55 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. my sister was born that year.
    we used to paraphrase it as Mrs. M. youve got a lovely daughter .
    yikes so long ago. I was 10 at the time.

  3. Dennis miller has had Peter neun on several times. Seems like a great and brilliant guy with thousands of stories to tell. The one that I found most notable is he has a picture of himself and eighteen other rockers taken back in the day. He is the only one left alive.

  4. What’s this I hear about Khadafy visiting Newfoundland? He’s looking for a place to pitch his tent. The Newfies seem excited to see him. Wait til they find out he doesn’t drink screech.

  5. Wearing a suit looks, so neat, don’t see that much anymore. As I remember it, so did Mrs. L have a lovely daughter and she agreed to marry me the year before Herman sang this, in 1964.

  7. Cool!I first heard this song from my parents.They loved the Beatles also.I was born in August 1969.The summer of love!

  11. Isn’t it a George Formby song? I think Hermans Hermits did a couple of his songs. “Sitting on a corner by a lampost…” etc. Formby did a ton of movies and played his ukulele in all of them. He was a huge influence on the Beatles. You hear his style of writing in a lot of their earlier songs. Paul especially seemed to write a lot of songs in Formbys Music Hall style. Wings material has Formbys fingerprints all over it. George Harrison always traveled with 2 ukeleles in case he met someone else who played. After Carl Perkins, George Formby was probably George Harrisons biggest influence.
    Then again. I could be wrong.

  12. 1965 was a very good year.
    I got a job in the computer business then. Thought it was a job for life.
    Who would have known that mainframes would die out like the dinosaurs – very quickly?

  17. Yesterday was a DJ EBD show, SDH: he’s your go-to DJ for the Celtic stuff. Unfortunately I don’t properly grok that genre. Still, there’s a whole new week of great new SDA Late Nite Radio shows already in the works, culminating in DJ EBD’s show next Wednesday nite. So stay tuned for the best in its class of nightly late-nite blog radio, courtesy of our lovely and gracious hostess Kate. And as always, don’t forget to tip your waitress and the doorman as you depart from another lovely evening here at Le Club Chez SDA Late Nite Radio.

  20. God, it really was pretty tame wasn’t it? Insipid even, but it was him and Cliff Richards and the like, I was more interested in getting my driver’s licence.

  23. Fair enough, Foobert, and I certainly have personal responsibility for virtual machines on multiple continents. Still, and again speaking personally, I think that the BRL ESC is the best desktop computer ever. What? It’s on a desk top, isn’t it? Too bad about the Burroughs 9000 though. That was a really good architecture. Oh well, these things happen. What really cracks me up is that last week was the 50’th anniversary of COBOL. Grace Hopper. I wrote some COBOL code for the DMS-10 for Bell-Northern Research in ’78 (I still have the listings). And COBOL is still in use in serious non-trivial applications all over the world. You can see why we engineers develop a longer-term perspective than marketing does. We have to support the shit long after they’ve sold it and since f*cked off.

  24. “According to industry estimates, some 60-80% of the worlds enterprises rely on COBOL for their mission-critical business applications.”
    http://tinyurl.com/y9cmyf4
    COBOL – not the language you want to use to write a game.
    PS: Most PDA’s don’t run COBOL.

  26. The Iron Law of Institutions is a proposition in the field of political science. The proposition states that the people who hold power in institutions are guided principally by preserving power *within* the institution, rather than the success of the institution itself. As originally stated, there is some ambiguity between whether the people who control the institution are prepared to ignore the success of the institution, or its power. However, in most cases it may be safely assumed that the two things being ignored amount to the same thing.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_institutions
    H/T Jerry Pounelle

  28. Pournelle’s Iron Law of Bureaucracy states that in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representative who work to protect any teacher including the most incompetent. The Iron Law states that in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions.
    The only reason I know of Jerry is from BYTE magazine, back when choosing specific components was critical to getting specific software to work.

  29. andycanuck, that hoard is awesome.
    It makes me realize a few things. Firstly the beauty of gold, and if you bury it in the ground and pull it out in a thousand years, it looks essentially the same as the day you buried it.
    Also – art is forever. Some of those pieces are beyond exquisite.

  30. andycanuck – that’s a helluva find. Now I’m getting my archaeology news from SDA – thanks.

