I saw Einstein's famous quote about the need for simplicity on slashdot today: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein ...but then realized that the quote itself as not as simple as possible, because the potentially simple sentence is complex - the ending clause is redundant, for if something is already as simple as possible, it's impossible to simplify it further. Was he of the wild hair pulling our leg?
B Clay Shannon
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Triangle Offensive (The Theory of Revolution)I don't even smoke salmon.
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Triangle Offensive (The Theory of Revolution)donald trumps up charges of light brigades and saber-toothed tiger milk duds as Hillbillary pillories puffed-up pillows, plumped-up pyjamas, and palindromes such as, 'Sit on a potato pan Otis' Meanwhile, the people - the crowd - the mass - feel the berning man overboard game theory of revolution
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Is programming art?Programmers exhibit some combination of artistry and craftsmanship, as well as a dash of "mad scientist" persona and modus operandi; one must also be as tenacious as a bulldog that has just caught a porchclimber by the kneecap. Said otherwise, a good coder needs to be creative, astute, masterful, and hard-working. I wrote along a similar line here: What's in a Name? On Shakespeare, Lincoln, Cream, and European Starlings (and how they relate to "Software Developers")[^]
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Alliteration Station #5 ("E")Each eagle elevates epic epiphanies, easily eating embarrassed eastern eels ergonomically Even especially edgy elephants earn empathy, either exaggerated else endemic, etcetera
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Alliteration Station #4 ("D")That's just two words; you've got to come up with something better than that. Besides, we're on "D" now.
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Alliteration Station #4 ("D")You had me fooled- I thought that was a political speech.
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Alliteration Station #4 ("D")Donald "Duck" Dunn dove deftly downward, dangerously dynamiting dusty decoded diamonds Dusky dunes decipher dirty deeds done; dull, dank, deadly-dumb Delaware doves dilly-dally daily
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Alliteration Station #3 ("C")Chocolate-colored Chows chew caffeinated Chow chow, chasing crabby calico cats Cherry cobbler clings close chastely, catapulting Cincinnati Centerfielders crosswise
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Boomeranging Telescopic and Kaleidoscopic Phrase Maze of the Day ("Ali")The Great Two ========= Ali used the rope a popemobile, Alabama in a place they called Big Jack and Dinah, someone's in the kitchen I know what I know you saw Love Story with Ryan O'Neal and Ali
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Boomeranging Telescopic and Kaleidoscopic Phrase Maze of the Day ("Bang")Bang === Bang the tom tom Petty cash on the Barrel of Monkey to the Highway to Help I need somebody help me Ron Paul McCartneybone's connected to the Rise and Fall of the Third degree of Kevin Bacon Cheeseburger in Paradise Park Lawn Cemeterrobang
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Alliteration Station #2 ("B")Baboon-butt Billie bounces boldly beyond blue borders Bumping bellies backwards beside beige brick buildings
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Alliteration Station #1 ("A")Are you accusing me of plagiarism? ;-)
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Alliteration Station #1 ("A")Alvin Alligator assumes absolute authority Arguing aloud about Aardvark anatomy
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Boomeranging Telescopic and Kaleidoscopic Phrase Maze of the Day ("20th")20th === 20th Century Foxy Lady Godiva Chocolatier ducts unlimited Cruzship of Fool's Errand Paul McCartneys and Elbow Macaroneon Broadway out West, Young Man in the Middle Attack Vector Client/Server's should be tipping Point Lobose speaker of the House of Fool's Goldie Hawn is a chicken in Germaniac-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack you oughta know by now we're past the 20th
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Boomeranging Telescopic and Kaleidoscopic Phrase Maze of the Day ("You Revisited")Yes, and that was before Breakfast!
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Boomeranging Telescopic and Kaleidoscopic Phrase Maze of the Day ("You Revisited")You 2 ==== You don't mess around with Jim Beam me up Scotty's Castle Wind Zermatt the Hooplecats in the Cradle Rock me on the Watership Downievillainy Dystra hat pizza parlor trick up my sleeveless coat of paint your wagon Hoedown to you
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Boomeranging Telescopic and Kaleidoscopic Phrase Maze of the Day ("You")You 2 ===== You don't mess around with Jim Beam me up Scotty's Castle Wind Zermatt the Hooplecats in the Cradle Rock me on the Watership Downievillainy Dystra hat pizza parlor trick up my sleeveless coat of paint your wagon Hoedown to you
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Recognition at lastI got that, too; I guess the reason in my case is that, for whatever reason (never cared enough to really look into it), my email account on att.net welcomes me with my wife's name ("Hi, Cherri!" or whatever). Even though my email address is bclayshannon (which "it" obviously can see), it still welcomes me that way; and hers is or was vice-versa.
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Boomeranging Telescopic and Kaleidoscopic Phrase Maze of the Day ("It")It's It === It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing low, sweet chariots of fire in the Whole Earth catalogarithm and blues sometime if it ain't baroque chamber music man in the middle of it