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Every now and then, I see people crying and wish I could live that hard.

To live that in-the-moment such that emotions can grab control and really, really let you live. To free you from the self-evaluation and self-awareness that limits you to acceptable behaviour. This, to me, is to live.

I’ve had a few of these moments, albeit few and far between and usually involved hurt quite deep, and usually a ridiculous physical activity, such as punching my car, or walking 4 miles at 1am, and usually involving a girl. But in those rare moments, I truly feel alive.

The rest of the time is spent just avoiding life because it might sting.

[ image yoinked from http://www.paperheart.org/imtoosad/ ]

As she climbed out of the back, he put out his cigarette, muttering “I wish I’d never bought that Volvo.

Brushing back her hair, the wind whistled gently, revealing the true nature of their relationship.

Without breaking a beat, he quietly uttered, “one of these days, that bear will mean something.”

Die Hard 4 : Live Free or Die Hard : computers : not even close.

Die hard wanted to pretend that it knew about computers. It really tried. It sold firesale and hacking ‘the old network’. Awesome.

I came across this photo:

and it started me thinking: is this even close to accurate?

Bruce Willis is not PC. Bruce Willis is Unix. Why?

Who does all the real work for Mac OS/X ? Who is dirty, gritty, who’s family doesn’t really like him, but gets all the work done in record time?

Unix.

Or maybe z/OS.