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• ack n. The set of things a person has to do in the future.
  One speaks of the next project to be attacked as having risen to the top of the stack....
• LL.D. Letters indicating the degree _Legumptionorum Doctor_, one learned in laws, gifted with legal gumption.
  Some suspicion is cast upon this derivation by the fact that the title was formerly _LL....
• To write a sonnet you must ruthlessly strip down your words to naked, willing flesh.
  Then bind them to a metaphor or three, and take by force a satisfying mesh....
• Perseverance furthers. To undertake something brings misfortune.
  Without decreasing oneself, One is able to bring increase to others....
• bug n. An unwanted and unintended property of a program or piece of hardware, esp.
  one that causes it to malfunction. Antonym of feature....
• Two Bee or Not Two Bee - That is the Buzzing Question.
  Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer outrageously Those slings and arrows of outlandish expense Or, to take up arms against this large sea of deficits....
• The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes.
  -- Leo Tolstoy...
• Brief History Of Linux (#23) Linus Torvalds certainly wasn't the only person to create their own operating system from scratch.
  Other people working from their leaky basements did create their own systems and now they are sick that they didn't become an Alpha Geek like Torvalds or a Beta Geek like Alan Cox....
• gopher n. A type of Internet service first floated around 1991 and obsolesced around 1995 by the World Wide Web.
  Gopher presents a menuing interface to a tree or graph of link...