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• First Law of Travel: It always takes longer to get there than to get back.
• It always takes longer to get there than to get back. -- First Law of Travel
• A sentence well couched takes both the sense and the understanding.
  I love not those cart-rope speeches that are longer than the memory of man can fathom. -- Fletham...
• overrun n. 1. [techspeak] Term for a frequent consequence of data arriving faster than it can be consumed, esp.
  in serial line communications. For example, at 9600 baud there is almost exactly one character per millisecond, so if a silo can hold only two characters and the machine takes longer than 2 msec to get to service the interrupt, at least one character will be lost....
• overrun: n. 1. [techspeak] Term for a frequent consequence of data arriving faster than it can be consumed, esp.
  in serial line communications. For example, at 9600 baud there is almost exactly one character per millisecond, so if a {silo} can hold only two characters and the machine takes longer than 2 msec to get to service the interrupt, at least one character will be lost....
• I hate singles bars. Guys come up to me and say, "Hey, cupcake, can I buy you a drink?
  I say, "No, but I'll take the three bucks." -- Margaret Smith...
• Murphy's Laws: (1) If anything can go wrong, it will.
  (2) Nothing is as easy as it looks. (3) Everything takes longer than you think it will....
• The best contraceptive is the word no--repeated frequently. -- Margaret Smith
• Murphy's Second Law: Everything takes longer than you think.