Yep, I realized that during a "shower moment" a few minutes ago. Couldn't finish the shower in time to correct it, though. Oh, and BTW, that's not "electric boots", it's "electric boobs". At least that's what I heard...
Another long-time favorite in this way is "Benny and the Jets". In that case, though, it was hard to figure out in spots what Elton was singing at all. It turns out the most difficult section translates to "Get about as oiled as a diesel train".
Oh, and let's not forget this gem from Devo's "Whip it": "Tattoo detective" translates to "Try to detect it." Personally, though, I like my version better...
Ever since we got newspapers, radio, telegraph and telephone we could have worked to merge US and UK English back together again, but my impression is neither wants to give up their pronunciation, spelling and idioms and the Internet isn't going to change that.
Don't you mean 'idioums'?
Actually, it's hard to give up such geographic language differences even within a single country. My favorite example is 'pop' or 'soda' or 'coke'. I went to a university in Missouri which has a population of students from a mix of both the Kansas City and St. Louis areas, though more from the latter. Notice from the map that 'pop' and 'soda' divides somewhere down the middle of Missouri. You'd hear both there. In fact, some of the St. Louis folks even even had their own special name for pop/soda/coke: they called it 'sodah'. Go figure.
Outside of their respective organizations, I'm not sure these things are really catching on. Adoption of Go seems to have come to a standstill. Uptake of Swift has been kindda slow. And Hack seems to been ignored even by dedicated underground computer hobbyists. As well as lumberjacks.
In my own case, now that I've given in and become one of the Borg, I've decided to embrace it wholeheartedly. I now do things I used to look down on others for doing - and I do them knowingly and with gusto. For example, while waiting for a table at a restaurant, why bother talking to the people you came with? And when watching a sport on TV, why not play a phone game during the commercials? Heck, I enjoy that so much that I sometimes continue when the game comes back on. And here's one that _really_ used to bug me: I used to hate it when
I've only recently gotten a smartphone, after being a holdout for a long time. Before that, one of my beefs with smartphone users was that they were always reaching for their phones whenever they might otherwise have been bored. It seemed to me that they had lost something valuable: time to contemplate.
However, now that I have a smartphone, I no longer think about that.
I have one question about the so-called "fright" of the electric companies: were they - or were they not - specifically observed quaking in their boots? If they were not, please don't expect an indictment from the Grand Jury.
They fail to understand the purpose of e-mail, and as such we would never ever get the most basic and oldest of the e-mail client functions: folders.
That's a primary reason I stuck with Yahoo email for way too long: I didn't like the labeling system that Gmail provides as an alternative to folders. ("When all you have is a search engine hammer, everything looks like a search nail.") Finally, I decided to give in and use Gmail as my primary email service, labels and all. Why? Partly because Yahoo forced a new user interface on me that I didn't like, by shutting down the old version after initially allowing the old and new versions to coexist. (Which makes Google's "Inbox" sound like deja vu all over again...)
I've tried Inbox a bit but haven't really given it a fair chance yet. My initial impression, though, is a bit negative: basically, it seems to be trying to solve a problem that I don't need solved. And with all the "improvements" it offers, it still doesn't even have folders...
Read on a bit more. By paragraph 10 he points to increased wages for jobs requiring skill, by paragraph 20 he's getting into jobs requiring trust.
What skill? I've been writing Python for over 10 years. Sure, it took a little while to learn to think Pythonically, but the main selling point is that Python is truly easy. Oh, except for those folks who can't live without braces. And compared to regular dentists, don't orthodontists get paid extra to use braces?...
...and if so, it's cheap at just $2.99. Heck, how many times have you paid more than that to go through an art gallery, only to find the inevitable "Painting with Single Dot in the Middle"? Better yet, this art is both multimedia and interactive.
Not yet, but if it ever catches on, we can look forward to Richard Stallman trying to rebrand it as "freewashing". And please don't confuse "open" as in laundromat with "free" as Mom's laundry room.
