Gary Robinson's Rants

Matt quotes Hillary Rosen in this article: "But if the labels were to offer music more cheaply and flexibly on the Internet, she said, they feared offending the CD retailers who currently sell 99 percent of recordings."

There is a great analogy here. When air transportation came along, train companies thought they were in the train business, not the transportation business. They saw airplanes as a threat. So instead of applying their expertise in managing travel to this new technology, they just hoped air travel would go away.

Those who do not remember history...
11:53:45 AM

My father passed on to me an... er... "appreciation," we'll call it... of a form of... er... "humor," we'll call it... known as the Tom Swifty. Examples:

"Hand me another package," Tom said presently.

And:

"S-s-s-stop!" Tom said haltingly.

This deviant pastime has so infected me that sometimes I find myself compelled to make up my own. Past examples:

"She said I look like a common farm animal!" Tom said sheepishly.

And (note, this one's a bit tricky cuz it's bilingual):

"I've always regretted leaving her standing on that street in Paris," Tom said ruefully.

I may write at some point write a full rant about this and put it in the Rants column on the left of this page. But in any case the main point of all this is that while driving yesterday my wife and I thought of a new one.

"Those damned cannibals! Now they're pouring lemon juice on us!" Tom said sourly.

She didn't think I should post it here. :)

If you have any Tom Swifties you feel compelled to share, let me know and if I can't help myself, I'll post them.
9:08:40 AM

A joke for programmers only:

Why can't a programmer tell the difference between Christmas and Halloween? Because 25 Dec = 31 Oct. Source: Michael Swaine in Feb/02 Dr. Dobb's Journal.
8:53:43 AM

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