I would like to apologize on behalf of the Armenian Rite of Passage Brotherhood for the use of italics in the preceding post. This was not only unintentional, but may have been regarded as funny by those of a less educated nature than we.
We wish to reiterate our stated belief that neither we nor John Cleese are funny. And we are getting a small bit tired of having to hold up all of geekdom. Some assistance in this matter would be gratefully appreciated.
Sincerely yours,
Analzeman Brizzani Armenian Rite of Passage Brotherhood London unless it's foggy, of course, in which case we may be found in one of the Dutch ports or Italian chiantis
I take great umbrage at the insinuation that I enjoy a good laugh as the prior poster stated. I have it on good authority that, while I may be funny in my method of locomotion (a perambulator), I am indeed neither humorous nor humerous.
And I have not seen his wife since the last time we were discovered by the milkman in flagrante delicatessen.
Unfunnily yours,
Captain Johnson Her Majesty's Welsh Brigade and Royal Button Cleaners Sudbury, but a bit over to the left
Re: Python - object-oriented or celestial body
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Sirs,
The preceding post is quite incorrect. I have kept a pet Python for the last thirty years in my barn. This Python, while quite object-oriented, is decidedly un-molelike, indeed preferring the odd mole or two at teatime, and has never been found in the company of radioactive cats, with the exception of that unfortunate incident reported in one of the London papers we shall not mention.
Also, while attempting to contact Monsieur Fercotti, the number given turned out to be that of a Swiss cheese shop in Brighton. They did have some delicious cheeses, but were totally lacking in either object-orientation or garters.
It has been brought to my attention that the preceding posts were exceedingly silly. This must stop at once, or I shall be forced to employ umbrella-wielding ninjas on this thread. As none of these ninjas is qualified to operate heavy machinery, this could be quite dangerous.
Oh, and another thing. My Aunt Petunia takes great umbrage at the use of her name in one of the preceding posts. She would henceforth prefer to be referred to as Ducky or Mousebreath. Please see to it that the proper corrections are made.
Sincerely yours,
Subaltern Missy Montgomery-Smythe-Higginsbottom Gothic Insane Asylum and Pottery Barn Brighton-on-the-shingle
Both the preceding posts were utterly incomprehensible. I most strongly urge you to take action and urge the salmon to take a small foreign trawler to the outer banks. Flower sunshine mulligan.
Petunia,
Most Highly Improbable Bishop and Teacaddy Montgomery Busybody-Smythe Sudbury-but-really-more-like-Reading
I find the preceding post to be most improper and out of place. I shall cease my paid subscription to your web site and am expecting to receive back all monies previously sent to you. Small unmarked bills from Guinea would be preferred. And a bit of salami, if it's not much trouble.
Sincerely,
Subleftenant Captain-General Montgomery Busybody Jr. Sudbury-but-take-the-right-road-this-time
We're British, and we insist upon a decent queue and proper registration of all browsers.
And another thing, why must we call it a browser? I mean, it brings up the question as to whether or not one intends to purchase anything or, instead, one is browsing with the intention of not purchasing. How can we expect anyone to take the Information Superexpressway-and-teashop-on-the-Hudson seriously if we permit ever Tom, Dick, and Harriet Millicent to just browse whenever they feel like it? Not very proper at all.
Sincerely yours,
Right Brigadier Major-General Montgomery Busybody, Mrs. Sudbury-on-the-left-and-around-the-roundabout-ou t-by-Grimes-Way-but-over-a-small-bit-past- the-first-hedgehog
Beg pardon, one more correction, if it's allright
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Monty Python's Flying Circus was flamed before a lithe studious audience.
No, not quite right. Let's try that again.
Monty Python's Limey Circuit was blamed before a lovely studious audience.
My. No, still not quite right. Ah, yes, here we are:
Monty Python's Fleeing Circus was filmy before the lying studio executive.
No, that just won't do. Pardon. Won't be a minute.
[door slams] [steps down hallway . clip clop clip clop clip clop THUD . silence . trap door opens . sounds of various bottles being rearranged in a shop window whilst the underground rattles by . thud of door closing . clip clop clip clop clip clop . creak of opening door]
Ahem.
