:::::::::::::: .project-v :::::::::::::: and on this day, the world says to us lonely souls who have not found love: You are a fluke of the universe ... You have no right to be here. Whether you can hear it or not, the universe Is laughing behind your back. -- National Lampoon, "Deteriorata" happy valentine's day. :::::::::::::: .project.rankings :::::::::::::: 10) Seta Soujiro 10) Sakurai Tomo 9) Sakura Kinomoto 9) Iwao Junko 8) Nene Romanova 8) Hayashibara Megumi 7) Miki Koishikawa 7) Yuko Miyamura 6) Marie Karigari 6) Inoue Kikuko 5) Skuld 5) Minami Omi 4) Hajime Saitoh 4) Kasahara Hiroko 3) Himeko Nonohara 3) Tange Sakura 2) Misao Makimichi 2) Kouda Mariko 1) Ruri Hoshino 1) Hisakawa Aya :::::::::::::: .project1 :::::::::::::: Whenever Richard Cory went downtown, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean-favored, and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arrayed, And he was always human when he talked; But still he fluttered pulses when he said, "Good morning," and he glittered when he walked. And he was rich -- yes, richer than a king -- And admirably schooled in every grace: In fine, we thought that he was everything To make us wish that we were in his place. So on we worked, and waited for the light, And went without the meat, and cursed the bread; And Richard Cory, one calm summer night, Went home and put a bullet through his head. -- Edwin A. Robinson, "Richard Cory" :::::::::::::: .project2 :::::::::::::: (Since everyone who corresponds with me using PGP has my public key and everyone else is complacent about security, my public key has been removed from my .project; if you need to see my key or key fingerprint, finger charles@kepler.lsmsa.edu. In addition, since I could count the number of people who finger me on one hand, there's less of a point than a pencil that's been through an MCAT.) ...and vi forever. :::::::::::::: .project3 :::::::::::::: What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? -- Ursula K. LeGuin Kataomoi shitsurenmo kini shinai Namida nante rashikumonaine Otome gokoro motto benkyou shite my boy Otome gokoro chotto shiranasugiru my boy -- Idol Project, "Don't Stop! - Su . Te. Ki ni Meguri Aitai" :::::::::::::: .project4 :::::::::::::: teer -> tear -> teal -> heal -> hell: teer becomes hell in only 4 steps! "Make it run, make it right, make it fast, make it small..." Oh, just make it all go away! :::::::::::::: .project5 :::::::::::::: My soul is crushed, my spirit sore I do not like me anymore, I cavil, quarrel, grumble, grouse, I ponder on the narrow house I shudder at the thought of men I'm due to fall in love again. -- Dorothy Parker, "Enough Rope" :::::::::::::: .project6 :::::::::::::: PLEASE DO NOT annoy, torment, pester, plague, molest, worry, badger, harry, harass, heckle, persecute, irk, bullyrag, vex, disquiet, grate, beset, bother, tease, nettle, tantalize, or ruffle ME! (you get a cookie if you can id this.) Beyond the bright light I begin to see something. On toward the thrilling future. (you get a dinner if you can id this one!) The ultimate goal of true education should be to restore the student to the state of the child, lost in the depth of the wonder that is the world. The child is lost in wonder, from ignorance of the world. The learned one is lost in the infinite unity, simplicity, and complexity of the world. In both is found what it necessary to truly live and love life, a love of beauty in all forms and an infinite curiosity that cannot be suppressed. There is a wondrous simplicity through complexity in all things that is lost on eyes blinded by the false education that destroys wonder and beauty and crushes the spirit. :::::::::::::: .project7 :::::::::::::: You can destroy your now by worrying about tomorrow. -- Janis Joplin You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now. -- Lauren Bacall It never ceases to suck being you, when it comes to schoolwork. -- Hsien Lee Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead. -- Tennessee Williams Charlie Brown: Why was I put on this earth? Linus: To make others happy. Charlie Brown: Why were others put on this earth? :::::::::::::: .project8 :::::::::::::: happy new year, decade, century, & millenium. may