Another textbook example of a "cheapskate server" : if your connection isn't speedy enough to receive that movie file within a minute and a half, it ends the downloading (to save bandwidth?). For me, this means that out of 10.9 megabytes, I get about 316 KB. ):-P I really, really, really must get me broadband one of these days...
I'm reminded of a cartoon: it pictures the medieval copyist monks, copying not a book by hand, but a CD. In French they don't say "burn" but "engrave" a disc. Therefore, the monk had a jeweler's eyepiece, a hammer and chisel, and was engraving a huge stone disc. Data bit after data bit!
Sometimes I feel like I'm emprisoned inside a monk's life. :-\
A monk? Me? By the Prophet's pointy beard, verily I musteth smite somebody for this insult! But first things first. Come hither and comfort me from this annoyance, my geishas. Ah yes, that's the spot! (A little more on the left, my sweet wench.) I almost got myself all tense there. PAST tense, that is.
After fifteen years, I'm still amazed by the Net. Just wikipedia alone! How did you find things out before?? Now, any thought that strikes my mind, I can research in seconds, literally.
your cartoon example, monk copying CD, reminds me of "Canticle For Leibowitz" where a monk is copying a blue print, wasting heaps of ink, because he didn't understand what he was copying, so copied it faithfully.
A blue print is a schematic representation, it is a series of lines. The copying technique of the time meant that effectively a negative was made of the drawing, the blueprint.
The monk copied the diagram photo positive, where there was blue pigment in the blue print, he placed it in his copy.
Instead of drawing the lines, he filled the spaces between the lines, wasting time and ink.
The really fun part was later, after learning the diagrams were so much simpler, to honor the originator of the document the copies were illuminated.
Blue water was more than a hint reminiscent of Leo LeoniHis books are lovely stories, and beautiful illustrations. He uses collages very well.
ReplyDeleteYou'll have to go to the library, the online images don't do him justice.
Another textbook example of a "cheapskate server" : if your connection isn't speedy enough to receive that movie file within a minute and a half, it ends the downloading (to save bandwidth?).
ReplyDeleteFor me, this means that out of 10.9 megabytes, I get about 316 KB. ):-P
I really, really, really must get me broadband one of these days...
I'm reminded of a cartoon: it pictures the medieval copyist monks, copying not a book by hand, but a CD. In French they don't say "burn" but "engrave" a disc.
Therefore, the monk had a jeweler's eyepiece, a hammer and chisel, and was engraving a huge stone disc. Data bit after data bit!
Sometimes I feel like I'm emprisoned inside a monk's life. :-\
A monk? Me? By the Prophet's pointy beard, verily I musteth smite somebody for this insult!
But first things first. Come hither and comfort me from this annoyance, my geishas. Ah yes, that's the spot! (A little more on the left, my sweet wench.)
I almost got myself all tense there. PAST tense, that is.
Beam me up, Sweetie. P-04 out.
After fifteen years, I'm still amazed by the Net. Just wikipedia alone! How did you find things out before?? Now, any thought that strikes my mind, I can research in seconds, literally.
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ReplyDeleteyour cartoon example, monk copying CD, reminds me of "Canticle For Leibowitz" where a monk is copying a blue print, wasting heaps of ink, because he didn't understand what he was copying, so copied it faithfully.
He shouldn't have?
ReplyDeleteHe copied it as if it were a photocopy.
ReplyDeleteA blue print is a schematic representation, it is a series of lines. The copying technique of the time meant that effectively a negative was made of the drawing, the blueprint.
The monk copied the diagram photo positive, where there was blue pigment in the blue print, he placed it in his copy.
Instead of drawing the lines, he filled the spaces between the lines, wasting time and ink.
The really fun part was later, after learning the diagrams were so much simpler, to honor the originator of the document the copies were illuminated.
Brother Frances finds he was copying and accident
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