Monty Python's Flying Circus was filmed before a live studio audience left in horror.
After the IPO. All good things come to those who wait to get s....ed in the IPO.
Good luck on the themes.
Bruce: What are you doing to break up SF monopoly?
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Seriously, it seems as if the same old authors are all we see on the shelves.
So, my question to you is, What are you, as a person and as a writer, doing to foster the next generation of writers who will throw the old fogies of the 80s and 90s into the dustbin of history? Have you been pushing the boundaries of literate SF for other writers, or are you just raking in the bucks like the rest of the IPOs that society is gaga over?
Or are you growing comfortable with your role in the old paradigm and unwilling to take the lead into the new age, in which, possibly, you may have a lesser place in the grand scheme of things.
By the by: love most of your writing - it's been great running into you at Cons, back when I did those, in the days when I had a double-hyphenated name. Say hi to Bill for me.
Glad to hear Adobe (which contribs to my son's school in Fremont (Seattle)) is moving towards Linux. I think the main reason their tools are beasts is that you have to live with the Win/NT OS. If they could just jettison that, I could move my whole setup off Windoze - since Borland is going Linux too.
Maybe I could drape Waiting For The Interurban (across from their offices) with Penguin t-shirts and masks... maybe they'd get the hint...
Couldn't you do that by having a "clear" cover which had a painting on the underside of the cover. And this painting (or film, actually, which would work better) would be of pistons, gears, and springs.
Not sure how you'd simulate motion - maybe a "holographic" effect with different sight angles showing the pistons and gears at different positions.
Could be kind of cool. If you do this, call it Industrial Seattle for me, ok?
So, by spending millions on the ad they get a free thread ad in Slashdot (known to be a place where people who order pizza hang out). So as we all post about Pizza Hut, our minds become engraven with the words Pizza Hut. And we order Pizza more and thus they pay for the ad.
And I promise to buy products from any company that has the audacity to paint my image on the Moon. Provided it's not permanent - more of a performance art piece.
They can use watercolor if they want, provided they find water on the moon...
Well, we use American units here, not English units. They have little American flags on them and say the pledge of allegience when military personnel pass by. Using the solar-powered music chips on the lid, of course.
Darn, I knew I'd been here too long - now I can't even remember how many liters are in a gallon... maybe I can get a job at NASA?
1. Have the E.U. sue us for losing a space probe. Just find a US lawyer - he'll come up with some plausible reason. 2. Stop giving US "English" non-metric measurements on all non-US produced goods and materials. Sue us in WTO over "unfair restraint of trade". 3. Refuse to loan money to US firms which don't do business in metric. 4. Require all printed material being sent to other countries to be taxed if it isn't in metric. 5. On the US side - just announce all new interstate highways must have dual metric and mile measurements. Don't convert gas. Leave it in gallons. 6. At grocery stores label all boxes with dual measurements until 2002. Don't convert produce - in 2002 require dual listing of price per kilo and price per pound. 7. Bribe politicians. Unneeded, but they like it.
Slashdot Mirror
I think, therefore I am a nice dip for your pita bread.
I took two years of Latin by correspondance, and they had to ask a retired Latin teacher to correct my papers. This in the wilds of British Columbia.
I would like to apologize on behalf of the Armenian Rite of Passage Brotherhood for the use of italics in the preceding post. This was not only unintentional, but may have been regarded as funny by those of a less educated nature than we.
We wish to reiterate our stated belief that neither we nor John Cleese are funny. And we are getting a small bit tired of having to hold up all of geekdom. Some assistance in this matter would be gratefully appreciated.
Sincerely yours,
Analzeman Brizzani
Armenian Rite of Passage Brotherhood
London
unless it's foggy, of course, in which case we may be found in one of the Dutch ports or Italian chiantis
Sirs,
I take great umbrage at the insinuation that I enjoy a good laugh as the prior poster stated. I have it on good authority that, while I may be funny in my method of locomotion (a perambulator), I am indeed neither humorous nor humerous.
