One thing this job has taught me: how to spell inconvenience! [co-worker]

Gillian: remind me that it would be rude to reply with "UNSUBSCRIBE"
Sarah Jay: it would be rude
Gillian: funny-rude?
Sarah Jay: no. just rude.
Gillian: doh
Gillian: well, isn't it also rude to spam every contact in your address book?
Sarah Jay: probably
Sarah Jay: but being rude back doesn't make it any better
Gillian: you & your logic :-P

You see her confidence is tragic, but her intuition magic...[Train - Meet Virginia]

Amy: am so in love with my new job
Amy: remind me of this day when I'm totally burnt out and cynical in a year or so :)

she says, i've got a darkness that i have to feed
i got a sadness that grows up around like a weed
and i'm not hurting anyone
i'm just spiraling in
and then she closes her eyes
and hears the song begin again
[Ani Difranco, Jukebox]

Gillian: i think i have figured out how to verbalize my frustration... i just hope i remember not to call her nutty mcappletree
Sarah: that might be counter-productive

Gillian: concrete must be cheap
Sarah: few bucks a bag
Gillian: there ya go
Gillian: i will make the entire shed of concrete
Gillian: no one gonna f**k with my lawnmower

Mr. Beer is what got me into homebrewing. In fact, if it wasn't for the horrible swill that comes out of them, I would have never moved on to bigger and better things.
[Jon Jay, fledgling brewmaster]

Me: I keep trying to convince Jon we need a small rodent as a petpet for the cats.
Gillian: Somehow I see Tia mistaking her petpet for a snacksnack.

Helen will come after them with steak knives... [Lake]

This is not the end. This is not even the beginning of the end. It is, instead, the end of the beginning.
[Winston Churchill]

I do not negotiate with spiders. [Gillian]

Most of us rather like our cats to have a streak of wickedness. I should not feel quite easy in the company of any cat that walked about the house with a saintly expression.
[Beverly Nichols]

I think that I shall never see
A cat that sheds as much as thee
Thy fur that sticks is all around
On chairs, on mats in little mounds
I sweep the floor, you shed some more
I wash the rug and you just shrug
You should give thanks I tolerate that
Or you would be a crew cut cat.
[Marea Needle]

they're cute, in a villiage idiot sort of way...

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

[Emma Goldman]

Love is the only bow on life's dark cloud.
It is the Morning and the Evening Star.
It shines upon the cradle of the babe,
and sheds its radiance upon the quiet tomb.
It is the mother of Art,
inspirer of poet, patriot, and philosopher.
It is the air and light of every heart, builder of every home,
kindler of every fire on every hearth.
It was the first to dream of immortality.
It fills the world with melody,
for Music is the voice of Love.
Love is the magician, the enchanter,
that changes worthless things to joy,
and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay.
It is the perfume of the wondrous flower -- the heart
and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon,
we are less than beasts;
but with it, earth is heaven
and we are gods.

[Robert G. Ingersoll]

How bad, how good does it need to get?
How many losses? How much regret?
What chain reaction would cause an effect?
Makes you turn around,
Makes you try to explain,
Makes you forgive and forget,
Makes you change?
Makes you change?

[Tracy Chapman, Change]

A discussion of the benefits of Web site administration and oversight...

zg: ...and then yell at them, which you can do by e-mail and anonymously so it's not bad
zg: it's fun & empowering
me: the great omnipotent administrator mode is fun
zg: omg it is
zg: when i'm in a bad mood i audit wrestling sites
zg: they are always doing something wrong

If today was not an endless highway
If tonight was not a crooked trail
If tomorrow wasn't such a long time
Then lonesome would mean nothing to me at all

Yes, and only if my own true love was waiting
If I could hear his heart softly pounding
Yes, and only if he was lying by me
Would I lie in my bed once again

[Nickel Creek, Tomorrow Is a Long Time]

Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
[Randy K. Milholland]

I get to go to Moe's on a fairly regular basis. Jon, who loves the place even more than I do, gets to go maybe once a month. And he's terribly jealous when I get to go without him...

jon: how was Moe's
me: it was pretty good.
me: we could probably buy some of the meat and things catering style and put them in the freezer
me: then you could make your own moe's all the time.
jon: ooh
jon: Moe's @ home all the time. That would be awesome
me: well, not as good as having them make it for you, but yeah
jon: if you have it at home, will you yell "Welcome to Moe's!!!" when I come in?

