The latest Gates presentation
leaves the casual reader with the need to re-read the article once or twice more just to get exactly what was being presented.
Libertarians and privacy advocates and bucketfuls of my students have expressed some reservation to certain parts of this here new-fangled stuff.
We certainly have come a long way from this.
The brothers Chaps really outdid themselves in this week’s installment of Strongbad’s Email.
Happy Birthday to late Wunderkind-turned-big-fat-jerk Orson Welles. Among other great things attributed to him, he was the inspiration for the mad scientist mouse Brain from “Pinky and the Brain”.
From a whacky list of the
101 dumbest moves in business (2002), dumbness items 48-51: Gates et al feebly attempt to explain .Net to the hoi polloi.
Here is a cute little site I happened upon today. Called World Wide Words, it deals with the etymology of English words and colorful expressions. Quite interesting for gatherers of inane knowledge, such as myself.
I used to read another similar site with a similar reader-asks-I-answer format, but this one is different because the columnist is British this time, and his bank of expressions are not solely of his homeland.
I’ll put it on the links page sometime; for now I am all htmelled out.
who that rabbit contest
Any student o’ mine who can tell me the significance (meaning: gets the joke) of this space bunny’s name wins… um… a Haribo Gummi kleiner Preis.
Apparently these are the English instructions for a hot toy from Japan. Have it corrected by next class. Kidding.
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The Evolutionary from of the beygoma, power up for the 21st Century with supe speed!! Arrangin the old-fashioned beygoma to fit needs of today.
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With rotating cog wheel arrive receational in the past flat engineered main frame. Can high-speed move enemy with mughtiness come at.
What on earth are they talking about? Fighting top, based on this old fashioned game.
May Day was relaxing. Claudi and I went down to the streetfest in K?nigstrasse. We attended a wine tasting from a local vinyard, where the two wine expert hosts sang cute little wine songs and read literature, told anecdotes.
The Madonna remixes I made last Tuesday sure have led to a whole lotta traffic, i.e. 20 times more than usual. I sure hope I don’t run outta throughput.
The death day of Casey Jones
From the Writer’s Almanac:
It was on this day in 1900 that the legendary train engineer Casey Jones died in a train wreck. He was known for his speed, and he often bragged that his trains always came in on time. He was driving the Cannon Ball express from Memphis, Tennessee, to Canton, Mississippi, trying to make up time because the train was overdue, when his fire man warned him that there was another train up ahead. He ordered his fireman to jump, but he stayed on the train, one hand on the break and the other on the whistle. Though the Cannon Ball crashed and Jones was killed, the passengers were saved because of his efforts to slow the train down. An engine wiper, Wallace Saunders, wrote the first ballad about him, followed by many others, including some versions in German and French.
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Train wrecks have oft been subject matter for American folk tunes. As for the best know song about Casey–written by a colleage and friend–the copyright was sold for a bottle or two of gin.