Topic: New Lisp any suggestions are welcomed

[MP]

[alanjt]

I like to use this...

[MP]

 

[alanjt]

and no, I am not a scared black woman.

[MP]

well there goes that fantasy

kicks dag

[alanjt]

well there goes that fantasy

kicks dag

Halloween will be here soon.   

[JohnK]

Se7en whispers: Pass the pop-corn please.  ...good movie, but I think I've seen it before.

               A crowded Harvard Bar.
                                      ...

                                     CLARK
                         There's no problem. I was just hoping
                         you could give me some insight into
                         the evolution of the market economy
                         in the early colonies. My contention
                         is that prior to the Revolutionary
                         War the economic modalities especially
                         of the southern colonies could most
                         aptly be characterized as agrarian
                         precapitalist and...

               Will, who at this point has migrated to Chuckie's side and
               is completely fed-up, includes himself in the conversation.

                                     WILL
                         Of course that's your contention.
                         You're a first year grad student.
                         You just finished some Marxian
                         historian, Pete Garrison prob'ly,
                         and so naturally that's what you
                         believe until next month when you
                         get to James Lemon and get convinced
                         that Virginia and Pennsylvania were
                         strongly entrepreneurial and
                         capitalist back in 1740. That'll
                         last until sometime in your second
                         year, then you'll be in here
                         regurgitating Gordon Wood about the
                         Pre-revolutionary utopia and the
                         capital-forming effects of military
                         mobilization.

                                     CLARK
                              (taken aback)
                         Well, as a matter of fact, I won't,
                         because Wood drastically
                         underestimates the impact of--

                                     WILL
                         "Wood drastically underestimates the
                         impact of social distinctions
                         predicated upon wealth, especially
                         inherited wealth..." You got that
                         from "Work in Essex County," Page
                         421, right? Do you have any thoughts
                         of your own on the subject or were
                         you just gonna plagiarize the whole
                         book for me?

               Clark is stunned.

                                     WILL

                         You have any thoughts of your
                         own on this matter? Or is that
                         your thing; you come in to a
                         bar, you read some obscure
                         passage in a...pretend its
                         your own idea to impress some
                         girls  and  embarrass my friend?

[David Bethel]

Awesome!

I am quite often amazed at some the older snippets I have and how they are still very germane to current problems and requests that I see.  I guess those guys were pretty smart too!  -David

[hermanm]

Her I sit so patiently
Waiting to find out what price
You have to pay to get out of
Going through all these things twice.

or, in general, n times, where n->large

My boilerplate response:

http://www.tktn.com/utilities/tools/index.htm

(based on previous p*ing contests in other venues)

BTW, I agree w/ Lee & Paul, pretty much. 

[JohnK]

Awesome!

I am quite often amazed at some the older snippets I have and how they are still very germane to current problems and requests that I see.  I guess those guys were pretty smart too!  -David

Well then, feel free to share them with me. That was a very good read!

[JohnK]

Man the machine—man the impersonal engine. Whatsoever a man is, is due to his MAKE, and to the INFLUENCES brought to bear upon it by his heredities, his habitat, his associations. He is moved, directed, COMMANDED, by EXTERIOR influences—SOLELY. He ORIGINATES nothing, not even a thought.

[alanjt]

Man the machine—man the impersonal engine. Whatsoever a man is, is due to his MAKE, and to the INFLUENCES brought to bear upon it by his heredities, his habitat, his associations. He is moved, directed, COMMANDED, by EXTERIOR influences—SOLELY. He ORIGINATES nothing, not even a thought.

I like that. It reminds me of how Descartes talked about anything in a dream is based on something one has encountered in the waking world, even if it's just a distorted amalgamation of waking world's color palette.

[JohnK]

I have never read any Descartes (never heard of 'em). Suggestions?

[alanjt]

I have never read any Descartes (never heard of 'em). Suggestions?

I really enjoyed Meditations on First Philosophy when I too my first Philo. class. Skepticism really comes from his talks of not being able to truly determine if one is awake, dreaming, possessing a body, etc.

[Kerry]

< .. > I like that.  <..>

I don't.