I only validate to spite Troy. [William]

after telling Troy how cool it was that we didn't need to bug him anymore when clients wanted silly changes to buttons...
daedal42: see, it's all a plot to get out of making buttons
daedal42: I don't care about blind people

It's a James-meat sandwich on geek bread. [WLH]

discussing a less-than-spectacular hiring decision...

William: But you hired them.
Sarah: True. I did. But they said they knew HTML inside and out.
James: Inside-out is more like it.
Sarah: Maybe I just misheard. *dies of laugher*

The cult of "Napoleon" demonstrates one of those sweet ironies of youth: that the best way to celebrate nonconformity is to buy the T-shirt.
[Boston Globe article: Sweet Sensation]

Parking lots
cracked and growing grass you see it all
from offices to farms
crosses flying high above the malls
A longer walk
through Jesusland
[Ben Folds, Jesusland]

you say the word you know I will find you
or if you need some time I don't mind
I don't hold onto the tail of your kite
I'm not like the girls that you've known
but I believe I'm worth coming home to
[Tori Amos, Sleeps With Butterflies]

That's my only real motivation -- not to be hassled, that, and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.
[Peter Gibbons, Office Space]

William: Who do I talk to about that?
Sarah: Chuck.
William: That's like talking to a Nilla Wafer.

Sarah: ...since we launched the new homepage, it may take a little longer to get to your e-mail, but we will take a look.
Professor: It's good. We like it very much. I showed it in my class today because we use myWPI.
Sarah: The new site? And you found the link?
Professor: Oh yes. Just the top right corner of the page.
Sarah: We've had a number of complaints from students who haven't been able to find it, so I'm glad to hear you had no problems.
Professor: All you have to do is look.
Sarah: That's what I said.

Yay! I get to crush someone's dreams. [Nick, Student Web Developer]

The producers also seem to think that they can draw an audience that usually doesn't watch football for the big game if they have a halftime show that appeals to no one who watches football.
Take for instance the silver anniversary of the Super Bowl that featured New Kids on the Block. No one who wanted to see the Giants play the Bills wanted to rock out to "Hangin' Tough." And no one who wanted to see New Kids do their little dance cared that there was a pretty good game going on in Tampa.
[Mary Fischer, CNN]

He'll make me happy
Each time I see him
He'll be the reason
My heart can sing
[Miss Piggy, Finale from The Muppets Take Manhattan]

I didn't get my "And Life." They added that to the degree later. [Justin]

Apparently the WPI Web site is boobie free... [William]

[To William as he plugs in a borrowed space heater...]
Sarah: And if you forget to turn it off we'll ostracize you and laugh at you even more than we usually do. Like you're Liz's red-headed-step-child.

[Browsing sites for sexy Christmas gifts...]
Justin: I kind of like the tartan "santa panty." Looks like it has one of those nifty easy-access mechanisms too...
Troy: Only an engineer would use the word mechanisms

[discussing a very elegant tray from Pottery Barn]
amymarrmobile: I loathe pottery barn
good parzlee: i loooove the pottery barn ;-)
amymarrmobile: argh
amymarrmobile: they suck
amymarrmobile: but I love them
amymarrmobile: seekritly

Carve the turkey turn the ball game on
Mix margaritas when the eggnog's gone
Send somebody to the Quik-Pak store
We need some ice and an extension cord
A can of bean dip and some Diet Rite
A box of tampons and some Marlboro Lights
Hallelujah everybody say cheese
Merry Christmas from the family
[Merry Christmas From the Family, Robert Earl Keen]

Troy: What would you do if a man came running at you with a toothpick?
Alex: After I stopped laughing? I'd whip out my pickle. Then after he stopped laughing I'd beat him over the head with my pickle.
Troy: I think I saw that in a movie...
Sarah: I was gonna say, I saw pictures of something like that on a Web site.