the 21st century suck less than the 20th. Sic transit gloria mundi. [So passes away the glory of this world.] -- Thomas a Kempis :::::::::::::: .project9 :::::::::::::: It is not true that life is one damn thing after another -- it's one damn thing over and over. -- Edna St. Vincent Millay Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in. -- Sydney J. Harris hashire kousoku no teikokukagekidan, unare shougeki no teikokukagekidan! :::::::::::::: .project10 :::::::::::::: 11110111010001001010001000100001110100010010001010001111011101111 :::::::::::::: .project11 :::::::::::::: Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember. -- Oscar Levant For there are moments when one can neither think nor feel. And if one can neither think nor feel, she thought, where is one? -- Virginia Woolf, "To the Lighthouse" Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously. -- Booth Tarkington :::::::::::::: .project12 :::::::::::::: Average life expectancy for the United States for those born in 1977-1982 is estimated to be 73.7 years (70.0 for males, 77.4 for females). If you were born in: Your life expectancy You have lived this much from birth (M/F) of your life expectancy (M/F) 1977 69.3 / 76.9 34.2% / 30.8% 1978 69.5 / 77.1 32.6% / 29.4% 1979 69.8 / 77.2 31.1% / 28.1% 1980 70.0 / 77.4 29.5% / 26.7% 1981 70.4 / 77.8 27.9% / 25.3% 1982 70.8 / 78.1 26.4% / 23.9% These values were calculated for March 1, 2000, from information from the Dept. of Health and Human Services. For further details of how these values were calculated, contact csl6@duke.edu. :::::::::::::: .project13 :::::::::::::: "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. "I don't much care where--" said Alice. "Then it doesn't much matter which way you go," said the Cat. "--so long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation. "Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough." -- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland :::::::::::::: .project14a :::::::::::::: tsuyoki no honki, muteki ni suteki, genki ni yuuki! :::::::::::::: .project14 :::::::::::::: To find out how the clock tower automatically changed to account for Daylight Savings Time. :::::::::::::: .project15 :::::::::::::: Kafka's Law: In the fight between you and the world, back the world. -- Franz Kafka, "RS's 1974 Expectation of Days" optimist, n.: A proponent of the belief that black is white. A pessimist asked God for relief. "Ah, you wish me to restore your hope and cheerfulness," said God. "No," replied the petitioner, "I wish you to create something that would justify them." "The world is all created," said God, "but you have overlooked something -- the mortality of the optimist." -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" :::::::::::::: .project16 :::::::::::::: Kodomo atsukai shinaide yo! :::::::::::::: .project17 :::::::::::::: .lasreveR .ssalg gnikool eht hguorhT never good nor bad never simple nor complicated never easy nor difficult never permanent nor ephemeral never painful nor painless never innocent nor guilty never similar nor dissimilar. never complete. and nothing is possible. :::::::::::::: .project18 :::::::::::::: This space for rent. :::::::::::::: .project19 :::::::::::::: Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood; and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago; and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days. :::::::::::::: .project20 :::::::::::::: I began many years ago, as so many young men do, in searching for the perfect woman. I believed that if I looked long enough, and hard enough, I would find her and then I would be secure for life. Well, the years and romances came and went, and I eventually ended up settling for someone a lot less than my idea of perfection. But one day, after many years together, I lay there on our bed recovering from a slight illness. My wife was sitting on a chair next to the bed, humming softly and watching the late afternoon sun filtering through the trees. The only sounds to be heard elsewhere were the clock ticking, the kettle downstairs starting to boil, and an occasional schoolchild passing beneath our window. And as I looked up into my wife's now wrinkled face, but still warm and twinkling eyes, I realized something about perfection... It comes only with time. --James L. Collymore [Perfect Woman] :::::::::::::: .project21 :::::::::::::: M-CDR," V.