I had an interesting dream that took place in a mall. As with many other recent dreams, there was a lot of drama going on; I don't remember much of what happened. The mall was huge, like the Mall of America, which I've only once visited in real life. Possibly the mall in my dream was even bigger than that.
With the poems I found on requiem's hard drive, I now have the astonishing number of 109 poems and songs I have written from 1996 to the present (although 89 of those were written in 1998). I've certainly still lost a number of other poems, but not on requiem's hard drive.
Having wc handy, I found that the single epic "Existence and Uniqueness" is twice as long as all the poems I wrote in 1998 put together. I'm not sure which is sadder.
I think one song there is pretty funny, though. Actually, it's really funny. Maybe I should do some more research and produce an updated version.
It is really interesting how many of those poems are parallel to things that happened later. In some cases, you could also call them prophetic. Recently I was writing about Aeneid II and the Fall of Troy; I thought that some of the aspects I mentioned were new (in that I hadn't written about them before, not that nobody had written about them before). But there they are, in my poems "Aeneas" and "Fuit Ilium" from 1998.
I posted a resume on Craig's List.
Peter Junger and Ian Goldberg had the following exchange about the "false" program on dvd-discuss:
In article <200106151833.OAA01441@samsara.law.cwru.edu>, Peter D. Junger <dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu> wrote: >You might want to contrast that with the GNU version of ``false'': > > > >File: sh-utils.info, Node: false invocation, Next: true invocation, >Up: Cond\itions > >`false': Do nothing, unsuccessfully >=================================== > > `false' does nothing except return an exit status of 1, meaning >"failure". It can be used as a place holder in shell scripts where an >unsuccessful command is needed. > > `false' ignores _all_ command line arguments, even `--help' and >`--version', since to do otherwise would change expected behavior that >some programmers may be relying on. > > This version of `false' is implemented as a C program, and is thus >more secure and faster than a shell script implementation, and may >safely be used as a dummy shell for the purpose of disabling accounts. Not the version I've got: $ false --help Usage: false [ignored command line arguments] or: false OPTION Exit with a status code indicating failure. These option names may not be abbreviated. --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit Report bugs to <bug-sh-utils@gnu.org>. $ false --version false (GNU sh-utils) 2.0 Written by no one. Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
To which Richard Hartman replied:
> -----Original Message----- > From: iang@abraham.cs.berkeley.edu ... > $ false --version > false (GNU sh-utils) 2.0 > Written by no one. > > Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. > There is NO > warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A > PARTICULAR PURPOSE. > You mean if "false" _doesn't_ fail, it's not their fault? ;-)
There is now an infrastructure for downloadable packages, although there are no packages to download. :-)
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