The Lofty Tower of Pretentiousness

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Words!", pieces of words, "-nym", "synonym", "antonym", "homonym", "pseudonym", "-gram", "anagram", "telegram", White Zombie, More Human Than Human, women moaning in ecstacy, Clue, Tim Curry, Rocky Horror Picture Show, the line, "pain is temporary, film is forever.", learning how things work, www.howstuffworks.com, guitar riffs, Aladdin, Time Elemental, Earthbind, Demonic Tutor, good tools, Carol, vice grips, digital watches, ragtime, The Maple Leaf Rag, Need, small cars, trees, crescendos, Chicago: The Movie, We Both Reached For The Gun, I Can't Do It Alone, touch typing, Bowling For Columbine, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Even Stephen, word play, the line "If you can't play with words, what good are they?", logical proofs and counterexamples, counterfactuals, new words, the word "archaic", Bach's Minuet In G, Edger, obscure references, the word "obfuscate", The Obfuscated C Contest http://www.ioccc.org/, looking out the window, contemplative thought, doing something useful with my spare CPU cycles like searching for Mersenne Primes, deep, meaningful conversations, The Real Folk Blues, the line "I feel much better now that I've given up all hope." and "Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me." and "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, however, there usually is.", Ren and Stimpy, Stimpy's Experiment, `The Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy Song', SID chip music, retrocomputing http://www.catb.org/~esr/retro/, INTERCAL http://www.catb.org/~esr/intercal/, hypertext, smart people, Christine, The Shining miniseries and book, Magic Carpet Ride, Lowrider, Bad To The Bone, music appreciation, springy watchbands, the line "Which witch is which?", coils, proper formality, silly informality, The Entertainer, things/people that do what they seem meant to do, people that know they don't know everything, Yoda, Zookeeper.