On 25/07/2017 00:15, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
Then we could easily say "I think this feature
would benefit Lucie, would hurt Raimundo, and would not affect Sara at
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having
nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had
no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice
"without pictures or or conversations, or R scripts or automatically generated Gnuplot or
Python plots?
So, Alice started to write a book using the wildly popular & largely known LyX text editor, allowing her to embed
Animated contents and even interactive chats within chapters of her new book, which she loves to exchange with Bob the
Lizzard. Although, Bob is used to write so fast, to get to annoy every one with its resounding theme sounds for each and
every key press, to the point that Alice likes to send him chapters incorporating little jokingly hazardous scripts that,
when previewed on the screen, cause Bob's sound volume to definitely shutdown (via removal of the snd-* ALSA drivers from
the kernel through a root escalation exploit, but that's an unimportant technical detail). Bob would never try to preview
nor compile those chapters, if it were not for the carefully placed and beautifully decorated "PUSH ME" labels
that Alice placed on Bob's "View" button in the application Toolbar (if you're curious, other carefully crafted
icons included "DRINK ME" and "ORANGE MARMELADE" in the same toolbar, all of them calling external
'needauth' converters), when she helped out with LyX installation on his Linux box, quite a though task for a Lizard. So,
there he goes, pressing that button over and over again through the day.
However, despite the apparent risks coming from the encrypted arguments of the Caterpillar, Alice
and Bob didn't realize how much should they have been suspicious about the seemingly harmless and
well-educated tea sessions they regularly had with Mallory the Mad Hatter, who used to like to
confuse their little unaware friends with innocent paragraphs like: You might just as well say that
"I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see." Albeit literally
interesting, Alice would fail to realize the full extent of the so big and remarkable differences
in the font size between the two seemingly and confusingly self-resembling paragraphs, which, at a
closer look (i.e., zoom at least 15000x in the preferences/settings pane), would indeed be
recognized in their very nature of peculiar R and Gnuplot insets embedding scripts able to produce
original hand-crafted output images with the contents just mentioned before, in addition to little,
unforgettable changes to Alice and Bob home directories...
... hope you like it as a start ;-P ...
T.
