Warm-up: Folks laughed at me when I attended workshops about this, but the bottom line was just that, the bottom line.
From the mail bag:
Round a-bout, 3/11/04 12:23 PM, ya’ll “Valley Voice”
> DEAR SIR OR MADAM….HAVE YOU OVERLOOKED HOROSCOPE FOR PISCES THIS WEEK?
> SOB….
I get called lots of things, but I can’t recall being called an SOB lately. Besides, when I checked both locations, there was Pisces, right at the top. Guess that happens when folks don’t read too closely.
Round a-bout, 3/11/04 4:51 PM, ya’ll said:
> I showed your fine print
> to my boss and he laughed and said that that is where
> we are headed. Thanks for the laugh..
We aim to please, ya’ll aim, too, please.
Unrelated:
Shakespeare analysis
A social networking diagram of the connections in some of the plays.
I did my first “computer analysis” back in school. Wasn’t nearly as nice, just a word count and percentages of the recurring words in one of Iago’s speeches. Not nearly as slick and cool as that.
Unrelated:
Garfield: the movie: the novelization. I’m not sure about this one, take a cartoon strip, turn it into animation. Then make a movie. Then make a novel out of the movie?
Unrelated:
I finished reading Simon Hawk’s The Slaying of the Shrew. Too cute by half. If I happen on another copy of the work in a bookstore, I’d buy it, read it, then hand it on to other folks. The plot and the “whodunit” portion is passing okay, but some of the riffs on Shakespeare’s lines and source notes are almost good. The way the character “Will Shakespeare” is described, furiously scribbling notes about dialogue, watch how people interact is good, though.
From Martial epigrams, volume II:
“Qui recitat lana fauces et colla revinctus
hic se posse loqui, posse tacere negat.”
(Book VI, #41)
“Cosmicos esse tibi, Semproni Tucca, videris:
cosmica, Semproni, tam mala quam bona sunt.”
(Book VII, #41)
“Vis futui gratis, cum sis deformis anusque.
res perridicula est: vis dare nec dare vis.”
(Book VII, #75)
(Oh, that one’s nasty.)
And from Martial epigrams, volume III:
“Crine rubber, niger ore, brevis pede, lumine laesus,
rem magnam praestas, Zolie, si bonus est.”
(Book XII, #54)
“Choke on this, you Danceteria types!” (Dead Milkmen)