My wishlist now has a bunch of classic literature and collections on it.
*Pretension intensifies*
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Chubert, I think The Man in the High Castle is great, but it may not be what you're thinking - Philip K Dick's book is good at establishing a semi-realistic-but-also-ludicrous alt-history (and alt-history inside that alt-history) but it is mostly about the nature of reality?
An ex-coworker of mine has posted this gem to a russian bash.org, so I decided to translate this and steal all the credit post this to my blog under his permission.
xxx: OK, so, our build engineer has left for another company. The dude was literally living inside the terminal. You know, that type of a guy who loves Vim, creates diagrams in Dot and writes wiki-posts in Markdown... If something - anything - requires more than 90 seconds of his time, he writes a script to automate that.
xxx: So we're sitting here, looking through his, uhm, "legacy"
xxx: You're gonna love this
xxx: smack-my-bitch-up.sh - sends a text message "late at work" to his wife (apparently). Automatically picks reasons from an array of strings, randomly. Runs inside a cron-job. The job fires if there are active SSH-sessions on the server after 9pm with his login.
xxx: kumar-asshole.sh - scans the inbox for emails from "Kumar" (a DBA at our clients). Looks for keywords like "help", "trouble", "sorry" etc. If keywords are found - the script SSHes into the clients server and rolls back the staging database to the latest backup. Then sends a reply "no worries mate, be careful next time".
xxx: hangover.sh - another cron-job that is set to specific dates. Sends automated emails like "not feeling well/gonna work from home" etc. Adds a random "reason" from another predefined array of strings. Fires if there are no interactive sessions on the server at 8:45am.
xxx: (and the oscar goes to) fuckingcoffee.sh - this one waits exactly 17 seconds (!), then opens an SSH session to our coffee-machine (we had no frikin idea the coffee machine is on the network, runs linux and has SSHD up and running) and sends some weird gibberish to it. Looks binary. Turns out this thing starts brewing a mid-sized half-caf latte and waits another 24 (!) seconds before pouring it into a cup. The timing is exactly how long it takes to walk to the machine from the dudes desk.
My wishlist now has a bunch of classic literature and collections on it.
*Pretension intensifies*
oooh which classics
Iliad/Odyssey
Campaigns of Caesar
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Complete Edgar Allen Poe
Divine Comedy
Oediphus
Complete Shakespeare
Count of Monte Cristo
And I'm toying with whether to add the greatest piece of literature ever: Alias
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My wishlist now has a bunch of classic literature and collections on it.
*Pretension intensifies*
oooh which classics
Iliad/Odyssey
Campaigns of Caesar
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Complete Edgar Allen Poe
Divine Comedy
Oediphus
Complete Shakespeare
Count of Monte Cristo
And I'm toying with whether to add the greatest piece of literature ever: Alias
My wishlist now has a bunch of classic literature and collections on it.
*Pretension intensifies*
oooh which classics
Iliad/Odyssey
Campaigns of Caesar
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Complete Edgar Allen Poe
Divine Comedy
Oediphus
Complete Shakespeare
Count of Monte Cristo
And I'm toying with whether to add the greatest piece of literature ever: Alias
i actually still kind of like the fountainhead. aside from the courtroom speech, it is far more enjoyable than AS. if you take away the whole thing that leads to the court case and rand's intense desire to be fake-raped, i sort of like the protag. he is an almost relatable fuck y'all i'mma do me sort of character.
In fact hey comics folk recommend some non-Preacher/Planetary/Transmetropolitan/Hawkguy/Sandman comics to enwishen.
Hellboy
Hellblazer (If by some weird twist of fate you've never read any of it, pick up All His Engines to see if you like the tone. Solid self-contained story.)
man in the high castle has so many normal, middle class white characters who talk about how much better life is under the nazis now that all of the people who aren't like them have been taken care of
I'd like to think that's unrealistic but it totally isn't
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i am teh pengu1n of d000000m!! ^___^;
*puts on robe and wizard hat*
There is snow on the ground!
*changes AIM away message to something vague and sad- the precursor to horrible facebook statuses*
i love this bitch
i respect this bitch
I'd give him at least the bronze medal for that.
*Pretension intensifies*
I don't remember any beej scenes either
here is said disputed island
say no more, fam, i've closed the tab
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you'll appreciate that.
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i should watch it?
Yes
oooh which classics
Iliad/Odyssey
Campaigns of Caesar
Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Complete Edgar Allen Poe
Divine Comedy
Oediphus
Complete Shakespeare
Count of Monte Cristo
And I'm toying with whether to add the greatest piece of literature ever: Alias
TV Show or TV Show?
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i won't spoil it. go in, sight unseen, and be remade a richer man.
Comic Book
I played the maritime-themed video game sequel, I think the impact is lessened for me.
Stick a fork in me I'm done
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you are basically the best teenage girl i've ever seen
Your recommendation of She-Hulk reminded me I should put Ms Marvel there. The whole pre-Battleworld run fine?
that is, the book contains a $20
Ayn Rand doesn't countenance any of this communist 'spiritual wealth' malarkey
I will read these others cuz I have read 2 of these and they are dope
Thx u
How I shake this feeling of having made terrible mistake about life decisions and feeling like idiota tho
Ms Marvel is great and worth picking up, and She-Hulk only ran for 12 issues, so there's no post-Battleworld book as yet.
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Hellboy
Hellblazer (If by some weird twist of fate you've never read any of it, pick up All His Engines to see if you like the tone. Solid self-contained story.)
Cable/Deadpool
Cassandra Cain run of Batgirl
Fables was pretty good for awhile
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didn't read much past ennis
the first little arc after his is only okay
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Planet Hulk
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I'd like to think that's unrealistic but it totally isn't
This one.
This one.
And this one.