Darth Fluffy

I lucked into some good berries; blackberries, normally $2.99 for 6 oz, 4 packages for $5. Also, large packages of large, juicy, sweet, flavorful strawberries, the size of plums, $5 an lb. I've never seen ones like this before, must be something new. Usually large ones, smaller than these, lack flavor.

I agree with that, I'm just saying, the notion of Tabouli came from somewhere.

aka, "What the #e11 are we going to do with all of this parsley?"

A couple of my eggplant dishes came out fine, seasoning seems to be vital. I love eggplant parmesan. Middle Eastern and Mediterranean places often use eggplant well as an ingredient. Tabouli, on the other hand, seems to be tricky to do right. I rarely find one I like. Mostly too sour.

... and maybe unintentionally ...

I've had good eggplant dishes, and my failure to duplicate those results is more a reflection of my lack of culinary skills than the nature of the vegetable.

I did not think that was significant, now I'm not sure. "Your name is 'Not Sure' ..."

Fried the last thin slice of eggplant for lunch, made a sandwich. No seasoning, just cheese. Wasn't terrible, but it benefits from seasoning. I basically like it, but it took too long to go through; would not do again soon.

You need one of those old school unabridged dictionaries with the really thin soft pages that they had in libraries.

Abby, ... Abby Nermal.

"You are nothing but a collection of facts about words! I will use your pages when the toilet paper runs out! And to start the grill! Your mother contained the words 'smelt' and 'elderberries'!". Now, time to make lunch. I'm glad I averted violence.

You answered my riddle, "Man"; you may have your LAN cable.

You're shipping me where?

BAT DOUCH!!! ADO BUTCH!!! A DUTCH BO!!! ... the mind is a terrible thing ,,,

The mind is a terrible thing, so let's get wasted. Lulz In COBOLs heyday, subroutine handling was not at its best, and nothing much supported recursion. LISP, one of the oldest computer languages is an exception. LISP was not written as a computer language, it was written as an algorithm description language, and then, "Hey, we could implement this on a computer." I read a good case for "All languages aspire to be LISP". Web enabled COBOLScript Query Language. ... As you open the door, you hear a guttural chatter. You can vaguely make out hideous figures, for the most part thankfully obscured by their cloaks. The COBOLDs cease their discussion, and turn to confront you. Several pairs of beady black eyes stare back at you. Roll for initiative. ... ... Your wizards find it difficult to make sense of the COBOLDs' verbose incantations. Counterspells are surprisingly ineffective. If only one of your number could follow this archaic tongue, and make sense of it! ... ...As the last of the COBOLDs is dispatched, you are grateful for the knowledge that this battle will not recur. ...

Sam was not very open, I doubt he told Sarah.

Have you ever actually used COBOL? It's archaic, but it is a procedural language, hence does pretty much what any other procedural language does. The main problem with it is that it is built around stuff that no one does any more. It can handle punchcard-centric I/O like nobody's business. I've actually met Grace Hooper. That was a thing, wasn't it? No, I had entirely forgotten that. Politics is more about 'stick it where the sun don't shine' than about sunshine. Yes, we need Visual COBOL ++.

I did steamed and the fried mixed veggies in rice yesterday with some shredded chicken. I liked that. I steamed some diced brussel sprouts today without frying, they were disappointing. I like the flavor frying adds.

There are $ome good counterargument$ to that. ... and a day without sunshine isn't 'day'. Well, you know what they say, no GNUs is good GNUs. ... or a recording.

I'm over 450 in doggie years. That's just a ruff calculation.

Young whipper snapper! Get off my lawn!

They had around half a dozen hits. "One" (... is the loneliest number, ...), "Black and white", "Try a little tenderness", and "Nobody". They had a hiatus in the late 70s, but they are still around. Kind of like great, great grandpa's ax ... every part has been replaced ...

SCO Xenix was available at the time for the IBM compatibles, although it was not cheap. Remember "COBOL programmers needed for Y2K"? I'm not sure I follow this. GNU tends to be slow to roll out, and I'd blame delays and half baked releases before I'd blame 'superior design' as a flaw. OTOH, if you're right, and 'superior design' is truly a cause of GNU non-acceptance, is the design actually superior? Maybe the theory is flawed.

Gary Kildall. I don't think it is a fair criticism. What made sense years earlier for nascent 8 bit systems with limited memory was not intended to be ported to larger systems. It didn't make sense when it happened, other than from a marketing P.o.V. CP/M was perceived to be the professional microcomputer system at the time, so to market micros to businesses, IBM wanted something close to being CP/M. They basically did not understand their market. There is no way that their system should have won out. The Atari ST was a much better architecture, but it was built like crap. The Amiga was years ahead of the competition. So was the Mac. "Snatched defeat from the jaws of victory" comes to mind.

I don't believe in sanity claws any more.