Carlos, On Friday 02 March 2007 15:54, Carlos E. R. wrote: > The Friday 2007-03-02 at 13:24 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote: > > > > Que es mas macho? Pineapple or knife? > > > > -- Laurie Anderson > > > > > > Never heard that. > > > > Young'un, eh? I had the good fortune of seeing her perform live > > twice and attend one of her art installations at UCLA. I don't know > > what she's up to, now. > > No, simply I'm not american, thus my knowledge of your culture is > limited. I just looked her up in the wikipedia. Not my kind of music, > anyway... I'm listening to parts from "La belle au bois dormant" (P. > Tschaikowsky) right now, in fact.
Well, I was just kidding. Laurie Anderson has always been a minority taste, but there _is_ great music both from still-living artitsts _and_ from non-Europeans (living or not)... > But I was refering to that saying you excerpted. It's not a saying, as such. It's a line from one of her songs. It came to mind in the context of juxtaposing incommensurates. > ... > > He said many things, some I might agree (a bit), some not. But he > also expressed the view that present day software is bloated, abusing > the fact that most hardware is better than yesteryear and they can > get away with it - and some of us more or less think the same. I usually consider that a glib criticism that rarely comes from programmers who, much as they want to write tight code, must balance the requirement for producing correct code with the desire for efficient code all in the face of stringent, often unrealistic, scheduling constraints. > -- > Cheers, > Carlos E. R. Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
