PHP5 support and major features by: Arun C. Murthy Gopal Vijayaraghavan Rasmus LerdorfIt's a pleasure to be mentioned in the same list as Rasmus. More interestingly it was part of my day job (eventhough I slack off during the day). So in effect I was paid to write open source !.
All in all, a very productive two week's of hard work !.
Homer: Hey, that's super. See you later. Lisa: Dad, don't you remember? It's our special Saturday. Marge: You agreed to spend one Saturday a month doing something with the kids. Homer: Ohhh. [slaps forehead] ..... Homer: Okay, Bart, it's your turn to pick, where are we headed? Bowling? Demolition derby? P. J. O'Harrigan's? Bart: Hysterical, but I traded my turn to Lisa for her dessert. Homer: D'oh! But we did a Lisa thing last month -- [notices Marge glaring at him, and changes to a happier tone of voice] -- and I'm glad we did. But now I think we should do something that normal people would like. Lisa: Why do you assume that I won't pick something fun? Let's see ... [leafs through newspaper] Oh, this looks very educational. Homer: [groans] ..... Homer: [to Bart] This is all your fault for trading away your turn. Just for that, no dessert tonight. Bart: [to Lisa] Trade you my next turn for your dessert. Lisa: Deal. Homer: D'oh!These guys are just amazing. Also they get all kinds of people to do voices for them. For example , in the episode with the superbowl - they had Rupert Murdoch and Dolly Parton give voice as themselves.
Truly amazing stuff. Stuff like in the episode with the Bi-Mon Sci-Fi Con , you can find kids wearing Futurama tshirts, the police box from Doctor Who - even Tom Baker (the ever loved doctor). Not to mention the favourite - Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) actually endorsing Sprint over AT & T on stage with light saber instead of a laser pointer (oh, how the mighty have fallen, that..). To top it off we see Mark Hammil sing Luke, be a jedi tonight in a top hat (with a light saber instead of the typical vaudeville walking stick).
Simpsons used to air at 5:30 pm every day - which meant that I only got a sparing dose of the cynical satire and that too only on days when I got home on 5. But seeing two or three a day has really kicked it up into high gear. The part that is very interesting about the stories is that half the humor is referential - same things we see in real life , but only from a different perspective.If Douglas Adams had lived, I think he'd have enjoyed Simpsons. Call it wishful thinking, but I think he himself would have worked on a H2G2 spoof episode with Matt Groening. Even I can imagine how that would go - but I like to be surprised.
Simpsons is the best cartoon series for adults that I've EVER seen.Now that WTF is common parlance, everyone uses them - though they'd still write $#!@%& for some other profanity. This is the bad thing about Euphemisms.
In this politically correct world , euphemisms take up around half of my entire vocabulary. Anybody who has seen an Austin Powers movie must have heard the term Shag or those who watched Friends (ever so carefully) must have heard Tush at least once.Euphemisms don't really make offensive words less offensive - they also try to make fun of the other guy's ignorance in another way (In-duh-vidual ?). They remind me of these old people talking stuff spelled out - let's give the B-A-B-Y a bath (ha, back to our acrony expansion thingy). Anyway, they're not better or worse than the original words.
Whatever !
PS: I was seeing Friends (re-re-re run) last night and there was Chandler getting a new bracelet from Joey.
Joey: "You just watch what this does to your sex life"
Chandler: "It'll slow me down for the first couple of days, then I'll get used to the extra weight"
- Microsoft brings out Win2K for PPC
- Apple brings out OS X for x86
The stars :-
- Jesse - John Stamos , Singer, married Becky
- Joey - Dave Coulier , Standup Comedian
- Danny Tanner - Bob Saget , TV Show Host
- Rebecca - Lori Loughlin , TV Show Host
Well, what do you know - this could read the other way too. John Stamos is a singer, played with the Beach Boys. Dave Coulier is the member of a Comedy troupe called Ducksbreath Mystery Theater (*yech*). Unfortunately, Lori Loughlin was an Elite Model (1982), but carries out the wife role really nicely. And the three kids are really real kids - with the flashy older one, clever youngster and cute baby cliche in place. Not to mention the fact that Bob Saget has 3 daughters in real life. And John Stamos did really date Lori Loughlin for some time before he married a real Becky.
That folks is all what Reality TV is all about. And I love it !!.