In a way, aren't we all like Cesare, our fates controlled by the whims of an angry fat doctor?
How would you cure action auteur Miles Trahan of his violent fantasies?
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List of people who PD could take in a fight:
just kidding
Whitespace
What is Whitespace?
Most modern programming languages do not consider white space characters (spaces, tabs and newlines) syntax, ignoring them, as if they weren't there. We consider this to be a gross injustice to these perfectly friendly members of the character set. Should they be ignored, just because they are invisible? Whitespace is a language that seeks to redress the balance. Any non whitespace characters are ignored; only spaces, tabs and newlines are considered syntax.
What are the advantages of Whitespace?
Some things which are difficult in other languages are made much easier in Whitespace. For example, literate programming is simply a matter of writing your helpful comments in between program instructions. It's also easy to encrypt your programs. Simply write a misleading comment!
Whitespace is a particularly useful language for spies. Imagine you have a top secret program that you don't want anyone to see. What do you do? Simply print it out and delete the file, ready to type in at a later date. Nobody will know that your blank piece of paper is actually vital computer code!
What does a typical Whitespace program look like?
Below is an extract from a program which asks for a name then outputs it (see here for the full script.
My friend said he enjoyed the movie more than the book.spoiler (click to show/hide)MAF am cry[close]
i love the movie (cusack :bow). is the book worth reading? i'd read it if the movie isn't a 1:1 adaptation.
Flowers for Algernon. Cliche yes but that one made me cry.
Flowers for Algernon. Cliche yes but that one made me cry.
that book scares the hell out of me
losing my intelligence is probably my biggest fear
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Discuss.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Discuss.
I'm going to get trolled epicly like PD, but I did cry for like 45 minutes during some of the last chapters of that book.
one time about a month after Blackie's death, i was on lsd reading Harlan Ellison. The Essential Ellison (an excellent collection if you are interested in his fiction).
I was reading The Deathbird, which is about The Serpent in the Garden of Eden and how one man goes to face God. Intersperced with this is a narrative digresion about Harlan Ellison's dog, who died during the writing of the story. He talked about how he rescued it, raised it, loved it and then eventually too had to watch it die and how it felt to hold the dog as the vet injected it with the chemicals which would end its life.
It was then that I felt, truly felt anything for the first time in months. I cried and couldn't stop crying for two hours, softly to myself as i allowed myself to remember everything about my relationship with that wonderful amazing dog.
even now i'm kind of tearing up, so i'm going to stop here and finish eating my lunch.
i love the movie (cusack :bow). is the book worth reading? i'd read it if the movie isn't a 1:1 adaptation.
You'd like it. The book is set in London, the movie in Chicago. The plots and sequence of events are pretty much identical, but there's a lot of instances of banter and inner monologue that of course didn't fit into the movie.
when my family had my dog of 12 years put down due to old age and enfeebledness, I read that passage to them over the phone. it's truly stunning for anyone who's loved and lost a pet and knew it was the hard but right thing to do.
when my family had my dog of 12 years put down due to old age and enfeebledness, I read that passage to them over the phone. it's truly stunning for anyone who's loved and lost a pet and knew it was the hard but right thing to do.
i always suggest it to my friends when they lose a pet.
when my family had my dog of 12 years put down due to old age and enfeebledness, I read that passage to them over the phone. it's truly stunning for anyone who's loved and lost a pet and knew it was the hard but right thing to do.
i always suggest it to my friends when they lose a pet.
man, thinking about how good The Deathbird is has made me a bit more sympathetic towards Harlan Ellison again, his string of crazy old man lawsuits was starting to get me down. learning about his Fantagraphics lawsuit, he kind of crossed over from "eccentric old kook" to "paranoid psychotic" in my mind.
when my family had my dog of 12 years put down due to old age and enfeebledness, I read that passage to them over the phone. it's truly stunning for anyone who's loved and lost a pet and knew it was the hard but right thing to do.
i always suggest it to my friends when they lose a pet.
man, thinking about how good The Deathbird is has made me a bit more sympathetic towards Harlan Ellison again, his string of crazy old man lawsuits was starting to get me down. learning about his Fantagraphics lawsuit, he kind of crossed over from "eccentric old kook" to "paranoid psychotic" in my mind.
Harlan only wishes he'd be remembered as the paranoid psychotic of his era of science fiction!
when my family had my dog of 12 years put down due to old age and enfeebledness, I read that passage to them over the phone. it's truly stunning for anyone who's loved and lost a pet and knew it was the hard but right thing to do.
i always suggest it to my friends when they lose a pet.
man, thinking about how good The Deathbird is has made me a bit more sympathetic towards Harlan Ellison again, his string of crazy old man lawsuits was starting to get me down. learning about his Fantagraphics lawsuit, he kind of crossed over from "eccentric old kook" to "paranoid psychotic" in my mind.
Harlan only wishes he'd be remembered as the paranoid psychotic of his era of science fiction!
do you have someone in mind?
L. Ron famously started Scientology on a bet/dare from Harlan