2006
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Harry: What does this song [Auld Lang Syne] mean? My whole life, I don’t know what this song means. I mean, ‘Should old acquaintance be forgot’? Does that mean that we should forget old acquaintances, or does it mean if we happened to forget them, we should remember them, which is not possible because we already forgot?
Sally: Well, maybe it just means that we should remember that we forgot them or something. Anyway, it’s about old friends.
When Harry Met Sally
The state of his bathroom—I’m not one to gossip, but there are things crusted on his sink that have not simply developed intelligent life but have in all probability by now evolved their own political systems.
Cain in SANDMAN #70, “The Wake” part one
Tio Victor: Imaginate, ahi en el restaurant de la casa de Liz Taylor el platillo mas barato—el mas barato—cuesta 500 pesos! De ahi p’arriba!
Papa: Pues que te daran? Lenguas de jilguero?
Mis hijos? El mas chimuelo masca tuercas, el mas tullido es trapecista y el mas pelon se hace trenzas.
“No puedes corres, quieres vuelas.”—decia la abuela de Toño, mi muy apreciado maestro de frances.
I stumbled upon the .CBR extension some days ago and it was interesting to read its description, via filext:
This is a renamed .RAR file and can be decompressed with any .RAR file utility. The CDisplay program displays the comic book images so it is useful to use for this particular .RAR archive type.
Think about it, to create the ultimate comic-book format you simply wrap together some images (GIFs, JPGs, PNGs) and some (optional) introductory text (a .NFO or a .TXT) in a .RAR file and rename it. That’s it. A batch of pictures has been converted into a black-box, into a comic book. We’ve reified a comic out of thin pixels. That’s all CDisplay needs to let you seamlessly experience those images as a comic, but you could get as baroque in your specification of a file format as you like. For, say, a hypothetical .BIO file-extension used to store people’s biographies, you would specify a .RAR wrap of that person photo (that must be named, say, “mypic”, and must be a JPG), one photo as a kid (named “kidpic”), one photo of each parent (“mompic and “dadpic”), a curriculum vitae (“vitae”, must be a .TXT file),... you get the picture. Half of the magic, of course, resides in the reading-program, but that’s the easy part.
Here are two extra, contradictory advantages of creating file-formats thru .RAR wrapping:
the tying is loose
The elementary constituents are still available to anyone with a .RAR decompressing utility.
the tying is tight
You’re using a compression format after all, so you are probably saving at least a couple of bytes (though the time spent decompressing things on the fly could easily turn this into a disadvantage).
What struck me about this file-extension thing was how such a seemingly low-level nitty-gritty construct as a file-extension can be blackboxed mostly thru the high-level path of drag-and-dropping icons to WinRar.
Yo: Ah! O como te acuerdas de aquello del Principito1?
Chepe: Si! Ay, eso estaria padrisimo. La verdad, yo si hicieran algo asi, yo si iria!
Yo [con la mano en la frente, befuddled]: Queee?!??
1 He aqui el aquello:
Les hommes occupent très peu de place sur la terre. Si les deux milliards d’habitants qui peuplent la terre se tenaient debout et un peu serrés, comme pour un meeting, ils logeraient aisément sur une place publique de vingt milles de long sur vingt milles de large. On pourrait entasser l’humanité sur le moindre petit îlot du Pacifique.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince
Es decir, actualizando los calculos, las aproximadamente 6 billones de personas que hay en el mundo cabrian (holgadamente) en un cuadrado de 80km (dandole poco mas de un metro cuadrado a cada quien).
Tio Tani [por telefono]: Oye char, y tienen luz?
Yo: Ehh… si tio. Claro. Por que? Se le fue la luz? ... Usted tiene en su casa?
Tio Tani: Poca.
Yo: ?
Mi tio tiene esquizofrenia y le cuesta mucho trabajo hilvanar sus ideas con coherencia. Ocasionalmente dice cosas tan incongruentes que son chistosisimas.
El ingeniero Hereford1 era un contratista de pisos, concretos y banquetas al que Rogelio ofrecio un dia un proyecto importante bajo ciertos precios.
“No,” dijo el Hereford, “no puedo aceptarte estos precios Rogelio, que nos lleva el diablo a los dos: a ti por cabron y a mi por pendejo.”
1 Si, le dicen asi por su parecido a los toros Hereford.
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