"Quit talking to yourself" -Uncle Art
"Why? it's the most intelligent conversation I have all day" -Uncle Len
[My father and Uncle Len, courtesy of my cousin Jen's AIM profile]

I once met a man with a sense of adventure
He was dressed to thrill wherever he went
He said let’s make love on a mountain top
Under the stars on a big hard rock
I said in these shoes?
I don’t think so
I said honey, let’s do it here.
[Kirsty MacColl, In These Shoes?]

what a waste of thumbs that are opposable
to make machines that are disposable
and sell them to seagulls flying in circles
around one big right wing

yes, the left wing was broken long ago
by the slingshot of cointelpro
and now it's so hard to have faith in
anything

[Ani Difranco, Your Next Bold Move]

And as we proceed,
To Mosh through this desert storm,
In these closing statements, if they should argue
Let us beg to differ
As we set aside our differences
And assemble our own army
To disarm this Weapon of Mass Destruction
That we call our President, for the present
And Mosh for the future of our next generation
To speak and be heard
Mr. President, Mr. Senator
Do you guys hear us?
[Eminem, Mosh]

And Millar says, "I gotta have more cowbell." He lines this pitch to left for the two-run homer... And the Sox win it. [Tom Caron, Extra Innings]

Yet here I am with a smile and you're sitting there all miserable. [WLH]

And I, Oh I
I feel that word for you
And I will because you've worn me down
Oh I will because you've worn me down
Worn me down like a road
I did anything you told
Worn me down to my knees
I did anything to please
[Rachel Yamagata, Worn Me Down]

If you don’t need it every day
But sometimes don’t you just crave
To disappear within your mind
You never know what you might find
So come and spend some time with me
And we will spend it all at sea
Like a warm drink it seeps into my soul
Please just leave me right here on my own
Later on you could spend some time with me
If you want to, all at sea
[All at Sea, Jamie Cullum]

And even though I know how very far apart we are
It helps to think we might be wishing on the same bright star
And when the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby
It helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky
Somewhere out there if love can see us through
Then we'll be together somewhere out there
Out where dreams come true
[Somewhere Out There, An American Tail]

I got a big chain around my neck
And I'm broken down like a train wreck
[Lucinda Williams, Can't Let Go]

I wasn't always such a sucker
It's the sentimental me
Maybe I'm blowing my cover
But what I want to see
Is the way things used to be
[Peter Salett, The Way Things Used to Be]

Thanks also for killing the goat in coat! [Beth H.]

I dont know if you believe in Christmas,
or if you have presents underneath the Christmas tree.
But if you believe in love, that will be more than enough
for you to come and celebrate with me
[Kermit the Frog]

me: wtf is a stamats webinar?
amy: stamats is an organization
amy: and a webinar is... well, a web-based seminar
amy: like Gartner Group
amy: only it's more marketing focus
me: so, should i make time in my schedule for this bit of marketing nirvana?

I stopped my dreaming. I won’t do too much scheming these days
These days
These days I sit in corner stones and count the time in quarter tones to ten
Please don’t confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them
[Nico, These Days]

I think that I know what I haven't known yet
'Cause a week is a month
and an hour a day
When your reaching just pushes it further away
With your past and your future precisely divided
Am I at that moment?
I haven't decided
[Phish, Julius]

"Why does corporate America spend so much money ... supporting things that don't have moral values?" Shepherd asked. "And here we are, trying to serve the Lord. There's nothing bad in the Bible. Even if you don't believe in God, if everyone would just live by the Bible and the Ten Commandments, see how much better the world would be." [Morgan Shepherd in a Sports Illustrated article about the relationship between NASCAR and Christianity]

Stand in the place where you live
Now face North
Think about direction
Wonder why you haven't before
[REM, Stand]

Fine. I'll close the window with my umbrella of justice. [William]

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Winter's too ugly and depressing without it. [Andrew Heller]

Courage is grace under pressure. [Ernest Hemingway]

Home is everywhere that you are. [Jewel, This Way]

Though I've tried, I've fallen
I have sunk so low
I have messed up
Better I should know
[Sarah McLachlan, Fallen]

theworklizesc: are you here to service Amy?

