It started as a painting of this statue of Oliver Cromwell that I saw while watching Simon Schama’s History of Britain.
It started as a painting of this statue of Oliver Cromwell that I saw while watching Simon Schama’s History of Britain.
Here are John Leigh’s Dickens and Thackeray stories, to which I was linked some 3 or 4 years ago by a friend who knew him when they were kids, I think. I thought they were great and I’ve had them sitting in a text file since then–UNTIL NOW. Now, they receive an upgrade to pdf. Lyx eases the torture of using Latex to just within my threshhold of pain.
“–but he’d been afraid to be afraid [hah], he’d let Cory’s college education convince him she was right when his gut was telling him a silent, advancing ‘driver the company charts didn’t show wasn’t playing by the rules she understood.”
–C.J. Cherryh, Heavy Time
I think Cherryh comes close to dethroning F.M. Alexander as my current pick for all-time worst butcher of the English language. I have this mental image of her tacking clause after clause to the end of her sentences with an old-fashioned typewriter, then finally adding the full-stop, leaning back and nodding with satisfaction at her genius.
Every sentence in this book is either a giant run-on or an attempt to make the characters sound badass with terse cliches (having “the feel of the best tough-guy detective fiction,” sayeth some abhorrent rag in Cleveland.) Let us enjoy some pithy, “bad ass” one-liners with which she likes to end her chapters:
Ch 10
“No, I worked something out with Mike.”
Ben stopped, with his arms around Dekker.
He thought: Shit!
Ch 4
“Yessir,” he said, before they got there. “Details have already gone to BM. Any problem?”
“Just a few questions,” Wills said. Before he got there.
Ch 9
“About three doors down. Something the matter, mister?”
“Yeah,” he said.
And left.
For extra hilarity, here is her website:
http://www.cherryh.com/
I’m disappointed it doesn’t have the animated hard-hat worker .gifs, with an apology for being “under construction.”
In conclusion, Adam: [picture of middle finger]
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You are behind a bar with the layout described above, standing at the “D”position, in front of the glasses. You may carry at most two items and set bottles and glasses down at any spot. The act of picking up and settling down a bottle or glass takes 1 move apiece; pouring or delivering do not use any ‘moves.’ The drink must be delivered to the position at which the customer is sitting, given in parenthesis after the name of the drink.
Given the preceding rules, how are are the following drinks prepared in the fewest moves?