  32. So many fond memories with this Sixties music.
    Wow! I had no idea so many of us were ‘of that era’ at SDA.That explains the cumulative wisdom.
    😉

  33. I = O = Narcissists.
    “Narcissieff in the mirror of politics
    My own sense is that he’ll make a seriously bad candidate, due to what I’d call his narcissism. This isn’t so much about adoring yourself, as being so self-absorbed that your sense of how others react to you goes missing. A therapist I know says it usually involves “a great deal of self-referencing. A real other doesn’t exist except as an extension of themselves.” This won’t be useful when you’re asking for people’s votes, against other candidates.
    For instance: “I’ve been lucky in my life to meet famous people.” And, “I just pick up the phone and call some of my friends in his [the Obama] administration.” As if we should be impressed, or envious. He recounted how witty he and the Prez got with each other (“He said, rather amusingly …”). And how the President complimented him on things he’d written, which “made this particular Canadian author feel pretty good.” That stuff may go down well with adoring audiences at author readings but, in politics, it’s better to have your flunkies leak it for you. We’re not at Harbourfront any more, Toto.”
    Rick Salutin
    urlm.in/dbsl
    …-
    “Barack Obama – Narcissist or Merely Narcissistic?”
    http://www.globalpolitician.com/25109-barack-obama-elections

  34. A-Tent-tion: Lock up your goats.
    …-
    “Statesmen
    A few posts ago I remarked that the world had gotten funny without my being able to laugh. I wrote, “The subjects have become so fantastic they are almost unreal. It’s like a horror movie where everybody is inexplicably funny. Maybe I should go have a beer.” The NY Post reports that a UN interpreter may need two six packs to recover his sanity after trying to interpret for Khadafy.
    After struggling to turn Khadafy’s insane ramblings at the UN into English for 75 minutes, the Libyan dictator’s personal interpreter got lost in translation. “I just can’t take it any more,” Khadafy’s interpreter shouted into the live microphone – in Arabic.
    At that point, the U.N.’s Arabic section chief, Rasha Ajalyaqeen, took over and translated the final 20 minutes of the speech. “His interpreter just collapsed – this is the first time I have seen this in 25 years,” another U.N. Arabic interpreter told The Post.
    I’m afraid that as statesmen go, we ain’t seen nothing yet.”
    http://pajamasmedia.com/richardf…9/24/statesmen/
    Capture the pic of K-Narcissieff’s alter ego.

  35. “Another Obamacrat NeoCommie Apparatchik Falls”
    They’re dropping like flies now. More and more to follow.
    The National Endowment for the Arts said Thursday that its communications director, Yosi Sergant, has resigned.
    “This afternoon Yosi Sergant submitted his resignation from the National Endowment for the Arts. His resignation has been accepted and is effective immediately,” said a spokeswoman, Sally Gifford, in a statement.
    Sergant, who helped make artist Shepard Fairey’s “Hope” image ubiquitous as an organizer of Obama campaign support from artists, had seemed to mix the NEA’s work — essentially non-partisan politics — with the administration’s legislative agenda on a conference call reported on by Andrew Breitbart’s new conservative site, Big Government.
    “I would encourage you to pick something, whether it’s health care, education, the environment, you know, there’s four key areas that the corporation has identified as the areas of service,” Sergant told artists on the call, which he reportedly invited some of them to attend. “My ask would be to apply artistic, you know, your artistic creative communities utilities and bring them to the table,” he said.
    Shameful, trying to recruit/organize “artists” to be Regime propagandists.
    Wonder if there’ll be a Regime propaganda filmmaker? The Nazis had one, you know… some chick named Leni Riefensthal, I believe it was… Hell, maybe this is the position to which Yosi will be reappointed, just like Comrade Van Jones was reappointed as a reward for his loyalty and as compensation for his “resignation”, too…
    Below is some artwork I believe is more real-world accurate:” (More)
    http://thecanadiansentinel.blogspot.com/

  36. Posted by: Rick in MB at September 24, 2009 11:16 PM
    That is what dual tuner PVRs are for man!
    See Iggy, hit pause, swap to other tuner for a few minutes. Watch something palitable like a test pattern. Swap back, hit “Live” tv.
    No mo Iggy

  37. Bluetech @ 6:45
    Let’s not forget that there goes with that, a large accumulation of Bullsh*t

  38. I think the recent BC court decision to de facto legalize polygamy in Canada is worth more attention.

  44. Thanks, Vit.
    Reminds me of long family car trips – “I’m Henry the 8th I am” was a favourite of my sisters’ and mine.
    Once, we got to “32nd verse, same as the 31st “ before Dad bellowed at us to stop.

  47. I see when I look at pictures of George Formby they are split between the Ukulele and banjolet. I’ve seen him play both in movies but to my memory he played mostly ukelele.
    I fall back on irrefutable proof that he was a ukulele player by referring you to his autobiographical song “I’m The Ukulele Man”. Which is as good as swearing on the Bible. 🙂
    Nice to see some people interested in Visualization. I have been poking around with it for a couple years. It’s interesting to see what a few IBM Blade Servers can do utilizing VMWare. What used to take up an entire room now sits in a closet.

  49. PM Harper has anounced Canada will also host the G20 summit in Huntsville,Ont. along with the G8
    **Will Ignatieff’s Liberals push for an election now? You bet your bippy they will as being the Natural Governing party of Canada, Liberals will feel that only they are Entitled & qualified to to host a summit of world leaders. Afterall PM Harper has let us down on the world stage.

  50. We will be hosting bith the G8 and G20. But,but,but,just last week Herman Iggster said Canada was losing it’s stature on the international stage.

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