below your address label. (d) Then print on your 3x5 card, above your
computer-printed name and address the words "CARTER & VAN PEEL
SWEEPSTAKES" (Use all capital letters.) (e) Finally place 3x5 card
-(without bending) into a plain envelope [NOTE: do NOT use the the
+(without bending) into a plain envelope [NOTE: do NOT use the
Official Prize Claim and CVP Perfume Reply Envelope or you may be
disqualified], and mail to: CVP, Box 1320, Westbury, NY 11595. Print
this address correctly. Comply with above instructions carefully and
Come I to make this gig at Caesar's laying down.
%
Frisbeetarianism, n.:
- The belief that when you die, your soul goes up the on roof and
+ The belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and
gets stuck.
%
Frobnicate, v.:
And then a step to the right.
Put your hands on your hips
And pull your knees in tight.
-It's the pelvic thrust
- That really gets you insa-a-a-a-ane
+But it's the pelvic thrust
+ That really drives you insa-a-a-a-a-ane!
LET'S DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN!
Manual, n.:
A unit of documentation. There are always three or more on a
given item. One is on the shelf; someone has the others. The
-information you need in in the others.
+information you need is in the others.
-- Ray Simard
%
Many years ago in a period commonly know as Next Friday Afternoon,
Q: How did you get into artificial intelligence?
A: Seemed logical -- I didn't have any real intelligence.
%
-Q: How many DEC repairman does it take to fix a flat ?
+Q: How many DEC repairmen does it take to fix a flat ?
A: Five; four to hold the car up and one to swap tires.
%
-Q: How many DEC repairman does it take to fix a flat?
+Q: How many DEC repairmen does it take to fix a flat?
A: Five; four to hold the car up and one to swap tires.
Q: How long does it take?
The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding
bureaucracy.
%
-"The C Programming Language -- A language which combines the
-flexibility of assembly language with the power of assembly language."
+The C Programming Language -- A language which combines the
+flexibility and power of assembly language with the readability
+of assembly language.
%
The camel has a single hump;
The dromedary two;
The idea is to die young as late as possible.
-- Ashley Montagu
%
-The idea is to die young as late as possible.
- -- Ashley Montague
-%
The idea there was that consumers would bring their broken electronic
devices, such as television sets and VCR's, to the destruction centers,
where trained personnel would whack them (the devices) with
%
Zymurgy's Law of Volunteer Labor:
People are always available for work in the past tense.
+%
+ THE LAST BUG
+
+"But you're out of your mind," It still wasn't perfect,
+They said with a shrug. As year followed year,
+"The customer's happy; And strangers would comment,
+What's one little bug?" "Is that guy still here?"
+
+But he was determined. He died at the console,
+The others went home. Of hunger and thirst.
+He spread out the program, Next day he was buried,
+Deserted, alone. Face down, nine-edge first.
+
+The cleaning men came, And the last bug in sight,
+The whole room was cluttered An ant passing by,
+With memory-dumps, punch cards. Saluted his tombstone,
+"I'm close," he muttered. And whispered, "Nice try."
+
+The mumbling got louder,
+Simple deduction,
+"I've got it, it's right,
+Just change one instruction."
+%
+Speaking of the philosophy involved in moving humanity into space:
+
+Furniture will be a largely obsolete concept. Take for example the dresser my
+mom bought for me when I was a kid. I still have it, and by the standards of
+its era, it's an admirable household fixture. It is a massive construction of
+maple wood, expertly joined with cunningly fit pieces, fitted and glued with
+the strength of iron. It is set with massive brass fixtures, and looks today
+-- discounting the dust -- as new as the day it was purchased, a quarter
+century ago. So far, so good; a fine piece of furniture, you might say. But
+let's look at it objectively, as a machine, as an object with a purpose. Here
+sit a hundred pounds of hardwood with a compressive strength of 1500 psi,
+jointed by an expert craftsman into a rigid box that would easily support a
+bull elephant. And what is the sole purpose of this massive crate, this
+monument to a dead tree? -- it holds my socks.
+
+Not only is it blind engineering overkill of epic proportions, it is also an
+environmental disaster. The home to generations of squirrels, a sentinel post
+for falcons, an autumnal banner of golden glory, a living creature, was chopped
+down to enshrine some underwear. This, my friends, is no way to run a planet.
+ -- Marshall T. Savage, from The Millennial Project:
+ Colonizing the Galaxy -- In Eight Easy Steps
+%
+Nearly every software professional has heard the term spaghetti code as a
+pejorative description for complicated, difficult to understand, and impossible
+to maintain, software. However, many people may not know the other two
+elements of the complete Pasta Theory of Software.
+
+Lasagna code is used to describe software that has a simple, understandable,
+and layered structure. Lasagna code, although structured, is unfortunately
+monolithic and not easy to modify. An attempt to change one layer conceptually
+simple, is often very difficult in actual practice.
+
+The ideal software structure is one having components that are small and
+loosely coupled; this ideal structure is called ravioli code. In ravioli
+code, each of the components, or objects, is a package containing some meat
+or other nourishment for the system; any component can be modified or replaced
+without significantly affecting other components.
+
+We need to go beyond the condemnation of spaghetti code to the active
+encouragement of ravioli code.
+ -- Raymond J. Rubey, in a letter to the editor of Crosstalk
+ magazine
+%
+63,000 bugs in the code, 63,000 bugs,
+ya get 1 whacked with a service pack,
+now there's 63,005 bugs in the code!!
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