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1660 Diary Becomes 2003 Weblog
EnlightenmentFan writes "When technology improves a book that was already good, that's good news for nerds. I'm not talking about the Two Towers, but the diary of Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) (pronounced Peeps, as in marshmallow peeps), whose diaries record not only the Great Fire of London and the plague but his many seductions, trickeries, encounters with the king, almost getting executed, etc. Brit blogger Phil Gyford realized that this diary would make a great weblog--clickable footnotes, online feedback and all. So now he is serializing it daily, starting Jan 2, 1660, supposedly over the next ten years. The BBC has the backstory. I hope Gyford will deviate from Gutenberg's 1893 version to include some of Pepys's more outrageous sexual adventures, reduced by the 1893 version to "....""
First post!@!
Presumably, Pepys never wrote "FP!"
Ganked your fp, biatch.
I had fp, but those god damn timers keep fucking resetting. Fuck you Michael.
So now he is serializing it daily, starting Jan 2, 1660, supposedly over the next ten years.
Great -- another rehashed serial where we already know what is going to happen. Did Peter Jackson do this one, too?
I don't get the "In Soviet Russia" references as it is :) I doubt they will!
Where the hell did that come from, anyway?
In soviet russia, the blog bandwagon jumps on you!
The comedian Yakov Smearnov, I think. Maybe my svelling is a vittle off, I dunno.
I still don't get most of it either.
_please_ tell me your not 16 or younger...PLEASE!
Soviet Russia refers to the old USSR, the great bastion of communism in the world prior to it's collapse *gags* 10ish years ago (has it -really- been that long already?!??!)
It used to be that it was a -very- big deal for a Western (ie. US or British) person to get into to Moscow, let alone the rest of the country...
Lord...the children forget...
Deduce the following hyperbolic identity:
cosh^2(x) + sinh^2(x) = cosh(2x)
Where the hell did that come from, anyway?
A Beowulf cluster of... you guessed it... bases belonged by us!
I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man,
I'm just a mortal with potential of a super man.
I have a Faith.
You have a religion.
They have a cult.
You won't see this at the Cheney News Network
Read about the companies that supplied Iraq weapons programs.
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I'm sure he knows that, but why is it all the sudden a funny joke on slashdot?
Um ... I suspect the poster knew perfectly well what "Soviet Russia" itself was, it's all the "In Soviet Russia, Z does Y to X" jokes.
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Very briefly, since this has been rehashed a million times: there's an allegedly Russian comedian named Yaakov Smirnoff, who enjoyed a burst of popularity during the last gasp of the Cold War, during the Reagan years. A big part of his schtick was contrasting Soviet life with American life by reversing things (i.e., in a sane world, X does Y to Z, but "in Soviet Russia
I think the original one, and about the only one that was ever all that funny, was, "In Soviet Russian, TV watches you!" After that it got stupid; it got even stupider when, for some unknown reason, the joke was resurrected on
Perhaps this should be in the FAQ?
The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
I have receintly come to ponder upon the fact that the USSR was a government founded and operated by artists and poets.
After musing over the fact that many Americans hang on every well balanced bit of political prose from Hollywood.
I have decided that the sense of asthetics must be contary to the sense of justice.
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