From: pillemi on
Lew <noone(a)lewscanon.com> writes:

> ilan wrote:
>> `You seem very clever at explaining words, Sir,' said Alice. `Would you
>> kindly tell me the meaning of the poem called "Jabberwocky"?'
>>
>> From Chapter 6 of _Alice in Wonderland_ by Lewis Carroll.
>
> That is NOT from /Alice in Wonderland/, the correct title of which,
> btw, is /Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/.
>
> That is a quote from /Through the Looking-Glass/, Chapter VI, a
> different book by the same author.

Oops.

I had chapter VI open in my complete compendium of Lewis Carroll. Its
oversized with a green hard cover. It has all of his works in it.

Well spotted.

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ilAn
From: Tom Anderson on
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010, Joshua Cranmer wrote:

> On 06/13/2010 09:45 PM, Lew wrote:
>
>> If you guys are going to argue, at least pick theses that contradict
>> each other. For example, pick different numbers for how many angels can
>> dance on the head of a pin.
>
> 36.3 if it doesn't have a bulbous plastic head, 5417.24 if it does.

No, because clearly 'head' refers to the pointed end, which is never
bulbous and plastic.

tom

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There are about 62 Lego bricks per person of the Earth's population.
From: Tom Anderson on
On Sun, 13 Jun 2010, Joshua Cranmer wrote:

> On 06/13/2010 04:58 PM, Tom Anderson wrote:
>> On Sat, 12 Jun 2010, Joshua Cranmer wrote:
>>
>>> 6. Most other errors: miscoded server providers. I'm not entirely sure
>>> why these are errors, but I'm guessing its to force them to be
>>> propagated to the top-level so that people can fix them.
>>
>> Sorry, i have no idea what errors you're talking about here. What do you
>> mean by 'server'? Could you give a couple of examples?
>
> Typo. It's supposed to be "service" providers.

Okay, cool. I still don't get it, though - what errors are thrown by
misconfigured service providers? Do you mean things like LinkageError and
so on thrown when some service provider jar doesn't match up with the rest
of the environment?

tom

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There are about 62 Lego bricks per person of the Earth's population.
From: Lew on
Tom Anderson wrote:
> No, because clearly 'head' refers to the pointed end, which is never
> bulbous and plastic.

Now you're just being weird.

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Lew
From: pillemi on
Lew <noone(a)lewscanon.com> writes:

> Tom Anderson wrote:
>> No, because clearly 'head' refers to the pointed end, which is never
>> bulbous and plastic.
>
> Now you're just being weird.

That depends on whether he is referring to the big end or the little end.