Having a girlfriend has done wonders for my personality lately. [Troy]

I can't wait until William becomes president and sporks that man. [Sarah]

I know this sounds stupid....but I get really good customer service when someone thinks I'm a woman [Justin]

I feel like a data conduit. [LizESC]

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in 
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere 
i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done 
by only me is your doing,my darling) 
     i fear 
not fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want 
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) 
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant 
and whatever a sun will always sing is you 

here is the deepest secret nobody knows 
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud 
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows 
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide) 
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart 

i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart) 

[e.e. cummings]

That clarifies why he was licking me and calling me Chiquita... [Bucky, Get Fuzzy, July 31, 2003]

There's nothing sexier than a sweaty woman with a jackhammer. [Steve, Monster House]

You are my sunshine. [Jon]

Only yesterday I was on my own
Just another day later my mind was blown
You sexy thing come into my life
Forever and a day it feels so right
How did ya' know that I'd be the one
Been a long time coming only just begun
Doing all the things that makes my heart sing
Keep doing what you're doing you sexy thing
[Hot Chocolate, You Sexy Thing]

Decadent but homey.... So you're the Martha Stewart of cookies, but not in jail. [Jon, after asking me what kind of cookie I would be. I said oatmeal chocolate chip of course.]

Everything wasn't ok I was left to cry there
waiting outside there grinning with a lost stare
That's when I decided
Why should I care
Cuz you weren't there when I was scared I was so alone
[Avril Lavigne - Losing Grip]

How did I ever get so lucky as to meet someone so beautiful, sensitive and caring? I am so glad I did. [Jon]

Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread. [Le Corbusier]

I don't need time. What I need is a deadline. [Duke Ellington]

I wanna be the only one
For miles and miles
Except for maybe you
And your simple smile
[Dixie Chicks, Cowboy Take Me Away]

You know what blows my mind? Women can see breasts anytime they want. You just look down and there they are. How you get any work done is beyond me. [Joey, "Friends"]

A lot of guys think the larger a woman’s breasts are, the less intelligent she is. I don’t think it works like that. I think it’s the opposite. I think the larger a woman’s breasts are, the less intelligent the men become. [Anita Wise]

All I want is to hold you forever
All I need is you more every day
You saved my heart
from being broken apart
You gave your love away
And I'm thankful every day
for the gift.
[Jim Brickman - Gift]

I feel lost these days. I feel like it took so much for me to get out of that bad situation, it took so much for me to get to the other side of the hurt and pain to where I can look back on it. I don't know what I expected it to be like afterwards but somehow it feels anticlimactic. [Sarah of LittleWeeTiny]

aaaaaannnnd.... Weeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Oh my God! I live with this guy and he is my brother and he was like,
"Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
Oh my God! I went home and saw my parents and they were like,
"Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
That's so funny. Cause I went to work and my boss was like,
"Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
Oh my God!, And then there was this guy on Food TV and he goes, "Bamm!!" and I go,
"Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
Yo, i went to bed and had a dream about this girl and I was like,
"Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
Yo, i talked to Sarah about Monday and she was like,
"Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
"Neat!" :-P

[Jon]

You could be my unintended
Choice to live my life extended
You could be the one I'll always love
You could be the one who listens to my deepest inquisitions
You could be the one I'll always love
I'll be there as soon as I can
But I'm busy mending broken pieces of the life I had before
[Muse - Unintended]

