#virtual

Downloading is definitely on the rise, but not because it's free - that's probably third on the list - but because it's immediate and the selection is virtually unlimited. ↗

— Don Rose

#definitely #downloading #free #immediate #list

Sat in the Jacuzzi last night looking at the dark recesses of the nozzles. Remembering the story I wrote about spiders nesting there. Multifaceted eyes watching me watching them, almost like when you set two mirrors parallel to each other, accept this infinity ends up in some fuzzy creature’s belly. I have a nice picture of a Hobo spider in my backyard, venom dripping off one of those nasty fangs of theirs. Son of a bitch is looking at me and his mouth is watering waiting for me to stick my hand under the rock he’s nested in. I hate it when you spray a spider with insecticide and it curls up for a few minutes, then uncurls and staggers home. I’m like an arachnid cheap date that sucks!! I just picture the spider staggering into the nest and the female spider asking, “Is that Raid I smell on you?” The spider just smiles (interesting thing to picture) and passes out. ↗

— Neil Leckman

#virtual-cubicle #wurms #dating

I found that our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#economic #efforts #espionage #found #had

Our Soviet espionage efforts had virtually never, or had very seldom, produced any worthwhile political or economic intelligence on the Soviet Union. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#economic #efforts #espionage #had #intelligence

Computers have virtually replaced tape recorders. ↗

— Tony Visconti

#recorders #replaced #tape #virtually

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made. ↗

— Sidney Blumenthal

#could #error #every #health #health care

All 50 states had the same national economy. And on virtually any measurement you wish to look at, Michigan has moved up and improved against the others. ↗

— John Engler

#against #any #economy #had #improved

The point at which we worked with some of these actors, they weren't really stars yet. Nicolas Cage was not a big star when we did Raising Arizona. A lot of these people were also virtually unknown, too, when we worked with them first. ↗

— Joel Coen

#arizona #big #big star #cage #did

Who authorised the spend of millions of pounds and thousands of man hours into a stale, historical situation from three decades ago - with virtually no complaints made? ↗

— Jonathan King

#complaints #decades #historical #hours #into

I think you could make a completely Virtual Centre, though I have a general feeling, and maybe because I am getting very old, that you still need face to face. ↗

— Richard Rogers

#because #centre #completely #could #face