HOLY SH*T, Batman!!

Post #29,705 by Ashton 2/26/02 12:09:54 AM Reply	HOLY SHT, Batman!! So THAT's what I've been missing.. by not biting a whole crate of bullets of large calibre, erasing everything from CP/M on, refilling head with 37 nested layers of new stuff. Multitasking, multithreaded organ pipes take on new meaning, and (if one overlooks the clinical diagnosis of impending psychic disintegration) - taken as a Rorshak - why.. I WANT one o'those too! The idea you could suffer acutely for a few days, getting all the curves & locations, background colors and subliminal surrealisms set up and then - USE it, maybe not reboot for years 'cept maybe to blow the dust outta the case and replace a HD with a bad rod bearing ? Ignore all o' them kernel upgrades and stuff LONG AS YOU WANT! and still not be er incompatible, illegible and drummed outta the Corps...* (And with any luck, may Never see a kernel panic! and fer DAMN sure Never a GPF. :-) {sniff} Damn damn.. 95% o' the world's folk are staring at an Edsel designed by a committeee chaired by Dan Quayle; customizing the iron wheels with stick-on decals and hangin fuzzy-dice on the mirror.. n' youse guys got Aston-Martin DB-7s with intercoolers and ejection buttons for the unwanted-passenger seat. With personal theta-rhythm enhancers on background. And no DLLS. No built-in redirects. No weekly patches. Security as a fore- not after- thought. Why it's almost enough to galvanize even me.. into a paradigm shift. Almost.. but.. Denial is a powerful force for Procrastination ... .. . Ashton
Post #29,718 by CRConrad 2/26/02 3:06:51 AM Reply	Nitpick: "Rorschach", not "Rorshak". HTH!
Post #29,721 by Ashton 2/26/02 4:21:51 AM Reply	Yeah.. it does have a certain symmetry Succumbing to the non-spelling generation, I guess. Well, long as I can get Djugashvili right, can Brzezinski be far behind? A.
Post #29,725 by CRConrad 2/26/02 5:12:59 AM Reply	But we spell ol' Josip as ~ 'Dzjugaszvilij' here! Or something like that; I honestly can't quite remember for sure... And his patronymic is Vissarionovitj these days, where it used to be Vissarionovich. In German, I guess, it must be Vissarionowitsch -- and I won't even try to render his original last name into (ironically) my native tongue! Never mind, though -- there is no global standard for kyrillic-latin (and latin-kyrillic?) transcription, AFAIK. It changes over time, too -- the Romanovs used to be the Romanoffs in Western languages; and the copy of Verne's _Courier of the Tsar_ [my translation of the title] I read as a kid was full of Baron Ignatieff and Gregor Michailovitsj [made-up examples], who'd doubtless be Baron Ignatjov and Grigorij Mikhailovitj now. (In Swedish -- in English, they'd be, les'see... Baron Ignachev and Grigory Mikhailovich?) But what's (X-NSAdv.) Zbigniew gotta do with anything -- are you saying he's Kissinger's and Stalin's secret love-child?!? Christian R. Conrad Of course, who am I to point fingers? I'm in the "Information Technology" business, prima facia evidence that there's bats in the bell tower. -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=27764\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #29,916 by Ashton 2/26/02 8:22:51 PM Reply	ie Absolute proof that, there is no such thing as absolute proof (or exact spelling, pronunciation). Damn.. looks like there's another One addicted to memorizing any bizarre names as surface. Zbigniew has to be right up there with (variously) Iosip, Josif - Uncle Joe. It's gotta be a shared glitch in the DNA. Fortunately no tj's here that I've ever seen, so guess it's a -hoovian aberration. I imagine though that Czech would do us both in. An ~ earliest recollection (re words) was seeing a box in my aunt's garage, maybe sometime ~ 4 yrs. old. And I proudly 'read' the label (actually place of origin) to her as, "Chick-ago ill". And natch I thought she was putting me on when she pronounced 'Chicago' (and maybe mentiond the idea of abbreviation re the "Ill"). Found it odd later - to recall my exact pronunciation - now, obviously permanently. Imagine if we'd been exposed to actually Interesting stuff at that time, when the brain was picking up everything, like a sponge.. Shit, we coulda been Smart instead of - Cheers, A. PS heard one about the San Francisco transit company (called MUNI for municipal rwy. of course). Guy's friend Gloria was complaining about the service during a troubled time; wag replied - Sick transit, Gloria - MUNI..

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