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Skriven 2007-05-30 10:06:00 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av RUTH HANSCHKA
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 -> I enjoy the Father Brown stories, this is in no way an
 -> endorsement of either their artistic merit or of their
 -> theological underpinnings.
 RH> Understood.  Anglicanism as a literary device doesn't send shivers up
 RH> my spine.:-) 

Father Brown was of the Romish persuasion; his villains
were sometimes secular humanists, sometimes Anglicans (as
in the story set in Bohun Beacon with a hammer in the title,
which I forget exactly).

I admit, C of E is not such a frightening specter, but to
Chesterton it was a bugbear of some kind.

 -> rarities. That model III cost over $4000 back in its day;
 -> of course it was the updated model with 48K of RAM and had
 -> two double-density floppy drives.
 RH> Oh me.  Oh my.  How many bits of RAM?  Shouldn't 24K have been enough
 RH> for anybody, or am I remembering the wrong quote?  

Wasn't it 640K, or maybe 64K, and wasn't it a snopes anyway?

  Gates is supposed to have said, "640K should be enough for anyone."
  The remark became the industry's equivalent of "Let them eat cake"
  because it seemed to combine lordly condescension with a lack of
  interest in operational details. After all, today's ordinary home
  computers have one hundred times as much memory as the industry's
  leader was calling "enough."

  It appears that it was Marie Therese, not Marie Antoinette, who
  greeted news that the people lacked bread with qu'ils mangent de
  la brioche. (The phrase was cited in Rousseau's Confessions,
  published when Marie Antoinette was thirteen years old and still
  living in Austria.) And it now appears that Bill Gates never said
  anything about getting along with 640K. One Sunday afternoon I
  asked a friend in Seattle who knows Gates whether the quote was
  accurate or apocryphal. Late that night, to my amazement, I found
  a long e-mail from Gates in my inbox, laying out painstakingly
  the reasons why he had always believed the opposite of what the
  notorious quote implied. His main point was that the 640K limit
  in early PCs was imposed by the design of processing chips, not
  Gates's software, and he'd been pushing to raise the limit as
  hard and as often as he could. Yet despite Gates's convincing
  denial, the quote is unlikely to die. It's too convenient an
  expression of the computer industry's sense that no one can
  be sure what will happen next.

  -- James Fallows, NY Review of Books 3/14/02

 RH> Shoulda known. I keep a Jewish calendar hanging up just to keep track.

Vy bodder?

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      Title: BRISKET FOR HOLIDAY
 Categories: Main dish, Jewish, Beef
      Yield: 8 servings

      7 lb Brisket; trimmed
      2 ts Onion salt
      1 tb Celery salt
      1 ts Garlic salt
      4 ts Msg
      2 tb Worcester sauce
  1 1/2 tb Liquid smoke

  Here's a recipe that I use all the time it is easy and tastes great!
  Rub brisket with onion, celery, garlic salt and MSG, let stand for
  about 30 minutes.  Place in a roaster and pour worcester sauce and
  liquid smoke over surface of roast. Cover and refrigerate several
  hours. Drain off marinade, wrap brisket, fatty side up, in heavy duty
  aluminum foil and seal.  Bake 5 hours @ 300. Allow to cool. Slice
  thinly --> across grain. Hope you like it!
  Dawn Underwood jdkx65a

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