Gregory Green

“We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.”

“If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.”

“When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it.”

“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.”

“My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.”

“The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.”

“The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver.”

palegray.net notes that on this day in 1964, the first BASIC program was run. From the Wired article:”Mathematicians John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz had been trying to make computing more accessible to their undergraduate students. One problem was that available computing languages like Fortran and Algol were so complex that you really had to be a professional to use them. BASIC is still alive and well these days, from Microsoft’s VB.net to cross-platform variants like REALbasic. For the old-school among us, there’s always Joshua Bell’s Apple II BASIC emulator implemented in Javascript.” Read more of this story at Slashdot.

http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/slashdot/eqWf/~3/281548264/article.pl

“I’ve got to keep breathing. It’ll be my worst business mistake if I don’t.”

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/steve_martin.html

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A giant inflatable pig that went missing from a Southern California music festival at the weekend has been found in tatters in a desert town.

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