Take your time, it won't be long now
Till you drag your feet to slow the circles down
And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go up and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
We can't return we can only look behind
From where we came
And go round and round and round
In the circle game
[Joni Mitchell - The Circle Game]

This guy was made for me
And I was made for him
I have no regrets
There's nothing to forget
All the pain was worth it
Not running from the past
I tried to do what's best
I know that I deserve it
[Madonna - I Deserve It]

Your lips speak soft sweetness,
Your touch a cool caress,
I am lost in your magic,
My heart beats within your chest,
I think of you each morning,
And dream of you each night,
I think of your arms being around me,
And cannot express my delight,
Never have I fallen,
But I am quickly on my way,
You hold a heart in your hands,
That has never before been given away.
[Rex A. Williams - From Jon's profile]

i heard you found another audience to bore
a creative thinker who imagined you were more
a new body for you to push around and pose
it's all about taking the easy way out for you i suppose
[elliot smith - easy way out]

it's a chemical embrace that kicks you in the head
to a pure synthetic sympathy that infuriates you totally
and a quiet lie that makes you wanna scream and shout
[elliot smith - everybody cares, everybody understands]

parzlee: but you...
parzlee: you make me think i could retire the chart

jj82576: sweet girls deserve sweet guys

people who leave mean messages in their info for other people are idiots...
just grow balls and say it to them outright or shut the hell up ;-) [Eric's profile]

If we treated everyone we meet with the same affection we bestow upon our favorite cat, they, too, would purr. [Martin Buxbaum]

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind. [Cleveland Amory]

If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you made me smile, I'd have the entire night sky in the palm of my hand. [Unknown, from Jon's profile]

Watching you walk out of my life doesn't make me bitter or cynical about love, but it rather makes me wonder; if I so much wanted to be with the wrong one, how wonderful it will be when the right one comes along.

The only gift is a portion of thyself. [Ralph Waldo Emerson]

Some people care too much. I think it's called love. [unknown]

I thought I loved him, but he has to break my heart for me to know what true love really is. [unknown]

Out of a world of laughter
Suddenly I am sad. . .
Day and night it haunts me,
The kiss I never had.
[Midsummer - Sydney King Russell]

Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. [Oliver Wendell Holmes]

When I saw you I fell in love. And you smiled because you knew. [Arrigo Boito]

Reason and love are sworn enemies. [Corneille]

Love is the language our hearts use to speak to one another. For you, my dear, my heart sings. [Amanda R. Byrd]

In women everything is heart, even the head. [J.P. Richter]

In her first passion woman loves her lover, In all the others all she loves is love. [George Gordon Lord Byron]

If all my friends were to jump off a bridge I wouldn't jump with them, I would be at the bottom to catch them. [unknown]

I don't make you feel special, I just remind you that you are special. [David F. Sims]

How we feel is how we want to be heard. [Hugo von Hofmannsthal]

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend forever. [George Fox]

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. [unknown]

Isn't anyone trying to find me?
Won't somebody come take me home
It's a damn cold night
Trying to figure out this life
Wont you take me by the hand
take me somewhere new
I don't know who you are
But I... I'm with you
I'm with you
[Avril LaVigne]

thereallizesc: yeah they thought we had been friends forever
thereallizesc: I didn't know how to explain to them that we hadn't
thereallizesc: well known each other for ever
parzlee: hard to believe it hasn't even been a year

JaredFontana: im actually batman

You are worth staying up for. [Jon]

Have you ever lost your way
have you ever feared another day
have you ever misplaced your mind
watching this world leave you behind
[Ben Harper, Have You Ever]

BUT you should COME BOWLING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BOWLING ROCKS, if i remember correctly [LT]

Joe: Let me think, watching football vs. heavy breathing and moaning...
Sarah: But those are the sounds I make while watching football.

Wpieric: distance is the only cure
parzlee: how's 50 feet?
Wpieric: umm
Wpieric: don't think that will cut it