Making Light :: Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Three) :: comments http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008060.html#comments Language, fraud, folly, truth, history, and knitting. Et cetera. en Fri, 06 Oct 2006 19:20:42 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=3.33 Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Three) Okay, can't leave that Particle alone . . . English is the noise made by people who don't believe you... Okay, can't leave that Particle alone . . . English is the noise made by people who don't believe you... http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/008060.html Mike Ford: Occasional Works (Pt. Three) -- comment #1 from xeger comment from xeger on 1.Oct.06

English is a text parser�s way of getting faster processors built.

... and dammit! My processor just isn't fast enough!

Posted October 1, 2006 1:25 AM by xeger

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Dives and Lazarus and Folksongs are your friends were the best threads ever. Those threads helped me keep it together last year while I was watching my employer (the company I founded) slowly fall apart, and waiting to be laid off on the planned schedule.

Mike was a catalyst; everyone wrote better and more wittily, trying to come up with something like he would write, and then he'd come along and top it.

Posted October 1, 2006 2:35 PM by Clifton Royston

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Holy schemoly, I loved that guy's off-the-cuff brilliance. Wasn't there a handy forum he had where he posted tips for aspiring writers? Can anybody point me there?

Posted October 2, 2006 1:44 AM by Michael Roberts

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I died by lysergic . . . oh nevermind

Literally. My gut exploded from laughter like a polish sausage tragically left in a malfunctioning microwave. Oh what a wonderful way to go! Laughter is wonderful.

Posted October 6, 2006 7:20 PM by miles c

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