I was surprised to find that neither the Wikiquote nor Wikipedia entries for Stan Lee credits him with what I consider to be his most famous quotation, ‘Nuff said!
It seems to be almost exclusively associated with him by the population of the intarwebs, but that source has been wrong once or twice before. Is this one of the things I only think I know?
If only I knew someone who could confirm or deny for this True Believer….
Just stopping in quickly to say that, when I do blog, I don’t generate content
. Rather than go on more of a rant, I’ll point to Tim Bray’s excellent Contribution and Experience. As Stan Lee would put it, ’nuff said!
- Leo Bloom:
I’m wet! I’m hysterical and I’m wet!- Max Bialystock: [slaps him]
- Leo Bloom:
OW! I’m in pain! I’m in pain, and I’m wet, and I’m still hysterical!
I’m not one to complain—much—but I did have to laugh at part of CBC’s The Greatest Canadian Invention tonight. Coming in at number twelve was the Java programming language, invented by Alberta’s James Gosling. So what did all of the on-screen graphics show?
XML.
Most of it was fairly generic XML, although there was a sample that was at least Java-related: an Ant buildfile. And I guess it looks computer-y to have dense blocks of characters with lots of <s and >s thrown in. But really, come on.
That said, Tim Bray, co-editor of and a major contributor to the XML specification, is also Canadian, so at least that part was right.
Winter may be stretching it—it was almost ten degrees today—but I’m not going to let that get in the way of a good post title.
peterjanes.ca.And it’s not over yet: I booked Tuesday off too, because I just can’t bring myself to give up all this fun!
Some potential plotlines for Matt and Tammy‘s story:
It’s the intersection of festivals for at least four major belief systems. Most involve the giving of gifts around this time, and who am I to shirk convention? So in the spirit of giving—and regiving—here’s a song that hopefully won’t make you even A Little Sad.
Well well well… there are now five active bloggers from work other than me. (Oops, six, sorry… consider yourself tagged too!) There’s also a meme making the rounds that involves tagging five people to list five things about themselves that not many people know. And I don’t think we’ve actually had a full-on challenge going between the blogs yet—other than trying to keep up with Matt!—so it’s about frickin’ time!
To kick it off, here are my five things:
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Had a strange experience at work today: someone, whose name shall remain Kimota94 aka Matt, told me via IM that you may be the World’s Slowest Typist
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Why is that strange? Because I type really quickly and accurately, to the point where I get regular comments about how fast my fingers move. I got kicked out of my Grade 9 keyboarding class because I was already touch-typing faster than the end-of-term goal thanks to my superior spelling ability (but that’s another story). Several years ago one of the admin assistants and I raced to see who’d come out faster; I don’t remember the exact result, which probably means I lost, but we were within one or two wpm of each other.
So why does K94aM think I’m a slow typist? I can think of a few reasons:
cw in vi instead of hitting x repeatedly and then i.That last point may also explain my reduced reading speed: instead of reading for content, I find myself reading for grammar, spelling and punctuation. I’ve given up completely on a few books because of their atrocious editing (or, more accurately, lack of same) and when asked to read over a document at work I’ll sometimes wind up rewriting large portions because of something that irks me.
(The title of this post, of course, is Isaac Asimov’s famous reply to the question of what he would do if he found out he only had six months to live.)
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Well, true to form, the last two performances I plan to attend this year will be part of my continuing celebration of indy music, written and performed by fetching young ladies
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The second-last was over a week ago now, and was a last one in its own right: Miss Claire de Lune Jenkins Avec Band played their final show before going off to record a CD in a single extended weekend session. And they blew the doors off the joint with Claire’s sweet original songs, starting with the quieter Crow’s Nest and traversing folk, country and rock during the 12-song set before finishing up with a full-on reggae version of Revolution. Although I’d heard most of the songs before, I’d never heard them like this—it’s gonna be a great release, sometime early next year.
The last gig happens tomorrow night, right here in London town. Kristin Sweetland, who’s also in the process of recording a new CD, is playing a Christmas show on the winter solstice along with whistlin’ revivalist D Trevlon and a few other guests. I’ve only seen D play once, but I’ve listened to his CD over and over; it’s an album of western music (in the country-western sense) but filtered through Ennio Morricone and the Doors to produce something that’s intriguing and different. And Kristin… enough good can’t be said, but I’ll give it a shot. I always come away from Kristin’s shows in awe of her guitar prowess and her passion for music and language and story. There aren’t enough of her kind around, and she doesn’t play nearly as often as I’d like.