“In the long run, Darwinian evolution sounds like a good idea. But like adventure, it’s better read about than experienced, because the only way it can really happen rapidly is with a high death rate.”

“In a curious way, I find my admiration for Frost and Plath and others actually rising a little bit when I learn some contemptible details about the struggling authors. How could creatures plagued with so many obvious faults and miseries produce such beautiful, moving literature?”

“A workaround exists for using the VPN client with OpenAFS on Windows: Use the 2-Campus_VPN_Full_Tunnel profile rather than the 1-Campus_VPN one, or, if using the 1-Campus_VPN profile, change the static IP address for the Microsoft Loopback adapter to, for example, 10.15.254.253 instead of 10.254.254.253 since the latter IP address overlaps with one of the RFC1918 networks defined by the new split tunnel profile.”

You can scroll right easily by holding down the SHIFT key and using your scroll wheel. (Firefox users trying this will end up jumping to old Web pages until a) Firefox releases a fix, b) they change their settings like so.)