February 5, 2002

There were 2 posts published on February 5, 2002 (this is page 1 of 1).

Now Cut That Out!

My fortune Linux screensaver is playing tricks on me. When I came back from lunch today, I was thinking of how Thomas Jefferson would view today’s hyper-security-minded police state known as America. Then the longish quote that was crossing my screen ended – the words were Thomas Jefferson’s.

I also have been happily reading the writing entries of the Bulwer-Lytton contest. As I returned from a trip down the hall, the 1986 winning entry from the contest was scrolling across the screen.

Now, I just need to seed the file to get the winning lottery numbers…

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It Was A Dark And Stormy Night

The Bulwer-Lytton is a contest for bad writing. The results are hideously bad, and quite hilarious. An example:

Dolores breezed along the surface of her life like a flat stone forever skipping across smooth water, rippling reality sporadically but oblivious to it consistently, until she finally lost momentum, sank, and due to an overdose of fluoride as a child which caused her to lie forever on the floor of her life as useless as an appendix and as lonely as a five-hundred-pound barbell in a steroid-free fitness center.
–Linda Vernon, Newark, California (1990 Winner)

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