Category: Whimsy

  • It’s a Mad World

    All around me are familiar faces--
     ... worn out places
     ... worn out faces.
    
    Bright and early for their daily races--
     ... going nowhere
     ... going nowhere.
    
    Their tears are filling up their glasses--
     ... no expression.
     ... no expression.
    
    Hide my head I wanna drown my sorrow--
     ... no tomorrow
     ... no tomorrow.
    
    And I find it kind of funny;
     I find it kind of sad--
    that the dreams in which I'm dyin' are the best I've ever had.
    
    I find it hard to tell you;
     I find it hard to take--
    when people run in circles it's a very very--
    
    ... mad world.
    
    Children waiting for the day they feel good--
      "Happy birthday."
      "Happy birthday."
    
    And to feel the way that every child should--
      "Sit and listen."
      "Sit and listen."
    
    Went to school and I was very nervous--
      No one knew me.
      No one knew me.
    Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson?
      Look right through me.
      Look right through me.
    
    
    And I find it kind of funny;
     I find it kind of sad--
    that the dreams in which I'm dyin' are the best I've ever had.
    I find it hard to tell you;
     'cuz find it hard to take--
    when people run in circles it's a very very--
    ... mad world.
    
    And I find it kind of funny;
     I find it kind of sad--
    that the dreams in which I'm dyin' are the best I've ever had.
    I find it hard to tell you;
     'cuz find it hard to take--
    when people run in circles it's a very very--
    ... mad world.
    ... mad world.
    ... mad world.
    
    
    
    
  • Rabbit-hole: From DNS To Hacker Wisdom

    Waiting for a DNS change today, using <tt>dig</tt> to check the propagation, did a `man dig`, found mention of Chaosnet and Hesiod classes,

    the latter having been developed within the Athena Project, which also gave us the X Window System:

    In 1984, Bob Scheifler and Jim Gettys set out the early principles of X:[2]

    • Do not add new functionality unless an implementor cannot complete a real application without it.

    • It is as important to decide what a system is not as to decide what it is. Do not serve all the world’s needs; rather, make the system extensible so that additional needs can be met in an upwardly compatible fashion.

    • The only thing worse than generalizing from one example is generalizing from no examples at all.

    • If a problem is not completely understood, it is probably best to provide no solution at all.

    • If you can get 90 percent of the desired effect for 10 percent of the work, use the simpler solution. (See also Worse is better.)

    • Isolate complexity as much as possible.

     

    Wisdom for the aging.