David Wong
David Wong
running cat past
The man walked past me and stopped, observing the blood running down my neck. "Your injury. Let us tend to it." He looked out through the open doorway and silently gestured to someone out there. "Our world," he said, "is far more advanced than yours. For reasons you'll understand shortly." A thin, bony, naked woman entered the room, carrying two small, white kittens. She sat one of the fluffy cats in my lap and stuffed the other down my shirt. She turned and left. "There," said the large man. "The kittens will make your sad go away.
sorry stories retarded
And, well, that's my story," I said. "I'm sorry that it's so, you know. Retarded.
real mean gay
The situation has a real Lovecraft feel to it. Though, you know, if you come over it'll be more of an Anne Rice situation. If you know what I mean." "Who's-" "Because you're gay.
choices dumbasses hours
That ability to see the right choice, but not until several hours have passed since making the wrong one? That's what makes a person a dumbass, folks.
dog thinking hair
The bathroom door burst open, and Molly came trotting out. The left half of her body had been shaved almost down to the skin. The right half was as shaggy as before. John emerged after her, brushing a layer of dog hair off his clothes. John said, "Well, that's done... It was Molly's idea. She wants to look like two different dogs when she's coming and going. She thinks it will make it easier for her to steal food... That's one complicated dog, Dave. Have you started on the bomb?
struggle gun shells
To this day I don’t know if he was struggling with the moral implications of gunning down half a dozen civilians, or if he was mentally counting to see if he had that many shells left in the gun.
doors blood impact
He whipped the chair around and actually split one of the things in half with the impact, spilling the spray of blood that was reflective, like mercury. John bellowed, "Anyone else want to donate blood to chair-ity?" He ducked into the the door and bashed one monster right in the wig, screaming, "There's some dessert! With a chair-y on top!
life son devil
Son, the greatest trick the Devil pulled was convincing the world there was only one of him.
believe eye tears
What humans want most of all, is to be right. Even if we're being right about our own doom. If we believe there are monsters around the next corner ready to tear us apart, we would literally prefer to be right about the monsters, than to be shown to be wrong in the eyes of others and made to look foolish.
two way remember
But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.
jesus zombie news
Something coming back from the dead was almost always bad news. Movies taught me that. For every one Jesus you get a million zombies.
guidance intel likelihood raise relatively
We think that there is relatively little likelihood that Intel will raise the midpoint of its guidance.
percent safe
With a 5 percent discount, I feel safe that at least I won't make a loss,
almost areas copper drive dynamics economy fact fiber growth huge lots move number optical provide realize seeing source technology
I think that in the semiconductor world one has to realize that there are a number of different dynamics that drive the industry. One of the most important things, which provide some security, is the fact that technology changeovers are a very important source of growth. In particular, in the communications world we're seeing lots of new standards, we're seeing the world move from copper protocols to optical fiber communications. So in some of these segments, almost independently of the economy at large, there's going to be huge growth just as we move into these new technologies and we take on these new areas in semiconductors.