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pallikara's programming + politics + philosophy potpourriSunday, November 26, 2006
Obsession
Old joke: A man goes to the psychiatrist. The shrink shows him a picture of a bird and says "What does this make you think of?" The man says: "Sex." The shrink shows him a picture of a tree. "OK, what does this make you think of?" The man says: "Sex." Picture of a train. "Sex." A house. "Sex."
"My God!" says the shrink. "You're obsessed with sex!"
"I'm obsessed with sex!?" says the man. "You're the one who keeps showing me dirty pictures!"
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"My God!" says the shrink. "You're obsessed with sex!"
"I'm obsessed with sex!?" says the man. "You're the one who keeps showing me dirty pictures!"
source
Labels: food for thought, humour
The Roboticist
The great roboticist is temporarily foiled by his computer going to sleep. "Why can't I just tell it not to do that?
The answer is: there's no good reason."
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The answer is: there's no good reason."
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Labels: food for thought
Thursday, November 09, 2006
In Search of The Holy Grail
"Tell me where is the Sema of Alexander?"
—St. John Chrysostom of Constantinople, 4th century CE
"There was a young fellow from Trinity
Who took the Square Root of Infinity
But the number of digits
Gave him the fidgets
He dropped math and took up Divinity."
—George Gamow, 1947
There once was a Lady named Bright
Whose speed was much faster than Light
She went out one day
In a Relative way,
And returned -- the previous night!
—Anonymous, early 20th century
Labels: food for thought, philosophy
Friday, November 03, 2006
Please dont assume ...
Why Learn Lisp?:
"...Please don't assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and Graphics, AI, Bioinformatics, B2B and E-Commerce, Data Mining, EDA/Semiconductor applications, Expert Systems, Finance, Intelligent Agents, Knowledge Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation, Natural Language, Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling, Telecom, and Web Authoring just because these are the only things they happened to list." - Kent Pitman
"...Please don't assume Lisp is only useful for Animation and Graphics, AI, Bioinformatics, B2B and E-Commerce, Data Mining, EDA/Semiconductor applications, Expert Systems, Finance, Intelligent Agents, Knowledge Management, Mechanical CAD, Modeling and Simulation, Natural Language, Optimization, Research, Risk Analysis, Scheduling, Telecom, and Web Authoring just because these are the only things they happened to list." - Kent Pitman
Labels: lisp, programming + logistics
Thursday, November 02, 2006
A Metaphor for the Global Heritage of Interdependent World Citizenship
The Irony of Nationalism
BBC NEWS | Europe | Europe diary: Historical guilt:
It was, I believe, Spike Milligan who used to say that he enjoyed kicking the backs of people's chairs when they didn't rise for the national anthem at the end of a theatre performance or film in the cinema (as was once routine). He said he did it not because he cared much about the national anthem but because it was a good excuse for kicking people. There are those still with us who have a similar motivation, without the irony.
It was, I believe, Spike Milligan who used to say that he enjoyed kicking the backs of people's chairs when they didn't rise for the national anthem at the end of a theatre performance or film in the cinema (as was once routine). He said he did it not because he cared much about the national anthem but because it was a good excuse for kicking people. There are those still with us who have a similar motivation, without the irony.
Labels: food for thought, politics
Resumes from Hell - Muwahahahaaaa
Sample from the book Resumes from Hell
This email was in response to a career newsletter Rachel sent
out:
Rachel,
I enjoyed the wonderful interview you mailed us this week and
keep getting more and more enlightened by your tit bits!
Also let me know if position #SW02493 would work for me - I
am very interested.
Thank you!
Mahendra
This email was in response to a career newsletter Rachel sent
out:
Rachel,
I enjoyed the wonderful interview you mailed us this week and
keep getting more and more enlightened by your tit bits!
Also let me know if position #SW02493 would work for me - I
am very interested.
Thank you!
Mahendra
Labels: humour
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