Link of the Day [5.24.08]
Checkout footnote #22. Infamous!
http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/19/the-most-curious-thing/
Quote of the Day [5.23.08]
And Thingol answered: ‘What of your quest, and of your vow?’
But Beren said: ‘It is fulfilled. Even now a Silmaril is in my hand.’
Then Thingol said: ‘Show it to me!’
And Beren put forth his empty left hand, slowly opening its fingers; but it was empty. Then he held up his right arm; and from that hour he named himself Camlost, the Empty-handed.
The Tale of Beren and Luthien, The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien
Link of the Day [5.23.08]
Is it hip to call things prequels? I mean, please, The Silmarillion, a prequel. Yes, technically speaking, but wouldn’t it be better thought of as the foundation of the history for The Lord of the Rings? You wouldn’t call the US Civil War a prequel would you?
Quote of the Day [5.22.08]
“So once again, Jones, what was briefly yours is now mine.”
Belloq, The Raiders of the Lost Ark
Link of the Day [5.22.08]
Here’s GreenCine Daily’s all your Indiana Jones items you can handle. Enjoy!
Quote of the Day [5.21.08]
“Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.”
Bill Waterson, Calvin and Hobbes
Link of the Day [5.21.08]
I really haven’t eaten any ramen in my life except for the noodle blocks you get at the grocery 10 for $1. Yet, reading through this site it makes me hungry. I guess this post is more suited for foodiemonster.
A rose is a rose
More naming conventions for the new gadgets in my life.
iPhone is Thorin. The MacBook Pro is Gondolin. (I thought that was my big ass hard drive? Must be because I haven’t turned it on in a long while that I forgot.)
The IBM ThinkPad is Morgoth.
Yes, that’s a PC on the list. Because I needed it for school. Just for one class. And just for one project. $500 bucks. I could’ve had another MacMini.
Yet, I’ve been using it lately. It certainly needed to be used as I have had it unplugged from the charger for a year. I wonder if the battery is still good? I’ve been putting it to good use as the back up machine to my web surfing. Firefox. What other utils should I install to save me from the wicked world of PCs? Also, what games?
Quote of the Day [5.20.08]
“Good ol’ Charlie Brown… How I hate him!”
Shermy, Peanuts, Charles Shulz
Link of the Day [5.20.08]
Someone fixes a 25 year old bug in the BSD Unix.
“Who cares? I don’t use Unix anyway,” you might say. Sorry, it’s what’s running beneath the pretty Aqua interface of Mac OS X.
It’s a rather trivial bug, very low level and such. Yet, I wonder why it took this long to find a fix. The open source model of software development touts the fact that with the source available to anyone and everyone all bugs are shallow. That is it should take a short time to find a fix. Yet, the bug fix was just submitted recently!
The funny thing is that it was a known bug. Was it reported to code maintainers? There were programs that knew of the BSD problem and created workarounds for it. Somethings wrong with this the BSD development to let this go untouched for so long.