Me: “Oh, I need to water the plants”

Ramu: “Why don’t you just get artificial ones?”

Me: “Why don’t you just get a blow-up doll!?”

Ramu: “Why don’t you go fuck yourself!”

:an unusually witty response even though I say so myself 🙂

“Your nipple doesn’t work.”

“I’m not used to working without a nipple.”

“Your nipple is broken.”

:Dave A. when the trackpoint on the notebook wasn’t working.

No, I don’t want to set “munky.com” as my home page.

:Frank L. upon accidentally going to wincvs.com instead of wincvs.org

The Law of Hedonic Assymetry: Pleasure is always contingent upon change and disappears with continuous satisfaction. Pain may persist under under persisting adverse conditions.

:Nico H. Frijda, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands in his paper on The Laws of Emotion.

“Data from questionnaire studies (Rombouts, 1987) suggest that [falling in love] is triggered by a specific sequence of events, in which the qualities of the love-object are of minor importance. A person is ready to fall in love because of one of a number of reasons – loneliness, sexual need, dissatisfaction, or need or variety. A object then incites interest, again for one of a number of reasons, such as novelty, attractiveness, or mere proximity. Then give the person a moment of promise, a brief response from the object that suggests interest. It may be a confidence; it may be a single glance, such as a young girl may think she received from a pop star. The give the person a brief lapse of time – anywhere between half an hour or half a day, the self-report suggests – during which fantasies can develop. After that sequence, no more than a single confirmation, real or imagined is needed to precipitate falling in love.”

— Nico H. Frijda, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands in his paper on The Laws of Emotion.