Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
I’ve started reading McCullough’s biography of John Adams. Many things seem applicable to more than one George.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
—John Adams, 1772
My name is Matthew Xavier. I live in Minnesota, read books, and write software (for fun and profit).
Many years ago at a friend's high school graduation, I spent an hour at a table with my brother and our band director. We were strange people. I ate one mint for half an hour, our band director made faces in his salad dressing, and my brother melted things in the decorative candle.
One of the things my brother melted was a plastic fork. He carefully heated it only just enough that the tips of the tines curled neatly into little coils. We examined it and decided that surely it was no longer good for stabbing people...or food. Thus was born the original safety fork: harmless, but useless.
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