#8Q(#7EN(')G;G4@=B!Q86X@+BXN<7)E=F<@ '8F8@>B=V"F5R :::::::::::::: .project24 :::::::::::::: LOVE HINA Shinobu Maehara, Kaora Suu, Aoyama Motoko, Konno Mitsune, & Narusegawa Naru tohou ni kureta kinou ni sayonara futsu futsu to wakiagaru kono kimochi nando demo yomigaeru hana o sakaseyou omoide wa itsumo amai nige basho dakedo tachi kireasu o ikiru tame shuku fuku no toki wa kuru te o no bashite te o no bashite ryoute agete :::::::::::::: .project25 :::::::::::::: hope dream analysis insight thought empathy perception innocence maturity memory respect trust promise kindness friendship security confidence contentment happiness love? :::::::::::::: .project26 :::::::::::::: There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh, hard is the struggle, and sparse is The gain of the one at the top, For art is a form of catharsis, And love is a permanent flop, And work is the province of cattle, And rest's for a clam in a shell, So I'm thinking of throwing the battle -- Would you kindly direct me to hell? -- Dorothy Parker :::::::::::::: .project27 :::::::::::::: Average life expectancy for the United States for those born in 1977-1982 is estimated to be 73.7 years (70.0 for males, 77.4 for females). If you were born in Your life expectancy You have lived this much from birth (M/F) of your life expectancy (M/F) 1977 69.3 / 76.9 35.4% / 31.9% 1978 69.5 / 77.1 33.8% / 30.5% 1979 69.8 / 77.2 32.2% / 29.1% 1980 70.0 / 77.4 30.7% / 27.8% 1981 70.4 / 77.8 29.1% / 26.4% 1982 70.8 / 78.1 27.5% / 25.0% These values were calculated for January 1, 2001, from information from the Dept. of Health and Human Services. For further details of how these values were calcuated, e-mail csl6@duke.edu :::::::::::::: .project28 :::::::::::::: _ _ _ _ _ _ __ _ ___ | |_ ___ | |__ ___| | | ___ __ _ _ __ ___ | (_)_ __ __ _ / _` |/ _ \ | __/ _ \ | '_ \ / _ \ | | / __/ _` | '__/ _ \| | | '_ \ / _` | | (_| | (_) | | || (_) | | | | | __/ | | | (_| (_| | | | (_) | | | | | | (_| | \__, |\___/ \__\___/ |_| |_|\___|_|_| \___\__,_|_| \___/|_|_|_| |_|\__,_| |___/ :::::::::::::: .project29 :::::::::::::: Sunday, May 13, 2001 _ _ __ __ _ _ _ | (_)/ _| / _| | | (_) | | | |_| |_ ___ | |_ _ _ ___| | ___ _ __ __ _ ___ _ _ ___| | _____ | | | _/ _ \ | _| | | |/ __| |/ / | '_ \ / _` | / __| | | |/ __| |/ / __| | | | || __/ | | | |_| | (__| <| | | | | (_| | \__ \ |_| | (__| <\__ \ |_|_|_| \___| |_| \__,_|\___|_|\_\_|_| |_|\__, | |___/\__,_|\___|_|\_\___/ __/ | |___/ :::::::::::::: .project30 :::::::::::::: "The words 'I love you' are really a question." -- Meryl Streep "That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end." -- Lise Hand, describing Irish journalist Veronica Guerin, who died while fighting organized crime in Ireland :::::::::::::: .project31 :::::::::::::: "What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day, when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick out handle?" "Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real." "Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit. "Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt." "Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?" "It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't often happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out, and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand." -- Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit :::::::::::::: .project32 :::::::::::::: "and they lived happily ever after" is the most horrible lie that adults tell children, for it becomes that which destroys the most beautiful happiness... itsuka isshoni kagayaite :::::::::::::: .project33 :::::::::::::: Everything is clearer now 736565 Life is just a dream you know 796F75 That's never ending 7370616365 I'm ascending 636F77626F79 :::::::::::::: .project34 :::::::::::::: 616E 6420 7468 6520 7472 7574 6820 7368 616C 6C20 7365 7479 6F75 2066 7265 6500 :::::::::::::: .project35 :::::::::::::: M>65S+B!I(&%M('%U;W1I;F<@8VAR:7-T:6%N('!R87EE2!S=69F97)I;F<@=&AR;W5G:"!A(&YE