If At First You Don't Succeed, That's

Sticks And Stones May Break My Bones, But Words Can Make Me Think I Deserved It.

What People Don't Appreciate, When They Picture Terminator-style Automatons Striding Triumphantly Across A Mountain Of Human Skulls, Is How Hard It Is To Keep Your Footing On Something As Unstable As A Mountain Of Human Skulls. Most Humans Probably Couldn't Manage It, And They've Had A Lifetime Of Practice At Walking Without Falling Over.

I Used To Work At Nasa In Virginia. It Was Nothing Glamorous; I Was Just Tasked With Making Code Compile For Obscure Projects, And I Wasn't Very Good At It. Now I Spend Most Of My Time Drawing Pictures And Looking At Funny Things On The Internet, Which In Retrospect Is Largely What I Did At My Old Job, Too.

Things Are Rarely Just Crazy Enough To Work, But They're Frequently Just Crazy Enough To Fail Hilariously.

I'm Not Sure Why We Romanticize 'young Love,' Or Love In General...it Just Leads To The Idea That Either Your Love Is Pure, Perfect And Eternal, And You Are Storybook-compatible In Every Way With No Problems, Or You're Lying When You Say 'i Love You.