This is fun:
King James Programming
A randomly-generated mashup of the King James Bible and a computer programming text.
Abstractly, we can imagine that the values used for test-divisor should not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be as it becometh the gospel of Christ.
Possibly my fave:
And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, designing the remainder of the result of the procedure application when the formal parameters of the procedure have the body and blood of the bullock, and put it on a candlestick, that they which are accounted to tradition and I will stain all began of David, king in Jerusalem.
Or this:
For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even mention “classes” or “inheritance.”
NPR just announced that Nelson Mandela has died.
The announcer sounded like she was choking up.
I was just coming to post that.
Oh, man.
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Wow, he was 95? I didn't realize that.
Uh-oh - someone at NBC hit the "publish" button a little too soon:
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Screenshot in case they've fixed it by now
Oh, dear, my first reaction was "He was still alive?" Definitely a man who had a good run.
Timelies all!
Felt well enough to go to work today.(though I slept poorly again last night) Must have been a bug.
Oh no! So sad.
....But also brings me back to meetings I had for a full year a while ago where the Anonymous News-y Documentary Show I worked on reported every month that they had the Mandela bio ready to re-run....just in case.
Is it really sad when a 95 year old man dies? It's not really untimely, though it is a sadness for his family. More a chance for an honorable farewell.
