Dang, I guess I'm being ignorant here; WTH is Shuttleworth? Yeah, man, shoulda googled up Beowulf. Hey, I have both OE and illustrated OE editions of Beowulf here at da house. Language is akin to German, but don't hold me to accurate translations these days, as it's been 16 years.
Beowulf was a fully mature adult male subject in what is now southern Denmark/northern Deutschland. And vee haff a six-foot tall blonde blue-eyed Deutsch fraulein kommen sie heer in April as und exchange student for a few months. Also OFF-LIMITS. Ja, I am bitter. Und old gross-vader. But hey, let's get this band of brothers together, drum up some VC and build us a Beowulf cluster for somebody. What a blast! State gummint? Nien, Dumbkopfen. Wass ist HUMCTC Adult Swim? Hell, I can barely tread wottuh. This, despite Aircrew Survival Training circa 1974. But memories will stay with me unto the grave of falling through the ice at, of all places, Walden Pond when I was 14. Not recommended. Don't even try this at home, kidz. Breath is sucked right outta ya immediately and winter clothes are immediately soaked and cold is down to yer marrow. I came up and tried to crawl back onto the ice and it broke under me several times and I thought I was done. Some guy showed up with a frigging rake (in the dead of winter) and hauled me out. Half hour back to da house and warm wottuh bath. fotty-one years ago and never forgotten. Wife's issue is NEVER vanity, but she still laffs at our still-falling snow upon fields and pines. As for Linux, I just recently found out that KDE is available fer WinDoze? Anyone have some experience wid dat? Curious. Old Farmer Dave On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Paul Flint <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear David, > > Talk about truth to power.... > > On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, David Hardy wrote: > > Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:03:16 -0500 >> From: David Hardy <[email protected]> >> >> WTF is a "Canonical Solutions Provider"? I thought I was sorta up-to-date >> on all the acronyms. >> >> Canonical is Shuttleworth's commercial arm. > > And Paul; I was an English major and grad student and read the stuff in >> the >> original Old English: it ain't "beawolf" cluster, but Beowulf. >> >> Damn, sorry I even Googled it to try to get it right.... > > > He was kind of a tough dude. >> >> Old too as I recall... > > I'd love to work on one of dem projects someday, but hey, too old. >> >> > Aw, maybe just bitter? Come to the Tuesday Adult swim at HUMCTC. > > > Your kind invitation a while back to visit is recalled; I'll give ya a >> buzz after I retrieve wife from the airport Friday night; she's laughing at >> us because it's in the 70s there right now, and she's in the Sheraton's pool >> in Phoenix. >> >> > Ah, vanity, thy name is woman... > > My name is envy! > > > Kindest Regards, > > > > Paul Flint > (802) 479-2360 > > > /************************************ > Based upon email reliability concerns, > please send an acknowledgment in response to this note. > > Paul Flint > Barre Open Systems Institute > 17 Averill Street > Barre, VT > 05641 > > http://www.bosivt.org > http://www.flint.com/home > skype: flintinfotech > Work: (202) 537-0480 > Fax: (703) 852-7089 > > Consilium > gratuitum .~. > valet /V\ > quanti /( )\ > numerantur ^^-^^ >
