Comments on: Opening Lines

By: yami

yami — Tue, 14 May 2002 21:31:00 +0000

Hmm, I alwasy thought the LiveJournal crowd was what made the difference between a “meme” and a “revolution in journalism”.

By: Tinka

Tinka — Tue, 14 May 2002 14:26:00 +0000

Hmph. I object to the word ‘meme’. You don’t see the kiddos at LJ doing it, now do you?

By: yami

yami — Tue, 14 May 2002 00:15:00 +0000

Well, if you use a sufficiently loose definition of the word “meme”…

By: Tinka

Tinka — Mon, 13 May 2002 22:24:00 +0000

It is not a meme. Is it? *ponders*

By: yami

yami — Mon, 13 May 2002 15:03:00 +0000

Sure, but memes are for fucking with.
And after saving me so much time on homework, the CRC has definitely earned a place in my heart. Plus, I have the 1960 edition, which is old enough to have acquired the usual endearing idiosyncracies.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 13 May 2002 08:40:00 +0000

CRC Handbook, huh? I won’t contest the utility factor, but “favorite”? I know “literature” wasn’t explicitly stipulated in the original meme, but it sure feels like it was implied…
I consider the CRC Handbook a “book” in the same sense that the dictionary and the yellow pages are “books.” Useful, sometimes even interesting to browse through, but not something you want to be reading on the beach or when you’re curled up in bed on a lazy Sunday morning.

By: peter

peter — Mon, 13 May 2002 00:20:00 +0000

Ooh! Fun game!
Developments in the field of electronics have constituted one of the great success stories in this century. (Horowitz & Hill, The Art of Electronics)
The world is full of things that move. (Crawford, Waves)
This book represents several years of intensive research and experimentation. (McCrieght, The Complete Metalsmith)
The central nervos system is an unresting assembly of cells that continually recieves information, analyzes and processes it, and makes decisions. (Nicholls, Martin & Wallace, From Neuron to Brain)