Euphemisms Are For The Differently Brained.

You Become Uneasy With People In Direct Proportion To How Many Lies You Have To Keep Track Of In Their Presence.

It Took A Couple Of Hundred Million Years To Develop A Thinking Ape And You Want A Smart One In A Lousy Few Hundred Thousand?

It Took Me Better Than A Quarter Century To Learn, The Hard Way, That Hard Work At Something You Want To Be Doing Is The Most Fun That You Can Have Out Of Bed . . . To Learn That The Smart Man Finds Ways To Make Everything He Does Be Work; To Learn That "leisure" Time Is Truly Pleasurable (indeed Tolerable) Only To The Extent That Is Its Subconscious Grazing For Information With Which To Infuse Newer, Better Work.

And I Repeat: If There Is Anything That Can Divert The Land Of My Birth From Its Current Stampede Into The Stone Age, It Is The Widespread Dissemination Of The Thoughts And Perceptions That Robert Heinlein Has Been Selling As Entertainment Since 1939.

Now That I Finally Have The Time For It, This Web Surfing Stuff Turns Out To Be As Interesting And Fun And Addictive As You've All Been Telling Me. Zipping From Link To Link, Chasing An Idea Across The Noosphere, Sucking Up Information Like A Killer Whale - Way Cool.