Things that Bansai left for us

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"I haven't lost my mind; I have a tape back-up somewhere."
— Unattributed

bansaisequoia
March 7, 2012, 7:44 pm
Mine wouldn't fit on a spindle of 100 Blu-Ray-Rom, so I had to put it on a 750 yottabyte external drive. Talk about random access memory.
bvwRedux
March 14, 2012, 1:21 am
Just a flash drive or cloud storage these days. My mind either flashes or is in the cloud.
montyb
June 5, 2012, 3:12 pm
Chiseled in stone is fine for me. For those who were wondering, the metric prefix "yotta" means that you multiply the given number by 10 to the 24th power. So for bansai, that would be 750 million, million, million, million bytes. Random Act of Memory.
gryhnd51
May 22, 2013, 6:03 am
Ah, Bansai.....a brilliant mind and absolutely no humility.
marnita
June 28, 2015, 11:10 am
I haven't lost my mind, but my memory isn't what it used to be - and it was never anything to brag about.
marnita
September 9, 2015, 6:03 am
Bansai's comment, along with Monty's explanation, probably explains why Bansai holds so many records on this site.
hrossa
August 19, 2020, 10:20 am
It doesn't make one Yotta of difference what we use for backup - the hardware we're installed on only has a lifetime warranty.

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"Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes."
— Dr. Paul MacCready, Jr.

bansaisequoia
December 26, 2009, 10:02 pm
This is quite thought provoking. In the 1930s, if you had a craving for a cigarette at 3AM, you would have felt guilty for driving your 4-door Marmon Series 16 into the next county to buy a pack of cool, soothing Lucky Strikes unfiltered. Today, in the 21st Century, you'd feel guilty about driving your Prius 400 yards to the 7-11 to get Marlboro Ultra Lights. This is long after the Surgeon General's warning and the Kyoto Protocol on Global Warming. Makes ya think, doesn't it?

[Toeprint]

"In adversity remember to keep an even mind."
— Horace

bansaisequoia
January 24, 2012, 5:39 pm
Not me. I have an odd mind.

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"Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color."
— Don Hirschberg

bansaisequoia
May 18, 2010, 12:25 am
Yet it's exactly what established religions do when taking non-creationists to court over the teaching of evolution vs. creationism in public schools. They claim that anyone who opposes their belief that the Earth is only 6,000 years old belongs to a religion called "Secular Humanism."
pootie49
April 7, 2011, 2:55 am
and as a secular humanist..bald is a hair colour.

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"Not eating meat is a decision, eating meat is an instinct."
— Denis Leary

bansaisequoia
June 26, 2010, 2:55 am
Though eschewal of meat may not be my decision, I'm glad that humankind has evolved to a point where there is decision making, rather than innate, inbred qualities, which some might call instinct. I'm glad that people try to throw off these shackles.

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"Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home. "
— Samuel Johnson

bansaisequoia
March 5, 2010, 9:02 pm
"Prepare for death, if here at night you roam..." What neighborhood did he live in?

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"What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? "
— Adam Smith

pootie49
April 15, 2009, 4:21 pm
A woman
bansaisequoia
October 25, 2009, 7:41 pm
"A man needs a woman like a fish needs a bicycle."--Irina Dunn
crossland68
June 15, 2013, 4:45 pm
The wrong woman can eliminate all three of those conditions!!!!
cindidido
May 17, 2014, 2:53 am
The Irina Dunn quote is actually, "A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle." It's not the other way around. Unless Bansai was being clever, which may be the case.

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"We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. "
— Martin Luther King Jr.

kat
April 5, 2009, 4:42 pm
But is it sinking?
bansaisequoia
March 26, 2010, 10:46 pm
Half of us are doing the bailing, but the other half seem to want to scuttle it.

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"A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life."
— William A. Ward

bansaisequoia
May 4, 2010, 5:03 pm
Yeah, I'm definitely Dennis Miller on the tightrope over the abyss as Zarathustra looks on.

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"Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything."
— Frank Dane

opallady
August 18, 2009, 12:29 pm
That certainly explains a lot.
bansaisequoia
September 17, 2009, 1:46 am
Even the Yoknapatawpha County Dog Catcher???

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"Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing. "
— Unattributed

abra
August 18, 2015, 8:16 am
When I was a newbie, here, I had this quote and asked for help on the chat box. I was pulling my hair out. Bansai, gave me the answer. I felt pretty silly, but I just couldn't come up with it. It must not be THAT hard almost a third of the people can get it. Funny, after all these years, I don't think I've had this one again, but I remembered BRILLIANCY.

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"Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. "
— George Orwell

bansaisequoia
February 3, 2010, 7:34 pm
This ode is not for shirkers,But earthly common workers, What bliss it is to be on, The level of a peon.

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"Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually? "
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

bansaisequoia
September 4, 2009, 1:26 am
I hate people and love humanity.

[Toeprint]

"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made. "
— Wayne Dyer

bansaisequoia
January 25, 2010, 7:46 pm
...minus the unpredictable stumbling blocks that have been strewn along our path.

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"Asking a seamstress to mend is like asking Michelangelo to paint your garage."
— Unattributed

montyb
June 15, 2012, 12:53 am
But I'd have the coolest garage in the world!
bansaisequoia
July 4, 2012, 7:26 pm
Not as cool as my Hieronymus Bosch garage.