And I have not seen his wife since the last time we were discovered by the milkman in flagrante delicatessen.
Unfunnily yours,
Captain Johnson
Her Majesty's Welsh Brigade and Royal Button Cleaners
Sudbury, but a bit over to the left
Sirs,
The preceding post is quite incorrect. I have kept a pet Python for the last thirty years in my barn. This Python, while quite object-oriented, is decidedly un-molelike, indeed preferring the odd mole or two at teatime, and has never been found in the company of radioactive cats, with the exception of that unfortunate incident reported in one of the London papers we shall not mention.
Also, while attempting to contact Monsieur Fercotti, the number given turned out to be that of a Swiss cheese shop in Brighton. They did have some delicious cheeses, but were totally lacking in either object-orientation or garters.
Sincerely,
Melissa Higgensbreath-Nichols
Upsmith-on-the-Thames
Sirs,
It has been brought to my attention that the preceding posts were exceedingly silly. This must stop at once, or I shall be forced to employ umbrella-wielding ninjas on this thread. As none of these ninjas is qualified to operate heavy machinery, this could be quite dangerous.
Oh, and another thing. My Aunt Petunia takes great umbrage at the use of her name in one of the preceding posts. She would henceforth prefer to be referred to as Ducky or Mousebreath. Please see to it that the proper corrections are made.
Sincerely yours,
Subaltern Missy Montgomery-Smythe-Higginsbottom
Gothic Insane Asylum and Pottery Barn
Brighton-on-the-shingle
Dear Sirs,
Both the preceding posts were utterly incomprehensible. I most strongly urge you to take action and urge the salmon to take a small foreign trawler to the outer banks. Flower sunshine mulligan.
Petunia,
Most Highly Improbable Bishop and Teacaddy Montgomery Busybody-Smythe
Sudbury-but-really-more-like-Reading
Dear Sirs,
I find the preceding post to be most improper and out of place. I shall cease my paid subscription to your web site and am expecting to receive back all monies previously sent to you. Small unmarked bills from Guinea would be preferred. And a bit of salami, if it's not much trouble.
Sincerely,
Subleftenant Captain-General Montgomery Busybody Jr.
Sudbury-but-take-the-right-road-this-time
We're British, and we insist upon a decent queue and proper registration of all browsers.
u t-by-Grimes-Way-but-over-a-small-bit-past- the-first-hedgehog
And another thing, why must we call it a browser? I mean, it brings up the question as to whether or not one intends to purchase anything or, instead, one is browsing with the intention of not purchasing. How can we expect anyone to take the Information Superexpressway-and-teashop-on-the-Hudson seriously if we permit ever Tom, Dick, and Harriet Millicent to just browse whenever they feel like it? Not very proper at all.
Sincerely yours,
Right Brigadier Major-General Montgomery Busybody, Mrs.
Sudbury-on-the-left-and-around-the-roundabout-o
Monty Python's Flying Circus was flamed before a lithe studious audience.
No, not quite right. Let's try that again.
Monty Python's Limey Circuit was blamed before a lovely studious audience.
My. No, still not quite right. Ah, yes, here we are:
Monty Python's Fleeing Circus was filmy before the lying studio executive.
No, that just won't do. Pardon. Won't be a minute.
[door slams]
[steps down hallway . clip clop clip clop clip clop THUD . silence . trap door opens . sounds of various bottles being rearranged in a shop window whilst the underground rattles by . thud of door closing . clip clop clip clop clip clop . creak of opening door]
Ahem.
Monty Python's Flying Circus was filmed before a live studio audience left in horror.
[applause]
[cannonade]
I've been called in to places where we had people running NT 3.51 with no patches. None. Nada. After 2+ years.
...
So, what does that say? Should we insist that they use NT 4.0 (the original release)? Or else apply the patches to BOTH servers?
Nah, that might be "realistic"
After the IPO. All good things come to those who wait to get s....ed in the IPO.
Good luck on the themes.
Seriously, it seems as if the same old authors are all we see on the shelves.
