
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There is no future in time travel.
mitch@lgc.com
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___- Dyslexics of the World: Untie! ___-
mitch@lgc.com
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"It took some users a while to come to grips with the intuitive way
Windows works". -Australia computer magazine.
mitch@lgc.com
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Fincher's First Law of Entertainment: "If you've seen one episode of
a TV show 9 months ago and you just happen to be home in time to see
the show again - it will be the same episode."
mitch@lgc.com
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Fincher's First Law of Retail Efficiency: "Customer wait time skyrockets
when the number of store employees start to outnumber the customers."
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Be warned about
"prayers that Heaven in enormous vengeance grants"
-Horace
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Some of the more environmentally aware dinosaurs were worried about the
consequences of an accident with the new Iridium enriched fusion reactor.
"If it goes off only the cockroaches and mammals will survive..." they said.
-Derek Tearne
mitch@lgc.com
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"A man's own folly ruins his life, yet his heart rages against
the Lord." - Proverbs 19:3
mitch@lgc.com
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"Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not
see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make
believe that there are no monsters." -Das Kapital, preface, Karl Marx
mitch@issi.com
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"As Christians, we spend too much time trying to make others like us,
and not enough time *really* loving others." -mitch fincher
mitch@issi.com
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This .signature has been stolen! Reward offered for its safe return.
mitch@lgc.com
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"However, one-level objects often play the role of classes to take advantage of
sharing and often instances will simply delegate to parents to access methods
or shared state, otherwise idiosyncratic objects, a powerful and natural
concept, will result." -comp.object FAQ
mitch@lgc.com (ps: What does that mean?)
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We care. We care about people. Deeply. Vaguely. Many parts of the
world are not very nice. We want to help. Help us find out which
parts they are. Or whatever. You know.
AMNESIA
INTERNATIONAL
PO Box either 207, or 702, or 027,
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"In relation to coal and oil, the world's annual consumption has become
so enormous that we are now actually within measurable distance of the
end of the supply." - Alexander Graham Bell February 1, 1917.
mitch@lgc.com
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TheEncyclopedia c2300. United States of America: A fairly short lived
empire, (see also Great Britain), now remembered mainly as the Internet's
birth place.
mitch@lgc.com
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"Success is the only distinguisher between right and wrong."
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
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"Communists believed there was a price for an object other than what
people were willing to pay for it."
~PJ O'Rourke _Give War A Chance_
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shaped the electrons to say:
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"He's dead, Jim!"
"Will you stop saying that? Bones, you're a doctor not a record player!"
mitch@lgc.com
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"vi is like camping - something everyone should know how to do, just in
case you need it - but hardly appropriate for everyday living." -Mitch Fincher
mitch@issi.com
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"Very funny, Scotty... now beam down my clothes."
mitch@issi.com
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"... then the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was
more painful than the risk it took to blossom." - Anais Nin
mitch@lgc.com
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It's not a 'black and white' monitor, it's just 'chromatically challenged'.
mitch@lgc.com
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State Trooper to Heisenberg: "Do you realize how fast you were going?"
Heisenberg to State Trooper: "Yes, but I have no idea where I am!"
mitch@lgc.com
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Mitch Fincher
mitch@lgc.com
Also researching anderson barksdale belk bonneau calhoun casady
chastain davis ewing fincher hunter kane kedmann killough montgomery
pickens pike satterfield steele thomas young and wallace
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mitch@lgc.com
http://w3.zycor.lgc.com/~mitch
http://www.emcee.com/~mfincher
"And may each day find us better prepared for death, judgement and
eternity." Diary of Mary Pickens Anderson, my ggggmother
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Opinions expressed herein are my own and no sillier than yours.
mitch@issi.com
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"And if I had a boat, I'd go out on the ocean.
And if I had a pony, I'd ride him on my boat.
And we would all together,go out on the ocean.
Me up on my pony on my boat." - Lyle Lovett
mitch@lgc.com
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"A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false
because spoken magnificently. -St. Augustine"
mitch@lgc.com
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
George Santayana (1863-1952), American philosopher and poet.
mitch@lgc.com
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"Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur."
(Anything sounds profound in Latin).
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This message was brought to you by the letter 'S' and the symbol '@'.
mitch@lgc.com
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Who has saved us and called us to a holy life -
not because of anything we have done
but because of his own purpose and grace.
II Timothy 1:9
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" Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun,
but I have never been able to make out the numbers." --Forrest Gump
mitch@lgc.com
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"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." -Popular Mechanics,
forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
http://chevy.zycor.lgc.com:1600/~mitch/home.html
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Forget chasing rainbows... ...it doesn't work. If you want rainbows, chase storms.
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"Just because one side is wrong doesn't mean the other side is right."
"What we do now echoes in eternity." - Marcus Aurelius
"He who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him." -Proverbs 18:17
(e.g., don't listen solely to one news source and think they are telling you the whole truth)
"It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings."
"Today's weather - room temperature."
"I, for one, am a big fan of Roman numerals."
"The better part of one's life consists of friendships." -Abraham Lincoln
"Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls, there will it lie." - Ecclesiastes 11:3
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." -Voltaire
"We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology." - E.O. Wilson, Biologist
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"We have considered ourselves of too much importance in the scale of nations. It has led us into great errors. Instead of yielding to circumstances which human power cannot control, we have imagined that our own destiny and that of other nations was in our hands, to be regulated as we thought proper."
Virginia Federalist Daniel Sheffey on the eve of the disastrous War of 1812
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