With apologies to Pete Seeger and Malvina Reynolds…
Little Tic-Tacs in the boxes
Little Tic-Tacs made of sugar gum
Little Tic-Tacs, little Tic-Tacs, little Tic-Tacs all the same
There’s a white one, and a white one, and a white one, and a white one
And they’re all made out of Ticky-Tacky
And they all look just the same
This came to me when someone said “Tic-Tacs” and “ticky-tacky” to me. That is all.
Yes, I am a woman. And I’m 27. And I’m a programmer.
That is all.
“Anything that happens, happens. Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen. Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.
It doesn’t necessarily do it in chronological order, though.” – Mostly Harmless, Douglas Adams.
I’ve gotten this question once or twice already. I didn’t realize I even had that many readers yet! But the ones I do have don’t seem to get the reference.
Sa souvraya niende misain ye.
The line is written in the Old Tongue language from the excellent Wheel of Time series by the late Robert Jordan, and its exact translation into plain English is “I am lost within my own mind.”
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“Impossible! How will the Emperor maintain control without the bureaucracy?”
“The Regional governors will have direct control over their territories. Fear will keep the local systems in line; fear of this battle station.”
“Guinan, I need your help. Could you sit over there?” – Riker
“Seems simple enough…” – Guinan
Well, why not. It took 40 minutes to shut off all the useless crap WordPress installs and turns on by default, and then another 15 minutes to kill the extra stuff DreamHost decided to install on top of that. This is what I call the overproliferation of Web technology; this application is an absolutely perfect example of the evolution of the Web into the single application used for everything you do on a computer. A stateless ancient protocol like HTTP, a twisted screwy markup language like HTML (yes, including XHTML and HTML5), a dangerous and badly misused active content language like JavaScript, absolutely ZERO standardization on audio and video formats (HTML5 lost its focus on Ogg when Apple turned up their noses at it), and even more “operating systems” (Safari, Firefox, IE, all the variants on them, and all the niche browsers) than a real computer (which is at least limited to Windows, Apple, and the *NIX variants). Sure, turn the world into one big network, I have no objection to that, but do it with modern technology instead of clinging to the ARPAnet!