Monday, July 30, 2012
I just finished reading the book 'Tis, the book following Angela's Ashes by Pulitizer prize-winning author Frank Mc Court. Another wonderful, biographical tale of how the teenage author leaves Ireland at the ripe age of 19, from a poverty-stricken life to finding hope for himself in the United States in 1949.
During his boat ride over, he meets a priest who tries to impart information on how to become rich by meeting the right people with connections, in his mind "rich Protestants". His first living quarters is a hotel room he shares with the priest, who does something (while being drunk) which is very unbecoming a man in his religious position, etc. This later causes the priest to seek out a cheap apartment for Frank, as well as his first job, albeit a menial and unlikable one. So right away Frank is being rescued by someone, for he has very little money on coming to this country.
Frank's life begins here with several different jobs and living arrangements, but at some point he enters the army, at one point in Germany and staring a Holocaust oven in the face (that war is over), and has to touch it because he feels he will want to say this one day. He meets a variety of colorful people with strange and wonderful personalities, including a landlady who is always drunk and lives in the apartment building with her son Michael "what's left of him". Several friends tell him that he should want to get a college education, which he does, without even graduating from high school, on a trial basis. He has different adventures with women at various times, and at college meets a girl with the nickname Mike, who he falls head over heels for and eventually marries. His teaching experiences, as well as many other, are just hilarious, and teaches in different high schools, including a vocational school, an elite prep school during the turbulent 1960's and all of the assassinations taking place. His mother comes to New York, and grows older there, one other brother does, as well, and becomes famous. Throughout the beginning of the book he struggles with money, but later comes more into his own. Anyway, there is a third book, which I really want to get my hands on, Teacherman, and finish off the series. This book is well worth reading, and I, as with Angela's Ashes, laughed out loud many times, and highly recommend to anyone.
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Friday, July 27, 2012
I care nothing for this book or dan browns fiction. I just wanna encourage you guys to goto the profile and find our http://tinylotuslinkslist.blogspot.com/
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Function of this blog
the function of this blog is 2 fold. One is that I can post nerdy geeky stuff that doesnt fit into a porn board and 2) it will be an information center for all the boards that will be devoted to porn or non-porn that is really unsafe for work . This is because there is very little chance of this blog being deleted
Friday, July 20, 2012
Lord Byron
Lord Byron was a poet. But he was famous for many other reasons . He is quoted as saying " I awoke one mourning to find myself famous". This quote is where we get our modern saying of "Overnight success" .
He wrote a great deal of famous stuff. Every thing he wrote became famous. (Like the Beatles of today)
More then his work...I will be talking about his friends and his daughters.
One of his close friends was a young lady named Mary and her famous writer Husband Percey. The 18 year old Mary would go on to become the first Science fiction writer of all time (see post below)
Lord Byron married a mathematician . She was sometimes called "The Princess of Parallelograms" . He was a sensitive-Poet-type and she was a hard scientist; at a time when it was thought that a Woman could not be such a thing. These two had a daughter that would grow up to be a mathematician herself. Her name was Ada.
This Ada would also become the first computer programmer of all time. (see post below)
He wrote a great deal of famous stuff. Every thing he wrote became famous. (Like the Beatles of today)
More then his work...I will be talking about his friends and his daughters.
One of his close friends was a young lady named Mary and her famous writer Husband Percey. The 18 year old Mary would go on to become the first Science fiction writer of all time (see post below)
Lord Byron married a mathematician . She was sometimes called "The Princess of Parallelograms" . He was a sensitive-Poet-type and she was a hard scientist; at a time when it was thought that a Woman could not be such a thing. These two had a daughter that would grow up to be a mathematician herself. Her name was Ada.
This Ada would also become the first computer programmer of all time. (see post below)
The first Programmer of all time
The first Computer programmer in the world was a 27 year old woman named Ada. She was the daughter of a Mathematician and a great poet , she married a mathematician .
She may also have been a writer, Ill have to look that up. She was fiends with Charles Dickens .
She was the only legitimate child of the poet Lord Byron (with Anne Isabella Milbanke, 11th Baroness Wentworth). She had no relationship with her father, who died when she was nine. As a young adult, she took an interest in mathematics, and in particular Babbage's work on the analytical engine. Between 1842 and 1843, she translated an article by Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea on the engine, which she supplemented with a set of notesof her own. These notes contain what is considered the first computer program — that is, an algorithm encoded for processing by a machine. Though Babbage's engine has never been built, Lovelace's notes are important in the early history of computers. She also foresaw the capability of computers to go beyond mere calculating or number-crunching while others, including Babbage himself, focused only on these capabilities
She may also have been a writer, Ill have to look that up. She was fiends with Charles Dickens .
She was the only legitimate child of the poet Lord Byron (with Anne Isabella Milbanke, 11th Baroness Wentworth). She had no relationship with her father, who died when she was nine. As a young adult, she took an interest in mathematics, and in particular Babbage's work on the analytical engine. Between 1842 and 1843, she translated an article by Italian mathematician Luigi Menabrea on the engine, which she supplemented with a set of notesof her own. These notes contain what is considered the first computer program — that is, an algorithm encoded for processing by a machine. Though Babbage's engine has never been built, Lovelace's notes are important in the early history of computers. She also foresaw the capability of computers to go beyond mere calculating or number-crunching while others, including Babbage himself, focused only on these capabilities
The first Science fiction writer of all time
Ladies and gentleman , I give you the first Science fiction writer of ALL TIME.
She was an 18 year old girl when she starting writing Frankenstein--the first genuine example of Sci-fi . She came up with the idea for the novel at a small party that she attended with her writer husband Percey and their good friend Lord Byron . She and Percey and Byron would all remain friends until their deaths.
The inventor of Sci-FI was an 18 year old girl,
Mary Shelley's personal life was quite tragic and many modern critics, especially feminist ones, discussFrankenstein in terms of the recurring themes of procreation and death. This paper will examine these issues more fully by applying Erik Erikson's theory of psychosocial development to Shelley's life. Most particularly we will examine how Shelley's lack of maternal and paternal care led her to conceive of her Creature. The audience will be encouraged to look beyond the exterior of the Creature and decide exactly who is the monster in this classic novel. Understanding identity issues is also critical to understanding Mary's life and fiction. Her husband's untimely death had adverse effects on Mary's identity and she tried, with varying amounts of success, to establish her own career beyond merely being Percy's literary executor. Indeed many people in her own time were convinced that Percy B. Shelly had actually written Frankenstein.
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