On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:11 PM, LiteStar numnums <lites...@gmail.com>wrote:
> The committee is forming a subcommittee to finalize committee membership, > which will then create a standard with which you can put things on top of > other things. The committee will be made up of thing-putters who each have > their own implementation, and we'll leave a good portion of the details > "implementation defined", and call it Common Thing. > > We will then begin work on ANSI Common Thing, ISO Common Thing, Common > Thing the Thing 1,2,3,...N & you will still need to read the Steel Bank > Common Thing library to figure out the correct thing putter attributes... > Sadly, I believe I've worked on such projects. > > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:59 PM, J.R. Mauro <jrm8...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Bruce Ellis <bruce.el...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > That seems to be endemic. People putting things on top of other >> > things. Which reminds me that people aren't wearing enough hats! >> >> There's a committee for putting things on top of other things, isn't >> there? >> >> > >> > brucee >> > >> > On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:37 AM, Akshat Kumar >> > <aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net> wrote: >> >> I just wanted to see it in a box with blue borders amidst other >> multi-colored >> >> boxes with blue borders, atop the sea of grey. >> >> >> >> 2009/3/13 Steve Simon <st...@quintile.net>: >> >>> It just generates a gmap map or satellite image of the place you name, >> >>> try http://maps.google.com to see a demo. >> >> >> >> ak >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> >> > > > -- > And in the "Only Prolog programmers will find this funny" department: > > Q: How many Prolog programmers does it take to change a lightbulb? > > A: No. > -- Ovid > > "By cosmic rule, as day yields night, so winter summer, war peace, > plenty famine. All things change. Air penetrates the lump of myrrh, until > the joining bodies die and rise again in smoke called incense." > > "Men do not know how that which is drawn in different directions > harmonises with itself. The harmonious structure of the world depends upon > opposite tension like that of the bow and the lyre." > > "This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god > or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, > kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures" > -- Heraclitus >
