Daughter or Boat?

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Post #76,220

by tuberculosis

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1/22/03 6:13:06 PM

8/21/07 12:37:52 PM

Daughter or Boat?

Daughter might have been better named EiClimb - she likes climbing things.

Sailboats, of course lean when going to weather, so yeah, boat leans.

I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customer got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What's in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.

--Alan Perlis

Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 12:37:52 PM EDT

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Post #76,253

Picture of static

1/22/03 9:56:15 PM

I thought boats listed? :-)

Is it enough to love
Is it enough to breathe
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed

Is it enough to die
Somebody save my life
I'd rather be Anything but Ordinary
Please

-- "Anything but Ordinary" by Avril Lavigne.

Post #76,294

by tuberculosis

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1/23/03 4:56:07 AM

8/21/07 12:39:07 PM

Sailboats "heel" when sailing.

Listing implies no way on - dead in the water and unbalanced. Listing is bad. Heeling is natural.

I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing. When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customer got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously. We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines. I don't think we are. I think we're responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house. I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun. Above all, I hope we don't become missionaries. Don't feel as if you're Bible salesmen. The world has too many of those already. What you know about computing other people will learn. Don't feel as if the key to successful computing is only in your hands. What's in your hands, I think and hope, is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it, that you can make it more.

--Alan Perlis

Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 12:39:07 PM EDT

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what do you name a one legged girl? - (boxley) - (12) - Jan. 17, 2003, 10:41:47 PM EST

Peg? -NT - (Silverlock) - Jan. 17, 2003, 10:46:14 PM EST

Pippi Wrongstocking -NT - (deSitter) - (2) - Jan. 17, 2003, 11:54:03 PM EST

Actually had to wipe my eyes - (Silverlock) - Jan. 17, 2003, 11:56:01 PM EST

glad I checked your edit history - (cforde) - Jan. 18, 2003, 01:02:01 AM EST

And if she's Japanese??? - (bepatient) - (2) - Jan. 18, 2003, 01:17:00 PM EST

And btw, her favorite season? -NT - (deSitter) - (1) - Jan. 18, 2003, 01:28:19 PM EST

fall -NT - (broomberg) - Jan. 18, 2003, 02:05:48 PM EST

Hey, that's my daughter's name - (tuberculosis) - (4) - Aug. 21, 2007, 06:39:09 AM EDT

So, uh... Does she? :-) -NT - (CRConrad) - (3) - Jan. 22, 2003, 11:07:44 AM EST

Daughter or Boat? - (tuberculosis) - (2) - Aug. 21, 2007, 12:37:52 PM EDT

I thought boats listed? :-) -NT - (static) - (1) - Jan. 22, 2003, 09:56:15 PM EST

Sailboats "heel" when sailing. - (tuberculosis) - Aug. 21, 2007, 12:39:07 PM EDT

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