For those who might balk at the configuration work found in Christer’s recent post, Turning Off The System (hardware) Beep : Linux Tutorial, I have a solution for you. You can order this simple device and reuse again and again after modifying that pesky, noise-making computer speaker. Simply go to any Radio Shack store and ask for Radio Shack part #64-2951.
I wrote this Haiku earlier this evening:
It’s not very good
And, most certainly, is not
Quality Haiku
It was a piece of testing text that I placed in a text editor for an admin piece of a webapp I’m helping a friend meet a deadline for.
Clint Savage and I got lunch together today. While ordering, we saw a guy with a T-shirt that read:
Heck is where people go who don’t believe in Gosh
We’re still laughing.
I’ve just come across this post by Steve Yegge. It’s quite an enjoyable read and I think he’s quite right about Java’s attitude towards verbs.
Overall, I like Steve’s writting style and I think I’ll be reading more of his stuff in the future, even though he seems to be suffering from a complete lack of Vim.
Apparently, the British citizens who are in Germany for the World Cup are celebrating so hard because of their victory last night, that German pubs are in serious danger of running out of Beer.
Said one German pub owner, “Never have I seen so few [drink] so much in so little time.”
If you’re not laughing from that quote, then perhaps what you need is a history lesson.
I was browsing through some older emails and came across this. It still makes me laugh, so I thought I should share it. The quoted part is from a SPAM message and the commentary is from Bryan Croft.
“…including, obviously, your so much coherent, logical, mandatory and
ultra-rational advices, criteria, demands, desires, doubts,
expectations, ideas, thoughts, intentions, objections, fears, worries,
preferences, priorities, proposals, requirements, suggestions,
questions, warnings or special needs:”
Well yeah, “OBVIOUSLY”. I mean it practically goes without saying…
You gotta love what spews out when a non-native English speaker smokes
crack while reading a thesaurus!
