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… in police work ninety-nine percent of the effort is routine, unspectacular enquiry, checking and double-checking, laboriously building up a web of parts until the parts become a whole, the whole becomes a net, and the net finally encloses the criminal with a case that will not just make headlines but stand up in court.

—Frederick Forsyth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station

Chip-on-his-Shoulder vs. Sense-of-Entitlement. Who will prevail?

“It has been difficult for me to figure out what crime, if any, was committed,” he says. “The three were engaged in writing exciting e-mails to important people.”

3/10. The music is too loud and makes you feel like you’re on amphetamines or coffee, not tea. And the iced tea is bullshit — they put in ice, then fill the plastic cup halfway with tea, then fill the rest with soda water. It costs three dollars. Compared to this place, Starbucks is like a really chill comfortable public library where you’re allowed to discreetly make phone calls.