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O specie de lemur a fost numita dupa John Cleese. Dupa mine probabil o specie de lenes va fi numita.

Andrei Plesu, “Comédii la portile Orientului“, Humanitas, 2005

“Ce inseamna, de fapt, Comédii la portile Orientului ? Inseamna mai multe: umor tonic, haz vehement, ochi critic fixat asupra subrezeniilor indigene, verva cotropitoare, limbaj luxuriant si un farmec al rostirii care nu se obtine din dictionare si compendii. Aveti de-a face, asadar, cu un volum de gala. Rostul lui e sa ne binedispuna si sa ne reconecteze la literatura pura. Caci dincolo de eventuala lor miza pedagogic-moralizatoare, Comédiile asta sunt: bucati sau mai degraba bucate literare, din care nu lipseste nici o mirodenie si care alcatuiesc un ospat inubliabil.
Andrei Plesu descrie o Romanie fara fard, dezbracata de sclipici si livrata cu toate scrantelile, ezitarile, boacanele, excesele si abdicarile ei postdecembriste. O Romanie haotica si deliranta, ambigua si abrupta, hazlie si inconsecventa. Un spatiu al candorilor si al coniventelor, al farafastacului pompos si al formei fara fond.”

A incetat din viata romancierul britanic John Fowles.

John Fowles, autorul cunoscutului roman “Iubita Locotenentului Francez”, a decedat la varsta de 79 de ani. Romancierul britanic lasa in urma o cariera de peste 40 de ani si mai multe carti care sunt considerate de referinta pentru literatura moderna.
John Fowles si-a inceput activitatea ca profesor, in anii 50. Primul sau roman, “Colectionarul”, a fost publicat in 1963 si a devenit imediat un succes de public.

Rest In Peace.

The civil war in Rio de Janeiro’s suburbs (’70s), as seen by a native photographer. Pretty terrifying stuff.

roger ebert
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Wired Magazine’s reporter Simson Garkfinkel (reminds me of Mrs. Robinson, or The Sound of Silence) compiled a list with the most severe software bugs.
Nice, I did not know them all.

Doctorul iese din sala de nasteri cu un copil. Il tinea atarnat de un picior. Tatal incremenit. Doctorul loveste copilul de primul perete, il ia de maini si il da cu capul de usa. Tatal este terifiat. Sange peste tot, doctorul rade sinistru, tatal la un prag de infarct.
Doctorul devine brusc serios si compatimitor : “Haideti d-le, nu mai stiti de gluma?! A murit la nastere.”

A pregnant woman wound up in an automobile accident that put her into a coma. She awoke out of her coma to find she was no longer pregnant. She asked the doctors, “What happened to my baby?”
The doctors told her she had delivered twins, one boy and one girl while in her coma. “Where are my babies?” she cried.
The doctors assured her the babies were healthy and fine and that her brother came to the hospital, named the babies for her and is caring for them in his home.
The woman replied “My Brother??? Bubba’s a moron!”
“What names did he give the children?”
The doctors told her the girl was named “Denise”.
The woman asked “What name did he give the boy?”
The doctors replied, “Denephew.”

An old cowboy dressed to kill with cowboy shirt, hat, jeans, spurs and chaps went to a bar and ordered a drink. As he sat there sipping his whiskey, a young lady sat down next to him. After she ordered her drink she turned to the cowboy and asked him, “Are you a real cowboy?”

“Well, I have spent my whole life on the ranch herding cows, breaking horses, mending fences… I guess I am,” replied the cowboy.

After a short while he asked her what she was. “I’ve never been on a ranch so I’m not a cowboy, but I am a lesbian. I spend my whole day thinking about women. As soon as I get up in the morning I think of women, when I eat, shower, watch TV, everything seems to make me think of women,” said the young woman.

A short while later she left and the cowboy ordered another drink. A couple sat down next to him and asked, “Are you a real cowboy?”

“I always thought I was, but I just found out that I’m a lesbian.”

A bit late, I must admit.
Apparently, the law of grafity is just a baloney. When you fall, you fall not because Earth’s grafity is pulling your nose towards the catwalk.

Here’s a quote of the article:

“Let’s take a look at the evidence,” said ECFR senior fellow Gregory Lunsden.”In Matthew 15:14, Jesus says, ‘And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.’ He says nothing about some gravity making them fall—just that they will fall. Then, in Job 5:7, we read, ‘But mankind is born to trouble, as surely as sparks fly upwards.’ If gravity is pulling everything down, why do the sparks fly upwards with great surety? This clearly indicates that a conscious intelligence governs all falling.”

Leslie Lamport (of Microsoft Research) has performed research on the hair color in France, and came to these amazing results, summarized in a very nice paper (including some tart-charts).

By far the most interesting research coming from our friend, Microsoft.

(Thanks, Anda.)