So, my question to you is, What are you, as a person and as a writer, doing to foster the next generation of writers who will throw the old fogies of the 80s and 90s into the dustbin of history? Have you been pushing the boundaries of literate SF for other writers, or are you just raking in the bucks like the rest of the IPOs that society is gaga over?
Or are you growing comfortable with your role in the old paradigm and unwilling to take the lead into the new age, in which, possibly, you may have a lesser place in the grand scheme of things.
By the by: love most of your writing - it's been great running into you at Cons, back when I did those, in the days when I had a double-hyphenated name. Say hi to Bill for me.
Glad to hear Adobe (which contribs to my son's school in Fremont (Seattle)) is moving towards Linux. I think the main reason their tools are beasts is that you have to live with the Win/NT OS. If they could just jettison that, I could move my whole setup off Windoze - since Borland is going Linux too.
... maybe they'd get the hint ...
Maybe I could drape Waiting For The Interurban (across from their offices) with Penguin t-shirts and masks
You mean like the repaint of the VW Beetle that was portrayed in Vanity Fair? That was cool.
I'd do it in the clan tartan, but it's got a lot of purple in it, and I'm not a fan of that.
but love the day-glo option - would buy that.
Couldn't you do that by having a "clear" cover which had a painting on the underside of the cover. And this painting (or film, actually, which would work better) would be of pistons, gears, and springs.
Not sure how you'd simulate motion - maybe a "holographic" effect with different sight angles showing the pistons and gears at different positions.
Could be kind of cool. If you do this, call it Industrial Seattle for me, ok?
So, we're out with CUPS. Now if we could just get Adobe to give us some Linux versions of their tools, life might be (almost) perfect.
> Reminds me of the Asimov short story: Buy Jupiter
No, no. We buy Jupiter next week, when it IPOs.
Don't be in such a hurry.
;0
> I seriously think the US should ban even the IDEA of advertising on the moon...
When they ban IDEAs, they'll have to pry that idea out of my cold, dead, brain.
Oh, wait.
That might be how they'll enforce it. Especially if I'm in Texas.
(apologies to Wierd Al)
But we can see it from webcams in orbit, no?
It's all about getting geeks who like Pizza to think Pizza Hut.
And it appears to have succeeded, since we're commenting on it.
So, by spending millions on the ad they get a free thread ad in Slashdot (known to be a place where people who order pizza hang out). So as we all post about Pizza Hut, our minds become engraven with the words Pizza Hut. And we order Pizza more and thus they pay for the ad.
Ingenious, Scully!
And I promise to buy products from any company that has the audacity to paint my image on the Moon. Provided it's not permanent - more of a performance art piece.
...
They can use watercolor if they want, provided they find water on the moon
Well, we use American units here, not English units. They have little American flags on them and say the pledge of allegience when military personnel pass by. Using the solar-powered music chips on the lid, of course.
... maybe I can get a job at NASA?
Darn, I knew I'd been here too long - now I can't even remember how many liters are in a gallon
Actually, the market has been driving AOL up quite a bit already. You might want to wait for the inevitable correction.
I bought some at $79 myself.
1. Have the E.U. sue us for losing a space probe. Just find a US lawyer - he'll come up with some plausible reason.
2. Stop giving US "English" non-metric measurements on all non-US produced goods and materials. Sue us in WTO over "unfair restraint of trade".
3. Refuse to loan money to US firms which don't do business in metric.
4. Require all printed material being sent to other countries to be taxed if it isn't in metric.
5. On the US side - just announce all new interstate highways must have dual metric and mile measurements. Don't convert gas. Leave it in gallons.
6. At grocery stores label all boxes with dual measurements until 2002. Don't convert produce - in 2002 require dual listing of price per kilo and price per pound.
7. Bribe politicians. Unneeded, but they like it.
Actually, those are really 2-liter milk jugs and 1-liter milk cartons. They just have print on them as to the non-metric sizing.
Just switch em over and print dual measures. Forget about produce and gas - those are the only things people flip out over - but do everything else.