the best ideas are stolen

One of the things I'd previously published to this site's former incarnation that made me most happy was the following graph, which I swear I believed I thought of entirely on my own.

I was somewhat disconsolate when, a month or two ago, I caught a rerun of the Simpsons episode where Homer gets the crayon removed from his brain and becomes super-intelligent, only to discover how much life sucks for those of us who are. He asks Lisa how she copes, and she produces this graph, adding, "I make lots of graphs." So, okay, apparently I stole this idea, and so completely internalized it I thought it was my own. Lisa also says that her other coping mechanisms include "Chai tea...T'ai chi..."

I also recommend building very mopey websites, and occasional outbursts of irrational violence.