Tintin & Captain Haddock
Was looking for a Capt Haddock icon for avatar purposes and ran across this. Way cool.
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And brush your teeth
The Blog That Goes Ping » Helpful Advice From A Benevolent Guru:
In the comments to this blog post by Sten K Anderson, which addresses this phenomenon from another perspective (with respect to Joel Spolsky, who’s another Paul Grahamy type), a commenter named Chris Williams says:Â
“You will look back at what you’ve written in ten years and laugh at your naivety. Stop worrying so much about what other people might think, they’re all faking it anyway – even your ‘heroes’. Also, check your spelling.â€
That might be the best guru advice you can possibly get.”
What he said, especially about Kricfalusi-as-guru, though John K has really interesting and excellent taste in cartoons and comics. At least he did when I read it for awhile.
Word of the day
pyroclastic |ËŒpÄ«rÅˈklastik| Geology
adjective
relating to, consisting of, or denoting fragments of rock erupted by a volcano.
DERIVATIVES
pyroclast |ˈpÄ«rÅËŒklast| |ˈpaɪroʊˈkløst| noun
Seen here.
Book, bowdlerized
Now Playing in New Rochelle, “Book, Interrupted”! | New Rochelle’s Talk of the Sound
Students at New Rochelle School High School are going to find it difficult to complete their next assignment: comparing the film adaptation of ‘Girl, Interrupted’ to the best-selling book. In the book, Kaysen recounts her confinement at a Massachussets mental hospital in the 1960’s.
Pages from the middle of the book have been torn out by the school district after having been deemed ‘inappropriate’ by school officials due to sexual content and strong language. Removed is a scene where the rebellious Lisa (played by Angela Jolie in the movie) encourages Susanna (played by Winona Ryder) to circumvent hospital rules against sexual intercourse by engaging in oral sex instead.
‘The material was of a sexual nature that we deemed inappropriate for teachers to present to their students,’ said English Department Chariperson Leslie Altschul, ‘since the book has other redeeming features, we took the liberty of bowdlerizing.’
This is so wrong, on so many levels. I find the casually positive use of “Bowdlerizing” particularly frightening. I live in New Rochelle, my son attends public school here, and this is not a good sign. I’m sending some emails.
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