For the best reasons to learn Python, see The Zen of Python. If Python happens to pay more, that's just gravy.
That said, it seems hard to believe that people would get paid extra to work in such a pleasant language. If so, maybe Adam Smith had it all wrong when he said:
First, The wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness, the honourableness or dishonourableness of the employment...The most detestable of all employments, that of public executioner, is, in proportion to the quantity of work done, better paid than any common trade whatever.
Perhaps florists soon will be making more money than plumbers. Which would really stink.
Another way to put this (as I understand it - IANAL) is that the corporation shields individuals from civil liability (getting sued) but not from criminal liability (going to jail).
Riddell's algorithm begins with the Wikipedia entries of all authors in the English language edition (PDF)—more than a million of them. His algorithm extracts information such as the article length, article age, estimated views per day, time elapsed since last revision, and so on....Others highly ranked include Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill, and Malcolm X.
For folks like Winston Churchill and Malcom X who had notable careers outside of writing, I wonder how they distinguish what part of their Wikipedia stats is due to their writing and what part comes from the rest of their careers?
A turning point where a four-door sedan can travel 300 miles on a single tank of hydrogen, can be refueled in under five minutes and emit only water vapor.
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Yep, I realized that during a "shower moment" a few minutes ago. Couldn't finish the shower in time to correct it, though. Oh, and BTW, that's not "electric boots", it's "electric boobs". At least that's what I heard...
I used to wonder why Sting would brag about his billiard skills (besides just his stalking) in "Every Breath You Take". "I'm a pool hall ace / with every breath you take".
Another long-time favorite in this way is "Benny and the Jets". In that case, though, it was hard to figure out in spots what Elton was singing at all. It turns out the most difficult section translates to "Get about as oiled as a diesel train".
Oh, and let's not forget this gem from Devo's "Whip it": "Tattoo detective" translates to "Try to detect it." Personally, though, I like my version better...
Ever since we got newspapers, radio, telegraph and telephone we could have worked to merge US and UK English back together again, but my impression is neither wants to give up their pronunciation, spelling and idioms and the Internet isn't going to change that.
Don't you mean 'idioums'?
Actually, it's hard to give up such geographic language differences even within a single country. My favorite example is 'pop' or 'soda' or 'coke'. I went to a university in Missouri which has a population of students from a mix of both the Kansas City and St. Louis areas, though more from the latter. Notice from the map that 'pop' and 'soda' divides somewhere down the middle of Missouri. You'd hear both there. In fact, some of the St. Louis folks even even had their own special name for pop/soda/coke: they called it 'sodah'. Go figure.
Are you sure that one was from Mao? - wasn't Hitler the one who was always shooting his mouth off?
BTW, I just heard someone talking on his phone as he was using the urinal in the Men's room. Borg or no Borg, I ain't ever gonna do that...
Darn, I'd put that the thing about "lumberjacks" in, hoping that everybody who hadn't gotten it yet would finally C my Objective. ;-)
Outside of their respective organizations, I'm not sure these things are really catching on. Adoption of Go seems to have come to a standstill. Uptake of Swift has been kindda slow. And Hack seems to been ignored even by dedicated underground computer hobbyists. As well as lumberjacks.
In my own case, now that I've given in and become one of the Borg, I've decided to embrace it wholeheartedly. I now do things I used to look down on others for doing - and I do them knowingly and with gusto. For example, while waiting for a table at a restaurant, why bother talking to the people you came with? And when watching a sport on TV, why not play a phone game during the commercials? Heck, I enjoy that so much that I sometimes continue when the game comes back on. And here's one that _really_ used to bug me: I used to hate it when
(Sorry, gotta go - my phone just buzzed.)
I've only recently gotten a smartphone, after being a holdout for a long time. Before that, one of my beefs with smartphone users was that they were always reaching for their phones whenever they might otherwise have been bored. It seemed to me that they had lost something valuable: time to contemplate.
