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Nov. 14th, 2004 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
felis_ultharusWell, right now, in the other room, my roommate and a friend of his are constructing a computer for me. I'll be paying him back for it by letting him off bills -- but it was far more expensive than we expected, and I'm really grateful to Matt for absorbing the cost, arranging everything, and helping to build it.
I never got a call from the guy who was going to do data recovery for me, but Matt's friend thinks he can do that as well. Anyway, I now have 25 chapters on audio, so it's not as much of a worry if I don't recover it -- I have enough to do a reconstruction.
Anyway, I'm nearing the end of my Leacock book. This is all from Short Circuits:
On the way extinct animals will be seen 2000 years from now:
"Professor Plink, the famous authority on zoölogical remains remains of the twentieth century, is of the opinion that the horse was unable to fly. "It is difficult," he said, in a lecture delivered in the monkey-house of the Zoo last evening, "to conceive that the horse's legs could make more than three revolutions to the second."
On adapting the story of Adam and Eve for film:
"But we consider that Adam himself would get over better if he represented a more educated type and we wish therefore to make Adam a college man, preferably from a western university.
We think similarly that the pricipal female character, Eve, would appeal more directly to the public if it was made clear that she was an independent woman with an avocation of her own. We propose to make her a college teacher of the out of door woodland dances now so popular in leading women's universities."
On the world as seen by an obsessed stamp collector:
"The Earth, on which we collect stamps, is organized by the International Postal Union, which divides it up into countries. The postal Union turns on its axis every twenty-four hours, thus creating night and day."
I never got a call from the guy who was going to do data recovery for me, but Matt's friend thinks he can do that as well. Anyway, I now have 25 chapters on audio, so it's not as much of a worry if I don't recover it -- I have enough to do a reconstruction.
Anyway, I'm nearing the end of my Leacock book. This is all from Short Circuits:
On the way extinct animals will be seen 2000 years from now:
"Professor Plink, the famous authority on zoölogical remains remains of the twentieth century, is of the opinion that the horse was unable to fly. "It is difficult," he said, in a lecture delivered in the monkey-house of the Zoo last evening, "to conceive that the horse's legs could make more than three revolutions to the second."
On adapting the story of Adam and Eve for film:
"But we consider that Adam himself would get over better if he represented a more educated type and we wish therefore to make Adam a college man, preferably from a western university.
We think similarly that the pricipal female character, Eve, would appeal more directly to the public if it was made clear that she was an independent woman with an avocation of her own. We propose to make her a college teacher of the out of door woodland dances now so popular in leading women's universities."
On the world as seen by an obsessed stamp collector:
"The Earth, on which we collect stamps, is organized by the International Postal Union, which divides it up into countries. The postal Union turns on its axis every twenty-four hours, thus creating night and day."
