cecil adams tends to be right in general. he rather errs in the details.

why, of course an eight-year-old could operate it, it was designed for the us army.

one of the best answers to a completely idiotic "Anti-Idiotarian Manifesto" would be an "Anti-rhetoric non-manifesto", containing:

"An undeservedly rational and argumented response to an hilarious product of ignorance, slander and belligerant fanaticism ... . "

[10:33] *** [nex] has joined #latex
[10:33] *** Topic is: eu quero bloqueá-lo sob uma
        folha de borracha (sashay-finger@irc.pl)
[10:33] *** [nex] plastiCok @Procto @sashfingr
        @Lovely @Jes @strapr0n @Rubrsheet @CLiNGiNG
        @nylon @SexyBee @skintight
[10:34] <[nex]> hmm, this channel isn't about LaTeX,
        huh?

There are books coming out that you can read on-line, free of charge, and you may even correct errors and redistribute them because they are published under the OpenContent License (OPL) or the Open Publication License. Once you stopped wondering why the former is abbreviated 'OPL' and the latter has no abbreviation, you may be pleased to find out that some sites even let you fix mistakes and extract proper references for citations right there on the website where the book is available for on-line reading.

i had just moved my pawn to e4, when the chess program announced check mate in 20. of course, it couldn't possibly know that; it just said so to annoy me.

philosophy is the science of measuring, comparing, marshalling logical implications with, and interpreting entities and matters that are not and may never be defined in a way that would allow logical verification of these posits. i guess a PhD diploma reads something like "the trustee beings of the scholastical establishment by virtue of the capacity vested in them and a vague recommendation of the seriously collegiate institution of the great graduate school may or may not have conferred the degree of doctor of philosohpy on the mostly gasping and sweating entity probably named franz könig on approximately the start of fall and attested him optimal pertinency for disposing of esoteric appurtenances on the teleshopping channel."

the panavision 1.85:1 aspect ratio does not equal the hdtv 16:9 ratio.
<img src="/lomo/kompakt.jpeg" width="384" height="256">