However, now that I have a smartphone, I no longer think about that.
Reagan famously reminded Gorbachev of the old Russian proverb, "Trust but verify." Here's a corollary for the modern age: "Trust but encrypt."
I have one question about the so-called "fright" of the electric companies: were they - or were they not - specifically observed quaking in their boots? If they were not, please don't expect an indictment from the Grand Jury.
Personally, I thought my joke was better. ;-)
They must look pretty darn good - otherwise, the folks who would pay $1000 for a flashlight must not be too bright...
For one thing, they don't kill each other for no good reason. Waitasecond...OK, maybe they are human.
Sir, no disrespect or nothing, but can I defeat him using Ti Kwan Leap? I got the pajamas.
They fail to understand the purpose of e-mail, and as such we would never ever get the most basic and oldest of the e-mail client functions: folders.
That's a primary reason I stuck with Yahoo email for way too long: I didn't like the labeling system that Gmail provides as an alternative to folders. ("When all you have is a search engine hammer, everything looks like a search nail.") Finally, I decided to give in and use Gmail as my primary email service, labels and all. Why? Partly because Yahoo forced a new user interface on me that I didn't like, by shutting down the old version after initially allowing the old and new versions to coexist.
(Which makes Google's "Inbox" sound like deja vu all over again...)
I've tried Inbox a bit but haven't really given it a fair chance yet. My initial impression, though, is a bit negative: basically, it seems to be trying to solve a problem that I don't need solved. And with all the "improvements" it offers, it still doesn't even have folders...
Read on a bit more. By paragraph 10 he points to increased wages for jobs requiring skill, by paragraph 20 he's getting into jobs requiring trust.
What skill? I've been writing Python for over 10 years. Sure, it took a little while to learn to think Pythonically, but the main selling point is that Python is truly easy. Oh, except for those folks who can't live without braces. And compared to regular dentists, don't orthodontists get paid extra to use braces?...
...and if so, it's cheap at just $2.99. Heck, how many times have you paid more than that to go through an art gallery, only to find the inevitable "Painting with Single Dot in the Middle"? Better yet, this art is both multimedia and interactive.
He has a cat? Now you've got me wondering if he eats his cat's toejam...
Openwashing? Is that actually a term now?
Not yet, but if it ever catches on, we can look forward to Richard Stallman trying to rebrand it as "freewashing". And please don't confuse "open" as in laundromat with "free" as Mom's laundry room.
(Note to moderators: it's just a joke.)
For the best reasons to learn Python, see The Zen of Python. If Python happens to pay more, that's just gravy.
That said, it seems hard to believe that people would get paid extra to work in such a pleasant language. If so, maybe Adam Smith had it all wrong when he said:
First, The wages of labour vary with the ease or hardship, the cleanliness or dirtiness, the honourableness or dishonourableness of the employment...The most detestable of all employments, that of public executioner, is, in proportion to the quantity of work done, better paid than any common trade whatever.
Perhaps florists soon will be making more money than plumbers. Which would really stink.
Another way to put this (as I understand it - IANAL) is that the corporation shields individuals from civil liability (getting sued) but not from criminal liability (going to jail).
Riddell's algorithm begins with the Wikipedia entries of all authors in the English language edition (PDF)—more than a million of them. His algorithm extracts information such as the article length, article age, estimated views per day, time elapsed since last revision, and so on....Others highly ranked include Somerset Maugham, Winston Churchill, and Malcolm X.
For folks like Winston Churchill and Malcom X who had notable careers outside of writing, I wonder how they distinguish what part of their Wikipedia stats is due to their writing and what part comes from the rest of their careers?
A turning point where a four-door sedan can travel 300 miles on a single tank of hydrogen, can be refueled in under five minutes and emit only water vapor.
Finally, vaporware we can actually use.
FTFM: Make that six.