{"quotes":[{"text":"Large Squares, 1965 -Last BeetleThe body is much the same as the previous model, aside from increase in window size all round. Door handles and lock mechanisms also changed as well as seat and dashboard designs. Chrome beading became thinner, mounting holes for these also smaller. Chrome was later replaced by black anodizing or plastic to try and modernize the Bug. Tail light clusters changed from the oval shape to the ‘headstone’ and then the ‘elephant’s foot’ jumbo units the bug saw its last days with. In 1965 new larger windows all round. 1966 saw the last 6v bug, and also the first 1300cc motor. Those horrible little air vents behind the rear side windows came out in 1971 that caused lots of rusty bugs. Sloping headlights looked much nicer but went out in 1967.","author":"Christina Engela","tags":["1967","all","also","and","as","beading","beetle","bug","bugs","caused","chrome","clusters","days","designs","elephant-s","foot","for","headlights","holes","horrible","in","large","later","light","little","lock","looked","lots","motor","previous-model","replaced","round","seat","side","smaller","squares","the","thinner","to","try","window","windows","with"],"id":1295,"author_id":"Christina+Engela"},{"text":"I'll stop eating steak when you stop killing spiders.' Absurdity: comparing cows to spiders. Arachnids are pure evil. They're like a cigarette manufacturer or a terrorist. They're organized religion on eight legs.","author":"Davey Havok","tags":["arachnid","arachnids","bugs","cows","death","debate","insects","meat","murder","religion","spider","spiders","steak","vegan","vegetarian"],"id":51261,"author_id":"Davey+Havok"},{"text":"The more light in your composition, the more generous you are. That is the first sign of a true light warrior. They give without waiting for you to ask. They give without expecting to be repaid. They give to strangers and even offer help to enemies. And sadly, because their light is so bright, they also attract tons of bugs and flies their way.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["bugs","enemies","flies","generosity","generous","give","giving","kindness","light","pests","strangers","warrior"],"id":105350,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Ugly or beautiful, it is the little creatures that make the world go round. We should celebrate and appreciated them in all their wonderful diversity.","author":"Dave Goulson","tags":["biology","bugs","ecosystem-dynamics","life","meadows","nature"],"id":110871,"author_id":"Dave+Goulson"},{"text":"Hunter’s dead,” Taylor said without preamble. “It was these . . . These things. They came crawling up out of him and were eating him, oh God, I mean, it was like . . . I mean he was crying and Dekka prayed with him and he tried to fry his own brain just like he did with Harry only I guess it didn’t work, I guess he couldn’t do it, so Sam . . .” She swallowed. “Anyone have some water?”“What about Sam?” Astrid demanded.“He did it for him. Sam. I mean, he . . . Hunter was, you know . . . So Sam.” She pantomimed raising her hands, like Sam, like he would do when using his power.Astrid closed her eyes and crossed herself.“Rest in peace,” Edilio said and crossed himself as well.“Sam burned the boy?” Howard asked. Then, bitterly sarcastic said, “Yeah, you all pray to Jesus. Because Jesus is really providing a lot of help here. Sounds to me like Sam was the one doing what had to be done.","author":"Michael Grant","tags":["astrid-ellison","bugs","burned","dead","dekka","eating","edilio","emotional","howard-bassem","hunter-lefkowitz","killed","parasites","pray","put-down","sam-temple","taylor"],"id":111232,"author_id":"Michael+Grant"},{"text":"Bugs never bug my head. They are amazing. It is the activities of humans which actually bug me all the time.","author":"Munia Khan","tags":["activities","bug","bugging","bugs","head","human","humans","insect","insect-love","insect","insects","nature","nature-s-beauty"],"id":136759,"author_id":"Munia+Khan"},{"text":"About time,” Brianna said.“Hey, sorry, we were kind of busy,” Quinn snapped. “And I didn’t exactly realize I was on a schedule.”“I don’t like what I have to do here,” Brianna said. She handed Quinn the note.He read it. Read it again.“Is this some kind of joke?” he demanded.“Albert’s dead,” Brianna said. “Murdered.”“What?”“He’s dead. Sam and Dekka are off in the wilderness somewhere. Edilio’s got the flu, he might die, a lot of kids have. A lot. And there are these, these monsters, these kind of bugs . . . No one knows what to call them . . . Heading toward town.” Her face contorted in a mix of rage and sorrow and fear. She blurted, “And I can’t stop them!”Quinn stared at her. Then back at the note.He felt his contented little universe tilt and go sliding away.There were just two words on the paper: “Get Caine.","author":"Michael Grant","tags":["albert","breeze","brianna","bugs","caine-soren","dekka","die","edilio","fear","flu","kids","message","monsters","murdered","notes","panic","quinn-gaither","rage","sam-temple","sorrow","stop"],"id":147331,"author_id":"Michael+Grant"},{"text":"The thing about Web companies is there's always something severely fucked-up. There is always an outage, always lost data, always compromised customer information, always a server going offline. You work with these clugey internal tools and patch together work-arounds to compensate for the half-assed, rushed development, and after a while the fucked-upness of the whole enterprise becomes the status quo. VPs insecure that they're not as in touch as they need to be with conditions on the ground insert themselves into projects midstream and you get serious scope creep. You present to the world this image that you're a buttoned-down tech company with everything in its right place but once you're on the other side of the firewall it looks like triage time in an emergency room, 24/7. Systems break down, laptops go into the blue screen of death, developers miskey a line of code, error messages appear that mean absolutely nothing. The instantaneousness with which you can fix stuff creates a culture that works by the seat of its pants. I swear the whole Web was built by virtue of developers fixing one mistake after another, constantly forced to compensate for the bugginess of their code.","author":"Ryan Boudinot","tags":["bugs","business","code","coding","developers","development","emergencies","internet","problems","programmers","software-bugs","tech-companies","technology","web","world-wide-web"],"id":148104,"author_id":"Ryan+Boudinot"},{"text":"Simon stopped listening. He realised he'd had enough. Enough of the theories, enough of the mystery, enough of the bullshit. Enough of the soldiers and guns and MI5. Enough of bugs in phones and in people he cared about. Enough of not being cared about back. Enough of uncertainty and lies and civilisation, collapsing or not. Enough of is part in it, his place, his role; the character of Simon Parfitt and all the baggage it entailed.","author":"A. Ashley Straker","tags":["action","baggage","bugs","civilisation","end-of-the-world","fed-up","horror","soldiers","spiders","technology","thriller"],"id":174509,"author_id":"A.+Ashley+Straker"},{"text":"If I could store lightnings in jars, I'd sell them to sick fireflies to light their way. Only they have nothing to pay for it with but life.","author":"Will Advise","tags":["ability","bugs","collection","collections","fireflies","firefly","health","insects","jar","jars","life","light","lightning","nothing","purchase","purchases","sickness","storage","way"],"id":184693,"author_id":"Will+Advise"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":18,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}